Fit for the Future – Assessing IT Function Readiness

This programme provides a fast track immersion in assessing the readiness of the IT function to address future shifts, shocks, and disruptions. The approach is designed to provide a rapid execution process to help digital leaders and their teams to evaluate the preparedness of an organization’s IT function to meet future business needs, challenges, and opportunities. This must be done in the context of a constantly changing external environment and the rapid advancement of critical technologies such as AI, cloud, 5G / 6G, IoT, edge computing, metaverses, and Web 3.0. The ultimate purpose and goal of this programme is to provide digital leaders with an assessment framework and tools to identify areas of strength and weakness, and to develop a clear plan for IT function improvement and innovation.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Importance of future readiness in the IT function
• A practical assessment framework and key tools
• Conducting a SWOT analysis of the IT function
• Developing a prioritised emerging technology roadmap
• Conducting a gap analysis against current requirements and the road map of future trends and developments
• Assessing the IT function’s capabilities against
• Identifying and prioritizing critical gap closure projects
• Developing a future-ready IT mindset, strategy, and culture.