IT Project Success

Overview

The failures of many IT initiatives outweigh the successes. The thinking in this Short Course will give you a better chance of success – in terms of selecting the right initiatives, preparing the organisation for them and ensuring partners and stakeholders collaborate well to get results.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could just delegate this to your IT people and then anticipate a successful outcome? If you do this, you are likely to be forced to re-engage with the project when a large scale implementation has gone way over time and budget.

This Short course will give you the preventative thinking and models that you need. This creates focused IT initiatives that will live up to their promise and are linked to overall business goals.

Topics Covered

This Short Course will include introductions to key models and concepts with interactive discussions and case studies which will enable you to see how the material relates specifically to your work. Topics include:

• Prerequisites for success
• The 5 prerequisites for IT project success
• Using the prerequisites as planning and diagnostic tools
• Thinking strategically about IT projects
• Setting in place guiding principles that, by being linked into roles, responsibilities and business processes drive change
• Creating policies and business rules that actively direct behaviour and that improve interactions with customers
• Creating action roadmaps that set the agenda and priorities for system changes, without having to continually revisit them.
• Shaping vendor and systems strategies
• Determining the quality and breadth of vendor relationships necessary
• Determining your risk appetite and the strategy to match
• Structuring IT accountabilities that work!
• Framing IT initiatives as business solutions and structuring accountabilities to match.

Who should attend

This course is specifically designed for those sponsoring or leading high risk IT projects such as document management, asset management, web services and customer relationship management. It will appeal to:

• Chief Financial Officers
• General Managers
• CIOs
• IT Project Managers

Outcomes

Participants will have a pragmatic approach to setting their IT projects up to succeed. This includes:

• Governance structures
• IT strategy
• System and vendor selection
• Planning for success
• Diagnosing toubled projects
• Ensuring a successful implementation – on time and within budget!