Program Content

1. Understanding Organization's IT Objectives

2. Understanding the Available IT Technologies, including those enhancing...

3. Productivity & Cost Reduction

4. Communications

5. Business Processes

6. Production Processes

7. Strategic

8. Globalization

9. World Class

10. Customer Focused

11. Security

12. Understanding the Organizational Technology Deployment

13. Understanding Organizational Strategic IT Needs

14. Identifying Relevant Strategic Projects

15. Step-by-step Implementation of a Strategic Project

16. Managing the BITP Implementation.

Other Program Topics...

1. The New Business Information Technologies

• Electronic Document Management Technology

• Work Flow Group Work Technologies

• Organizational Communications Internet Utilization Strategy

• Proactive Management Information Systems

2. Enterprise Analysis Critical Success Factors Identification

3. Enterprise Modelling

• Corporate Directions Strategies

• Enterprise Functional Model

• Enterprise Information Model

4. Information System Strategy Formulation

5. Information Technology Strategy Formulation

6. Corporate Strategy Formulation

• Organizational Structure

• Systems Procedures

• Requirements Engineering

• Systems Development Implementation

8. Implementing Planning

9. Project Management of BISTP Projects

Program Outcomes and Take-Away/s

Euro Training is in the business of  providing practical useful training programs. Programs that

1. Help the participant implement improvements in his organization.
2. Help the participant gain Multi-discipline understanding of the issues so that he can incorporate the needs and expectations of all his stakeholders/ customers in his improvement proposals and actions.
3. Help build a knowledge framework in which job related experience can be caught and remembered as his experience.

Typical participant will take away a personalized action plan for himself, his business unit or his organization on how to apply the program contents to improve performance. The action plan may have two components:

1. A Personal Action Plan
2. A Business Unit/Organizational Action Plan

Benefits to Organization

Sending participant/s to this program will benefit the organization in the following ways

1. Quickly makes the participants competent, effective and productive on his job. Useful especially for
   1. Training New employees
   2. Competency Building in Existing Employees Transferred to a New Assignment
   3. Training Prior to a New Project or Initiative Planned in the Organization
2. Create Competency in the employee to perform his job well. including in relation to
   1. Relevant Technical Knowledge, Skills and Competencies
   2. Organizations' Strategic Objectives
   3. Needs and Expectations of the Stakeholders/ Customers (internal & external)
   4. Good Management Practices
   5. Identifying opportunities to Exceed Stakeholder/ Customer Expectations
3. Create a pool of trained manpower who can cost-effectively disseminate the knowledge to large number of employees inside the organization. This is made possible by Euro Training's unique easy to understand and use methodology based on Checklist & Quality Assurance Approaches.
4. Euro Training Instructors often act as mentors for your trained employees. A most effective way to ensure effective competency development and application by your motivated staff. We do have consultants available across Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa (Please inquire about our post program mentoring plans)

Participant Individual Career Benefits

1. You gain a multi-discipline understanding of the issues. Meaning when you make proposals and decisions on your related job you will keep in mind the needs and expectations of ALL the stakeholders/ customers (internal & external)
2. The action plan you take away will help you make a difference in your business unit or organization. This difference when added to your resume will make you a prime candidate for career advancement in your own organization or in your next job/s.
3. Understanding and acting with understanding of the Needs and Expectations of your stakeholders/ customers is known to  to enhance Job Satisfaction and reduce Monday Morning Blues.
4. As one of your stakeholders/ customers is Executive Management, therefore the program ensures you will know the Strategic Imperatives that Drive the Organization's Efforts in your relevant job area. In the process enabling you to make a leadership contribution.

This Program is Intended for…

Those new to the field take away a good multi-discipline understanding of the issues involved in the program works. It helps them become productive quickly and builds in them a knowledge framework that will help identify, understand, classify and remember on the job experiences in his memory.

More experiences participants take-away an individualized action plan as mentioned elsewhere in this technical sheet.

Implementation Teams: This program can be used to train implementation teams where...

1. a new project or initiative being started in your organization

2. a new strategic focus is being initiated

3. just prior to a Consultant being hired to advise the organization.

Each participant will take away a memorable and potentially life changing experience from the program.

No limitations are being placed on who can attend. If you are interested in the Program Outcomes and Takeaways, or, feel you can benefit from the Organizational and Personal Benefits mentioned above - You are Invited to Register for this Program. Program Instructors have the knowledge, experience and access to resources required to customize the program to the specific job related needs of each program group.

• Senior & Middle Executives, Managers and Department Heads

• Technology Planning Section  

• Management Information System Section

• Business Leaders

• Industry Consultants

• IT Section and Department Heads

Language of  Instruction

Unless otherwise stated the program instruction is in Standard Day-to-Day English. Participants can request the instructor to provide a program vocabulary which will ensure they have no problem understanding the content.

Other language versions are being developed by our consultants and regional partners including program in French, German, Spanish and Arabic. Please do contact us for your specific language needs.

Registration Recommendations

Team Nominations: Since the program aims to ensure the participants have his individualized improvement plan at the end of the program, and foreseeing the effort involved, anticipating resistance and implementation requirements it is recommended that the organization nominate at least two participants together (three will be more desirable to allow for attrition) for this program.

It is anticipated that these 2 or more participants will work together as a team or provide mutual support in order to implement the action plan.

Single nominations will also be accepted for the program. Single nominations are typically used  to:-

1. Develop personnel skills in Critical Skills and Methodologies covered in this program.

2. Audit this program for deciding its content and methodology's effectiveness in meeting your organizational needs

3. Train individuals for Leadership Roles in Business unit or department. Here this program will help the participant coach and lead his team in these Critical Skills and Methodologies. (Program does not typically cover coaching skills but provides the related technical  understanding in an easy to communicate manner. )

BITP is a process in which the organization defines and implements its Business Information System Technology Usage for a future 5 year period. Euro Training has developed a formal Business Information Technology Planning Methodology (Euro-BITP) to carry out this process from Vision to Implementation. It is an Analysis Planning Methodology designed to develop short and long term Information Business System Plans which Support the Business Strategies. This methodology has been successfully applied by many organizations worldwide and is an absolute prerequisite for most organizations with large Information Utilization to support Decision Making.

What is the difference in the New Approach to Information Technology Planning?

Benefits Your Organization will Get from Business Information Technology Planning Program

This Program Answers the Following Questions About Business Information Technology Utilization:

Enterprises where this approach has been successfully used

When Your Organization Needs this Business Information Systems Technology Planning Training program?

Circumstances under which we Recommend a Major Bottom-up and Top-Down Review of your Organization’s Information Technology Utilization:-

1. To become and remain a World Class Customer Focused Organization.

2. To Reduce IT Life Cycle Costs

3. IT Staff to be Reenergized to Meet Corporate Strategic Objectives.

4. Once every few years to make sure the Latest and Most Productive Information Technologies are being utilized in your Organization.

5. When Management feels that the Business Information System Support for Decision making is:

   1. Inadequate

   2. Too Slow

   3. Required to be On-Line

   4. Required to provide Data for Proactive Decisions

6. When Management Realizes that Over the Years the Typical Piecemeal Approach used in the Information Technology Department has lead to a Computer Infrastructure that Prevents Enterprise-wide Data Sharing and Application Integration.

7. Every Time there is a Change in the Organization’s Mission Statement.

8. When there is Strategic Corporate Direction to Use Information Technology to reach out to the Customers to:

   1. Beat the Competition

   2. Meet the Growth Targets

   3. Project a Positive Image of the Organization

Why this program?

1. Euro Training is an Industry Leader in this Technology and has developed its own highly acclaimed Euro-BISTP Methodology (Synthesizes the Information, Management System Sciences Approach).

2. Even where your Information Technology Department possesses the Required Skills, this training program can Provide:-

• Exposure to the Latest Business Information Planning Methodology

• An Independent Review of Your Strategy Action Plan.

• The Double Check to Prevent Implementation Mistakes

3. Euro’s Training can help reduce the Time Taken in Implementing BISTP in your organization.

4. Using an Outside Training or Consultant is politically advisable for Management and Peer Acceptance of your Business Information Systems Technology Planning Proposal.

5. Euro Training can provide Assistance in the Subsequent Stages of Actual BISTP Plan Development, Capacity Planning Acquisition, Software Development Implementation and Obtaining Feedback from Clients.