BIS-650  (2 weeks + 1 week workshop)

Your Springboard For Achieving Dramatic Productivity Improvement Through

Business Information Technology Planning

A VERY PRACTICAL PROGRAM

A 2 week Intensive Workshop (Plus Optional 3rd Week Hands On)

Program Schedule
Worldwide Training Dates USA Training Schedule 8-19 Oct 2008 (London) 3-14 Nov 2008 (Kula Lumpur) 16-27 Nov 2008 (Dubai) 4-15 Jan 2009 (Dubai) 16-27 Sept 08 (San Francisco) 24 Sept - 5 Oct 08 (San Francisco) 11-22 Dec 08 (San Francisco) 22 Dec - 2 Jan 09 (New York)

 

Optional 3rd Week (Immediately following above): Hands on Preparing your Organizations/Departments Business IT Plan.

 

What is Business Information Systems Technology Planning (BITP)?

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?

• The Development Methodology for shared-data systems, must as its first step, have a much broader view of the business needs and the environment in which it operates, than was previously required.

• Requirements of routine transaction processing tend to be stable and relatively easy to identify; Information Requirements for Management and Decision Making activities are more Changeable and Difficult to Define.

• The Complexity of Integrated Information Systems necessitates the identification of Information Requirements, and the need for an Overall Plan to Guide its Initial Development and subsequent Maintenance. An understanding of the needs can be acquired by a distinct separation of Analysis (“What is to be done?”) from Design (“How it is to be done?”). This is done in BITP.

Benefits Your Organization will Get from Business Information Technology Planning Program

The objective of this Training Study Program is to help you produce Suitable Medium Long Range Strategies and Action Plans to Implement Business Information Systems Technology Planning in your organization. After attending this Program the Participants should be able to coordinate, supervise or participate in Specialist Teams preparing:

 

• Business Models

• Recommendations

• Plans for Implementation

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

• Where are we?

• Where do we want to go?

• How do we get there?

• When will it be done?

• Who will do it?

• How much will it cost?

• Critical Success Factors?

Enterprises where this approach has been successfully used

• Banking, Chemicals Fertilizers, Cooperatives

• Engineering, Insurance, Minerals Metals, Newspapers

• Shipping and Utilities (Electricity, Telecommunications)

This Program is intended for Managers, Engineers and Supervisors from:-

• Executives, Managers and Department Heads

• Technology Planning Section  

• Management Information System Section

Need For This Program

• Need to Have Proactive Information to Support Decisions Throughout Organization

• Need to Increase Organization’s Productivity

• Need to Project Organization’s Image Service Quality

• Computers have become an essential part of organizational information processing because of the power of the technology and the increasing volume of the data to be processed.

• The current challenge of information processing is to use the capabilities of computers to support knowledge work, including managerial activities and decision making.

• The wide variety of computer resources to perform transaction processing, to provide the formal Information and Reporting System, and to accomplish Managerial Decision Support are broadly classified as Management Information Systems (MIS). It must be noted that MIS is a broad concept rather than a single system. The fact that it is an integrated system does not mean it is a single, monolithic structure; rather it is a federation of subsystems, developed and implemented as needed but conforming to the overall plan, standards, and procedures for the MIS. In recent times no system concept has been talked about so enthusiastically by Computer Professionals and Management Men alike and yet been so frustrating in its realization than that of Management Information Systems.

• Traditionally, the data processing industry has developed applications by targeting High Volume Operational Systems, with the Primary Concern being Efficient Machine Utilization. A very specific and rigid development methodology has been devised which is very successful in implementing these “bottom-up, stand-alone” systems.

• Now, with the emergence of sophisticated data processing technology, many organizations have shifted their emphasis from Stand-alone operational systems to Integrated Shared-Data Systems. In this environment, it is extremely important that the application be viewed in the context of the whole enterprise. As a result, the development methodology used to create stand-alone applications is not appropriate, and in many cases, is counterproductive.

A Review and Updation that Leads to Continuous Improvement of your Business Processes ..

While a limited Business Information Systems Technology Strategy Review and Updation is required as a continuous process in your organization because of continuing Changes in Business Organizations and Information Technologies Available. Major Top-Down ReEngineering Approach may be Required only once. A Business Process Reengineering Review to ensure your organization is using the most productive Information Technology Tools available or being used by similar organizations worldwide..

When Your Organization Needs Business Information Systems Technology Planning?

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

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

• Inadequate

• Too Slow

• Required to be On-Line or Even Proactive

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

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

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

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

• Beat the Competition

• Meet the Growth Targets

• Project a Positive Image of the Organization

PROGRAM CONTENT

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

 

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.

 

PROGRAM CONTENT ALSO INCLUDES...

 

1. Enterprise Analysis

• Mission Objectives

• Business Environment

• Business Strategies

• Business Plans

• Critical Success Factors Identification

2. Enterprise Modelling

• Top-down Function Decomposition Technique

• Corporate Directions Strategies

• Business Functions Constituent Processes

• Business Information Requirements

• Enterprise Information Model: Relationships between Data-Entities

• Enterprise Functional Model: Usage of Information across Business Processes

• Functional Assessment of the Existing Information System to Determine Support Provided for:

• Business Processes

• Subject Databases

• Organizational Units

3. Information System Strategy Formulation

• Determination of Application Systems

• Subject Databases Required

• Analyzing Incidences of Data Usages

• Single or Distributed Databases?

4. Information Technology Strategy Formulation

• Requirement for

  • Hardware

  • Software

• Communication Environment

• Database Systems

• Office Automation

• Development Tools

• End-User Tools.

5. Corporate Strategy Formulation (BPR)

6. Business System Redesign (BPR)

• Organizational Structure

• Systems Procedures

7. Requirements Engineering

8. Systems Development Implementation

9. Implementing Planning

• Information Resource Management Plan

• Implementation Strategy:

• Priorities

• Time-Scales

• Transition Plans

• Investment Outlays

10. Tools for Business Information System Technology Planning

11. Project Management of BITP Projects

• Project Organization

• Risk Factors

For Latest Program Schedule Email:

     bis650@EuroTraining.com

Registration Recommendations

It is recommended you nominate two participants together for this program.

Single nominations will also be considered.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION  

1. Please complete the Registration Form (Available at http://www.eurotraining.com/etl-reg.html) and FAX to UK +44 207 6811444 or Email to: euro@eurotraining.com

2. Fee is USD $7800 per participant includes Course Materials, Certificate, Refreshments and Lunch.  For 1 week workshop Additional Fee of USD $3000

3. Accommodation is not included in Program fee. Special rates will be available at venue hotel for the participants.

4. Program Fee information is available by Emailing:  fees@eurotraining.com. Fee is payable by Bank Transfer or Bank Draft in favor of the local representative office.

5. Early Registration & Payment discount is 10% - if registration and fee payment is made at least 45 days before start of the program.

6. Fee includes Course Materials, Certificate/s, Refreshments and Lunch. Program Timings are 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM but on some days (to be announced by instructor/s) you may be asked to attend from 3:00 PM to 7:30 PM. For First Day Program Timings see your Joining Instructions.

 Business Information Technology Planning BIS-650