CIO Training Advantages

Read some case studies of how this course has helped others:

How the CIE Course helped to foster a closer working relationship with the CEO and to earn a subsequent promotion
How the Project work at the CIE Course adds immediate value to a company, helps the CIO, and helps a student earn a promotion
How the CIE Course teaches the tools needed to transform I.T. from a cost center to a strategically directed profit center

Reasons You Should Come to this Training:

The CIE Course is a lot of work, but it will provide a giant leap forward in your professional abilities. Specifically:

Advantages to your Professional Development:

The CIE course gives you a systematic tried-and-true process for using IT to create wealth strategically in your company. It will better equip you to do the job of a CIO with a better understanding of the latest advancements in how to strategically create corporate wealth with IT. This is the main job description of a competitive CIO.

It will increase your (the CIO’s) effectiveness and impact in the company
It will put you (the CIO) in a stronger position politically to have greater influence and bigger IT budgets in the future.
It will help to develop (and certify) the CIO’s leadership team to help with the task of leveraging IT to do more for the business development of the company.

Advantages to your Career Development:

Get certified as a CIO (IT people value Cisco, Microsoft, ISC2 and Project Management certifications for their IT skills—the CIE course gives you a way to get a certification for your CIO management skills).
Prepares you for greater career opportunities in the future (either to help your company grow to be ten times its current size, or maybe you are looking to your next career opportunity as the CIO of a bigger company someday)
Keep up with the latest advancements in how to be a competitive CIO (you don’t really have the resources and time to keep yourself updated with the latest advancements in CIO management practices because you are buried with keeping up with the technology changes).

Advantages to your Company:

The homework in the 8 month long course is focused around the student developing 8 projects that are deliverables to the company. You really ought to be doing this work anyway as part of your normal job responsibilities—but by going through the CIE course we teach you the step-by-step “best-practices” for improving the quality of your work. These projects include:

An IT Alignment plan for creating wealth strategically
A strategy for improving the effectiveness of IT Governance in the company
A project that teaches and uses a process for assigning hard-dollar value to intangible benefits. Then you will learn to calculate an Internal Rate of Return for your IT projects for CFO consumption.
Increasing the effectiveness of your corporate e-commerce strategy and implementation
Reducing corporate liability by improving your company’s due-care and due-diligence in the area of Information Security
Improving leadership ability by designing a better employee motivation strategy
Developing a strategy to increase the effectiveness of all IT department employees to better communicate with and satisfy the business needs of the company’s business units
Developing a plan for increasing the effectiveness of IT in helping the company expand into the global marketplace