Support to Strategy Course

Technology and Departmental leaders responsibilities now includes business strategy as part of their job description. Besides managing your own department, technology and departmental leaders are being tasked to utilize data to drive business outcomes. Data monetization, cultural, and technical changes, and data visioning for all departments are now an everyday part of the technology and departmental leaders duties. It will be even harder for technology and departmental leaders to find the time to leverage their core management expertise to help transform and grow the business.

Force yourself out of your comfort zone.

Change the way you think about DATA moving forward.

Accelerate and elevate your career and brand.

This Support to Strategy Workshop focuses on the key aspects to shift any technology and departmental leader or team from a traditional support stance to proactive strategy. Expect results like saving time, lowering costs, and increasing revenue across the entire organization.

This is a working session. Expect a very interactive, personalized experience. Participation will be encouraged so be prepared to take notes. This workshop is not a technical session, but instead centers on taking steps to move you and/or your department from a support to strategy stance. The information is very comprehensive, thought provoking, and will challenge participants from all departments and experience levels.

At the conclusion of our time together, we want you to feel confident “Turning Support to Strategy Insight into Action” and driving “INSTANT RESULTS and IMMEDIATE IMPACT” through data-driven strategy initiatives.

Any technology and departmental leader and data technology employee that wants to learn how to transition from a support stance to a strategic position for their organization or personal brand. Leverage the Support to Strategy course to increase your knowledge and value to your current or future employer. Utilize this workshop topic for weekly or monthly Technology meetings.

For Company Ownership – the Support to Strategy Course is an ideal way to begin the process of transitioning your Data Department from a Support mindset to a Strategy perspective. Simultaneously your team will be learning how to transition their department from a cost center to a profit center.

For the Executive – Learn to transition departments from Support to Strategy at a corporate level. Examine the areas of your business where a departmental strategy initiative will make an immediate impact and recognize the connection to long term revenue. Leverage a Support to Strategy initiative to absorb more work, increase revenue and grow your business with the same or less resources and employees.

For Departmental Leaders – Support to strategy, Cost center to a profit center, Collaborate and cooperate, and Proactive decision-making are just a few of the areas addressed in a personalized strategy courses and resources for your departmental and management leaders.

For the General Employee Population – What does “Support to Strategy” really mean and how can any employee participate and contribute to the movement of your organization. Understand what it means to be strategy-driven from an employee perspective.

Five Opportunities Courses, Curriculum and Resources are based on years of first-hand research and customer data conversations. We must all begin to think outside our personal controlled data environment and start viewing our data as a true business resource.

Session 1: Establishing a Data Foundation
Current Departmental Landscape
Learning from the Past
Support to Strategy Primary Goal
Departmental Dominant Motive

Exercise – Incorporating business strategy into your job responsibilities

Session 2: Support to Strategy Transformation
Departmental Transformation
Shifting from Support to Strategy
Expanding Responsibilities
Cost Center to Profit Center Transition

Exercise – Making the cost center to profit center transition a reality

Session 3: Increasing Business Acumen
Solution Oriented Problem Solving
Sales and Marketing Knowledge and Skills
Collaborate & Cooperate
Proactive Decision-Making
Listen, Learn, React

Exercise – Identifying revenue opportunities

Session 4: Data as the New Technology
Data is the New Technology
Data-Driven Decision-Making
Positioning your organization as a next generation business
Transition Zones of a Next Generation Business

Exercise – Establishing and driving a data-first mentality

Session 5: Bringing it all Together
Impacting Bottom-line Revenue
Instilling a Sense of Urgency
Next Generation Technology Team
Job Collapsing

Exercise – Developing a Next Generation Technology Team

Taking Action
Summary
Action Items

Registration Fee Includes
Instructor-led workshop
Live/In-person instruction
Workshop Materials
Results-oriented exercises
Certificate of Completion