CIO Executive Development { College of Business }

CIO Executive Development Program

March 2010
San Francisco State University Downtown Campus

The CIO Executive Development Program helps IT professionals develop the necessary skills to be successful in their jobs and advance their career opportunities. The program includes business focused content that will complement your technical skills, such as strategy and business alignment, planning and management, budgeting and tracking, leadership and communication planning, governance, and IT innovation.

Keynote Speaker

Mark Egan, former CIO at Symantec

"This program is designed to prepare our future leaders to manage IT organizations, and is a unique opportunity to learn from seasoned CIOs."

Mark Egan, CIO, VMware

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Who Should Attend

Leading executives are coming to a new professional education program targeting CIOs, IT executives and personnel identified as leaders.

Opportunity

Opportunity will exist for IT professionals to increase their competencies and continue lifelong professional learning. Course content is written and presented by Silicon Valley CIOs.

Action-Oriented Program

The program is action oriented with practical models, and actual working artifacts from the desks of CIOs. With all of this available, you will be working with the actual tools used by executives currently in a CIO role. These case studies will allow you to return to your organization with new perspectives and deliverables.

Experienced CIOs

Experience of CIOs, as well as your own experiences, will be shared and discussed with peers and other executives. Each participant will receive a one-on-one follow-up meeting with one of the CIOs to address questions, increase your insight, and improve your experience. Facebook users may join the program’s alumni group to continue the discussion!

Program Objectives

  • Create an IT strategy that links directly to the company’s business strategy
  • Formulate an IT budget consistent with the strategy
  • Develop an action plan to implement the IT strategy
  • Build an effective IT governance program
  • Understand marketing and promoting the value of IT within your firm
  • Outline a model for managing effective mergers and divestitures
  • Discuss the latest trends and innovations for IT

Instructors

Courses are taught by current and former Bay Area CIOs. For instructor biographies, see Instructors.

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