"Managing IT for Increasing Business Value" in collaboration with Intel IT Innovation Centre

Information Technology is without a doubt  one of the most dominant forces changing business and indeed society today. Although technology is advancing at a very fast rate, the management practices used within Business Schools to manage IT appear to be lagging significantly. Despite Nicholas Carr’s assertion that “IT doesn’t matter” many organizations are increasingly using IT to create and sustain competitive advantage.

However challenges of complexity, demand growth, security, budget and many others make the job of the IT Manager within a Business School very difficult. This seminar introduces a unifying approach and framework to help business schools systematically manage IT for business value. The seminar presents a framework that helps IT to be used as an Innovation resource and enables an IT manager to be perceived as an innovation officer and helps improve the probability, predictability and profitability of IT enabled Innovations.

Faculty and IT managers from business schools will also learn about the embedded curriculum available for teaching and research opportunities with the Innovation Value Institute. The Innovation Value Institute consortium is a consortium of leading practitioners who are developing the IT-CMF using an open Innovation approach. The IT-CMF is an assessment tool to determine the strategic and consequent quality improvement processes that an organization should undertake to achieve both efficiency and effective in their use of IT. Current participants of the consortium include Microsoft, BP, Chevron, Intel, Axa, Google, Boston Consulting Group, Ernst and Young and more than thirty other companies. Faculty and IT Managers attending also will also have the opportunity to explore participating in the global research activity of the Innovation Value Institute.