CIO Certification

This 4-course Certificate is designed for:

• • • the IT professional with 10+ years’ of experience who is moving up in their career.
    • senior level IT executives/consultants that require important management & leadership skills.
  • • the business (non-IT) professional looking to understand how to leverage their IT investment.

After successful completion of this program, candidates will also receive ICCP Certification*

What are the course requirements for the certificate?

Each certificate/certification requires a passing grade for each of the 4 courses ($750 per course):

• Managing IT Resources

This course will help candidates understand the fundamental decisions related to the management of IT resources and the types of organizational structures, sourcing, governance, and processes that will help effectively and efficiently attain value to the enterprise.

• Strategic Issues in IT

This course addresses the strategic responsibilities and roles of the CIO. It focuses on devising an enterprise strategy for gaining and sustaining competitive advantage through the use of Information Technology and the development and implementation of policies and strategies to achieve organizational goals.

• Managing Emerging IT

This course focuses on how organizations can effectively and efficiently assess trends and emerging SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud) technologies, and analyzing and developing new application systems. Participants will learn how to help their organization define, select, and adopt new information technologies.

• Business IT Leadership

The course focuses on how to assess the situation being inherited, how to create an achievable vision and how to lead the organization to that vision, and identifies the personal and professional foundations for successful leadership in a global context that includes virtual teams and multi-cultures.

The role, use, provisioning, and expectations for IT are going through profound changes across the globe. The enterprise is demanding higher velocity and more agile access to IT capabilities. Many business executives are dismayed that they have better technology at home than they get in their company. IT is increasingly providing direct support to the enterprise’s products and services. Stakeholders expect immediate seamless access to information and analytics in their increasingly mobile work environments. IT leadership requires a refresh of approaches, thinking and management practices to meet these new challenges. IT and business must co-adapt together. IT must understand the business, and the business must understand IT.

The CIO Certification from GIIM serves as a mini-MBA program that provides participants with the underlying competencies necessary to succeed in today’s dynamic business and technical environments, as IT becomes the business. The certificate also prepares candidates for being Certified from ICCP and in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT®). The focus is on enhancing and leveraging the harmony across business and IT organizations. To evolve beyond a cost center, IT has to move beyond just supporting the infrastructure and back office business processes; IT must contribute to business innovation and growth. IT must also adjust to an environment in which stakeholders have greatly enhanced expectations due to the widespread consumerization of technical capabilities. In essence this certificate puts attendees in the role of a CIO from strategic, tactical, and operational perspectives, as they work with stakeholders from the business areas, vendors/service providers, and paying customers/clients to provide demonstrable value.

Each online course, offered by GIIM, is 30-40 hours of class time.

*ICCP Certificate Registration Fee: $299 per candidate successfully completing the 4-course GIIM Certificate