Business – IT Management Consulting Certificate

The ‘digital transformation’ of organizations has become an important objective for IT and non-IT executives as they struggle to develop and deploy creative strategies to preserve and grow shareholder value while remaining agile and innovative to counter new, unanticipated threats enabled by information technologies.

Fundamentally, organizations aspire to be customer-centric, nimble, digitally connected, highly profitable organizations that can compete in a dynamic environment of new digitally-enabled ‘disruptors’ to their business models

IT and non-IT professionals as well as business management consultants and service providers will derive significant value from the courses in this certificate as the courses will enable them to become more capable agents of business IT transformational change. Business Management Consultants are ‘high demand’ professionals who are required to work as ‘trusted advisors’ to business and IT leadership. Business Management Consultants must have a deep understanding of the best practices, tools, techniques, frameworks and disciplines that will enhance their analyses of the organization’s strategic situation and their recommendations for transformation to an innovative ‘digital company’, requiring heavy interaction with their IT and non-IT clients.

The audience for this certificate is:

• business and IT management consultants and service providers that wish to develop or enhance the skills of their business management consulting staff.
• mid-senior IT and non-IT managers in organizations (or individuals) who wish to make a career transition to business management consulting.
• commercial organizations to prepare:
  • internal consultants
  • internal staff to leverage external consultants

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 important decisions related to the management of IT resources and the types of organizational structures, strategies, and processes that will help effectively and efficiently attain value to the enterprise.

• The Essentials of Management Consulting

This course will concentrate on developing the participants’ competency in engaging with clients to assist them in evaluating, establishing and coordinating the key strategic and operational options, processes, activities and organizational structures required to manage the business and IT functions of in today’s technologically intensive environment that will generate measurable and sustainable business value.

• Establishing & Enriching Client Relationships

This course will concentrate on developing the participants’ competency in engaging with clients throughout the pre-sales, business development and delivery processes in ways that help the participant understand the essentials of client engagement, building a contractual relationship, sourcing the right resources to address the client’s key business issues and to build out the firm’s ‘footprint’ (its presence at the client) in a way that the client values the relationship with the consultant and wants more services.

• Facilitating Transformation

This course will expose the candidate to practical and field-tested management consulting techniques and tools that are essential as part of the practical ‘toolbox’ of capabilities needed by management consultants and their teams to successfully execute a transformational engagement.

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