IT Management for Business Executives

In order to serve those business executives who have already completed their MBA educations, the Information Systems and Technology Management (ISTM) Discipline at GSBM have designed and launched a three-day residential executive education program on “IT Management for Business Executives” at the new Villa Graziadio Executive Education Center on the Malibu campus.  The learning goals of this executive education program are to help business executives do the following:

  • Understand the key capabilities of contemporary and emerging information and communications technologies and the current market for IT resources and services;
     
  • Recognize why executives must assume responsibility for the management and governance of IT resources and projects in order to bring about IT business impact;
     
  • Understand how executives can identify opportunities for competitive advantage through use of IT to enable new value enhancing business strategies and processes; and

  • Learn about appropriate tools and approaches to assume responsibility for ensuring appropriate IT use and consequent business impact. 

The ISTM discipline ran the “IT Management for Business Executives” program twice in 2004.  The core message that business executives must assume primary responsibility for IT business impact, and consequently for IT use, was widely accepted by the program participants, and our prescriptions for executives’ assumption of these responsibilities were well received.  The program will be offered four times in 2005.  Our hope is that through the Graziadio School’s MBA and executive education programs, we can prepare business executives to assume the responsibility of leading their firm’s IT enabled business projects in a competitive environment in which the effective management of IT use matters fundamentally.

For more information contact:
John Mooney, Ph.D. at john.mooney@pepperdine.edu

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