Industry Overview Information Technology

Though estimates on global spending for information and communications technologies run in the trillions of dollars, this giant industry continues to struggle through fluctuating markets and must concentrate on continuous improvement to survive. Most agree that the demand for IT products and services will continue to increase, but at the same time, the customer is demanding more value per dollar in order to justify IT spending. Rather than ad hoc purchasing to solve a specific problem, customers are evaluating IT purchases in light of how they will serve strategic business needs and fulfill more fully defined processes and architectures. This reflects a fundamental change for the business IT industry, which affects and blurs the line between all segments including hardware, software, data, applications, and communications platforms. At the same time, this change offers numerous opportunities for those who can adapt. This course provides a roadmap for the rapidly converging IT world, identifies regulatory factors and business drivers, explores industry challenges, and offers examples of current strategic solutions.

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This course is designed for management consultants and sales personnel seeking an overview of the IT industry, as well as corporate and enterprise-wide business managers who will be dealing with or seeking business opportunities in this sector.

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Course Overview|Lesson Overview| - recognize the benefits of understanding the key characteristics and trends within the IT industry.|The IT Industry Infrastructure| - match the technology segments of the IT industry with examples of the products they produce.|Focus Areas for Technology Development| - identify examples of key focus areas for technology development in the IT industry today.|Lesson Overview| - select the advantages of knowing how regulatory and business drivers affect the industry.|Customer Requirements for IT/Business Alignment| - recognize the characteristics of IT/business alignment in specific scenarios.|Trends Driving Mergers and Acquisitions| - identify key drivers for mergers and acquisitions.|Regulatory Drivers: Opportunities and Challenges| - identify the challenges of regulatory compliance for the IT industry.|Lesson Overview| - recognize the advantages of understanding strategic challenges to the IT industry.|Information Security and Security Risk Management| - recognize examples of the types of security risk management challenges.|The Open Source Debate| - differentiate between examples of the characteristics of open source and proprietary technology.|"Utility" or "On-Demand" Computing| - identify the challenges for utility computing solutions.|Industry Collaboration and Standards Efforts| - identify the challenges facing industry collaboration and standards efforts.|Lesson Overview| - recognize the advantages of understanding strategic solutions for the technology industry.|Outsourcing, Licensing, and Service Solutions| - match examples of problems with the appropriate outsourcing, licensing, or service solution.|Streamlining Processes with SCM and ERP| - sequence the steps for effective supply chain management .| - determine whether the single-source or best-of-breed approach is appropriate for a given example.|Customer Relationship Management (CRM)| - recognize scenarios that exhibit the characteristics of good customer relationship management.|

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