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David Kennedy
Group CIO
Transaction Services Group

"There’s no other programme like it in New Zealand, perhaps not even globally. It is specifically designed by CIOs, for CIOs to develop future CIOs. The programme offers the participant a critical path to leadership in the IT space: what do we have today, and what do we need to be successful tomorrow?"

Rob Muller
Business Solutions Manager
DB Breweries

“I was fortunate to be paired with a business mentor who is the group CIO of a global organisation. I met with him once a month and he guided me through my strategic initiative. I also enjoyed the networking opportunities with people from lots of different companies.”

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Strategic CIO programme

This intensive, practically focused programme prepares mid-career IT professionals to step into a CIO role.

About the programme

The focus is on IT’s contribution to the business at a strategic level. Participants engage in a range of activities to develop an enterprise leadership mindset.

Participants extend their commercial acumen and capability for strategic thinking to develop a deeper understanding of IT’s role in creating customer value and addressing business challenges.

Leading Executive Education faculty, industry guest speakers and live case studies help participants to explore the challenges of creating effective IT strategies to develop and implement major initiatives.

Time commitment

This programme is delivered in a total of 11 days over six months. It includes five modules of two or three days held in March, April, May, July and August.

Applications for 2018 are now open. Applications need to be received by Friday 2 March 2018. The programme starts Wednesday 18 April 2018.

Am I eligible?

Participants should:

Currently be in an IT-based role that reports to the CIO, CEO or other member of the executive team
Have a minimum five years’ experience in IT management roles
Have been identified as having potential to progress to CIO or equivalent role within the next five years

Programme content

Modules

Each module includes a mix of:

Interactive workshops with senior Executive Education faculty
Leading industry speakers
Live case studies, simulations and participative exercises
Peer group interaction
Readings and thought leadership
Application of learning to the participants’ businesses
Work on strategic initiatives for the sponsoring organisations

Individual development

Participants will develop a view of who they want to be as CIO and the capability they need to develop to complete their journey.
They will plan how they will develop themselves and their teams and create value for their organisations.
Participants will strengthen their networks through interaction with their programme peers, guest speakers and programme faculty.

Organisational benefit

Each participant will develop a business case for an initiative that is of strategic value to their organisation. Individual mentoring and support for this will be provided by a team of Executive Education faculty and seasoned CIOs.

Advisory group

This programme is developed by senior faculty in conjunction with an advisory group of seasoned leaders who also feature as mentors and guest speakers.