Applied IT Management in the Digital Age

IT management today is challenged by fast technological change, new digital opportunities, growing cost pressure, and increasing business and regulatory requirements. IT management needs to ensure that IT functions become much more agile, flexible and efficient than ever before. For a state of the art IT management, a solid knowhow with regard to

• Intelligent demand management
• Application and data architecture
• IT infrastructure
• Organization and workforce management
• Business/IT governance and lean IT processes
• Sourcing and location setup incl. vendor and partner management

is crucial.

In addition, it is expected that IT managers have a good understanding of the core business of their company (business/IT alignment) and sound IT cost management capabilities. Furthermore, IT managers need to be able to understand opportunities of digitization, evaluate the value of new technologies and drive digital transformation jointly with the business.