Architecting a Future Ready IT Strategy

Duration: 2 Days

Instructor-led

Fully Accredited

EA Learning is Trusted by Leading Organisations Globally

Course Overview

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Course Delivery Formats

Comprehensive Training Solutions- We offer a range of training solutions designed to fit your needs:
Virtual Classroom: Participate in interactive, instructor-led online training that is exclusively designed for a virtual environment. Our dedicated instructors run these classes live, ensuring a fully immersive and engaging experience. This is our most popular format, offering high-quality education without compromise, accessible from anywhere in the world.
In-Person Classroom: Benefit from direct, face-to-face instruction in a traditional classroom setting.
Public Classes: Join scheduled classes with peers from various organisations, providing valuable networking opportunities.
Private In-House Classes: Exclusive training for groups within your organisation, featuring a comprehensive, hands-on approach with contextualised content and dedicated support from the EA Learning team.
Self-Paced eLearning: Learn at your own pace with flexible online courses.

Key Features

Course duration: 2 days
Fully accredited by The Strategy Framework
Interactive case-based learning
Collaborative activities powered by Miro
Facilitated group exercises and peer discussion
Highly experienced instructor
Certificate of attendance
Attend any time zone

Course Overview

Architecting a Future Ready IT Strategy is a practical, hands-on course for CIOs, IT leaders, architects, and strategists who need an IT strategy that drives clear choices, aligns investment, and accelerates execution – not just a set of themes and projects.

Across an interactive program built around real-world challenges, you will clarify IT’s strategic role in business success, assess capability maturity and gaps, and translate insights into a focused set of strategic opportunity areas and themes. You will then shape a simple, executive-ready roadmap (Now – Next – Later) that sequences intent without locking you into premature delivery commitments.

The course goes beyond strategy creation by showing how to make strategy real: governance that enables decisions, investment alignment that reinforces priorities, and measurement that builds credibility and supports continuous improvement over time.

Expect collaborative exercises and reusable templates you can apply immediately, including:

Defining IT’s strategic mandate and value proposition (in business language)
A lightweight IT capability maturity assessment and gap identification
Strategic opportunity area identification and prioritisation lenses (value, feasibility, risk)
Strategic themes and a simple, communicable strategy narrative
A high-level roadmap (Now – Next – Later) and strategy-on-a-page output
Governance-on-a-page: decision rights, forums, and guardrails for faster execution
Investment alignment flow and practical prioritisation trade-offs
Strategy measurement snapshot (leading/lagging indicators) to learn and adapt

Why Choose the Architecting a Future Ready IT Strategy Course?

Proven Expertise: Trusted by leading banks, government organisations, and Fortune 500 companies, we are a global leader in professional training, with nearly 2 decades of excellence in enterprise architecture education.

Outcome-Oriented Curriculum: This course is built around practical, real-world challenges and equips participants with the tools to assess IT maturity, align initiatives with business priorities, and build strategies that inspire action, energise teams, and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Expert Instructors: Learn from seasoned IT strategy professionals who bring deep expertise and real-world insights to help you connect theory with application.

Flexible Delivery Options: Choose from virtual, in-person, public, or private classes tailored to suit individual and team needs.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for professionals who shape, influence, or deliver IT strategy and want to lead with greater clarity, confidence, and business alignment. Ideal attendees include:

CIOs, CTOs, and IT Directors: Senior leaders responsible for defining and executing IT strategy.
Enterprise Architects and IT Strategists: Professionals driving alignment between business needs and technology capabilities.
Heads of Digital, Transformation, or Innovation: Leaders seeking to position IT as a key enabler of business growth and adaptability.
IT Portfolio and Program Managers: Those managing strategic initiatives who need to ensure investments align with enterprise priorities.
Consultants and Advisors: Individuals supporting clients in developing IT strategy, improving alignment, or driving strategic transformation.

Whether you’re building a new strategy or refreshing an existing one, this course equips you to craft an IT strategy that’s visionary, practical, and future-ready.

Learning Outcomes

By completing this course, participants will be able to:

Define a compelling, business-aligned IT strategy that clearly articulates the role of IT in enabling organisational success.
Distinguish between strategy and planning—developing a strategy that guides choices, trade-offs, and investment focus.
Assess IT capability maturity using structured models and identify key gaps and opportunities for improvement.
Develop a practical IT strategy roadmap that balances ambition, business value, and delivery readiness.
Use strategic frameworks to evaluate business needs, uncover insights, and structure a unique and energising IT direction.
Align IT initiatives with business priorities and establish governance approaches to support effective execution.
Define success metrics and implement a process for tracking performance, adjusting strategy, and driving continuous improvement.

This course equips you with the mindset, tools, and language to lead IT strategy with greater influence, alignment, and long-term impact.

Benefits to Your Organisation

Empower your team to lead with clarity, challenge assumptions, and shape an IT strategy that truly makes a difference:

Strategic Clarity: Define IT’s unique value to the business—beyond operations—and articulate a compelling role in enabling growth, transformation, and innovation.
Better Choices, Not Just Better Plans: Equip your team to understand the difference between strategy and planning—enabling sharper trade-offs, clearer priorities, and more deliberate decision-making.
Framework-Driven Insight: Use proven models and strategy frameworks to see the business through a new lens—unlocking insight, alignment, and new possibilities.
Engaging, Actionable Strategy: Craft strategies that are not only realistic and executable but also energising, memorable, and aligned with the ambitions of the organisation.
Sustainable Value Creation: Build capability to reassess IT maturity, prioritise initiatives that matter, and deliver sustained strategic impact over time.

Benefits to You

Successful completion of this course demonstrates your ability to lead IT strategy with clarity, creativity, and credibility. You will:

Deepen your strategic thinking by learning how to define IT’s role in business success—not just as a service provider, but as a driver of value.
Build confidence in using models, frameworks, and maturity assessments to shape and communicate a clear, differentiated IT strategy.
Learn how to prioritise, sequence, and structure initiatives to maximise business impact and influence decision-making at the executive level.
Strengthen your professional profile with practical, future-facing skills that are in demand across all industries.
Position yourself as a trusted strategic advisor who can bridge the gap between technology and business goals.

Day One:

IT Strategy Foundations & Alignment

Welcome & Orientation

Defining IT’s Role in Business Success

Identifying Strategic Opportunities & Shaping Direction

Developing an IT Strategy Roadmap

Interactive Workshop – Building Your IT Strategy Framework

Daily Wrap-Up & Reflection

Day Two:

Execution & Governance Best Practices

IT Governance Models for Strategic Execution

Aligning IT Investments with Business Priorities

Measuring IT Strategy Success & Continuous Improvement

Final Takeaways & Action Plan

Course Close & Certificate Presentation

There is no exam for this course. A certificate of completion will be issued.

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Classroom

Our classes run from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM in the specified local time zone. To secure your place on a class, simply register and follow the prompts to pay by credit card or invoice.

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Self-Paced eLearning

Learn at your own pace with ease! To access the course portal, simply register and follow the steps to complete your payment via card or invoice. Once payment is confirmed, you’ll receive access within 24 to 48 hours.

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Discounted Training for Teams and Organisations

At EA Learning, we’re committed to supporting your team’s training needs and helping you maximise your budget. Here are a few ways we can assist:

Arrange a private course exclusively for your team with group pricing.
Save on training costs with exclusive bulk pricing discounts when you prepay for multiple courses or places on classes.
Get special discounted pricing when you prepay at a tiered level, allowing you to draw down on your balance for any course. Ideal for organisations looking to maximise their training budgets and invest in ongoing professional development.

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