IT/Business Alignment In Action: Grab@Pizza

OVERVIEW

This is not a course; rather it is a business simulation – a highly interactive training workshop. It is presented onsite only to a group of selected team members from an organization.

What does IT business alignment really mean? You actually bring it to life during this highly-interactive and very educational two-day training workshop that combines the power of experiential learning with a practical discussion on how to apply IT Service Management (ITSM) best practices.

In an interactive training workshop environment, supported by Pink Elephant trainers, participating teams learn to apply ITSM concepts to real business situations. While adopting a company role with specific tasks, responsibilities and authority, participants learn to work as a team to produce tangible results within the challenging and realistic simulated-business environment.

Here is the scenario:

Your team runs the IT department of Grab@Pizza, one of the world’s largest pizza companies and your task is to support the business with excellent IT products and services. The market is highly competitive, which forces your business to design new products, develop powerful marketing and sales initiatives and develop a high level of operating excellence with a fast, low cost and high-quality delivery process. IT plays an important role in enabling the business to achieve its strategic aims. Your challenge is to align yourself with business demands and organize your IT capabilities in such a way that the business can achieve its targets for lowering operations costs, increasing revenue and market share, and increasing customer satisfaction and loyalty.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • Deliver agreed IT Services with limited resources, in terms of budget and people
  • Minimize IT costs by optimizing ITSM people, processes and supporting technology
  • Use Suppliers effectively
  • Prioritize IT investments and workload, in terms of Maintenance & Support and Innovation & Development
  • Translate Business Requirements into the required IT Services
  • Plan application development activities, prioritizing the projects/changes planned on the Change Calendar
  • Minimize potential business risks to continuity caused by poor availability, capacity and security of the IT services
  • Realize and demonstrate business value
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This is a great team-building experience. The one-day workshop is designed for IT practitioners at any and all levels in IT operations and IT service management, software development, and other areas of IT service and delivery. This interactive training workshop is especially beneficial for IT organizations seeking to understand what it means to add business value.

BENEFITS & LOGISTICS

This business simulation has a strict minimum and maximum number of attendees; 12-14 confirmed participants are required.

Confucius said, “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

It is a recognized fact that business simulations where the major component is learning by doing has numerous advantages. To read more about the specific benefits of experiential learning and the logistics involved with this interactive workshop, click here.

PREREQUISITES

There are no prerequisites for attending this workshop.

PDU CREDITS

After completion of this workshop, you may apply for self-directed learning PDUs through PMI. Certificate of attendance is available upon request.

FEES

To bring us onsite to your location to present this simulation, contact us at info@pinkelephant.com or 1-888-273-PINK.

LIST OF BUSINESS SIMULATIONS AVAILABLE

Name Main Area of Focus Format
DevOps in Action: The Phoenix Project DevOps Virtual online, or onsite at your location
The Integrated Service Management Experience: MarsLander® ITSM, integrated IT service management Virtual online, or onsite at your location
IT/Business Alignment in Action: Grab@Pizza Business and IT alignment, business relationship management Onsite at your location
ITSM in Action: Apollo 13 ITSM, process management Onsite at your location
Agile Project Management in Action: The Challenge of Egypt Agile Onsite at your location

Questions?

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