Certified Information Technology Management Professional (CitMP) Training (a.k.a. Mini-MIS)
"Technology training services offered to technology management professionals, managers, directors and leaders."
This program covers the content that is taught in most core MIS programs but in a fraction of the time. Specifically, it includes the following modules, and is offered self-paced/live-online as well as a four-and-a-half-day (4.5 days) classroom program (public seminar or onsite at your location). Here is a sample agenda:
- Information Systems
- Computers and Information Systems in Daily Life
- Computer Literarcy and Information Literacy
- The Beginning: Transaction Processing Systems
- Management Information Systems
- Major Components of an Information System
- Using Information Systems and Information Technology
- The IT Job Market
- Future Outlooks
- Computers
- Defining a Computer
- History of Computer Hardware and Software
- The Power of Computers (Speed, Accuracy, Storage)
- Computer Operations
- Input, Output and Memory Devices
- Classes of Computers
- Software (Operating Systems, Application Software)
- Computer Languages
- Database Systems, Data Warehouses and Data Marts
- Databases
- Logical Database Design (Relational Database)
- Components of a DBMS (Data Engine and Manipulation)
- Recent Trends in Database Design and Use
- Data Warehouses (Input, ETL, Storage, Output)
- Data Marts
- Personal, Legal, Ethical and Organizational Issues
- Risks Associated with Information Technologies
- Privacy Issues (Email, Cookies, Spyware, Adware, Phishing, Keyloggers, Sniffing, Spoofing)
- Ethical Issues of Information Technologies
- The Impact of Information Technology in the Workplace
- IT and Health Issues
- Green Computing
- Protecting Information Resources
- Computer and Network Security: Safeguards
- Security Threats: An Overview
- Security Measures and Enforcement (Access Control, VPN, Encryption, Biometrics etc.)
- Comprehensive Security System
- Business Continuity Planning
- Data Communication: Delivering Information Anywhere Anytime
- Defining Data Communication
- Basic Components of a Data Communication System
- Processing Configurations
- Types of Networks (LAN, WAN, MAN)
- Network Topologies (Star, Ring, Bus, Hierarchical, Mesh)
- Major Networking Concepts (Protocols, Routers, Client/Server)
- Wireless and Mobile Networks
- Wireless Security
- Convergence of Voice, Video and Data
- The Internet, Intranets and Extranets
- The Internet and the World Wide Web: Domains
- Navigational Tools, Search Engines and Directories
- Internet Services (Email, Newsgroups, IM, VoIP, Telephony)
- Web Applications for Various Industries
- Intranets
- Extranets
- Web 2.0 and 3.0 (Blogs, Wikis, Social Media, RSS, Podcasting)
- E-Commerce
- Defining E-Commerce: The Value Chain
- Major Categories of E-Commerce
- B2B, B2C, C2C, C2B, Government, Intrabusiness E-Commerce
- Mobile and Voice-Based E-Commerce
- E-Commerce Supporting Technologies (Electronic Payment, Web Marketing, SEO)
- Global Information Systems
- Why Go Global? E-Business
- Global Information Systems
- Organizational Structures and Global IS
- Obstacles to Using Global Information Systems (Skill, Culture, Regulation, Infrastructure)
- Building Successful Information Systems
- Systems Development Life-Cycle
- Planning (Task Force, Feasibility Study)
- Requirements Gathering and Analysis
- Design (Prototyping)
- Implementation (Request for Proposal - RFP, Implementation)
- Maintenance
- New Trends in Systems Analysis and Design (SOA, RAD, Extreme, Agile)
- Enterprise Systems
- Supply Chain Management (SCM)
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Knowledge Management (KM)
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Management Support Systems
- Types and Phases of Decisions in Organizations
- Decision Support Systems (DSS)
- Executive Information Systems (EIS)
- Group Support Systems (Groupware)
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Designing Management Support Systems (MSS)
- Intelligent Information Systems
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Expert Systems
- Case-Based Reasoning
- Intelligent Agents
- Fuzzy Logic
- Artificial Neural Networks
- Genertic Algorithms
- Natural-Language Processing
- Integration AI Technologies into DSS
- Emerging Trends, Technologies and Applications
- Trends in Software and Service Distribution (Pull and Push)
- Virtual Reality (VR)
- Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
- Biometrics
- Networking (Wi-Fi, WiMAX, Bluetooth, Grid, Utility - On-Demand, Cloud)
- Nanotechnology