The following is the template describing the 4 courses for this certificate:
(All courses are available live/synchronously
face-to-face & online)
1. The Transportation Industry Trends and Issues
The certificate starts with the business imperatives of companies operating in this sector, and their approach to creating an IT strategic plan and project roadmap intended to create worthwhile business value. The unique challenges of regulatory compliance, state requirements, security, massive data sets, super-computing, networks to extreme locations etc. are also addressed. This course focuses on how the digital transformation enables innovation, especially by leveraging emerging technologies (e.g., blockchain, AI, Robotics Process Automation, social media, analytics, big data) to empower customers/clients, along with the ever changing regulatory considerations, and demand to improve employee efficiency and effectiveness.
2. The Transportation Industry Technical-Processes
The certificate then deals with the emerging information technologies involved in the transportation technical systems and processes for building, maintaining, scheduling, and load matching, and the complex reporting and monitoring systems required across the entire transportation ecosystem.
3. The Transportation Industry IT Back Office Operations
The third course addresses the business functions and processes that support funding, development and production, such as Finance, HR, Production Accounting, Insurance, Legal, Tax, Treasury etc.
4. The Transportation Industry Best Practices
The fourth and final course deals with best-practice execution, in terms of organizational governance, marketing, sourcing and vendor management, portfolio and project management, and service delivery that integrates the content from the first three courses and extends it across the internal company to customers/clients.
Individual customized course for senior level executives
As Transportation organizations accelerate the digital transformation of their industry, they are focusing their investments in leveraging information technology to improve customer/client products/services while lowering overall costs. In today’s highly regulated, increasingly resource-constrained, and cost-focused environment it is essential to understand how to effectively and efficiently manage an organization’s information technology (IT) resources. There are numerous strategic, tactical, and operational choices to be made about managing Transportation IT resources and it is essential to ensure that IT and non-IT executives across the organization work in harmony.
Experience has made it clear that Transportation organizations need well-conceived organizational structures, skills, processes, and decision rights to ensure that IT investments are appropriately leveraged across the organization, especially when considering the impact of emerging information technologies.
This course prepares Transportation executives by providing a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental decisions related to the management of IT resources in the Transportation environment. The course will also provide an overview of current and future information technologies and their potential impact on customers/clients, organizations, and associated stakeholders.
The course is designed to be delivered live/synchronously (face-to-face or online) with a total of twenty (20) contact hours. While the schedule is flexible, it is usually delivered in approximately ten (10) 2-hour modules/lectures/sessions.
The IT-Transportation topics include:
- Deriving IT-business strategies
- Considerations for types of organizational structure, sourcing, governance (i.e., decision-making and decision rights), roles/responsibilities, and processes
- Leverage emerging digital technologies; especially AI, blockchain, and security
- The business value of IT
- The definition, concepts, and contexts of Transportation IT
- Enhancing business-IT alignment
