GovTech's CIO Milestone Course - Modernisation

Overview

GovTech’s CIO Milestone Course (previously known as CIO Milestone Programme) empowers CIOs to adopt a strategic role within their agencies, influencing and driving the digitalisation agenda through innovative use of technology.

A comprehensive programme paced out over six months, it is specially designed for you to acquire deeper understanding of emerging and evolving facets of digital leadership; digital business models, sharpen your ability for high-impact stakeholder influence and distil the learnings from government digitalisation case studies that will benefit your agencies directly.

As Chief Information Officers (CIOs), be equipped with the right knowledge and tools to drive your digitalisation journey at your respective agencies. The course is carefully designed by practitioners, for practitioners to ensure that you can apply your learnings to solve real-world problems faced by agencies.

GovTech’s CIO Milestone Course – Modernisation focuses on IT modernisation, teaching CIOs, like you, to define goals with stakeholders, develop strategies, and organise teams. It explores key concepts, challenges, and best practices for updating legacy systems effectively.

Key Takeaways

• Frame modernisation as an opportunity for transformation and simplification (not just replacement) and co-manage the transformation/simplification with business counterparts
• Understand that the key challenge is the incomplete information on the legacy system/business processes, and the complexity/risks of the transition from legacy to the modern replacement cum improvements
• Direct the development of effective strategies for
  • the extraction of information on the legacy system/processes and
  • the successful transition to the modern system and its improvements (in system functions and business processes)
• Understand and direct the application of best practices (including Ops-Tech integration/collaboration) across the various stakeholders in the end-to-end modernisation process