GovTech's CIO Milestone Course - Resilience

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 – Resilience explores IT's role in business resilience, focusing on system resilience, disaster recovery, and continuity planning. It covers strategies for existing systems and developing new digital services to enhance organisational resilience against high-impact scenarios.

Key Takeaways

• Understand critical role of IT in the organisation’s business resilience – either in terms of resilience in existing IT services, or need for IT support in areas of business resilience not currently supported fully (e.g. stronger pandemic than Covid)
• Understand that the end-to-end aspects of IT support for business resilience
• Direct the application of best practices over the digital product life-cycle to plan and mitigate/prepare for the avoidance/management of IT incidents/disasters 
• Direct the application of best practices in actual management of IT incidents/disasters
• Manage the Ops-Tech collaboration and vendor/stakeholder management required in above