Managing IT in the Public Sector

Wellington
21 & 22 August 2008

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This workshop focuses on the creation of value through the use of information and technology. In the public sector, the value created is often public, as well as private, and therefore can be difficult to measure. The public sector context thus adds another layer of complexity to the already formidable task of managing information technology. The program will explore this complexity and ways of managing IT.

Who Should Attend?

This course is aimed at managers who are involved in decisions regarding significant investments in Information Technology in the public sector. Such managers would typically be members of a work group, project team, IT steering committee, or IT governance board. The decisions regard budgeting for IT, IT investment selection and prioritisation, and IT project management.

The course focuses on the creation and maintenance of durable working relationships that support the effective use of information technology to achieve organisational goals. Thus the participation of colleagues from a single organisation is likely to be particularly beneficial, and is encouraged.

Course Leader - Michael Vitale

Michael Vitale is a Professor and Director, Commercialisation at the Monash Asia Pacific Centre for Science and Wealth Creation. Michael focuses his teaching, research, and consulting on commercialisation of innovation, particularly in biotechnology. He is the chairman of a public biotechnology firm and a member of the advisory board of a private biotech company. In 2006 Prof Vitale had a joint professorial appointment at ANZSOG and the Melbourne Business School (MBS). He is course leader for the Managing IT in the Public Sector executive workshop and a regular contribu¬tor to the School's Executive Fellows Program.

Previously he was a Professor with the Australian Graduate School of Management, where he also served as the School’s Dean in 2001-2002. He was formerly a Professor in the Centre for Management of IT at the Melbourne Business School (where he now holds a concurrent appointment as Professor) and the Foundation Professor of Information Systems and Head of the Information Systems Department at the University of Melbourne. Prior to coming to Australia, he was a Fellow at the Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation in Boston and an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His industry experience includes four years as Vice President of Technology and Corporate Services at the Pruden¬tial Insurance Company of America. Professor Vitale’s current research and consulting interests are in the areas of the commercialisation of innovations, particularly of biotechnology, and IT governance.