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CERTIFIED BUSINESS
TECHNOLOGY LEADER

Certified Business Technology Leaders online course is a 3-module training programme that helps you develop all the essential skills you need for leading the technology-driven business transformation. Learn management practices to plan, develop and operate digital products, solutions and services. This training programme gives all you need for harnessing the potential of technology to create value for your business.

DESCRIPTION

Business Technology Leaders training programme consists of 3 x 2-day modules.

The course in intended for all business and IT leaders and experts who seek for practical ways to manage the information technology to bring value for the business

This training programme will be conducted in English.

BENEFITS

Business Technology Academy’s Agile Leadership Training
At the end of the one-day course, you will understand the importance of:

  • You will get a 360⁰ view on the technology management scenery.

  • You will know how to make the best out of the technology with the support of people, practices and tools.

  • You will understand how to enable faster development while keeping things stable.

  • You will become a technology-savvy business leader who can advance your company’s business goals.

  • You will improve your career advancement opportunities
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MODULES

  • Introduction
    22.9.2022 at 9:30-11:30 – Online
  • Module 1: Creating business value with technology – Business Technology operating model and ecosystem management
    5.-6.10.2022 – Online
  • Module 2: Initiatives into actions – Demand & Development Management
    2.-3.11.2022 – Online
  • Module 3: Next level service excellence, management and automation– Services
    31.11-1.12.2022 – Online
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TRAINING DATES

The training programme consists of six online training days and two to three pre-study days depending on the personal learning style. The eLearning tool used for pre-study assignments is a browser-based, time and location independent online training portal called the Roundtable.

CHANGES AND CANCELATIONS

A full refund will be provided for cancellations received up to 7 days prior to the course date. Alternatively, the participation can be rescheduled at a mutually acceptable date or substituted by another participant from the same company or organisation.

Refunds will not be given for a “no show” on the day.

TRAINING PROGRAM COST

The cost of the full training programme (6 days) is £3600 (+ VAT).

The training modules can also be sold separately. The costs per module are the following:

Modules 1-3 (2 days) £1370 + VAT / module
When enrolling please specify if you wish to attend the whole programme (6 days) or specific modules only.

CERTIFICATES

After successfully passing the certification exams the participant will receive two certificates:

GREEN CARD – Certified Business Technology Standard Professional

CBTL – Certified Business Technology Leader

CONTACT US

Interested to talk more about the course or discuss training needs for your organisation? The length and content of our training programmes can be tailored to fit your organisation’s specific needs.  Please contact us at hello@xonetic.com

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INFO

22.09.2022 - 01.12.2022
Online
£3700

MODULES

  • Introduction
    22.9.2022 at 9:30-11:30 – Online
  • Module 1: Creating business value with technology – Business Technology operating model and ecosystem management
    5.-6.10.2022 – Online
  • Module 2: Initiatives into actions – Demand & Development Management
    2.-3.11.2022 – Online
  • Module 3: Next level service excellence, management and automation– Services
    30.11-1.12.2022 – Online

THE TEAM

MATTI VESALA

Coach & Facilitator

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SAMI LAURINANTTI

Coach

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ARI NUUTINEN

Coach 

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ELENA VAN LEEMPUT

Coach & Facilitator

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JARI TIETÄVÄINEN

Coach

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SAKARI HYPPÄNEN

Coach

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LIISA KORKIAKOSKI

Coach & Facilitator

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MIKKO SAARI

Coach

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TIMO SAVOLAINEN

Coach

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MATTI VESALA
Coach

MATTI VESALA

I work as a Business Executive overseeing services that support customers in their digital business development. This is also my main focus in the Business Technology Academy.

My greatest passion is emotional and innovative purpose driven leadership that aims at making people feel happy, creative and excited – especially in business development. I love to step up and lead value networks that reach beyond known organizational structures to create value yet unseen! I’m passionate about “beta”, constantly encouraging people to discover new business potential by sharing, exploring and collaborating in the earliest stage.

I have a track record of over 15 years in leading business development and delivery of global IT services. Over the years, I’ve witnessed the evolution of the core IT and the revolution of digitalization especially in the telecom, media and manufacturing industries. I’m passionate to find out how future digitalization, AI and robotics will be managed and how we transform our leadership to maximize the benefits of emerging business technology.

I’m also passionate about cooking, and the same mindset can easily be applied to IT development as well: I imagine myself exploring new culinary adventures for customers by trusting simple high-quality ingredients but keeping a curious mindset constantly testing how to discover new ways to prepare them.

matti.vesala@sofigate.com

Coach

SAMI LAURINANTTI

My passion during my career has always been around understanding the Customer, Business and Individual needs and trying to simplify the deliverables and message to match the actual requirements. Living in a complex world simplification is often a time consuming process. I have been able to hone these skills having worked in diverse roles and global multicultural environments and organisations. Prior to joining Sofigate in 2015 I have worked 15+ years in Account Management leading Customer Teams as well as Business Development positions primarily in the Telecoms industry on the operator side as well as equipment vendor side.

For the past four years at Sofigate I have been focusing on Service Management and SIAM Customer assignments, leading our Service Integration Practice team as well as concept development. I am also a Head Coach at the Sofigate Academy coaching the best practices of Service Management as well as running DevOps simulations. I have experience in implementing and leading a Service Integration Function (SMO) at a Customer environment as well as coaching Customers to increase the maturity of their SIAM practice in multivendor environments.

The most rewarding aspect of coaching is interacting and sparring with the students. Applying theory into practice can vary depending on the unique environment and the challenge is to understand those individual requirements. Coaching is also a learning experience for myself as we discuss different scenarios and specific organisational challenges of the students during the training days.

Life work balance is important and outside work I spend time with my family and friends. I like to stay fit and enjoy exercising and playing different sports such as golf, basketball and tennis. Traveling and seeing the world has always been important for our family.

Coach

ARI NUUTINEN

My mission is to help customers to develop and improve their business with IT. I have a strongly business-oriented way of thinking combined with solid technical background. I’m inspired by challenges and finding creative, new ways of getting things done. Business technology, strategy and transformation are my areas of expertise. I have worked with more than 50 companies ranging from small growth companies to large corporations in various industries.

Coaching means continuous learning and professional development for myself me as well. I like to share my experiences and learn from others. I am motivated in simplifying complex issues, and I like to use visualization as a tool for communication.

In my free time I like to try out everything new and exciting. One of my long-time hobbies is martial arts. For me, it is a versatile combination of real-life agility, brain-teasing problem solving, overall physical fitness etc. Life-long learning at its best.

Coach & Facilitator

ELENA VAN LEEMPUT

I like my work best when I can motivate and help other people. I constantly strive for excellence in everything I do and I’m open to different ideas that challenge my views. I believe in constant change which drives my innovative mindset. My background is both in technology and business with more than 15 years’ experience ranging from demand, development to service management. I enjoy taking initiative and carry out new ventures.

I try to keep things simple and bring my skills when I coach and facilitate to inspire people and help them innovate. I’m passionate about all forms of facilitation and coaching be it face-to-face or virtual facilitation. I also enjoy creating different e-learning training, holding innovation workshops and design thinking hackathons.

I also find it very important to nurture my creative side along the way (visual arts: photography, sketching, videography and all areas of design) through both my work and hobbies – which I’m happy to say I get to do often enough.

elena.van.leemput@sofigate.com

Coach

JARI TIETÄVÄINEN

As a seasoned enterprise architect with long and versatile experience my passion is to help business and IT work together and achieve even the most challenging goals. I already have 30+ years of IT experience, including 20 years’ experience of Enterprise Architecture. Financial Services is my strongest industry but over the years I have worked with organizations in vast majority of other industries as well.

I also work as consultant as well as a trainer. Therefore, as a trainer, I always want to share my wide hands-on experience and knowledge and focus on essential. I often hear the words “I have never heard anyone explain Enterprise Architecture as clearly as you just did” which is something that really motivates me.

Being able to see far enough and understand the big picture are key requirements for successful Enterprise Architecture. This is something I like to do in my leisure time also. Astronomy is one of my favorite hobbies. Wondering the miracles of the Universe with my two astronomical telescopes helps me charging my batteries for new challenges.

Coach

SAKARI HYPPÄNEN

My specialties in IT Management are Vendor Management and Service Integration (SIAM). My 8 years in consulting client industries have included e.g. manufacturing, telecom, pharmaceutical and food. My assignments revolve around SIAM Model design, Vendor Management model design and training, IT Operating Model design, to mention a few. Highlights in my career are the times when we (there is always a team) have been able to exceed customer expectations or turn around a challenging situation.

The most rewarding thing about coaching for me is being able to spark lively discussions among the participants by challenging them to think, and then to both see the group get new ideas and to learn new things myself.

I am passionate about the idea of holistic wellbeing, as described in Aki Hintsa’s book The Core – Better Life, Better Performance. Adopting his framework has enabled me to divide my time and effort between the various areas of life and lead a more balanced and fulfilling life. One of the key lessons is adopting the 80/20 rule in most things (diet, exercise etc.) and thus avoiding stressful perfectionism.

Coach & Facilitator

LIISA KORKIAKOSKI

Coach

MIKKO SAARI

I am leading and developing the Sourcing and Supplier Management practice at Sofigate. During my time at Sofigate I have successfully executed 50+ projects, most of them related to sourcing management or supplier management.

My passion is to always seek for the best possible outcome and see through that the benefits are realized. I am intrigued by the most challenging scenarios, where joint efforts are necessary and required from the whole ecosystem, including our team, customer’s team and suppliers’ best experts, to develop and deliver the best possible outcome for the customer.

The most rewarding thing about coaching for me is to hear that the learnings have been taken into action in the daily work and see that those actions are realized as a true benefit or a positive change for the whole organization.

In my free time, I spend most of my time on the golf course eagerly trying to hit the hole-in-one.

Coach

TIMO SAVOLAINEN

My passion is Agile Leadership, Digital Transformation and Business Development. I authored the first book in Finnish on the topic of Leading Digital Transformation including 10 success stories e.g. Finnair, Wärtsilä, Finnish Tax Administration and Reima.

Coaching and facilitating both online and face-to-face are the keys to drive digital transformation both on team and C-level.

I am a left-handed visual thinker and that’s why I truly enjoy using Design Thinking and Service Design methods to create outstanding product and services both in B2B and B2C.

Coach & Facilitator

THOMAS HUGHES

I work as coach and facilitator in the Business Technology Academy. My focus is business simulation games such as the DevOps simulation. I consider myself a full-stack Business Technology professional of sorts. During the past 20+ years, I’ve worked in wide range of various IT and business management roles in and with organizations ranging from global enterprises to startups in a variety of industries.

I enjoy looking for new perspectives to phenomena and challenging myself and others to continuously develop ourselves and to expand our thinking. Being in the discomfort zone is the way to grow. As a coach I like to cross breed theoretical frameworks, practical examples, illuminating stories and humour. I see simulation games as a perfect way to combine these into an engaging and fun day.    

I enjoy exploring life through various projects and experiments. Some of these involve focused self-development both physically and mentally, while others focus more on creative aspirations related to areas like photography, writing and digital media.