Hi my colleagues, friends and followers.

Yesterday HP started a new learning line, the Business Career Track, with the new program HP – IT for Business.

The HP ATA – IT for Business certification is designed to teach business students how to achieve business results through technology

In the course, students will learn the key IT solution elements and how they are used to solve business challenges. Students will identify business problems and opportunities, identify specific technologies that support those business objectives, and evaluate various solutions from a business perspective. Students will learn about hosted, co-located, and cloud solutions, as well as the differences in functionality and cost between those and traditional on-premises solutions. In addition, students will learn about how to classify and ensure data security in each environment. The course presents several business scenarios where students will gain practical experience in defining and executing the business-side responsibilities in a technology project, and identifying the key areas where technology initiatives can go off track.

The skills students are going to learn are:

1. Identify the pillars of IT and describe how they are used to solve business challenges 

1.1 Identify key infrastructure components and describe their business implications

1.2 Identify key business-relevant applications and describe their business implications

1.3 Identify the importance and types of business data, and describe the business implications of proper data management

1.4 Identify key security elements and describe their business implications

1.5 Identify key management elements and describe their business implications

1.6 Identify types of services that a business consumes and describe their business implications

2. Define the business problem or opportunity to be addressed 

2.1 Discover and describe the organization’s business context

2.2 Identify the desired business outcomes

2.3 Assess ways in which technology can address a stated business problem

2.4 Define the key success factors and constraints for a proposed solution

2.5 Identify key success measurements

3. Evaluate alternative solutions (collaborate with the project team members) 

3.1 Analyze and prioritize potential solutions

3.2 Recommend a solution that aligns with the business goals and constraints

3.3 Evaluate the proposed solution against the impact on the business

3.4 Quantify the business value of the solution in terms of

3.5 Identify the components of a high-impact business case

4. Plan, execute, and monitor a project that produces an IT solution 

4.1 Collaborate with an IT project manager to prepare a business-side project plan

4.2 Execute the business-side project plan

4.3 Perform business-side post-release activities

 

A great opportunity to continue growing as a professional in the IT sector.

Please feel free to contact me if you want further information.

All the best for all of you and see you in my next post

Luis.