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Contact: Carnegie Mellon CyLab Teams Up With Tatum and Inc. Magazine To Offer Innovative Technology Leadership Program for Executives
PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon CyLab announced today that it has partnered with Tatum, LLC and Inc. magazine to expand the reach of its Technology Leadership Essentials certificate program, a first-of-its-kind executive education program for chief information officers in 35 U.S. cities.
The program, launched last year by Tatum and Carnegie Mellon CyLab, is designed to address the need for a practical, hands-on course to help technology leaders become effective chief information officers.
"The Technology Leadership Essentials program will teach leaders how to deliver strategic technology initiatives at the speed of business," said Dena Haritos Tsamitis, director of the Information Networking Institute and director of education, training and outreach for Carnegie Mellon CyLab.
The new program combines Carnegie Mellon's technology, policy and management expertise and Tatum's finance and technology leadership with Inc.'s tenure as the go-to resource for news and case studies in high-velocity business growth. The end product will be the most sought after technology leadership training series for professionals.
The 12 courses that make up the Technology Leadership Essentials curriculum leverage Tatum's 500 strategic, financial and technology leadership executives as co-developers and instructors. The program will be available to businesses across the country seeking to equip business and technology executives with the capability of leading in today's complex business environment.
Course modules, offered twice monthly over a six-month period, will cover a broad range of IT issues, including risk management, data privacy issues and the challenges of outsourcing.
The program targets a broad business sector, including everything from health and fitness to finance and manufacturing.
"After participating in the first pilot program, our chief information officer has improved our technology infrastructure by implementing practical solutions gleaned from his courses," said Gary Heavin, chief executive officer and founder of Curves International, Inc.
For more information about Technology Leadership Essentials, visit www.inc.com/techessentials/index.html.
About Carnegie Mellon CyLab: Carnegie Mellon CyLab is a university-wide, multidisciplinary initiative that builds on more than two decades of Carnegie Mellon's leadership in information technology and involves more than 200 faculty and staff. Carnegie Mellon has been designated as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency and participates in the Federal Cyber Corps Scholarship for Service program. CyLab offers an NSF-funded information assurance capacity building program for faculty and minority-serving institutions. Through the Information Networking Institute, the education partner of Carnegie Mellon CyLab, CyLab offers professional master's degree programs in information networking and security. For more information, visit www.cylab.cmu.edu. About Tatum, LLC: Tatum is the largest and fastest-growing services firm in the U.S., helping companies in transition to accelerate business success and create more value. Through more than 30 offices nationwide, Tatum's more than 500 partners and principals provide strategic and operating leadership in finance and information technology. Tatum's uniqueness is in its ability to immediately mobilize and integrate the right leader or leadership team to assess, forecast, plan and oversee any business scenario. Founded in 1993, Tatum is based in Atlanta, Ga. For more information, visit www.TatumLLC.com.
About Inc. magazine: Inc., the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies, delivers solutions for today's innovative company builders. It provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing and technology. Inc., a Mansueto Ventures LLC publication, inspires and informs, with cutting-edge coverage that reflects our readers' energy, brashness and imagination.
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Industry experts report that — due to opportunities presented by advancing technology — more mid-size companies boasting sales of $10 to $300 million seek programs to help business leaders step up the pace of change.
"This program addresses a serious need in today's competitive technology environment," said John Koten, chief executive officer of Mansueto Ventures and editor-in-chief of Inc. magazine. "We are excited to offer Inc.'s expertise in the middle market to help companies experiencing rapid growth find solutions to their technology challenges and to help them achieve their financial objectives."