I have project for CIS 4203 - IT Strategy and governance i choose higher colleges of technology in UAE (HCT)i need you to check and update phase 1 and start to do phase 2

I have project for CIS 4203 - IT Strategy and governance i choose higher colleges of technology in UAE (HCT)i need you to check and update phase 1 and start to do phase 2 1

Higher Colleges of Technology

Students Name: Hessa Ali

Fatma Abdulla

Shayma Ali

Khawla Ibrahim

Section 1

Introduction and Background of the company 3

What is the Business? 4

What are the Service or Products? 4

Who are the users Customers? 5

What does this document contain? 5

Timeline Table 5

Business Vision 6

Mission 6

Goals 6

The Strategic Goals of the Higher Colleges of Technology 7

External trends 8

Internal pressure 9

Gaps: 11

Recommendation: 11

Section 1:Introduction

Introduction and Background of the company

The Higher College Technology is over the largest and highly prestigious educational institute of the United Arab Emirates. It is contributing towards providing an effective opportunity to all the residents of UAE to meet their career and professional objectives in an efficient manner. It is a collage of people as it is proving an exceptional opportunity to all the individuals for maximizing their potential by gaining a higher education in their desired area. The HCT has a firm belief in diversity and that’s why it encourages the individuals coming from various background to take admission and enhance their academic qualification in the area of their interest.

The Higher Colleges of Technology believes in Learning by Doing. It is an approach that enables the students for making grip over the knowledge in a more practical form as compared to the theoretical form. They prepare the concept of the students making them eligible for carrying out various innovative tasks in the industry and real life. It is more like an application of the learned knowledge in a practical way. The HCT colleges provided service for more than 25 years in the United Arab Emirates. There are a thousand of graduates of the college that are working mostly with the prestigious organizations of the United Arab Emirates and contributing significantly towards the economic improvement of the UAE. The HCT believes in creating an alliance between the education knowledge and industry requirements for making their graduates first preference of the organizations in the market. I have project for CIS 4203 - IT Strategy and governance i choose higher colleges of technology in UAE (HCT)i need you to check and update phase 1 and start to do phase 2 3

What is the Business?

It is a network of educational institutes with the main target of producing technical graduates for fulfilling the industrial demand in an effective manner. The HCT believes in playing a significant role in the development of the community by providing them technically competent graduates capable of doing wonders in UAE. The HCT makes use of advanced educational technologies for broadening the spectrum of education for their graduates and make them quite flexible for adjusting as per the industrial requirements. The core focus of the business is innovation. The HCT provides certain training and education to their students for benefitting the organizations by providing them improved and efficient technological models.

What are the Service or Products?

There is various type of services provided by the Higher Colleges of Technology UAE in the domain of education. They are offering their services in the fields of Applied Media, Business, Computer Information Science, Education, Engineering Technology and Science, Foundations, General Studies, Health Sciences, Programs and Curriculum Department, and Technical Studies Program.

Who are the users Customers?

The community of United Arab Emirates

Students of United Arab Emirates
Students of foreign countries
Multinational organizations
Local Organizations

What does this document contain?

In this report, we will be making an effort for the preparation of IT strategic plan. At the initial stages, we will identify the core values of the Higher Colleges of Technology business comprising objectives, mission, vision, and strategic objectives. In the next step, we will make use of appropriate tools and techniques like SWOT, PESTLE analysis for the identification of HCT business gaps, strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats. Afterward, we will be developing various effective strategies and action plans that will be quite productive for the Higher Colleges of Technology in order to meet their strategic goals in an efficient manner. Finally, we will identify that whether we were able to reach our objectives as per the timeline or not.

Timeline Table

Activity	Period	Stakeholder
Phase 1
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Assessment of the situation
Part 3: Identification of business opportunities, needs, and gaps
Part 4: The required strategies for meeting the objectives
Part 5: Execution of the Plan
Conclusion
Phase 2

Business Vision

The vision of the Higher Colleges of Technology is to get recognized as one of the most prestigious educational organization of the UAE that is most capable of producing inventive, highly skilled, competent, and conversant graduates that can play a significant role for bringing excellence to the nation of United Arab Emirates.

Mission

The mission of the Higher Colleges of Technology is to deliver quality education to their graduates with the ability to implement the theory in the practical field with guaranteed results. The Higher Colleges of Technology has a much concern for setting the highest standard of Diploma, Bachelors, and Masters in the United Arab Emirates. The HCT is much focus on delivering quality education to their graduates by using some effective technological tools and learning by doing mechanism for fulfilling the industrial requirements of the United Arab Emirates.

Goals

The main goals of the Higher College of Technology include

Provision of practical knowledge to the graduates that they can use for bringing betterment in the industrial operations.
Continuous improvement in the learning environment and faculty development by incorporating the latest technological tools for expressing their commitment to the quality of education.
Accreditation of all of the programs offered at Higher Colleges of Technology.
Development of a certain link with the communities and business of United Arab Emirates for contributing significantly towards the development of the society and improvement in the economic condition of the UAE.
Taking substantial actions for ensuring the employment of their graduates by displaying the capabilities and competencies of their graduates to the rest of the world.

The Strategic Goals of the Higher Colleges of Technology

There are a number of strategic goals of the HCT comprising

Enhancement of the student Success: The HCT has a plan to manage the enrolment growth as per the funding of the HCT. They have a focus on improving the retention rate of the students especially in the program of the foundation. They are making a substantial effort for developing a portfolio of the students.
Emphasis on the applied education: Making their students capable of implementing the theoretical knowledge in the practical field for devising the innovative solutions in the best interest of the organizations.
Expansion of the partnerships: Developing certain link with certain industries and advisory committees for making the employment less problematic for their graduates.
Ensuring continuous improvement in the quality education: Involving the technological revolutions for bringing certain improvement in the provision of quality education by their institute.
Motivating the graduates for innovative improvements: Providing certain opportunity and resources to the students for experimentation and devising more efficient methods for the organizations to complete their processes.
Supporting the national strategies of United Arab Emirates: Conducting various recruitment campaigns for making sure that all of their graduates are able to find the quality of employment in the Emirates.

Section 2: Situation Assessment

We use SWOT analyses to assess the current IT situation: -

External trends
Environmental effects	Economic effect
Lack of work process on a general development in the academic programs and its methodologies.	The pressure that under the reason of the strong competition between HCT and other universities and colleges Strong competition among it and other countries, to occupy the top positions in the economic field based on academic knowledge
Technical effects	Social effects
- There is no real development of teaching techniques, which makes the level of education somewhat low	- There is a system based on the principle of racism against expatriates. The university prefers to receive Emirati students more than other students even if they find good skill at them.

Internal pressure
Strength	Weaknesses
It has a good and strong reputation and among other colleges. Providing an outstanding teaching and learning methodologies based on applied creative education. This college makes consultation with prominent government agencies to give the wise help in their preparation of study programs. It has strategic professional relations with prominent companies and institutions in the UAE and world renowned universities. it have a technologically advanced educational body that relies on e-learning and enhances independent learning and lifelong learning skills. Expansion and opening many branches at the state level, and the opening of “Center of Excellence" with several branches for applied research and training. It gives various scientific qualifications at several levels, which is Masters, Bachelor's and Applied Diplomas. Its access to rural areas	Standing at a certain level and not taking into account making any new development of graduate studies. Fresh graduates level is low somehow, and despite all these techniques, they have not reached an excellent level yet. It does not open area of study to the expatriates, it prefer the UAE students merely.
Opportunities	Threats
The college can benefit from feature of high prices of private universities and provide free scholarships to its students, which increases the number of enrolment in there. To improve their academic programs to ensure job opportunities for their graduates after the completion of their studies. To go to effective government monitoring to overcome the problem of the dominance of private universities for education in the UAE community through the establishment of the stabilization of such universities accredited globally and locally. Develop incentives to encourage distinguished expatriate students to let them benefit from its graduate programs and make use of them to the college and not to ignore their abilities The allocation of financial support to the development of doctoral programs on the basis of competition to be primarily in the knowledge between the competing countries	The uncertainty of the continuous of the improvement in higher education opportunities due to the UAE's high growing population year after year. The risk of decreasing the number of the university enrollments due the high costs those higher educations is requiring. Strong competition between it and between private universities and colleges in, achieving the quality of educational programs and the possibility of employment its fresh graduates after graduation. One of the UAE's goals is to create a knowledge-based economic sector -International competition among countries to offer doctoral programs. The imbalance between male and female students The statistics indicates that the number of females is greater domains on the education in Uae.

Gaps:

We noticed that the organization don’t have updated multi-year IT plan for the IT Department. The organization might fall into the risk of having an IT plan that is not aligned with organization’s objectives.

Recommendation:

- build A strong strategy that would built to spread the UAE national workforce in the economic sectors through providing a high quality education system and keep working on it for improvement.

-Work on establishing partnerships between colleges, universities and the business sector by taking advantage of the experience of business leaders and registering them in the administrative bodies of universities and colleges Which leads to the use of their expertise to get benefit from the outstanding students and planners in the Academy, and they should make periodic research on the skills needed by the labor market and discover it.

- Change the principle when adoption marks, which is to give a high mark only to those who are deserve . especially in the year of graduation, because it is wrong to give high marks without the existence of the truth skill.

- After working to improve the level of education as mentioned above, a periodic evaluation must be conducted; that proves its quality as a government university in front of its student and in front of itself.

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