Advanced Management Program (AMP) Application Instructions
Advanced Management Program (AMP) Application
- Exercise leadership in Chief Information Officer (CIO) and functional responsibilities to promote and attain national security, agency, and interagency goals;
- Balance continuity and change in development, implementation, and evaluation of information resources management strategies and policies;
- Link critical decisions regarding people, processes, and technologies to performance and results; and
- Leverage enabling technologies while assuring the security of the infrastructure.
The AMP has three elements that define its unique educational experience. First, the AMP has both core and elective courses that provide a foundation of skills and knowledge in a broad range of information resources management disciplines. All AMP students earn a CIO Certificate.
Second, the program’s strategic leader development curriculum provides an integrated set of learning activities that build leadership capacity and the ability to develop other strategic leaders. This curriculum focuses on enhancing leadership competencies in the areas of communication, critical thinking, leading change, and collaboration. Key components of the curriculum include: individual awareness and team problem solving activities, conversations with exemplary organizational leaders, and study of and visits to a diverse set of public and private sector organizations, including an immersive week-long field study outside of Washington, D.C.
Finally, the AMP attracts senior officials from an ever-expanding variety of sponsor organizations, including the US Department of Defense, foreign defense ministries, US federal agencies, and private sector organizations. AMP students form a learning community that exposes them to multiple perspectives on a wide range of issues; this motivates them to share knowledge and best practices, strive to become better leaders and decision makers, and master the tools of lifelong learning. In addition, exposure to fellow students, faculty, guest speakers, and other executives provides AMP participants with a network of peers throughout the public and private sectors.
The AMP core courses are below:
Foundations of Information Resource Management (IRM): Presents an overview of IRM, including its concepts and policies, and their application. Lessons focus on understanding the IRM environment and the dynamic relationships among political, economic, social, fiscal, and technological forces that are changing government.
Information Management Planning: Presents an approach to planning that integrates agency strategic planning, performance planning, information planning, and capital planning and investment. This course examines a comprehensive mission-driven planning framework that combines explicit and implicit planning requirements of current legislation and regulations.
Measures of Performance: Provides strategies and techniques for assessing an organization’s performance results as part of strategic planning or budgeting processes. Leverages lessons learned from interagency experience concerning approaches and resources required to establish and validate performance measurement instrumentation, collect and organize performance data, and analyze and report results. Emphasizes mission outcomes in terms of the customer and focuses on information management and technological issues surrounding performance measurement.
Process Improvement and Investment Planning: Focuses on strategies, methods, and resources for improving, managing, and controlling processes within and across federal agencies. A senior-level perspective is provided on the tools, techniques, and technologies that enable such strategies. The course emphasizes leadership challenges associated with initiation, collaboration, design, implementation, performance management, and portfolio management of process-centric improvements.
Information Technology Acquisition: Examines the management issues that arise from policies, best practices, alignment of an acquisition with organizational goals and objectives, programmatic strategies and planning, and selection of performance metrics. This course explores several approaches for determining a suite of performance measures that will provide insights into acquisition of an information technology.
Assuring the Information Infrastructure: This course provides a comprehensive overview of information assurance and critical information infrastructure protection. Information assurance of information assets and protection of the information component of critical national infrastructures essential to national security are explored. The focus is at the public policy and strategic management level, providing a foundation for analyzing the information security component of information systems and critical infrastructures. The course examines laws, national strategies and public policies, and strengths and weaknesses of various approaches for assuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of critical information assets.
In addition to their core courses, AMP students select two elective courses. These courses enable students to broaden their knowledge or to delve deeper into the areas that are covered in the core program. For example, students can pursue studies in the areas of multimedia technologies, knowledge management, capital planning, network security, or information operations.
AMP Offerings
Academic Year 2008
- AMP 36: January 7 - April 11, 2008
- AMP 37: September 8 - December 12, 2008; applications due June 2, 2008. Early application deadline May 1, 2008
- AMP 38: January 7 - April 17, 2009; applications due October 1, 2008. Early application deadline September 2, 2008