VITARA - Strategic Management (VITARA-SMG)

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Session No.: OL 23.194
Date: May 1, 2023 - April 15, 2024 (50 weeks)
Delivery Method: Online Training
Location: Course conducted online
Primary Language: English
Deadline passed
Course length: 8 hour self-paced course
Access requirements: Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential.

The module is tailored to executives and senior managers in tax administrations, and ministries dealing with strategic planning and management of a tax administration.
Relevant for other tax administration staff who want to learn about:
- Strategic, functional and operational plans;
- Strategic thinking and design;
- Performance, risk, reform or change management of a tax administration.

Provides fundamental knowledge on the concepts related to strategic management of a tax administration.
Highlights the different plans tax administrations create in relation to their strategy and its implementation.
Explains the content, timeline, resources, and tasks needed to develop a plan, and the different planning phases.
Elaborates on the common challenges and risks leaders of tax administrations face, the common mistakes made, and the international good practice to follow in the strategic management of a tax administration.
Course format: self-paced online instruction totaling 8 hour.

Define the concept of strategic management and its benefits for tax administrations.
Explain the concept of strategic alignment in relation to the different plans tax administrations produce.
Describe the content of a strategic plan for a tax administration.
Define the timeline, resources, and tasks needed to develop a plan.
Identify critical success factors in strategic management.
Better understand the role of executives and senior managers in undertaking strategic management.
Identify the organization, people, activities, and processes needed to perform the strategic management function successfully within a tax administration.

The course is a joint initiative of four international organizations: Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT), Intra-European Organisation of Tax Administrations (IOTA), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).