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  "title": "VITARA - Strategic Management (VITARA-SMG)",
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  "summary": "VITARA - Strategic Management Training Program Qualifications Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential.",
  "publishDate": "2025-05-28",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Training Program title: VITARA - Strategic Management\n- Session No.: OL 25.208\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Deadline status: Deadline passed\n- Course length: 8 hour self-paced course\n- 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)."
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      "heading": "Access and technical requirements",
      "content": "- Qualifications: Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- Executives and senior managers in tax administrations, and ministries dealing with strategic planning and management of a tax administration.\n- Other tax administration staff who want to learn about:\n  - Strategic, functional and operational plans\n  - Strategic thinking and design\n  - Performance, risk, reform or change management of a tax administration"
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    {
      "heading": "Course description — substantive coverage",
      "content": "- Provides fundamental knowledge on concepts related to strategic management of a tax administration.\n- Highlights the different plans tax administrations create in relation to their strategy and its implementation.\n- Explains the content, timeline, resources, and tasks needed to develop a plan and the different planning phases.\n- Elaborates on common challenges and risks leaders of tax administrations face, common mistakes made, and international good practice to follow in the strategic management of a tax administration."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives — learning outcomes",
      "content": "By the end of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Define the concept of strategic management and its benefits for tax administrations.\n- Explain the concept of strategic alignment in relation to the different plans tax administrations produce.\n- Describe the content of a strategic plan for a tax administration.\n- Define the timeline, resources, and tasks needed to develop a plan.\n- Identify critical success factors in strategic management.\n- Better understand the role of executives and senior managers in undertaking strategic management.\n- Identify the organization, people, activities, and processes needed to perform the strategic management function successfully within a tax administration."
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    "Session No.: OL 25.208",
    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Deadline status: Deadline passed",
    "Course length: 8 hour self-paced course",
    "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).",
    "Qualifications: Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential.",
    "Executives and senior managers in tax administrations, and ministries dealing with strategic planning and management of a tax administration.",
    "Other tax administration staff who want to learn about:",
    "Provides fundamental knowledge on 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 common challenges and risks leaders of tax administrations face, common mistakes made, and international good practice to follow in the strategic management of a tax administration.",
    "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."
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