## VITARA - Strategic Management (VITARA-SMG)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 25.208
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Overview
- Training Program title: VITARA - Strategic Management
- 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).

### Access and technical requirements
- Qualifications: Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential.

### Target audience
- 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:
  - Strategic, functional and operational plans
  - Strategic thinking and design
  - Performance, risk, reform or change management of a tax administration

### Course description — substantive coverage
- 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.

### Course objectives — learning outcomes
By the end of the course, participants should be able to:
- 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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## References

- [Online Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/cbsat27-10)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fsce26-38)
- [Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/sacat26-30)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2025/vitara-smgol25-208_