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  "title": "VITARA - Strategic Management (VITARA-SMG)",
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  "summary": "VITARA - Strategic Management Training Program Target Audience Executives and senior managers in tax administrations, and ministries dealing with strategic planning and management of a tax administration.",
  "publishDate": "2025-09-24",
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    {
      "heading": "Training program and delivery",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 25.209\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: French\n- Status: Deadline passed"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- Executives and senior managers in tax administrations\n- Officials in ministries dealing with strategic planning and management of a tax administration"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Technical qualifications required",
      "content": "- Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection\n- Google Chrome web browser"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description — scope and themes",
      "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.\n- Describes the different planning phases.\n- Elaborates on common challenges and risks leaders of tax administrations face and common mistakes made.\n- Presents international good practice to follow in the strategic management of a tax administration.\n- 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)."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives — learning outcomes by course end",
      "content": "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 25.209",
    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: French",
    "Status: Deadline passed",
    "Executives and senior managers in tax administrations",
    "Officials in ministries dealing with strategic planning and management of a tax administration",
    "Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection",
    "Google Chrome web browser",
    "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.",
    "Describes the different planning phases.",
    "Elaborates on common challenges and risks leaders of tax administrations face and common mistakes made.",
    "Presents international good practice to follow in the strategic management of 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).",
    "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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