All successful organizations clearly articulate their vision, goals, and objectives as a function of their organizational mission. IT Strategic Planning is a critical ingredient because it ensures that the technology infrastructure and services support the mission of the organization.
An effective IT Strategy can help your organization answer important questions such as:
- How can we be sure that our current budget on IT is effective?
- What IT investment should be made to deliver the business strategy?
- Have we got the right structure and governance to deliver IT to our organization?
- What IT enabled capabilities are required to deliver the business strategy?
The key is to ensure that IT is aligned to the strategic initiatives of the organization, has the support of the management team and clearly delivers the enabling solutions as prioritized by management. What processes will you put in place to make sure that IT is aligned with the goals of your organization?
Aligning your IT Strategy with Business Initiatives
The alignment of business and IT strategies is necessary to create and improve efficiencies, reduce costs, create barriers to entry, improve customer and buyer/supplier relationships, and to generate new products and business solutions. Consequences of organizations that fail to strategically align IT and business strategies face increasing financial and opportunity costs including:
- Inability to invest IT dollars wisely and to create mechanisms for investment and funding
- Inability to gain credibility with the business and provide proactive rather than reactive services
- Inability to attract, retain, and resource the appropriate skills
- Inability to measure IT’s contribution to the business
- Inability to communicate strategy to employees and link strategy to budgets
The Litcom Commitment
Litcom provides an IT Strategy and roadmap, enabling an organization to most effectively leverage technology. Our comprehensive IT Strategy approach helps organizations shape the direction of their IT. We assist organizations in developing:
- A comprehensive IT strategy, including IT opportunity assessment, shareholder value diagnosis and IT investment prioritization.
- IT strategy for mergers and acquisitions and due diligence
- Strategies for all key components of IT, including information strategy, IT sourcing strategy, IT systems strategy and IT infrastructure strategy.
To see how Litcom can assist with your organization’s IT Strategy plans, please contact us at: [email protected].
