There are three terms that cause a lot of confusion, especially in the world of Information Technology strategic planning: Vision, Strategy and Roadmap. Probably the best way to alleviate this misunderstanding is to state that they are not the same thing. Sure, you can have these three in one document but the process of developing […]
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Approach to IT strategic planning
IT strategic planning is not a dark art. It is a business planning process with IT deliverables. As such, it should be approached as any other business initiative: with an understanding of business context, clear objectives, sensible and relevant timeline and resources.
IT Strategy Series
An index to help locate articles in the IT Strategy Series
Is there a need to have an IT Strategy at all?
The question on some minds is whether there is a need to have an IT Strategy at all… The usual alligator and swamp draining anecdote comes to mind.
After all, if a company has done okay without having architecture and strategy in the past, surely it will do in the future?
Origins of ‘IT Strategy made relevant’
Several years ago, I was on a long-haul flight back from the far east. I found myself sitting next to one of the senior executives from a leading strategic consultancy. This executive was on the way back from advising one of the world’s top commercial banks on corporate strategy.
At the time, I was heading up Technical Design, Enterprise Architecture and IT Strategy for the world-renowned architecture practice Foster + Partners and was leading a rather complex process of creating a comprehensive IT Strategy for the Practice.
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