IT strategic planning must be firmly rooted in the business strategic plan — period. If the business strategy is to invest in digital transformation, for example, ...

“Doug, we need a strategic plan for IT.” Over my career as a CIO in a number of Fortune 100 companies, I heard and dreaded those words many times. I knew they would launch a largely useless ...

Today, IT strategic plans may contain nothing more than a summarization of the core values and strategies that align with organizational values. At one point Berry's strategic plan at Lone Star was ...

Strategic planning is absolutely critical in that it gives everyone a common target to rally around and a clear road to reach it. It's all about providing vision, direction, and differentiation.

IT strategic planning in entrepreneurial companies: an oxymoron? One way to approach this task is by asking the right questions. The rest of this document offers a set of initial questions that ...

When executed with a top-down perspective, IT strategic planning reacts to business plans and objectives. Even if proactive scenario planning is employed to devise strategic alternatives for the ...