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, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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.

In the first half of 2006, strategic planning was the subject of more peer-to-peer consultations among the 428 members of the CIO Executive Council than any other topic except governance. On its ...

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 ...

I think that people criticizing strategic planning forget how useful it can be, even for all its faults and flaws. That’s why I wanted to take a look at some of the obstacles that might appear ...

The strategic plan is a lengthy document—some are one hundred pages long or more—that purports to articulate the college’s mission, its leadership’s vision of the future, ...