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- Who decides priority of IT initiatives in your company?
- Picture this if you will. A busy four-lane street in the middle of an industrial park. Traffic in the southbound lanes is at a standstill as a duck and her 10 babies slowly make their way across. (Considering that I am barraged on a daily basis with business jargon, I...
- Tags: Knowledge Management, Job Roles, It Strategic Plan, It Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Be wary of empowering your vendors through standardization
- HP came on-site last week to conduct their annual lunch and learn. You know the drill. The sales rep goes over the product roadmap for the next year to inform you about what is coming and how it will be better than the current offerings. ...
- Tags: Decision Making, Empowerment, Enterprise, hardware, Hewlett-Packard Co., information technology, It Strategic Plan, It&rsquo, s, Planning, standardization, Standards
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
- How do you deal with a CEO who wants to run the IT department?
- Our "What would you do?" column is a forum for sharing your knowledge and experience in dealing with the less tangible side of computer support: ethics. Every two weeks I’ll present a scenario that requires more than a technical solution. Each situation will be an accurate description of an actual...
- Tags: Becky Roberts, information technology, IT Department, technical solution, wannabe
- Technical articles 2003-01-06
Additional Resources
- Creating the Strategic Plan for Today's IT
- IT's strategic plan is an essential tool to run IT like a business. The strategic plan for today's IT is different from the strategic plans that IT may have developed five years ago. It is purpose-driven and a complement to IT governance structures and processes. The structure and content are...
- Tags: Information Technology, Plan, Strategy, Management
- Research reports 2006-06-08
- City of Winston-Salem: Information Technology Strategic Plan
- Information technology is key to effective delivery of City services and the economic vitality of the community. The purpose of an I.T. Strategic Plan is to define investments in information technology that are consistent with a City's strategic priorities. This plan starts with Winston Salem's Strategic Plan as approved by...
- Tags: Information Technology, North Carolina, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2003-07-01
- The IT Strategic Plan Step-By-Step
- It's April and you are four months into your organization's fiscal year. You know that within six months you'll need to have your operating plan for the upcoming year in fairly solid shape. You also know that creating an operating plan without a longer-range strategic view is like driving a...
- Tags: Information Technology, Plan, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Management
- Research reports 2007-04-10
- Beyond Scorecard Reporting
- In today's highly competitive business environment, it is essential that the shareholders and board of directors have continuous access to a strategic, performance-focused scorecard reporting system that monitors the success of how the organization is implementing its entire strategic plan. Before a scorecard report can truly reflect the organization's results,...
- Tags: Performance, Performance Management, Corporate Governance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- White papers
- Strategic Planning: A Vision and Roadmap to Prosperity
- This paper focuses on the value of the V-O-E (Visioning/Strategic Planning, Organization and Execution) approach toward corporate prosperity. More specifically, a proven, successful approach toward Strategic Planning is introduced. Using the fruit bowl analogy, Strategic Planning provides the context within which the business operates. That approach includes a discussion of...
- Tags: Prosperity, Vision, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-03-01
- City of Bellevue: Enterprise Information Technology Strategic Plan
- In this update, several format changes have occurred in hopes of making the documents more usable. The 2001 strategic plan has been split into a strategic plan discussion this document and a program update. The former is intended to capture major environmental shifts and the major project strategies address them....
- Tags: Information Technology, Bellevue, Operational Planning, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2004-08-30
- RFID in Supply Chain: Uncommon Best Practices
- Successful companies refuse to look at RFID through only the eyes of their customers' needs. Instead they go back to the document that should be a living, breathing foundation of every company: the annual strategic business plan. Every action of every employee should step in concert to this strategic plan....
- Tags: Supply Chain, Best Practice, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2005-06-01
- White Paper -Developing a Business Strategy
- A strategic plan should be visionary, conceptual and directional in contrast to an operational plan which is likely to be shorter term, tactical, tightly focused, implementable and measurable. As an example, compare the process of planning a vacation (where, when, duration, budget, who goes, how travel) with the final preparations...
- Tags: Plan, Strategy, Management
- White papers
- Department of Public Instruction: Strategic Information Technology Plan
- This plan articulates a vision for IT, key strategic directions and specific projects. It continues to use a framework of four architectures, technology, applications, data, and organization, although the agency recognizes the interconnection of the architectures. Information security and privacy is of prime concern in the business program units. No...
- Tags: Information Technology, Wisconsin, Architecture, Strategy, Security, Management
- White papers 2005-03-01
- City of Westminster: Information Technology Department Strategic Plan
- The purpose of establishing a formal strategic plan for the City of Westminster Information Technology Department is to provide a clear, comprehensive document to effectively communicate the City's technology direction, priorities and strategy, and to consolidate multiple documented and undocumented strategies into a formal plan. Furthermore, this plan serves to...
- Tags: Information Technology, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Strategic Planning
- Strategic planning should follow a common sense approach. This paper explains a method of planning that the author has seen work successfully and what is required to help to succeed. One may know a different way of building his or her plan, but this technique does work. The author explains...
- Tags: Author, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
- White papers
- Information Technology Interim Strategic Plan: Planning Information Technology for 2005 and 2006
- The Kitsap County Strategic Plan was first prepared and published in 2001. The "vision" provided insight and direction of how and where Kitsap County would pursue technology through the 2003 - 2004 era. Along with the vision noted in 2001 came the implementation of biennium budgeting. Kitsap County has completed...
- Tags: Information Technology, Vision, Kitsap County, Strategy, Corporate Governance, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Strategic network planning
- What should be included in a strategic network plan? I have had a look on google but found nothing really relevent. does anyone have a link to an example it would be very helpful,thank you
- Tags: armmel
- Discussion threads 2006-03-02
- White Paper - Developing a Strategic Business Plan
- Entrepreneurs and business managers are often so preoccupied with immediate issues that they lose sight of their ultimate objectives. That's why a business review or preparation of a strategic plan is a virtual necessity. This may not be a recipe for success, but without it a business is much more...
- Tags: Performance, Return, Business, Performance Management, Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- White papers
- Strategic Planning at the U.S. General Accounting Office
- GAO embarked on a planning process that would satisfy criteria of the Government Performance and Results Act. Members and staff of Congress were involved heavily as GAO developed the plan, which .started and ended with Congress. Challenges emerged throughout the process, providing learning experiences that are relevant to organizations involved...
- Tags: General Accounting Office, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
- Case studies
- The Application of Strategic Planning in the Office of the Chief Personnel Officer, Trinidad and Tobago
- The Personnel Department Office of the Chief Personnel Officer Trinidad and Tobago commenced a strategic planning exercise in 2001. This case study outlines the Personnel Department's strategic planning process, taking into account the impact of the training provided by CARICAD, and examining the successes and challenges of the exercise. This...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Trinidad, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
- Case studies
- TechNet Webcast: Strategic Planning and Scorecarding With PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Level 300)
- Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help organizations improve their business performance by integrating monitoring, analysis, and planning capabilities into one application. The objective of the strategic planning process is to provide a broad ranging review of all the factors that might impact the company's performance and to finish with...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts 2007-11-30
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