This in-depth - 78 pages - presentation goes into just about everything you would have wanted to know about business IT alignment aka IT Strategy (ICT Strategy, IS strategy, IS strategic alignment, IT Alignment, strategic information systems planning (SISP)...).

This MS excel based IT Strategic Plan Template provides a good starting place to create your own Information Technology Strategy plan.

The spectrum of views on IT goes from the far right aka "IT doesn't matter" to traditional "IT is an enabler" to a more progressive "IT is a driver". Your problem: how to develop an effective IT Strategy? Read On>>

  This whitepaper provides valuable insight into business it alignment, measurement of business value created by IT, measurement of this IT value and making better decisions based upon this measurement.

This paper, as the name suggests, combines two classic models - Venkatraman's Strategic Alignment Model and Yu's Goal Modeling technique.

An excellent - and surprisingly in-depth - introduction to the balanced scorecard. What is it? What are its essential elements? What is a strategy map? How do you build a strategy map? How do you implement a performance based contract? How do you transition from first to third generation?

No business will ever reach the goal of “business and IT alignment”. Should this discourage you from pursuing business and IT alignment? NO! It is a worthy goal to pursue. Indeed, it is a critical one to pursue. You might never reach alignment but you can take steps to get ever closer. This requires a process. Often, we ignore the fact that business and IT alignment is a process. This process does not have a starting point nor does it have an end. It is a series of “learn and do” cycles that incrementally get towards alignment. Let me explain.

 This paper describes an eight (8) step process to develop IT Strategy - "...to make IT a strategic business enabler, enhance shareholder value, and mitigate risk."

 This Information Technology Strategic Plan sample provides a good template to build an IT Strategy.

This study finds that "Many corporate boards now consider IT to be an untapped mine rich with possibilities for their companies’ future results." However, they do not know how to deal with "IT issues within the context of the board’s role and how to grapple with IT’s inherently complex nature and rapid pace of change."

The value of this study, however, is in the "eight big ideas" that will help solve this problem.