CIO's IT Strategy Body of Knowledge
IT Strategy Chapters
Introduction to IT Strategy
What is IT Strategy? This chapter contains information on the basics of IT Strategy - definition, purpose, importance, benefits, and needs and context. Download documents on IT strategy definition, IT Strategy overview, IT Strategy primer, and IT Strategy introduction.
Why IT Strategy?
Why is IT Strategic Planning important? Why is IT Strategy difficult to implement? This chapter helps CIOs understand the benefits from information technology strategy planning, and the challenges to overcome.
IT Strategy Process Steps
This chapter has documents related to step by step process (Implementation)/Cycle/formulation/how to create/how to develop
IT Strategy Frameworks and Models
Detailed information on the key IT Strategic Planning Frameworks used by organizations around the world. Includes 29 frameworks including the Balanced Scorecard, Value Measuring Methodology, and WiBe.
IT Strategy Guides
Complete guides on IT Strategy – from definition, to step by step guidance, and more.
IT Strategy Templates
Why start from scratch when you have access to templates that can be customized for your requirements? The fastest, and easiest way to create a strategic plan for IT using true and tried steps and methods.
IT Strategy Examples and Samples
This chapter contains downloads on strategic planning in action in the enterprise. Hundreds of samples and examples demonstrate real world design, implementation, and use of IT Strategy in organizations across industry.
IT Strategy Case Studies
This chapter provides information and resources on academic exploration of cutting edge theoretical frameworks and their controlled implementation in real world scenarios.
IT Strategy Best Practices
The focus of this chapter is on proven ways to create and implement a strategic plan in the enterprise. It covers best practices, and lessons learned.
IT Strategy Sub-Domains
Business Strategy
The first step of align business with IT is to understand business models and strategy. This chapter focuses on explaining what business strategy is, how to create it, how to align IT strategy with it, and how to drive it using it.
IT Strategy Knowledge
Complete guide to aligning business with IT - vision, strategy, gaps, migration plan, and roadmap.
Business IT Alignment
This chapter is focused on using IT to enable business imperatives.
IT Operating Model
How are your processes designed to work in tandem to implement your IT Strategy?
IT Chargeback
IT Value can be demonstrated very simply by presenting a bill to the CEO. This chapter helps CIOs understand how to run IT like an internal service provider and how to charge for your services.
IT Investment Management
This chapter drives IT Strategy from an investment perspective - CIOs must treat each initiative as an investment and try to maximize returns on their portfolio of investments.
IT Metrics
Is you can't measure it, you can't manage it, goes the dictum. The question is: what to measure and how to measure it? This chapter focuses on IT metrics that help better decision making.
Innovation
Perhaps the single biggest drive of value is: innovation. CIOs must learn how to innovate within their IT organization but more importantly, how to enable and drive innovation in the business.
Business and IT Trends
This chapter focuses on tracking what your peers are doing and if it is working. This chapter tracks both business and IT trends because one is incomplete without the other.
Run IT Like A Business
As the demand for the CIO to become a business leader and the IT organization to become a profit center takes off, it is important for the CIO to understand how to run IT like a business - the shortest route to both!
Post Merger Integration (PMI)
How to combine IT capability - keeping the value and discarding the fat? CIOs can use Post Merger Innovation (PMI) for business mergers and acquisitions or for supplier capability analysis.
IT Transformation
Often CIOs find themselves in a position where they must change the entire IT Organization - from top to bottom. IT Transformation is the discipline of changing the engine mid-flight. Tough but not impossible.
IT Budget
Most IT Organizations today are run as cost centers - CIOs get a yearly budget and use it to buy and create IT services. A budget helps determine how much is needed to run IT as an internal service provder.
IT Value
This chapter helps the CIO understand how IT creates value, how to measure and communicate it. CIOs can learn what is IT ROI and how to use it to drive decisions.
IT Cost Optimization
This chapter drives IT Strategy from a cost perspective - how to implement IT in support of the business at the lowest possible cost.
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