Example of a Business Strategy Driven IT Strategy


A simple strategic plan for technology at a major university.


This example IT Strategy Plan demonstrates the anchoring of IT goals and priorities directly to enterprise goals and priorities - a tight coupling ensured by an IT Strategy driven by corporate business strategy. On the one hand, this ensures a direct relevance of IT efforts to the priorities of the business, and measures of value flow directly to that work. On the other, this style of planning can pose challenges in the relative importance and allocation of IT resources to each organizational goal.

This strategic plan also recognizes two key points:

  • IT Specific Issues: strategic issues specific to operation of the IT organization that must be addressed
  • Context and Vision: significant structural, cultural, and environmental challenges that must be addressed



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