This example illustrates the use of IT Strategic Planning to reduce IT costs - that is the driver of this IT plan. The preferred approach is to centralize computing resources getting away from the current decentralized planning and implementation. “As budgets decrease, you need to drive costs out of your enterprise while increasing efficiencies. The best way to do that is to consolidate and standardize as much as possible.”
The key elements of this IT Strategic Plan are summarized as follows:
- Current enterprise architecture modeling the current technologies, organization, management, processes, etc.
- Proposed consolidated enterprise architecture that promotes cost reduction, enhanced security, and operating efficiency
This IT Strategy takes the position that any effort to substantially reduce recurring costs without reducing service levels can only result from making fundamental changes in current approaches for delivering Information Technology services and that significant cost reduction can be achieved on an enterprise level without adversely impacting service by reducing resource duplication, effective standardization and improved utilization of existing resources.
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