Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities in IT Strategic Planning
This paper presents an approach to addressing two key challenges with the technology planning process.
This paper presents an approach to addressing two key challenges with the technology planning process.
This document is designed to help Chief Information Officers (CIOs) develop an effective IT strategy for their organizations.

This paper explores the use of Venkatraman’s Strategic Alignment Model and Yu’s Goal Modeling for business IT alignment.
This is a primer on the Balanced Scorecard Framework.
This presentation covers the basics of balanced scorecard technique and provides pointers on using it to create IT Strategy – touching the critical topic of IT Governance along the way.
The debate rages on. There are strong views on both sides of the issue – yes and no. Here is a very good summary of the discussion so far…
DOJ IT Strategic Plan 2006-2011
What is the best framework to measure business value? Have we really moved past the traditional Discounted Cash Flow framework? This is a great paper to read if you want to learn about measuring value. The added benefit is to get enough to have an academic argument on the “best”
Applied Information Economics (AIE) is a method for quantifying the value of IT investments. This overview of AIE provides an overview of key IT decision problem, how AIE solves them and how AIE is different from other methods.

Last week, we lay the foundation for a discussion on IT Value. This week, we look at specific areas where IT creates value.