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Stage Gate Review: Evaluate Business Case

The second review or gate evaluates the investment program's business case for compliance and feasibility – will it work? will it deliver promised results? – or in other words is this promise too good to be true? This review ensures key stakeholder support and buy-in to the program, tight coupling of the program and business objectives, and a thorough review of the cost, benefits and risks identified in the business case for accuracy, and completeness.

Strategic Planning Guide VI

This guide helps develop a strategic plan including an approach, framework and process. The five phases of strategic planning are described in detail-agreeing to plan, gathering facts, evaluating facts, defining the plan, and evaluating results. Leading practices, and tips and tricks are also provided with each step.

Strategic Planning Best Practice Guide

This guide to strategic planning details a steps-by-step approach to strategic planning with best practices at each step to make it a success. What is the objective of strategic planning? What are the prerequisites of and constraints to effective strategic planning? How to create an effective communication strategy for the strategic planning process?

Seven Rules for IT-Driven Business Success

Seven Rules for IT-Driven Business Success

These seven practical rules can reshape your IT landscape. Learn how to use accurate data, shared language, strategy alignment, and dynamic planning to make IT a business engine—supported by clear decisions, deliverables, and executive-ready communication.

How Does IT Create Value For Business?

This presentation makes the case for the strategic use of information technology to create business value – competitive advantage, cost optimization etc. – using real life examples from business. Great place to start your IT strategy 101 journey!

What Determines the Success of Strategic IT Plan?

<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">This research study identified an organizational framework to assess the success of a strategic planning initiative – this framework is based on several factors each of which can have an impact on the success or failure of the initiative. Can one use this framework to predict the success of an IT strategic Plan? Read On.</span><br />

Strategic Planning Guide IV

This guide provides a step-by-step approach to strategic planning – how to plan for the planning, uncover and understand environmental factors affecting the strategic planning process, and a strategic planning framework – step-by-step direction on creating a strategic plan.

Strategic Planning Guide V

This guide provides an overview of strategic planning, introduces a framework to help create a strategic plan, and defines performance metrics to measure delivery of meaningful results.

IT Strategy Guide Using Balanced Scorecard

This document provides a step by step guide to create a strategic plan for information and communication technology. For each activity, it provides overview of the step, required inputs, expected outputs, tasks lists and process diagram, supporting tools, and related tasks.

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