The document discusses aligning IT strategy with business strategy. It notes that historically IT strategy supported business strategy, but now IT strategy must be integrated with and help shape business strategy. It provides four critical success factors for effective IT strategy: revisiting the business model, having strategic themes, involving key stakeholders, and partnering IT with the business. The document also outlines different dimensions of IT strategy and best practices for developing an effective IT strategy.
The document discusses aligning IT strategy with business strategy. It notes that historically IT strategy supported business strategy, but now IT strategy must be integrated with and help shape business strategy. It provides four critical success factors for effective IT strategy: revisiting the business model, having strategic themes, involving key stakeholders, and partnering IT with the business. The document also outlines different dimensions of IT strategy and best practices for developing an effective IT strategy.
The document discusses aligning IT strategy with business strategy. It notes that historically IT strategy supported business strategy, but now IT strategy must be integrated with and help shape business strategy. It provides four critical success factors for effective IT strategy: revisiting the business model, having strategic themes, involving key stakeholders, and partnering IT with the business. The document also outlines different dimensions of IT strategy and best practices for developing an effective IT strategy.
2-1 The Importance of IT New technologies co-evolve with new business strategies and changes to the business environment. IT and business strategies must be complimentary.
experimental initiatives designed to test the viability of new concepts or technologies. High risk projects that typically do not have well-defined, expected returns. These typically have a much lower success rate so funding is sometimes difficult to obtain.