ICTE 1053: Strategy and

Standards
IT Strategy
 Is a formal vision to guide in
the acquisition, allocation, and
management of IT resources
IT to fulfill the organization’s
objectives.
Strategic
Plan
It should be part of an overall
corporate strategy for IT and
should align to the business
strategy it supports.
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 Involves combining technology,
people, and processes to
provide solutions to
IT organizational problems.
Management The most effective strategy will
be determined by the
combination of the environment,
culture, and technology used by
an organization.

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 Focuses on direction
IT and Strategy
Strategic
Alignment of IT,
Committee optimization of costs
and risks

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 ITSC: Top Level Management ITSC: Lower-Level Management

Main concerns:
- Make decision of IT being
- Alignment of IT with Business – IT plans align with centralized vs. decentralized, and
business plans assignment of responsibility
- Contribution of IT to the Business – IT delivers - Makes recommendations for
promised benefits and objectives
strategic plans
- Exposure & containment of IT Risk – All understand risk
- Approves IT architecture
- Optimization of IT costs – IT Delivers IT services at
optimized costs - Reviews and approves IT plans,
- Achievement of strategic IT objectives – track IT budgets, priorities & milestones
performance via metrics, scheduling, costs
- Monitors major project plans and
- ensures availability of IT resources, skills and
infrastructure to meet strategic objectives delivery performance
- provides direction to management relative to IT strategy
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 ITSC: Top Level Management ITSC: Lower-Level Management

Directs – High Level Steers – Low Level (Dirty work)

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 The effective use of resources
and alignment with business
objectives.
Portfolio
Management This includes processes to
initiate projects, design solutions,
manage resources, provision
services, procure products, and
control financial investments.
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