Question

After reading chapter 2 discuss how your organization has aligned their business and IT strategies in the past, present and their plans for the future.

Book - IT Strategy: Issues and Practices (3rd Edition) I

SBN-13: 978-0133544244

ISBN-10: 0133544249

Answer 1

The Business and IT Strategies must be aligned on the basis of past and present , what could be future outcome from that. The business and IT Planning must be working in correlation to empower the organisation and every individual to have best of benefits.

n general, a strategic plan is a broadly defined plan aimed at creating the desired future. In organizations, strategic planning is a systematic way of creating this plan. It also includes translation of this vision into objectives and a set of programs and projects to achieve them. The kind of thinking involved in business planning that is 'strategic', differs from long-range planning. Long-range planning with the present and sets out steps to meet estimated future needs. This usually involves extrapolating from past performance to forecast likely future performance. This makes sense in a stable or very slowly changing environment At each stage, the planner asks, "What must be done here to reach the next, projected stage of performance? n contrast, strategic' business planning does not assume you can simply extend the recent past into the forecast future. It requires taking into account a significant change in the environment. It begins with the desired-end and works backward to the present. At every stage of strategic- planning, the planner asks, "What must be done at the earlier stage to reach here?" Strategic planning looks at the wider picture. It is flexible in choice of its means of achieving the desired end state