IT Strategy

Abstract

Strategy is a formidable discipline where the business areas of a company and the necessary resources and required investments are aligned to realize the aspired goals.

Against the background of an ever increasing number of innovating technologies available and rapid pace of organisational changes, an organisation needs to have a clear vision on how best to use information technologies. A proper IT strategy is the basis to achieve this.

Defining the IT strategy from a top-down perspective is easy: the IT organisation needs to become better and cheaper. Yet, by putting this into a beautiful PowerPoint slide deck or writing it down in a nice “IT strategy” paper, the job is not done yet.

This book presents an alternative approach based on a bottom-up analysis. The required key elements for a proper IT strategy are identified and the path laid out to successfully put them into place.