Build a Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Success depends on IT initiatives clearly aligned to business goals, IT excellence, and driving technology innovation.
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Unlock This BlueprintYour Challenge
IT strategies are often nonexistent or ineffective:
- 74.6% of organizations have an IT strategy process they feel is ineffective.
- IT does not do a good job of communicating its support for business goals; therefore, 23.6% of CXOs still feel that their goals are unsupported by IT.
IT departments that have not developed IT strategies experience alignment, organization, and prioritization issues.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- A CIO has three roles: enable business productivity, run an effective IT shop, and drive technology innovation. Your key initiative plan must reflect these three mandates and how IT strives to fulfill them.
- Don’t project your vision three to five years into the future. Dive deep on next year’s big-ticket items instead.
- Developing an IT strategy is a wasted effort if no mechanisms are put in place to govern the journey.
- If you don’t communicate it, it doesn’t exist; simple, appealing, and inspirational communication is needed.
Impact and Result
- Establish the scope of your IT strategy by defining IT’s mission and vision statements and guiding principles.
- Perform a retrospective of IT’s performance to recognize the current state while highlighting important strategic elements to address going forward.
- Elicit the business context and identify strategic initiatives that are most important to the organization while building a plan to execute on it.
- Evaluate the foundational elements of IT’s operational strategy that will be required to successfully execute on key initiatives.
- Wrap all strategic information into a highly visual and compelling presentation that enables easy customization and executive-facing content.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
9.5/10
Overall Impact
$88,997
Average $ Saved
33
Average Days Saved
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
WinCo Foods, LLC
Workshop
9/10
$137K
23
+ Very good overall. Areez did a great job facilitating the discussions. If found the exercise to be very valuable and so did the team. - This... Read More
Raytheon Systems Limited
Workshop
7/10
N/A
N/A
Areez is an excellent facilitator and was very flexible to our requirements. We did find the comparison between an in person and a remote workshop... Read More
State of Ohio - Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
Workshop
8/10
N/A
10
Dennis did a great job facilitating the workshop and keeping the flow going to get a valued outcome. I would remove the section regarding resources... Read More
Niagara Regional Police Service
Workshop
10/10
$10,000
50
Our experience has been excellent. Claudia did a an amazing job in facilitating the IT strategy workshop and brought a lot of practical and strateg... Read More
City of Peoria, AZ
Workshop
8/10
N/A
N/A
Chuck was very knowledgeable and had real world experience. Class was to the point, not a lot of fluff. I don't know if I'd classify anything as ... Read More
Intercity Transit
Guided Implementation
10/10
$34,250
100
The best parts of this project was Ross. Ross made this process so easy and seamless for me. His expertise and experience shined through. It was a ... Read More
EQUITY GROUP HOLDINGS PLC
Workshop
9/10
$65,000
10
The best part of the experience was the fact that there was very good coordination value template and the fact that the Dennis challenged and provi... Read More
Center For Creative Leadership
Workshop
9/10
$68,500
9
Best part: (a) Knowledgeable facilitator - Dennis provided timely advice and recommendations; also great insights from my CIO Counselor Carlos Tho... Read More
Sinclair Community College
Guided Implementation
10/10
$4,110
2
Sidney is always great to work with. This was a relatively short engagement, but Sidney was very helpful
Sundale
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
18
Benoit has been an absolute delight to work with. His depth of knowledge, breadth of experience, and considered approach to tackling challenging or... Read More
Crystal Flash Inc
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
5
I appreciated Ross's willingness to work at my pace, as well as his input and ability to assist in creating a cohesive and compelling business-driv... Read More
Vancouver Island University
Guided Implementation
10/10
$1,900
5
MASC
Workshop
8/10
$60,000
20
Denis Goulet is a great facilitator and we really enjoyed his guidance during this workshop. From the material that infotech provides to the flow... Read More
City of Scottsdale, Arizona
Workshop
10/10
$685K
60
I want to express my appreciation for the outstanding workshop facilitated by Asia Nebesnaia, our Analyst and Workshop Director and acknowledge the... Read More
Orange County Government
Workshop
9/10
$68,500
120
County of Fairfax
Workshop
10/10
$82,200
10
This process well defined better than prior year. Staff said they that this was far better, and Areez was engaged with team. Totally different expe... Read More
City of Livermore
Workshop
10/10
N/A
20
Curaleaf, Inc.
Workshop
10/10
$41,100
44
CCTS
Guided Implementation
10/10
$50,000
50
So far all good. The analyst was very knowledgeable and cooperative.
Louisiana State Employees’ Retirement System
Guided Implementation
10/10
$34,250
20
Manish is exceptionally knowledgeable, professional, and attentive. He comprehends the complexities involved in developing and executing strategic ... Read More
Tohono O’Odham Gaming Enterprise dba Desert Diamond Casinos
Workshop
8/10
$68,500
23
Strides Toronto
Guided Implementation
10/10
$11,500
20
Best services Anubhav provided. Very knowledgeable and knows subject very well. Timely advice.
University Of Alaska
Guided Implementation
10/10
$137K
120
Ben is the best InfoTech analyst I've worked with to date. I appreciate is candor, sense of humor and his expertise. Thanks.
Caribbean Utilities Company , Ltd.
Workshop
10/10
$41,100
10
The Info-Tech team provided valuable knowledge and insight, making the process seamless.
The McKnight Foundation
Workshop
10/10
$30,140
50
The best part was working with Ross and Info-Tech team. Having an expert point of view from people outside of our Organization allowed us to both t... Read More
Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center
Workshop
10/10
$12,330
10
The step-by-step guidance through the creation of the product were invaluable to my team and I. Not only the end product as a tool for planning for... Read More
AC Transit
Workshop
10/10
$137K
90
It was one of the best workshops I have attended on the topic of IT Strategy. It was engaging, fruitful, focused, and effective.
City of Atlanta / Atlanta Information Management (AIM)
Workshop
9/10
$685K
32
The best part of the experience was the instructor's ability to facilitate and prioritize everyone's time to ensure the objectives were met. The wo... Read More
Champaign Residential Services Inc
Guided Implementation
10/10
$8,220
5
Thank you for all of your help Ross. You took a very complex process and broke it down into digestible chunks that were easy to understand.
St. Lukes Health System Ltd.
Workshop
9/10
$13,700
10
The overall experience was excellent, and Denis did an outstanding job facilitating and adapting the workshop to our needs.