Why It Strategy matters.
IT strategy clears the mud. It is a thoughtful and measured approach to the use and integration of technology in your organization. It begins by understanding your business, its goals, and where you are trying to take it. It identifies conflict by understanding what’s not working well. IT strategy does not just look at your infrastructure. Still, it looks at the use of technology throughout your organization and how it integrates through your company. An IT strategy will ensure that you keep your organization on pace with the changing world technology creates. IT strategy does not look at the long list of benefits that each technology can produce but looks at what is best for your business. It wants to solve conflict for your organization, mitigate risk and create value. An IT strategy is being picky about what technology to further utilize or adopt. Strategy creates a plan to refer to when evaluating technology. An IT strategy includes assessments to establish the current state and working well and a future state that needs improvement. An IT strategy includes cost-benefit analysis and business cases. Comparing how different technologies will solve the conflict identified in assessments and whether or not it matters for your organization. After a series of evaluations and reviews, an IT strategy highlights different opportunities for you to adapt. These opportunities will be thoroughly researched and mapped out. Costs will be identified, the value will be determined, and risk avoided. An IT strategy builds a budget to accommodate the change needed. IT strategy includes business continuity and disaster recovery planning to keep your organization running through hiccups or full-on disasters. An IT Strategy will ensure that you and your organization are not left behind.