On this page is an outline on the topic of I.T. Strategic Planning, this may serve as a template for you to pull together a rough draft of your own plan. I hope you find it useful, if you have questions feel free to leave them in the comments or e-mail me at: owen@owengreaves.com

First let me list the possible sections that may be in your plan:

I.T. Strategic Plan Framework

1.) Vision / Mission – Your Purpose

2.) Services – That you already provide

3.) Key Result Area’s (K.R.A.)

4.) Objectives – Make sure you put dates for delivery on each one

5.) Action Plans – This list could be extensive, put dates for each Action Item here too

6.) Analysis – This has sub-sections as follows

a) Markets

b) Key Success Factors

c) Core Competencies

d) S.W.O.T. (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats)

e) Relationships (Interrelationships)

f) Budget Alignment

g) Planning Observations

You could make each sub-section a section on its own, its up to you. If you have other recommendations for consideration, please let me know.

I have gone through and selected all posts here on Owen Greaves Consulting, on how to start / develop your own I.T. Strategic Plan. These posts are not highly detailed, they can serve as a high level approach to building your framework for your plan. For now I will provide links to the post based on the above Outline.

These links are not critical but will help you understand some traditional ways of calculating traditional business ROI & your Breakeven Point:

Traditional ROI Equation

Traditional Break Even Equation

Before you start the plan, you may want to consider these first few posts as prep work.

1.) The I.T. Strategic Plan, Who Is It For?

2.) I.T. Strategic Planning – Two Key Ingredients

3.) Measuring Business Processes

OK, lets look here are the resources.

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1.) Is your Purpose, It might look like this – To enhance the effectiveness of all personnel at XYZ company and supporting appropriate technology tools.

2.) Here is where you would list existing services you are already providing.

3.) KRA’s ( Key Result Areas)

4.) Objectives

5.) Action Plans

6.) Analysis

Sub-sections of Analysis

1.) Markets – this requires a somewhat detail view of your market.

2.) Key Success Factors

3.) Core Compentencies

4.) S.W.O.T. (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)

5.) Relationships – List & weight existing relationships, internally & externally

6.) Budget Alignment – do you have adequate funding to initiate this strategy in this fiscal year?

7.) Planning Observations

As you can see not all items above have links to outlines, I can only give you an idea of what to cover, but this will get you started. I will add more as it comes available.