Topic: IT alignment

This in-depth - 78 pages - presentation goes into just about everything you would have wanted to know about business IT alignment aka IT Strategy (ICT Strategy, IS strategy, IS strategic alignment, IT Alignment, strategic information systems planning (SISP)...).

No business will ever reach the goal of “business and IT alignment”. Should this discourage you from pursuing business and IT alignment? NO! It is a worthy goal to pursue. Indeed, it is a critical one to pursue. You might never reach alignment but you can take steps to get ever closer. This requires a process. Often, we ignore the fact that business and IT alignment is a process. This process does not have a starting point nor does it have an end. It is a series of “learn and do” cycles that incrementally get towards alignment. Let me explain.

 This Information Technology Strategic Plan sample provides a good template to build an IT Strategy.

One of the toughest questions to answer is: is my business is alignment with IT?
Prof. Luftman tries to answer this question in this paper originally published in 2000.

The spectrum of views on IT goes from the far right aka "IT doesn't matter" to traditional "IT is an enabler" to a more progressive "IT is a driver". Your problem: how to develop an effective IT Strategy? Read On>>

 This presentation will provide you with an understanding of the IT Strategic Planning & Governance creation processes, disciplines and tools

This Information Technology Strategic Plan sample provides a good template to build an IT Strategy.

 A simple framework to understand the relationship between business strategy, organizational strategy and IT strategy.

 This paper describes an eight (8) step process to develop IT Strategy - "...to make IT a strategic business enabler, enhance shareholder value, and mitigate risk."

Practical IT Strategy: this paper proposes a model to "operationalize" IT Strategy.