Topic: IT Strategy tips and tricks

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)...).

 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."

This IT Strategy sample provides a good template to build an IT Strategy.

 Align business and IT strategy using Tracy and Wiersema’s Value Discipline model and "technology themes"

This presentation describes three key information technology (IT) Strategy models.

This study finds that "Many corporate boards now consider IT to be an untapped mine rich with possibilities for their companies’ future results." However, they do not know how to deal with "IT issues within the context of the board’s role and how to grapple with IT’s inherently complex nature and rapid pace of change."

The value of this study, however, is in the "eight big ideas" that will help solve this problem.

 Building a strategic IT plan? What is a strategic IT plan? Strategic IT planning process explained in detail.

 This paper presents IT Strategy best practices learnt from implementing IT Strategy.

 This case study shows how Canadian Blood Services uses the Balanced Scorecard to create its corporate strategy and transform its "business".

This IT Strategy sample provides a good template to build an IT Strategy.