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This MS excel based IT Strategic Plan Template (IT Strategy Plan Template) provides a good starting place to create your own Information Technology Strategy plan.

Enclosed is a simple template to create an IT Strategy for your organization. This is intended to be the starting point not a definitive or exhaustive workbook on creating an IT Strategy.

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)...).

A good IT Strategy Plan that you can use as a template to create your own.

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.

 This case study shows how Infosys uses the Balanced Scorecard to create its corporate strategy and monitor business results.

There are many definitions of IT Strategy. Which one is true?

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>>