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Build a Business-Aligned IT Strategy

Success depends on IT initiatives clearly aligned to business goals, IT excellence, and driving technology innovation.

The Situation

IT strategies are often nonexistent or ineffective:

  • 74.6% of organizations have an IT strategy process they feel is ineffective.
  • IT does not do a good job of communicating its support for business goals; therefore, 23.6% of CXOs still feel that their goals are unsupported by IT.

IT departments that have not developed IT strategies experience alignment, organization, and prioritization issues.


Build a Business-Aligned IT Strategy visualization
  • Establish the scope of your IT strategy by defining IT’s mission and vision statements and guiding principles.
  • Perform a retrospective of IT’s performance to recognize the current state while highlighting important strategic elements to address going forward.
  • Elicit the business context and identify strategic initiatives that are most important to the organization while building a plan to execute on it.
  • Evaluate the foundational elements of IT’s operational strategy that will be required to successfully execute on key initiatives.
  • Wrap all strategic information into a highly visual and compelling presentation that enables easy customization and executive-facing content.

Blueprint Contents

  • Build a Business-Aligned IT Strategy – Phases 1-4
  • Business Context Interview Guide
  • IT Strategy Presentation Template
  • Strategy-on-a-Page Template
  • IT Strategy Workbook

Member Testimonials

After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.

9.4/10

Overall Impact

$86,844

Average $ Saved

30

Average Days Saved

Member Testimonials
Client VGM Group, Inc.
Experience Workshop
Impact 8/10
$ Saved $2,720
Days Saved 2
Testimonial
Best: receiving input from Sr Execs and others on direction and strategy vision Worst: spent too much time in the weeds of projects and lists when...
Member Testimonials
Client datarebel
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $11,099
Days Saved 65
Testimonial
Best was simplicity
Member Testimonials
Client Hernando County Clerk of Circuit Court and Comptroller
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $15,640
Days Saved 20
Testimonial
Chuck was an amazing facilitator; he kept us on task while allowing us to discuss and flesh out ideas. He struck an outstanding balance!
Member Testimonials
Client Community Living Toronto
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved N/A
Days Saved 20
Testimonial
Well delivered workshop by Venkat. Great insights and knowledge! Met the goal and delivered efficiently on-time. Additionally, our counsellor Chri...
Member Testimonials
Client US Environmental Protection Agency
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $136K
Days Saved 32
Testimonial
The IT Strategy workshop enabled the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to effectively plan for the upcoming two years. Areez's familiarity with...
Member Testimonials
Client Utah Transit Authority
Experience Workshop
Impact 8/10
$ Saved $51,000
Days Saved 47
Testimonial
I really enjoyed Chuck's facilitation style and approach. The tools and assessments to help capture current state were very helpful. I think we cou...
Member Testimonials
Client Filgo
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $45,000
Days Saved 10
Testimonial
Very good advise, for someone who is doing it for this exercise for the firts time. It help me to adopt a methode for that
Member Testimonials
Client Experience Grand Rapids
Experience Workshop
Impact 9/10
$ Saved $5,440
Days Saved 18
Testimonial
Chuck was a great facilitator for this process with us. He was able to take our thoughts and ideas and word smith them into great action items, gui...
Member Testimonials
Client ATCS, Inc.
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $8,160
Days Saved 50
Testimonial
We really enjoyed working with Sidney on the IT Strategy initiative. Sidney is very knowledgeable, and his guidance helped us a lot in many areas. ...
Member Testimonials
Client City of Lake Oswego
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $34,000
Days Saved 20
Testimonial
The level of detail in this engagement was extraordinary
Member Testimonials
Client Utilities Kingston
Experience Workshop
Impact 9/10
$ Saved $35,000
Days Saved 35
Testimonial
Venkat demonstrated strong acumen in understanding IT strategy and related functions. He gave us the flexibility to brainstorm our own approach whi...
Member Testimonials
Client Colorado Springs Utilities
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $68,000
Days Saved 29
Testimonial
The process is very efficient and was very easy to work through.
Member Testimonials
Client Unfpa
Experience Workshop
Impact 8/10
$ Saved $13,600
Days Saved 5
Testimonial
Member Testimonials
Client Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $17,680
Days Saved 10
Testimonial
Member Testimonials
Client Kardex Germany GmbH
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $2,000
Days Saved 20
Testimonial
Very structured and a very empathic and flexible coach.
Member Testimonials
Client City of Atlanta / Atlanta Information Management (AIM)
Experience Workshop
Impact 9/10
$ Saved $34,000
Days Saved 60
Testimonial
That fact that it was in-person, expertise to ensure we are asking the right questions, helping to capture the answers/responses at the appropriate...
Member Testimonials
Client Alabama Department of Workforce
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $1.36M
Days Saved 120
Testimonial
The potential for savings realized from the workshop's tools and advice received in terms of time and dollars by the end of this project are hard t...
Member Testimonials
Client ILUKA RESOURCES LIMITED
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 9/10
$ Saved N/A
Days Saved N/A
Testimonial
Was good to continue this engagement through, and see how much the thinking and strategy material improve. Looking forward to later follow up to f...
Member Testimonials
Client Oregon Water Resources Department
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 10/10
$ Saved N/A
Days Saved N/A
Testimonial
Anubhav was immediately able to answer my question and guide me on things.
Member Testimonials
Client Sonesta Hotels
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 9/10
$ Saved $136K
Days Saved 50
Testimonial
We should have done this as a workshop over a week instead of dragging it out for a year. By the time we were done our results were outdated. That ...
Member Testimonials
Client City of Maplewood
Experience Workshop
Impact 9/10
$ Saved $13,600
Days Saved 10
Testimonial
Member Testimonials
Client New York City Department of Transportation
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 8/10
$ Saved $2,720
Days Saved 20
Testimonial
We were able to take a process that could be extremely complicated and simplify it to identify an IT strategy that is aligned with the business and...
Member Testimonials
Client Cenet Limited
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 8/10
$ Saved N/A
Days Saved N/A
Testimonial
Looking back, the process we followed was incredibly comprehensive, and we're happy with the outcome we achieved. It did start with a bit of a stum...
Member Testimonials
Client LSU Health Sciences Center
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $34,000
Days Saved 20
Testimonial
Member Testimonials
Client Wolf & Company, P.C.
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 8/10
$ Saved $17,680
Days Saved 6
Testimonial
Anu was very knowledgeable and helpful!
Member Testimonials
Client QUALITY COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND OCCUPATIONS
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $300K
Days Saved 110
Testimonial
The expert advice from a veteran was invaluable.
Member Testimonials
Client VNGR Beverage
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $34,000
Days Saved 10
Testimonial
Ross was great. He was patient with me and provided very meaningful feedback!
Member Testimonials
Client Alps Alpine North America, Inc.
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 9/10
$ Saved $6,800
Days Saved 10
Testimonial
Allow more pauses for customer feedback/reply. Please remember not all customers need 100% details and information. Find a balance between you an...
Member Testimonials
Client University Of Toronto
Experience Workshop
Impact 10/10
$ Saved N/A
Days Saved 26
Testimonial
Paul was Incredibly meticulous in his workshop and post workshop guidance. The Student Life IT team truly and fully appreciates all the effort that...
Member Testimonials
Client CARDINIA SHIRE COUNCIL
Experience Guided Implementation
Impact 10/10
$ Saved $9,000
Days Saved 20
Testimonial
Great insights and advice, and mostly affirmation of the approach I am taking on several matters.

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