IT Planning;
A Corporate Mantra
By John Scopaz
Associate Partner

IT Planning – The Goal and the Challenges
IT planning and integrated business alignment has long been a mantra of corporate
directives but there is a history of organizations falling short of publishing quality documents
and assembling plans that meet business needs, not to mention providing the necessary
details that insures the thorough infrastructure planning necessary to meet overall
corporate goals in a timely manner..
What are the identifiers of an organization that is misaligned?
What are some of the negative impacts of an organization not aligned?
Who should take the leading role, IT or Business?  
Who makes the final decisions?  
Who covers budgetary costs?

Focusing on What is Important
Organizations where a central IT group services many business entities puts a significant
burden on IT management to allocate resources in the most business effective manner.  
Too much of a focus on technology may result in a state of the art infrastructure but leaving
insufficient resources to address business needs.  
Similarly an overemphasis on optimally addressing specific business requests results in
too diverse a technical environment that does not allow for easy integration of information
across entities and often results in a less stable, more difficult and expensive environment
to support.

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