ICT Strategy Toolkit
IT strategy has to deliver business benefit - help satisfy customers, enable staff to perform better, deliver tangible business value, drive down costs - and operate within a well-defined governance environment in which key ICT risks are identified and controlled.
Books describe how to do elements of this. But what you really need is an ICT Strategy Template that guides you through the process of creating an ICT strategy and which identifies the types of issues and challenges you should be addressing.
This is the IT Strategy Template for you!
This 24-page ICT (information and communications technology) Strategy Template covers all the key areas of strategy formulation:
Executive Summary
- Introduction, scope, governance, approval
- Business Strategy
- Risk, Conformance & Compliance
- IT Strategy
- Specific Context for IT Strategy
- The Information Strategy
- The Information Systems (Applications and Operating System) Strategy
- The Technology/Hardware Strategy
- IT Department Physical, Environmental and Personnel Resources
- Summary of IT Strategy, incl IT financials
Appendices – A-K
This template is designed so that it can be used in organisations of any size, and so that it can be adapted to reflect the business and compliance requirements of any sector in any country. It is flexible and adaptable whilst providing clear and firm guidance on all the elements of a well-formed ICT Strategy.
Toolkit includes ICT Risk Register
Identifying and managing ICT risk is an important aspect of IT strategy - not only do you need to deliver business results, but you also need to protect the availability, confidentiality and integrity of the information on which the organisation relies.
This toolkit includes an ICT risk register, and instructions on how to use it to identify and manage ICT risks.
This IT Strategy Template Toolkit also includes an 18-slide PowerPoint presentation that sets out the key elements and stages in strategy development.
This toolkit is available for immediate download - purchase it today.
An ITGP Publication
Published 11 November 2011
