{"id":342,"date":"2015-12-23T09:35:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T09:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/it-toolkits.org\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2016-07-11T09:07:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T09:07:41","slug":"what-is-it-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/it-toolkits.org\/Blog\/what-is-it-strategy.html","title":{"rendered":"What is IT Strategy ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/it-toolkits.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IT-Toolkits_Strategy_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-344 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/it-toolkits.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IT-Toolkits_Strategy_1.jpg\" alt=\"IT-Toolkits_Strategy_1\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/it-toolkits.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IT-Toolkits_Strategy_1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/it-toolkits.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IT-Toolkits_Strategy_1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>What is IT Strategy?<\/strong> There are some terms that are used more than they are understood. IT Strategy is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, people mystify the term and use it with reverence. &#8220;IT Strategy&#8221; gets a great deal more respect than say &#8220;programming&#8221;. On average, IT Strategists are paid more than programmers. So the mystique is maintained and feeds its own success. On the other, the term is thrown around as if it were a commodity. From programmers to CIOs, everyone is doing &#8220;IT Strategy&#8221;! Everyone has an opinion on IT Strategy. Everyone has a definition of IT Strategy. With so many definitions of IT Strategy, it is not clear what people are &#8220;saying&#8221; and what listeners are &#8220;hearing&#8221;!The good news is that the definition of IT Strategy is not any one person&#8217;s purview. No one owns the term. However, the bad news is that one needs a clear definition of the term to get some work done.<\/p>\n<p>So, what is IT Strategy?<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">IT Strategy is an iterative process to align IT capability with business requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>It is a process not a point in time event<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>It is iterative &#8211; success comes after multiple &#8211; do and learn &#8211; cycles<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The key is the alignment of business and IT capability rather than designing IT to address business requirements<br \/>\n&#8211; The former assumes that both capabilities drive each other<br \/>\n&#8211; The latter assumes that business drives IT and not vice versa<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>IT Strategy sets direction for IT function in an organization<br \/>\n&#8211; Ensures that maximum IT dollars are spent on value creation activities for the business<br \/>\n&#8211; Ensures that these dollars create the maximum value<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>IT Strategy helps create shareholder value. In other words, it helps maximize the return on IT investments.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is IT Strategy? There are some terms that are used more than they are understood. IT Strategy is one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-strategy-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/it-toolkits.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/it-toolkits.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/it-toolkits.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it-toolkits.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it-toolkits.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/it-toolkits.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it-toolkits.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/it-toolkits.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it-toolkits.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it-toolkits.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}