IT Strategy As An Enterprise Enabler
Architecture and Governance, Monday, July 31,2023
Today, more than ever before, and often without noticing it, technology touches every part of our lives. The adoption of next generation technologies, automated tools, agile and Devops methodologies by an organization made the role of IT as a crucial factor for the business transformation.
The ability to harness these powerful technical capabilities and use them to support the business is both challenging and rewarding. Achieving synergy between people, processes and technology is not an easy task by any measure. The CIO's of the organization must formulate a modern IT strategy that in line with the new realities.
The IT strategy also called technology strategy. It guides in how IT helps businesses to win in their chosen business context. In first place, the business needs of IT to be successful are,
- Helps in better communication and coordination between business functions and lines of business with the IT Organization
- Scale to handle increasing demands on business growth Security in all its operations
- Ability to understand and anticipate organization customer needs
- Manage a large variety and velocity in customer growth
As part of engaging with various customers in defining the IT Strategy, the author viewpoint is many of the IT strategy initiatives are aspirational and unachievable goals and strategies. Organizations simply document the IT strategy artefacts and shelf them or discontinued at the middle of the implementation. Many Organizations get confused between IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture Initiatives. In author's opinion, the drafting of IT strategy should be consistent and actionable.