From the course: Make IT Work in Your Business
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What does IT bring to strategy?
From the course: Make IT Work in Your Business
What does IT bring to strategy?
- [Instructor] In the last video, I addressed business leaders and invited them to bring IT perspective into the strategic planning process. In this video, I want to address the IT professionals and describe what you can do to foster a more meaningful relationship, not just with your boss, but with your organization. There are as many different descriptions of the strategic planning process as there are institutions that teach it, but they all boil down to three steps: honestly assess where you are, define where you want to be, and develop strategics and tactics that will get your company from the past to the future. If your function within the company doesn't directly contribute to positive movement along that path, you're either unnecessary or unimportant. That may sound a bit blunt, but it's the honest truth. As a result of that truth, any money spent to fund your work could be seen as a necessary evil. Does this sound familiar? Let's say a $2,000 router is limping along two years…
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