Build a better IT strategic plan

The IT executive toolkit for strategic planning

Only 47% of today's enterprises meet their strategy objectives... is yours one of them?

5 activities are crucial to strategy success — and you need tools at each stage to capture key data and information for yourself and to share with stakeholders.

The best IT strategic plans identify select initiatives that will drive enterprise ambitions and then commit the capacity (time, budget, talent and technology) necessary to execute successfully. Use this Gartner research to:

  • Understand seven common IT strategic planning mistakes — and what to do instead
  • Access a one-page IT strategic planning template
  • Cascade the strategy to adjacent groups within IT for better alignment
Build a better IT strategic plan

The IT Executive Toolkit for Strategic Planning was designed to help you:

  • Verify business context and confirm the enterprise mission, then align your function's goals with those of C-level stakeholders.
  • Assess your function’s ability to deliver on your goals and create a plan to fill the capability gaps that will slow your impact.
  • Strategically manage functional budgets to prioritise investment decisions to favor initiatives that will drive impact — and demote those that won’t.
  • Decide how to measure your progress and select metrics that will demonstrate the progress you’re making against commitments you’ve made.
  • Document your strategy — ideally on just one page — to simply and clearly state where the function is, where it's going and how it will get to there.

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