IT Strategic Planning

Strategic planning enables an organization to shape and guide its overall business objectives. Through effective strategic planning, an organization creates a framework for developing, adapting and aligning organizational vision, mission and goals to achieve and sustain competitive advantage. In this course, you gain the knowledge needed to formulate, execute and monitor the strategic planning for your organization based on proven analytical techniques and models.

Who Should Attend
Managers, Executives, Business analysts and those involved in planning and/or implementing strategic initiatives.

Course Outlines

• Through an engaging case study and interactive team activities, you apply best practices and methods to develop a critical strategic plan that aligns IT with the business. Activities include:
• Deriving key business objectives, core values & Justifying the need for an IT strategic plan
• Prioritizing business objectives with the schema template
• Performing a maturity assessment using the CobiT® framework
• Conducting a SWOT analysis & Assessing risks for IT initiatives
• Applying filtering tools to select the top strategic initiatives
• Calculating Total Cost of Ownership & Compiling and presenting the IT strategic plan
• Quantifying results using a balanced scorecard approach