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Six Steps to an Information Technology Strategy that Maximizes Business Value

What is Information Technology (IT) Strategy? What should such a strategy include? How can you develop a good IT strategy? What differentiates a good IT strategy from a bad one?

This 9-page white paper answers these questions and describes a process for putting together an IT strategy for your company. The process, developed by Harwell Thrasher based on many years of IT experience, starts at the top by defining relevant business objectives. It then drills down into IT, assuring the achievement of the business objectives by linking the IT objectives, policies, standards, IT architecture, and IT plan.

Amazing things can happen when you have an IT strategy aligning business and IT objectives. Everyone in your business will know that IT is successful. If someone suggests an IT budget cut, then you can directly tie the budget cut to a reduction in specific services so everyone is aware of the impact of the proposed cut on the bottom line of your business. Budget fights are eliminated because there is a direct tie between the IT work and the business results from IT.

If you don't have an IT strategy, then you need one NOW. Get this white paper and find out how you can create an IT strategy for your company in six easy-to-follow steps.


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The report focuses on IT strategy from a business perspective. Yet it doesn't neglect the technical challenges of IT standards, architecture, and an overall plan. Success is attained by putting together a strategy that is comfortable for both IT and the business organization – a strategy that can be achieved. This white paper tells you how to put together that strategy, and includes some examples for each step.

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Note: this white paper is substantially the same as Chapter 8 in my book Boiling the IT Frog.

“Informative and well organized. The process and structure helped me present my issues to my executives.”

Robert D. Peate
Global Director of Information Technology for MKS Instruments, Inc.

“I found the paper very useful in providing a framework for my IS strategy.”

Wendy Violentano
Head of IS
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About the Author

Harwell Thrasher has spent over 30 years working in and around IT organizations: as a developer of information systems, as a manager of software development groups, and as a technology vice-president. Harwell has worked for major companies, including Digital Equipment Corporation (now part of Hewlett-Packard) and Ceridian Corporation (originally called Control Data Corporation). He's done technology due diligence for over twenty corporate acquisitions in the United States, Canada, the U.K., and Switzerland. He's been a speaker at the Microsoft CIO Summit, and at meetings of numerous technical and non-technical societies. He's seen systems come and go, organizations succeed and fail, and leaders make a difference or get fired. He's seen the difference between mediocre IT and effective IT. Now you can benefit from his experience.

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