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EBusiness & IT Management Model of IT Management RESULTS Efficiency Effectiveness Competitiveness Profitability Strategy & Planning Technology & Business Trends Applications & Data Operational Disciplines Resource Control Organisations & People

EBusiness & IT Management Developing an IT Strategy (1) The importance of strategy. The elements of a strategy. Relationship between strategies and plans. Strategic management. Types of strategies.

EBusiness & IT Management Developing an IT Strategy (2) The strategy statement. The strategy document outline. Strategy development process. The IT strategy statement. Strategy as a guide to action. Strategy maintenance process.

EBusiness & IT Management The importance of strategy. Managers in an organisation who wish to take advantage of IT and other strategic opportunities must apply a systematic, strategic vision to define the organisational direction. A strategy is defined as a collection of statements that express or propose a means through which an organisation can fulfil its primary purpose or mission.

EBusiness & IT Management The importance of strategy. A strategy must focus and coordinate an organisation’s activity from the top down to achieve its mission. Such a well-developed strategy ensures consistent direction within the company’s business units, and reduces uncertainty in decision making. A business unit is the lowest level of the company which contains the set of functions that carry a product through its life span from concept through manufacture, distribution, sales and service.

EBusiness & IT Management The importance of strategy. To align IT objectives with corporate objectives, managers must believe that the IT strategy is a strategy for the whole organisation. Intellectual alignment is achieved when written IT and business objectives are internally and externally consistent and cross-referenced. IT and business executives who clearly understand each other’s objectives achieve social alignment.

EBusiness & IT Management The importance of strategy. The development of a sound strategy requires… Thoughtful understanding of the organisation’s mission. Analysis of the operating environment. Extensive interaction with senior executives and other managers. Detailed definition of how the company’s business units interact. In addition, strategists must be able to predict possible changes in the organisational structure.

EBusiness & IT Management The importance of strategy. Business Environment Our Mission Interact with managers B.U. Analyse the environment in which the organisation operates B.U. Define interactions B.U. B.U. Where are we going? What are our future structures?

EBusiness & IT Management The elements of a strategy Mission statement Environmental assessment Statement of objectives Expression of strategy Maintenance of processes Performance assessment

EBusiness & IT Management The elements of a strategy Mission statement – defines the purpose of the organisation, in terms of what it seeks to accomplish. Environmental assessment – also called environmental scanning – identifies the important trends that may impact the organization and its functional units. These trends can be political, economic, legal, technological and organisational.

EBusiness & IT Management The elements of a strategy Statement of objectives – what is intended to be achieved in terms of desirable states towards which action is directed. Expression of strategy – the course of action that will lead to the achievement of objectives. Maintenance of processes –review of the environment and identifying change leads to assessment of the course of actions. Performance assessment – evaluation of how well the organisation has achieved its goals and objectives.

EBusiness & IT Management The elements of a strategy The Environment Nature of the Business Goals and Objectives Strategy Statement Strategic Plan Operating Plan Strategy Maintenance Performance Assessment The Relationship between Strategy and Planning Elements

EBusiness & IT Management Relationship between strategies & plans Strategies and plans seem to run together, but they are clearly different. A strategy is a collection of statements that expresses or proposes a means through which an organisation can fulfil its primary purpose or mission. On the other hand, a plan is a detailed description of how an organisation can accomplish its primary purpose or mission.

EBusiness & IT Management Relationship between strategies & plans Strategy is not about plans – it is about insights! The strategic plan describes detailed actions for the next year or two, and less detailed actions beyond two years (often for 3 to 5 years in total). Also called the long-term plan. The detailed actions for the next year (or two) are usually called the tactical or near-term plan.

EBusiness & IT Management Strategic management The processes of strategy development and strategic planning are the essential elements of strategic planning. This reflects a changing attitude to business strategy – businesses now try to create the future (rather than predict it) via the following: Phase 3 Focus on external environment Phase 1 Basic financial planning Phase 2 Forecast-based planning Phase 4 Strategic management

EBusiness & IT Management Strategic management Strategic management reorganises and deploys resources to attain competitive advantage. It also implements creative, flexible long- and short-range planning systems supporting resource deployment actions. Because IT has considerable potential for initiating, shaping and supporting future change, IT managers play a vital role in strategy development for organisations.

EBusiness & IT Management Types of strategies In most businesses functional units – e.g. manufacturing, marketing or IT – have two types of strategies, functional strategies and stand-alone strategies. Functional strategies describe the unit’s broad goals and objectives, whereas stand-alone strategies describe an individual, one-time goal or opportunity.

EBusiness & IT Management Types of strategies For example, an IT organisation’s functional strategy describes the actions IT must take to support the entire business in the long term. It also has a stand-alone strategy to upgrade the corporate telecommunication network. The IT strategy combines these two. The complete strategy for any function within the organisation aggregates its stand-alone strategies with its functional strategy.

EBusiness & IT Management IT Functional Strategy The IT Functional Strategy must contain the following basic elements: Support of business objectives Technical support Organisational support Budget and financial matters Personal considerations

EBusiness & IT Management Organisation’s Business Strategy Business strategies – those that support core business activity – are developed by the product managers who are responsible for producing revenue and profit. The aggregation of all functional and and business strategies comprises the organisation’s complete business strategy. Other functional Strategies Product Manager Business Strategy(ies) IT Functional Strategy

EBusiness & IT Management Organisation’s Business Strategy This detailed document outlines the business’s strategic goals and objectives, and shows how all the business units within the organisation will contribute to achieving the objectives and mission. For an organisation to succeed, its overall business strategy must be based upon internal goal congruence – that all the goals are similar.

EBusiness & IT Management Stand-alone Strategies In special circumstances a functional unit will want (or need to) develop a specific “stand-alone strategy” to deal with a unique opportunity or threat. In many cases stand-alone strategies take the form of ad hoc actions in response to emerging opportunities or threat associated with competitive or industrial developments. Once accepted, the stand-alone strategy is incorporated into the strategic plans of all organisational units that it affects.

EBusiness & IT Management The strategy statement A strategy statement is primarily a tool for focusing the managers’ attention on strategic aspects of an organisations business. It also provides information to senior managers who must review and approve the strategy, and to those who will use it to guide their actions. In addition the strategy statement must be available to those responsible for initiating adjustments that account for current input from the business environment, and to those those who measure the organisations performance.

EBusiness & IT Management The strategy statement A statement of goals and objectives is insufficient for the stated needs. A strategy statement must include: Information regarding the environment. The basis for selecting the goals and objectives. The assumptions on which the goals and objectives depend. The perceived risks, and available and reasonable options.

EBusiness & IT Management The strategy document outline To present the required information coherently, an outline containing the main points of a strategy is usually developed. The strategy must be logical, coherent and clearly indicate the relevance of its parts: Nature of the business Environment Goals and objectives Strategy ingredients

EBusiness & IT Management The strategy document outline The ingredients of a strategy include a course of action, and other supporting factors: Course of action Assumptions Risks Options Dependencies Resource requirements Financial projections Alternatives

EBusiness & IT Management Strategy development process Minor change Incorporate “new” strategy into overall Business Strategy Undertake Environmental Analysis Cost Loads Technology Capability Business Conditions Develop Alternative Strategies Establish Selection Process & Criteria for using them. Select Best Strategy Further Develop the Selected Strategy Review Approval

EBusiness & IT Management The IT strategy statement At the very least, the IT Strategy Statement must address the following topics thoroughly. Other topics specific to the business should be address as well: Business aspects – the strategy must support and reflect the business goals. Technical issues – the strategy must reveal the practical utilization of advanced technology in support of business objectives and goals.

EBusiness & IT Management The IT strategy statement Organisational concerns – consider the organisational consequences of the strategy and how the strategy will support new organisational forms and ways of doing business.. Financial matters – the strategy must satisfy the organisations financial ground rules. Personnel considerations – must include the action plans for the task of recruiting, training and retaining a team of skilled employees. Remember, advanced technical strategies will attract “strong technical” people.

EBusiness & IT Management Strategy as a guide to action IT strategies are developed with the explicit intent of guiding management and providing direction that helps to balance and direct the overall functional effort, while taking advantage of breaks and unusual opportunities when they arise. IT managers must maintain strategic control – the strategy is the basis for doing this. Strategic control preserves the vitality and viability of the strategy between planning periods, and helps the organisation to maintain its strategic focus.

EBusiness & IT Management Strategy maintenance process To be useful over time, a strategy must be maintained – kept up to date. Maintenance recognises that a strategy is constantly subject to change. Regularly, or when tracking reveals significant change, the entire strategy should be carefully examined and updated. The logical process for doing this is to follow the steps described for developing a strategy (Slide 27).

EBusiness & IT Management Conclusion Strategic management is a continuous and iterative process that allows an organisation to be responsive to its business environment. It is a process that incorporates understanding of the corporate mission, scanning the environment, interaction with senior executives and other managers, and detailed definition of how the company’s business units interact. It is important that the major business functions of an organisation be integrated into the strategic management process.

EBusiness & IT Management Conclusion – Review Questions What are the key components of a complete statement of strategy? One purpose of a strategy is to provide corporate direction. What other purposes does a strategy serve? What are the differences between functional strategies, stand-alone strategies, and business strategies? What is the relationship between strategies and plans?

EBusiness & IT Management Conclusion – Review Questions What is the difference between a tactical plan and a strategic plan? What are the main elements of a strategy document? How is the environmental statement used? What main topics should the IT Functional Strategy address? What is the significance of the iterative process illustrated on Slide 27 (the Strategic Development Process)?