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Chapter 13
IT Strategy and Planning
Information Technology for ManagementImproving Performance in the Digital Economy
7th editionJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Slides contributed by Dr. Sandra ReidChair, Graduate School of Business & Professor, Technology
Dallas Baptist University
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Chapter Outline
13.1 Alignment of Business and IT Strategies13.2 IT Strategy Initiation13.3 IT Strategic Planning13.4 Outsourcing, Offshoring and IT as a
Subsidiary13.5 Managerial Issues
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Learning Objectives
1. Explain the importance of aligning the business strategy and IT strategy and how this alignment is achieved.
2. Recognize the challenges to IT-business alignment and how to address them.
3. Recognize why IT plays a critical strategic role within organizations.
4. Explain how IT is providing value to businesses.
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Learning Objectives – cont’d
5. Describe IT strategic planning within organizations.
6. Understand the major reasons for outsourcing.
7. Understand how to manage outsourcing and offshoring opportunities.
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13.1 Alignment of Business and IT Strategies
Business & IT Strategies – Survey Data
• 87% surveyed believe IT is critical to their companies’ strategic success.
• Few work with IT to achieve strategic success.• 33% of leaders reported that IT is involved in the
development of business strategy.• 30% reported business executive responsible for
strategy works closely with IT division.• Alignment improves revenue, lessens probability of
abandoning IT projects.
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The relationship among business, IS, and IT-strategies. (Source: Ward and Peppard, 2002.)
IT & Business Alignment
• IT must align function’s strategy, structure, technology & processes with those of the business units toward common goals.
• IT must align strategy with organizational strategy.• IT strategic alignment goal to ensure that IT priorities,
decisions & projects are consistent with overall business needs.
• Shared ownership & shared governance structure that crosses organizational lines & makes executives responsible for success of key IT initiatives.
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Activities Central to Alignment
• Understanding IT & corporate planning.• CIO is member of senior management.• Shared culture & good communication.• Deep commitment to IT planning by senior
management.• Shared plan goals.• Deep end-user involvement.• Joint architecture/portfolio selection.• Identity of plan factors.
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Challenges in Achieving IT-Business Alignment
• Promoting collaboration between IT & organizational business units.
• Persuading senior management about importance of IT to business.
• Contributing to strategic planning & business growth initiatives.
• Identifying opportunities for business process automation & improvement.
• Improving internal & external user experience & satisfaction.
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Strong CIO Characteristics
• Political savvy.• Influence leadership & power.• Relationship management.• Resourceful.• Strategic planner.• Does what it takes.• Leads employees effectively.
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13.2 IT Strategy Initiation
Critical Strategic Role of IT
• Global economy is defined by innovate use of IT.
• Companies must determine use, value & impact of IT to identify opportunities & create value which supports overall strategic vision.
• CIO is key mover in upper management.
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Value Add by IT
• Direct – by reducing cost through efficiencies.• Indirect – increased revenue through
improved productivity and/or reduction in employees.
• Enabling temporary or sustained competitive advantage.
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Competitive Advantage through IT
• Gained by providing real or perceived value to customers.
• Resources must be considered valuable by customers.
• Resources must be considered as rare.• Resources must be appropriable.
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Sustained Competitive Advantage
• Imitability – can another firm copy the resource?
• Mobility – easily acquired resource?• Substitutability – is an acceptable alternative
available?
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How CIOs spend their time. (Source: Luftman, 2007.)
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13.3 IT Strategic Planning
Good IT Planning Processes
• Yearly, quarterly, monthly.• Planning is continual, not one-time.• May result in formal IT strategy, or annual
reevaluation.• Organizational planning of IT resources done
throughout the organization.• End-users must understand.
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Steering Committees
• Direction setting• Rationing• Structuring• Staffing• Communicating• Evaluating• Governing
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IT strategic planning process. (Source: Drawn by J. Sipior.)
Business Service Management
• Approach for linking KPIs of IT to business goals to determine impact on business.
• KPIs measure actual performance of critical aspects of IT such as projects, servers, networks against predefined goals such as growing revenue, lowering costs, reducing risk.
• KPIs measure real-time performance or predict future results. Proactive vs. reactive.
• KPIs measures results of past activity.
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Business service management (from FireScope). (Source: firescope.com/solutions/businessservicemanagement/FireScope delivers a single view into the business impact of IT operations by aggregating all IT technology and business metrics into realtime dashboards, customizable for the needs of each member of IT. Used with permission.)
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Business systems planning (BSP) approach.
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Critical Success Factors
• What objectives are central to organization?
• Critical factors to meeting objectives?
• What decisions or actions are key?
• What variables underlie decisions & how are they measured?
• What information systems can supply measures?
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Scenario Planning
• Ensure not focusing on catastrophe to exclusion of opportunity.
• Allocate resources more prudently.• Preserve options.• Ensure not still “fighting the last war.”• Give opportunity to rehearse testing &
training of people to go through process.
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Resource Allocation
• Consists of developing plans for hardware, software, data communications & networks, facilities, personnel, financial resources need to execute master plan.
• May be contentious process due to limited resources.
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13.4 Outsourcing, Offshoring, and IT as a Subsidiary
Reasons To Outsource
• Desire to focus on core competency.• Cost reduction.• Improve quality.• Increase speed to market.• Faster innovation.
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Risks Associated with Outsourcing
• Shirking – vendor deliberately underperforms while claiming full payment.
• Poaching – vendor develops a strategic application for a client & then uses it for others.
• Opportunistic repricing• Breach of contract or vendor’s inability to deliver• Loss of control over IT• Loss of critical IT skills• Vendor lock-in
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Hidden Costs of Outsourcing
• Benchmarking & analysis• Investigating & contracting with a vendor• Transmitting work & knowledge to outsourcer• Ongoing staffing & management of
outsourcing relationship• Transitioning back to in-house
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Strategies for Outsourcing
• Majority or part of IT functions?• Long-term or short-term? • Single or multiple providers?• Strategic partnership or traditional provider?
Strategies for Risk Management in Outsourcing
• Understand project• Divide & conquer• Align incentives• Write short-period contracts• Control subcontracting• Do selective outsourcing
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Evaluating Outsourcing
• How well is business value delivered?• Balanced scorecard is useful tool to measure
value of outsourcing relationship.• Multi-vendor approach should include
measures for each.
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13.5 Managerial Issues
Leaders Must…
• Align IT strategy & business strategy• Organize for effective planning• Initiate IT strategy• Undertake IT strategic planning process• Deal with outsourcing & offshoring
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