Good IT strategy
It’s hard to define whether an IT strategy is good or bad before it brings real results. Anyway, before developing an IT strategy, it’s reasonable to identify the features it should have to lead your company in a highly competitive business world. With 28+ years’ experience in software development and IT consulting services, we offer our vision of an effective IT strategy.
- Understandable. Shaped by tech specialists, an IT strategy may contain technology terms that no one outside the IT department understands. Unjustified abundance of buzzwords makes the strategy difficult to understand and implement, causing misinterpretation of its details or even key points. Clarity helps managers to realize where to lead their subordinates. What is more, IT leadership may change, and it will be easier for new management to deal with a brief comprehensive strategy.
- Adaptable. Once approved, an IT strategy needs continuous monitoring and adjustments. A flexible strategy allows a quick response to business decisions: to enter new market, to deliver new products and services, to change organizational structure, to shift business priorities, to update business model, etc.