Planning Your IT Transformation Strategy

Maxson is a Technical Project Manager in Germany.

  Business Intelligence   Strategy  

Organizations allocate considerable budget for planning and implementing their IT strategies every year, and yet it never seems enough—every few years, your IT strategies seem insufficient, underestimated, overly expensive and complex. Demands change, forcing you to reorganize your organization and align with the evolutionary aspects of your maturity, business and industry.

Though such transformation is almost in every case marked with success or conditional success, it seems you somehow end up at that exact same starting point in a few months or years—asking the exact same questions and getting the exact same answers.

There are many possible approaches to identify and mitigate problems, and so many different ways you can plan your current or next strategy. Regardless of what path or corrective measures you take, you need to be prepared, informed and organized with the right data and tools to evolve in your approach.

That’s the exact focus of this article—it does not focus on what solutions, products or services can be used; rather on how to go about planning your strategy and how to prepare, inform and organize yourself—and your organization—before you start your journey into the unknown.

Personally, I believe the best state of balance is where you can achieve maximum output with the minimum possible input on multiple levels of …

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