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July 4, 2006
Business Value in IT Strategy
This picture describes the way that IT planning perspectives share the responsibility for discovering, integrating and balancing business priorities stemming from financial, environmental and operational requirements.
Strategists should consider, for example, how to place opportunity versus risks, resources versus capacity, and architectures versus agility.
These placements will then call attention to the nearby surrounding influences of real options, change management and economy of scope -- influences on analysis and design efforts in developing strategy with the apparently available opportunities, resources and architectures.
Those influences set the perspectives from which opportunities, resources and architectures are considered. The picture shows that they are related perspectives. The relationships feature overlapping perspectives, such as "risk mitigation" being handled by both real options and change management.
As a result of organizing within these influential relationships, strategic positions can enjoy inherently systemic support from the interplay of financial, environmental and operational events. This alignment of support makes the positions more sustainable, allowing the business to use them as a reliable foundation for its ongoing execution.
Posted by Malcolm Ryder at July 4, 2006 11:02 AM
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