IT Planning: The Importance Of An IT Plan

The Importance of an IT plan and step to follow to implement a plan.

Padraig O’Looney (Student NO: 35459)

An information-technology strategy helps to fulfil a business strategy. If the organisation hasn't created such a strategy, then IT managers can help the business managers to draw up such plans. To develop an IT strategy without a company strategic plan, they will have to identify the business objectives, priorities, and results on your own and use them to build your IT plan.

Robert Holland, leading figures in the Informational Resource Management (IRM) field (1) once said “Organisations must come to terms with the fact data is a resource as indispensable to success as raw materials, facilities, cash reserves or employees”. Information is a corporate responsibility that’s needs to be addressed and followed from senior management down to the front line staff. Senior management must plan for the capture of all information and also the quality of information needed for each level in the organisation and distributed out as required. The role of IT systems in the distribution of

However if steps are not followed you will run into many problems. Examples would be spending excessive and uncontrolled time and money on project planning. When planning if a control on deadlines or budgets is not kept it can hinder the project completion. Many projects according the Gartner’s Research fail with too much spent on consultation and consensus building. Also, failing to connect the IT strategy with the business model. According to The Chartered Institute of ITs “Study in Project Failure” Dr Wood-Harper and Dr McManus (5) suggest Businesses strategies have often been taken over by IT projects and the benefits to the company of new IT is not always made clear or benefits are