Strategic IT planning examines opportunities and threats to identify opportunities to exploit and threats to avoid. It answers three questions: where the organization currently stands, its desired future state, and how to get there. Planning challenges include balancing projects versus portfolios, funding infrastructure, and aligning business goals with systems plans. Approaches include top-down, bottom-up, and creative methods. Best practices include comprehensiveness, formality, focus, participation, consistency, and smooth workflow. The six stages are assembling a team, assessing needs, developing a vision and mission, communicating buy-in, prioritizing projects, and evaluating projects. Implementation considerations include resources, involvement, needs analysis, flexibility, resistance, relevance, ownership

1. IT Planning
Presented by
Neetika Agarwal-11DM087
Paras Jalan-11DM100
Rahul S-11DM116
Yogesh Garg-11EMPDM214

2. Strategic IT Planning
Strategic planning is the systematic examination of
opportunities and threats in the business environment so
that you are in the position to identify those opportunities
that should be exploited and the threats that should be
avoided.
Answers 3 Strategic Questions:
1. Where are we now?
2.Where do we want to go?
3. How will we get there?

3. Planning Challenges
Why planning is so difficult
 Companies need portfolios rather than projects
 Infrastructure Development is difficult to fund
 Top-down Vs. bottom-up; radical change Vs. continuous
 Planning culture
 Business Goals and Systems Plans Need to Align
 Technologies Are Rapidly Changing

4. Planning Approaches
• Top down
• Bottoms up

5.  Creative

6. SITP APPROACHES AND
PREVALENT RESEARCH
 IBM business systems planning
 Rockart’s critical success factors (CSF)
 Stages of growth: Nolan’s stages theory
 Porter’s competitive forces model
 Porter’s value chain analysis
 E-business value matrix
 Linkage analysis planning
 Scenario planning.

7. Nolan Stages of Growth model

10. BEST PRACTICES FOR
ACHIEVING SITP
Segars, Grover and Teng (1998) define the following
best practices:
 Comprehensiveness
 Formal
 Focused
 Smooth flow
 Wider participation
 Consistency

11. Six Planning Stages of SITP
1. Assemble a planning team
2. Assess information needs
3. Develop a vision and a mission
4. Communicate the vision and seek buy-in
5. Arrive at the project’s portfolio and define the scope of
projects and their prioritization
6. Evaluate IT projects for inclusion in application portfolio.

12. IMPLEMENTATION
CONSIDERATIONS
The following are important for the success of SITP process as
planning as shown by Gottschalk’s studies:
 Adequacy of resources the implementation
 Level of user involvement during the implementation
 Adequacy of analysis of the organization’s information
 Needs
 Anticipation of changes in the external environment
 Solutions to potential resistance during the implementation
 Information technology to be implemented
 IT projects’ relevance to the business plan
 Who owns the responsibility for the SITP implementation
 Level of management support for the implementation
 Communication issues
 IT issues
 General business-related issues

13. e-Choupal Initiative
 An initiative of ITC for the economic development of
farmers
 Challenge faced: translating development into
economic freedom
 While ITC’s sales were stagnant, India’s soybean
farmers were losing 60-70% of potential crop value
 Both farmers and processors were locked in an
unproductive cycle

14. The Old condition
 The buying cycle:
 The government appointed licensed buyers
 ITC contracted with a licensed buyer
 The farmers were isolated from one another and knew nothing of market conditions
until the day of sale
 ITC supplied each village choupal with:
 A PC with Windows/Intel platform
 Telephone connection lines
 A solar-powered power supply
 A dot-matrix printer

15. The Change
 With the arrival of IT capacity, farmers were accessing
the world wide web through a dedicated site
www.soyachoupal.com
 The site contained: weather, best practices, crop
information, market information, FAQs, news,
feedback, and information about ITC
 ITC quote: Before, farmers lived in a vacuum, a
vacuum of rumors and gossip. Now, we are bringing
information into the village, into the home. It’s natural
for them

16. The Benefits
 In September 2000 there were 30 eChoupals
 By 2004, there were 1700 eChoupals
 ITC’s volumes grew by 400% in four years:
 20% from better yields
 80% from taking shares from competitiors
 Of the 3000 computers in use today not one has been lost,
stolen, or vandalized
 Though still at the mercy of a global market, India’s soybean
farmers were earning roughly 250% greater profits post
eChoupal than pre Choupal

17. Barriers
 Entrenched practices
 Lack of understanding by farmers
 Fear of middlemen reprisals
 Potential high cost
 Economic illiteracy
 Suspicion of internal cheating
 Technology risk

18. Takeaway from e-Choupal
IT: Empowering people

19. Thank You