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Strategic alignment
Strategic alignment means linking organizational structure and resources to strategy and business environment. IT helps develop long term business strategy and provides competitive advantages through advanced technology, enhanced productivity, and ability to implement new strategies. The alignment process involves understanding business and culture, assessing the IT landscape, determining value chains, and developing a technology roadmap to achieve business benefits. Successful alignment is based on understanding, communication, and collaboration between IT and business strategy.
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Strategic alignment
- 1. ALIGNING IT WITH BUSINESS STRATEGY Name:Shashiprabha Rathnayake Batch 12
- 2. INTRODUCTION Strategic alignmentmeans - linking the organization structure and resources with its strategy and the business environment. Business Strategy means - sets out to achieve its desired ends.
- 3. WHY MUST ITALIGN WITH BUSINESS STRATEGY ? IT helps to develop the long term business strategy Gaining a competitive advantage by using advanced technology Enhance productivity Able to implement new business strategies Enhance the risk control processes.
- 4. ALIGNMENT PROCESS Understandthe business Acknowledge the culture Know the IT estate Discover the value chains Interpret the context Determine the Change Agenda Chart to technology roadmap Plan to work program Populate the delivery framework Achieve the business benefit.
- 5. HOW TO GAINA COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE BY ALIGNING IT WITH BUSINESS STRATEGY? Doing the production of the organization in a effective way. Enhancing the cohesiveness of the business functions. Accurate decision making and reliable information. Skills development
- 6. HOW IT ISALIGNED WITH THE BUSINESS STRATEGY?
- 7. CONCLUSION Successful alignmentbetween IT and the business strategy is based on the understanding, communication and collaboration. When IT is aligned with the business strategy–it is easy to understand how the business work, know where the business is going, how IT can be used in the organization and prepare informed business and technology decisions.
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Editor's Notes
- #3 Strategic alignment helps organizations, including small businesses, define what matters most to the organization and then create a road map to achieving the organization's purpose. Strategic alignment requires planning, a willingness to reassess and make adjustments regularly and a workforce that feels involved and responsible for the organization achieving its objectives.
- #4 IT has become a key business function for almost ever organization and IT plays a major pro-active role in developing our long term business strategy.
- #5 Crystal clear understanding of the business processes ( determine the organization what it does and the business functions) Analyze the structure, ethos and nature of the organization (cultural background of the organization) Identify and document all IT assets, applications and delivery channels (hardware, version of applications used, who use these assets) Identify and document the relationships between the business and IT estate. (Consider value chain of the organization) Value chain means aggregates a number of inputs, transforms them to add value and produce an output. Gather and collate intelligence about influential factors, internal and external ( should know what the pressures will shape and influence our business in the future) Analyze the context, the business strategy and influential factor ( factors that will affect the business strategy), identify impacts and implications for the IT estate. Analyze the context, business strategy, and influential factors, identify impacts and implications for the IT estate. Priorities', time-line and optimize the change agenda. ( technology roadmap will describe how the relevant technology change will be implmented considering the individual systems, time-scales and priorities). Translate the technology roadmap to business unit plans Resource the program. Implement delivery framework
- #7 First of all the business strategy is identified along with the relevant IT strategy therefore we need to have a comprehensive plan on how IT will affect the organizational desired goals. By having the plan we need to identify the structure of the business including the resources, business functions, human capital so then we can implement the necessary implications to identified business structure. In order to implement the IT plan we need to identify the business infrastructure along with the IT infrastructure (according to the business infrastructure the IT infrastructure is implemented ).