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<strong>Strategic</strong> <strong>IT</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> <strong>Toolkit</strong> – Section 2: <strong>Strategic</strong> <strong>IT</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> Process<br />
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The inclusion of tasks that enable the management and control of developed strategies in the planning<br />
process should also be useful. In addition, the ability to leverage data generated from previous<br />
planning cycles (per<strong>for</strong>mance feed-<strong>for</strong>ward) in the process should result in a more intelligent planning<br />
process.<br />
We include two basic additional steps to the initial four steps identified above:<br />
1) planning the process<br />
2) strategy control<br />
Consequently, the generic strategy process will include the following six steps: planning the process;<br />
specification of mission, vision, desired future state or outcomes; assessment of internal and external<br />
environment; development of strategies; development of tactics or initiatives; and strategy control.<br />
For simplicity all process models have been enumerated sequentially (e.g. in Figure 3). In practice,<br />
these processes seldom proceed in linear or sequential manner due to the need <strong>for</strong> iterations over some<br />
steps and feedback loops.<br />
Figure 3: Generic Strategy Process<br />
Report No. 417, May 2009<br />
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