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Strategic IT Planning Toolkit – Section 7: Strategy Implementation 44 7 Strategic Implementation This section explains how concrete IT initiatives can be identified and prioritized using the information produced in the Strategy development activity. The initiatives are specific program, activities and projects or actions that will be carried out to ensure that the targets associated with performance measures for strategic objectives are realized. 7.1 Developing Initiatives Description: This task aims to identify IT initiatives to implement the strategic IT objectives to meet performance targets. Generating initiatives requires the specification of performance targets (if not already specified) associated with the performance measures for each priority objective. Since a single initiative may support more than one objective, opportunities for streamlining initiatives could be sought to reduce duplication or avoid unnecessary excessively large IT portfolio. The main input to this task is the strategic objectives list produced in the Strategy Development activity. The output from the task is a list of initiatives. Process: The major steps involved in the development of initiatives from priority IT objectives include: T1) specifying performance target (if not specified) for measures T2) defining initiative for objectives to satisfy performance target T3) compiling initiatives for each perspective T4) streamlining initiative list across all perspectives Figure 18: Initiative Definition Process Report No. 417, May 2009 UNU-IIST, P. O. Box 3058, Macao
Strategic IT Planning Toolkit – Section 7: Strategy Implementation 45 Tools: The current version of the template document does not support the definition of initiative. In [28], a table format is provided for mapping organizational initiatives to strategic perspectives. Related Tasks: The task is one of the terminal tasks for the overall IT strategy process. It relies largely on the Strategy development activity and produces a major input for the Strategy Control activity. Comments: This task is optional for the IT strategy process as it deals with implementation issues. However, by assigning this task to the strategy team, alignment between initiatives is guaranteed. Parsimony is also important to consider when generating initiatives in view of resource requirements. 7.2 Prioritizing Initiatives Description: The final task in the implementation of strategic IT objectives is the prioritization of developed initiatives. Initiatives are prioritized based on available resources, value potentials – support for high priority organizational goals or programs, and sustainability. The most important step in this task is the development of a prioritization framework which must be agreed by the strategy team and advisably by internal stakeholders. The framework would typically consist of a set of features (both quantitative and qualitative) to be uniformly applied to each initiative. With the major input into this task as the initiative list, the task produces an agreed priority list of initiatives. Process: The following steps are involved in the prioritization of initiatives (see Figure 19): T1) developing prioritization framework T2) validating prioritization framework T3) applying framework on initiatives T4) validating initiative priority list with stakeholders Figure 19: Initiative Prioritization Process Report No. 417, May 2009 UNU-IIST, P. O. Box 3058, Macao
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