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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Why An Agency Needs IT Strategy

By Edward Benton


Having a clear IT strategy in place can bring a loot of benefits to your business. It is important to note that if the Information Technology you are suing match your needs, then it will support and strengthen all your activities and help you progress effectively in your business. Achieving your aims becomes easy and progressing forward becomes the chief order of your establishment.

Information Technology techniques should mainly document decision in four main areas in a company or an organization. The first area is the fundamental organizational process and information needs that the Information Technology system available needs to support. The second thing that needs proper definition is the Information Technology system that an organization will use to support full operations.

The very first step is planning and preparation because IT plan is a full project in its own right and you must approach it in respectful manner. More often that not you want your plan to cover all the activities you intend to undertake but if you for any reason you feel like excluding some areas, feel free to do so. A clear plan tries to identify a supervisor in the company who will sponsor the work and consider setting up a team of professionals to manage the project.

The third area focuses on the standard of the current technology, its support arrangement and the operation policies. It would be important to ask whether it is appropriate to purchase standard package programs or creating your own. Ask yourself about the level of Information Technology you would require for effective operation.

The second step is to understand the Information Technology needs of your organization. In other words, the plan you intend to draft should have a direct link to the aims, objectives and the visions of your organization. Take time to analyze the current Information Technology structure, assess its strength and points of weaknesses, the advantages it has brought to the company and demerits too if any.

With a proper plan in place, it becomes quite simple to determine whether a company will need to put in place, a support system that runs on a twenty-four how basis, seven days a week all year round. Get to know the actual nature of the support system you intend to outsource to the third party out there. A great plan clearly describes the nature of resources and skill level required for company development.

The third step is to explore available options and make sound decisions. The decision you make should have its basis on the time and effort needed for implementation, technical complexity, indicative cost and the demand on staff time and energy. Additionally, the decisions you make should and must always be in line with the culture of the working organization.

The last are to focus on in this IT strategy series is the actual project you intend to do. It is important to keep in mind that your strategies need to be a pure extension of your charity strategies. Make sure they focus ion helping you work effectively and deliver to the maximum so that your organization realize its goals and objectives.




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