Strategic IT planning at a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm had become disconnected from the business, resulting in a steady stream of disconnects between IT initiatives and business priorities. The vastly different needs of the global business units and the federated IT management model made it difficult to put together a cohesive plan. The IT executive in charge of planning needed to reconnect the planning process and the business.
“This planning framework has made it much easier for our IT division heads to have productive conversations with their business units.”
- IT Planning Executive
The CastlePointe team utilized DeepRoots™ principles to develop a comprehensive strategic planning approach that simplified the process of understanding the business strategy and connecting it to IT initiatives. The approach leveraged the corporate strategic planning structure (four strategic components) and guided each divisional IT executive to distill the informational requirements needed to support the business strategy. These informational requirements were compiled into a set of enterprise IT Capability Requirements, from which specific enterprise and divisional initiatives were launched.
After adopting this approach, the senior IT leadership team was able to effectively assess and justify enterprise and divisional IT initiatives against defined business strategy. Most importantly, the strategic planning framework enabled the leadership team to rapidly prioritize and adjust IT initiatives across the portfolio in alignment with both enterprise and divisional business goals.
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