Why is IT strategy hard to define for most folks?
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CTO in Healthcare and Biotech2 years ago
Because you are playing with uncertainty here and some folks can't manage it. This is like playing chess versus a grandmaster, even though you might plan your attack or defense, you might not foresee in the future all the moves the grandmaster will do. When an unexpected move is made by your opponent, you either freeze without not knowing what to do or you play based on your planning or you play the best you can in this uncertainty.
Is the same as defining an IT strategy, uncertainty will always appear at unexpected times and how you cope with it will help you define it.
Sr. Managing Director in Finance (non-banking)2 years ago
IT Strategy is hard to define for most folks : could be because:- they are doing it first time (haven’t done it earlier)
- they are technology focused and business pays the bills
- technology land scape changes at much faster pace compared to other fields
- uncertainty adds to it ( who knew remote work will take over on-site work)
- external unknown threats: cyberattacks etc. changes things
Vice President / IT Services / Digital Workplace leader in Software2 years ago
IT Strategy is very difficult to define many times because it is easy to get scope creep. Unless you have a very refined scope, strategy starts having dependencies on so many other areas, that you also end up adding them to your strategy and before you know it, you are stuck in a frustrated loop of what your core strategy is. Also, with strategy comes dollar spends and if you are handcuffed up front my finance to limit spending, strategy ends up being impacted as you start adjusting your strategy to match what potential spend you can get. Fractional CIO in Software2 years ago
IT strategy is balancing business requirements, risk, resources, time frame, and costs. Most users expect that they can get their requirements with no/low risk, only using existing in-house IT resources, asap, and with minimal cost. We know this is not normally true. So we have to explain what the complexities of the project are and why meeting the business requirement may not be as easy as they expect.
We must look for all aspects, also the expansion and risk management aspect.
When defining IT strategy, we have to foresee the cyber and data security aspects, also the scalability, so defining IT strategy becomes difficult.