Strategic Road-Mapping and IT Strategy

What are Strategic Road-Mapping and IT Strategy?

Strategic road-mapping and IT strategy are essential for any business seeking to stay ahead of the competition. By creating a strategic plan, companies can identify their goals and objectives, allocate resources effectively, and ultimately measure the improvement of their bottom line. 

A strategic roadmap is a document that allows investors to see what the company’s goals and objectives are. It also outlines how it plans to achieve them and how long it will take. The roadmap also includes a timeline and key milestones for achieving these goals.

Strategies are more detailed, as they narrow the goals into short-term plans to achieve long-term goals, sometimes including what tools and resources you might use on a project. Roadmaps are the most specific, including schedule details and milestones for a company’s actions to achieve goals.

While an IT strategy focuses on how IT will help the business succeed, an IT strategic plan is a roadmap to assist the business in implementing those strategies.

Depending upon the organizational maturity, some or all of the following can be applied when working through this type of engagement:

• Define a Vision
• Leadership Comprehension and Adoption
• Build an IT Strategy Roadmap
• Awareness/Communication Strategy/Plan
• Proper Business Alignment
• Instill Guiding Principles
• Financial Evaluation
• Understand Competitive Advantage
• Map Short-Term Objectives
• Set Long-Term Goals
• Continuous Assessment
• Governance
• Capability Development (Up-skill)
• Infrastructure

CORBEAU will assist in developing your organization’s strategic roadmap, allowing for more discipline in the approach that brings about the needed change, assurances, and communication vehicles between business units and IT. The overall strategy will provide a solid baseline to build upon, knowing it will not collapse under the weight of scalability.