IT

Development of computer/information technology



Development of computer/information technology

Introduction

Information Technology (IT) Strategy focuses on strategic IT issues and making IT work for businesses and improve company performance along with examining ways of exploiting the full potential of information systems from existing and the new IT products. A business projects and programmes that have a major IT component can deliver benefits to the organisation.

Description of Operation

A consistency of behavior over time that a company perpetually markets the most expensive products in its industry pursues what is commonly known as a high-end strategy, just as a person who always accepts the most challenging of jobs may be described as pursuing a high-risk strategy (Mintzberg, 1998).

IT strategy is the formulation and the adjustment for organization to make technology strategy principle based on present situation. Therefore, understanding user requirements can lead to the development of effective information systems (Marchewka, 2006).

IT strategy works from organization's strategic demand, clarify the business prospect and mission, IT strategy plays a role that defines enterprise IT development directions. Further draft a principle as the guideline that is presented to the information technology department for implementation.

Technology Requirements

The significant of IT strategies is support corporation's business strategies. In enterprise informationization process, the important factors are business strategy, operation flow and systematize and information architecture. The IT strategy is an important tool and the method to connect some factors. It can be achieved through the IT strategy's formulation:

1. Assure the company's IT investments and optimize company's operation streamline and further to achieve company's business strategy.

2. Secure the integrations of system's information construction for corporate IT investment.

3. Ensure the company whole the information construction under the business strategy instruction deals with the operation flow and organization's change.

4. Avoids wrong investment in company's IT project wrong investment and the redundant investment, and guarantee whole investment returns.

The IT strategy planning is composed of the below part:

•Mission, Elaborates the reason, goal and function for building up the enterprise's information technology.

•Vision, Information technology development direction and result.

•Medium to Long-term Objectives, Propose goal into detailed plan, specify enterprise future information technology development objectives.

•Strategy Point, To achieve above medium and long-term goal. The main aspect of information technology need to be deployed is application, data, technology and organization.

Nontechnical Hindrances

IT Action Plan carries out the medium and long-term detailed planning for action which the information technology strategy draws up, it includes:

•The project progress, the plan would be able to simulate the logic relationship between investment and project.

•Project description and investment analysis, each project detailed description and return on investment.

•IT integrated development plan, in order to complete the project, the enterprise should have a development plan that is centralized control and able to deploy all the resources include outsourcing strategy, independent development.

IT strategy plan steps, the information technology strategy plan will begin with the information technology internal and external environment (present situation) the analysis, the core is constructs the information technology developmental strategy (the future condition), the ultimate duty will be ...