IT Strategic Planning Discover Playbook

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Active work on an IT strategic plan begins with a scan of the external environment and a review of institutional priorities. Systematically evaluating these factors sets the groundwork for a strategic plan based on shared facts and assumptions, and ensures that IT strategic planning working groups give appropriate weight to environmental and institutional needs.

IT strategic planning working groups should conduct an environmental scan and an analysis of IT strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT). Completing the first four steps outlined below will result in an analysis of trends that may impact the IT organization and institution, documentation of campus IT needs and IT perception on campus, an understanding of what skills are currently prevalent in IT staff, and a summary SWOT matrix.