IT Strategic Planning Distill Playbook

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In the Distill phase, IT strategic planners synthesize the results of the Discover phase and develop key IT strategic plan elements such as vision and mission statements and IT strategic goals and objectives.

A thoughtful mission and vision statement anchor many IT strategic plans. They express an organizational ideal, and encompass the essential work to promote that shared purpose. The mission statement expresses what IT does and who it serves in pursuit of that goal, and the vision statement is the aspirational future state that IT strives to realize. IT strategic goals encapsulate the outcomes or desired state the IT department wants to achieve in fulfillment of a strategic need. IT objectives identify concrete actions to further those goals.