IT STRATEGIC PLANNING

Strategic thinking is quickly becoming a key competency for every leader and manager. Now more than ever, Government Sector needs IT strategies that are practical, measurable, and achievable. Trigma’s IT strategic planning services intend to help Government Agencies/ Departments to set their information technology direction in a manner that supports the agency’s overall strategic plan.

IT strategic planning is concerned with Planning for business systems, Information management and Information and Communications Technology (ICT).

Trigma as your IT Strategic Planning Partner:

• Helps formulate enterprise level IT strategies and plans that ensure the cost effective application and management of IT systems and resources throughout the agency;
• Reviews current and future technologies to identify opportunities to increase the efficiency of IT resources;
• Monitors and evaluates IT projects and achievements against the IT Strategic Plan;
• Provides advice and recommendations to the Top Management Team on significant IT issues

The detailed planning steps suggest mechanisms for addressing the Government’s IT priorities, as well as actions to ensure that agency’s - Individual, strategic and corporate business goals; Results and services plans and Asset Strategies - are supported effectively by Information Management & Technology. Our IT strategic planning methodology is flexible and customizable as per the size, scope and intent of a client’s strategic requirements. We focus to balance the appropriate level of process and analytic focus to achieve data-driven IT strategic planning. Our methodology identifies the steps that Government organizations should consider right from pre-planning efforts through IT strategy development and implementation.

The IT Strategic Planning Program:
Phases	Deliverable
Pre-planning Activities:	Documenting organization’s operations Study of key revenue generating activities Defining IT vision Draft of Scope of work as per IT vision Draft of Automation objectives
Study of ‘As is State’	IT culture Existing IT infrastructure Ongoing IT initiatives
Defining ‘To Be State’	Bridging the gap with I.T. Software applications portfolio required Enterprise application integration Hardware (desktop and mobile computing devices) System software requirements IT control centre architecture Servers and storage Network requirements and architechture
Technical Specifications	Technical specifications for WAN components Technical specifications for LAN components Storage: SAN Other hardware specifications
Cost Estimates	Cost estimates for hardware upgrade Cost estimates for software upgrade Cost estimates for skill upgrade
Defining Implementation Strategies	Procurement strategies Software development and deployment strategies Outsourcing strategies Digitization and migration strategies Training requirement and strategies Change management strategies SLAs for project management Implementation schedule Roll-out plan
Defining Other Aspects of IT implementation	Standards to be followed Impact on staff strength Cost benefit analysis Risk analysis Assumptions Critical success factors Plan review Vendor evaluation criteria