Monday, 19 March 2007

The one-page IT strategy

I've been think recently about IT strategy documents - ever since our company auditors asked to see ours. I suspect they, like many in the industry, equal quantity with quality. I've read many fine documents over the years; 100's of pages, beautifully bound and usually the result of many man-months of work or hefty consultant price tags.

Its all rubbish - all they do is satify the CEO (because he thinks he should have one) and the auditors (who know you should have one) - but why create shelfware?

I'm working on my master plan for (IT) world domination, the one-page IT Strategy. Whats so complex it takes more than a single sheet of A4 to articulate?

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