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Course Enterprise Architecture – Step 1 – Strategy

Xebia

This article is the start of sharing the highlights of our course at the Master of Informatics ICT Deeltijdopleidingen – Hogeschool Utrecht This course has been handed over from EA to EA, and currently in hands of Ton Eusterbrock , René Bliekendaal and myself. The course itself is in Dutch and all material is in English.

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The Hard Questions to Ask When Planning Your Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Many managers view strategy as a complex subject, but at its essence it boils down to three questions: Where are we now? To successfully use these questions to chart a course, people must be brutally honest with themselves about where they are now. Where do we want to go? What is a credible path to get there?

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A Tale of Two CIO Priorities: It’s the Best Security for IT Infrastructure, It’s the Worst for Cyber Criminals

CIO

This is a radical change that is redefining strategic planning and purchasing of enterprise storage solutions. Yet, in 2022, the first three conversations are laser-focused on cybersecurity and how storage is a critical element of an overall corporate cybersecurity strategy. They are thinking ahead.

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The “Next Practices” of Strategy-Setting

N2Growth Blog

Are your strategic planning practices flat and uninspired? Have you reduced your planning process to a once per year, budgeting exercise? Do your senior people feel disengaged and removed from your strategic planning? Does the rank and file even understand what’s in your strategic plan?

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How to Link Your Goals to Your Strategy

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Your strategy is going to help drive that. The strategy consists of a desired future state and definition of how you’re going to get there. You should break that strategy down into smaller, interim goals on that path. Every goal that gets set in the organization should be linked to that broader element of your strategy.

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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives

CIO

Until then, the IT part of Radisson was considered a cost center, but thanks to that plan, it became a central pillar of the group’s strategy. Our CEO, of course, was very clear about this vision. This plan covers from 2018 to 2023. You mentioned assembling a new data strategy to restructure the company.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO

In fact, CIOs listed numerous roadblocks to IT strategic success in the 2024 State of the CIO Study from Foundry, publisher of CIO.com. But the ever-increasing pace of technology advances could upset well-laid plans with greater frequency in the future. It slowed the pace of our ability to advance on our objectives,” he adds.