Five factors influence the IT strategy
June 14, 2007 | Category: Consulting , Articles
IT strategy affects five main factors: the demands of business, supply vendors, infrastructure and communication channels, software and technology, technical standards. IT factors, in contrast to the competitive forces in the Porter model, as a source of opportunities and risks.
IT strategy and takes advantage of minimizing the risks.
| IT factors | Capabilities | Risks |
| Business requirements | Creating new opportunities. Improving the manageability, "transparency" of the business. Improving the supply chain | Rapid changes in requirements. Errors in assessing their requirements, their priorities |
| Offers suppliers | Outsourcing, new services at affordable prices, unique services | A shift in priorities due to marketing pressure suppliers, false promises |
| Software and technology | New features, the use of "best practices" to support new management concepts and techniques work (work mobile portals, | Problems of integration, duplication of business logic, immature technology, changes in the development of product line |
| Infrastructure, communication channels | Centralization of management, the use of | The uneven development of communication channels in the CIS |
| Standards and Regulation | The possibilities of e-commerce, application integration. Using the service for internal and external problems (SOA). | Additional requirements for transparency of data and applications, inconsistent standards, the high demand for additional investment and slow returns |
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