HESA 5335 Lecture 6: IT Alignment and Strategic Planning

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Health Administration
• Course: HESA 5335
• Professor: Majid Taghavi

Document Summary

For each goal, we could have multiple activities, and for each activity, we could see multiple initiatives. Implementation - involves making decisions about how we: Structure the organization: acquire skills, establish organizational capabilities, alter organizational processes. Identifies capability; capacity and competency needed to carry out the strategies identified in the formulation stage: vector - choice of perspectives and approaches through which an organization determines its it investment decisions, derived from organizational strategy. Improvement of core organizational processes and information management: new information technologies, strategic trajectory/vision. Streamlining processes: define the org"s core processes and information management needs, measure performance of processes and develop plans to improve its performance, define core information needs, identifies gap between current information needs; develop plans to close those gaps. " derived from assessment of strategic trajectories: not for the current period of strategic plan, what do we think we will be doing in the future, highly speculative.