The IT Strategic Plan Step-By-Step

It's April and you are four months into your organization's fiscal year. You know that within six months you'll need to have your operating plan for the upcoming year in fairly solid shape. You also know that creating an operating plan without a longer-range strategic view is like driving a car looking only at the stripes in the road immediately in front of you. But developing or updating your IT strategic plan, avoiding thrashing, and creating a plan that drives action requires that you have a roadmap and a schedule.