Information Technology Importance in Strategic Planning

Please make your response posts substantive. A substantive post will do at least TWO of the following: Ask an interesting, thoughtful question pertaining to the topic Provide an outside source (for example, an article from the UC Library) that applies to the topic, along with additional information about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA) At least one scholarly source should be used in the initial discussion thread. Be sure to use information from your readings and other sources from the UC Library. Use proper citations and references in your post. APA format, 150 words each. Discussion 1) The business strategy provides the spine for the whole association's activities and objectives/goals. All together for an association to have a satisfactorily synchronized business strategy, authoritative strategy, and IS strategy, the organization's business strategy must be resisted just as finished. The business strategy provides the hierarchical and IS strategy with the rules and in their areas of expertise. This takes into consideration that the pioneers of those business units to plan and send activities dependent on the objectives and destinations set out by the business strategy. The structures of the business strategy are likewise basic – from the cost leadership to the separation to the focal point of the association, the manner in which the business strategy is spread out provides the reason for the authoritative and IS strategy. The business strategy assists with characterizing variables, for example, how the IS strategy deals with the hardware/programming/data/and so forth inside the association. In the event that the business strategy is to follow a cost-leadership strategy, yet IS ceaseless needs to supplant hardware, and at last raising their consumptions, it isn't helpful for guaranteeing that the organization can offer the least cost product. On the other hand, if the hierarchical strategy isn't in accordance with the business strategy, for instance, if an organization can't accumulate measurements that provide reactions to how customers are reacting to another activity to help separate a product, at that point the business strategy is in danger to come up short. A circumstance wherein IT improperly affected the business strategy originates from a previous technology-oriented organization I worked for. The focal point of the organization spun around providing a remarkable and noteworthy customer experience while providing excellent customer support. At some point, a customer's email stage got lethargic because of an IT mistake identified with a systems administration issue that spoke with the hardware and the customer's gadget. The mistake ought to have been immediately settled and the customer sent on their way. Be that as it may, the IT strategy came up short on a technique to guarantee the customer had a remarkable connection with the IT group. The customer wound up having an extremely poor encounter and it pondered the whole business strategy since it turned into a PR issue. This is a case of how despite the fact that there was a business strategy set up to guarantee synchronized informing over the organization, that a disappointment from the IT side can affect the general customer experience. Citation: Dent, J. F. (2002, May 20). Strategy, organization and control: Some possibilities for accounting research. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/036136829090010R Discussion 2) Successful firms have a prioritized business strategy that drives both the organizational strategy and the IS strategy. Decisions on structure, recruiting practices, supplier policies, and other organizational design components, as well as decisions on applications, hardware, and other IS components, are all guided by the company's business objectives, strategies, and tactics. Successful companies carefully balance these three strategies: They intentionally plan their organization and IS strategies to integrate their business strategy. (Robert & David, 2005) If business strategy was not the driver then there would be a mismatch between the business strategy and organizational strategy which would cause the organization to loose its balance. For example if a firm is adopting a policy of retrenchment whereas the organizational strategy is to increase the people headcount. In this example the business strategy is not the driver of organizational strategy and this leads to a mismatch between the business strategy and organizational strategy which makes the firm pursue conflicting goals thereby causing an imbalance in the organization. (Zhang, 2011) References: [1] Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (2005), The Office of Strategy Management from https://hbr.org/2005/10/the-office-of-strategy-management [2] Bo. Zhang (2011), Business strategies, HRM policies and organizational performance : evidence from the People's Republic of China. From https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Business-strategies%2C-HRM-policies-and-performance-%3A-Zhang/f9ad9d939d25da267aaf6ed4d1bbd25c10f15584