DUE IN 2 HOURS 2 PAGE PAPER STRATEGIC PLANNING

Check out the website of http://www.entarga.com/stratplan/index.htm, which has a

comprehensive review of strategic planning. The website is the brain-child of Dr.

Ross A. Wirth, who has extensive experiences in management consulting.

However, the website is about general strategic planning, rather than IT planning.

While you are learning from the website, you should consider the IT context and ask yourself the following questions: 2 PAGE PAPER

Do the general principles and strategies of strategic planning apply to IT

planning? What may apply, what may not, and why?

to answer the above questions. You can start by

pondering about what IT is so special that its planning differs from the general

strategic planning. You can choose to either discuss comprehensively of many

perspectives or focus on two or three main perspectives that strike you the most.

Bring your own experiences to support your arguments. If you don't have any

relevant experiences, ask your colleagues or those who handle strategic planning in your organization. You can also do some search on the Internet or at the 

Online Library to find some references.

Use information from the modular background readings as well as any good quality resource you can find SCHOLARLY JOURNALS. Please cite all sources MUST HAVE IN TEXT CITATIONS THAT MATCH REFERENCES and provide a reference list at the end of your paper.

The following items will be assessed in particular:

1. Your ability to review suggested website and provide your feedback on how it

relates to your own work within the constraint of strategic planning for IT.

2. As with the case, writing, spelling, sentence and paragraph structure will be

assessed.

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