Information Strategy Management
Information Strategy Management follows the enterprise strategy. Based on the Capability Map the planning to enable the different Capabilities of the Information Management (IM) organization itself can be developed, including a SWOT analysis, the Proposition to the IM organization, the Value Creation, the internal strategy (Value Disciplines, Business Model Canvas, Balanced Scorecard, etc.). The Strategy-to-Capability approach as described in the Strategy to Capability white papers describes how (strategic) goals can be used to define the necessary Capabilities to reach the goals, their architectural business and IT components, and their PROSA, requirements and constraint. In the introduction of Business Platform as a Service the used model is also described.
The pages as described here, ranging from Strategy Modeling to Information Lifecycle Management and all their detailed capabilities, are all Capabilities that Enterprise Architects distinguishes. The different parts and components are or will be developed in new Enterprise Architects approaches, products, services, processes, knowledge functions, etc. Based on the focus and urgency any company can use Enterprise Architects experience, knowledge, approaches, and tools to support the development of the organizations capabilities in full or in part.
Problems and Solutions
Often the development of the Information Strategy is a responsibility of the IT department. Strategic consultants are given the task to develop the new information strategy based on the organization strategy. When the organization itself distinguishes many necessary capabilities, many of them need IT support, but articulating this support by strategic consultants of the business is complex because the lack of knowledge of the possibilities that IT can or might offer. Also, the IT organization seldom defines their products and services as a fully operational service delivery organization and doesn’t describe their capabilities and supports their processes with app(lication)s: IT4IT or BPaaS is not in use.
With the Enterprise Architects approach the IT organization is seen as a service delivery organization that can be supported by the full BPaaS capabilities as described here. To define the Information Strategy Enterprise Architects applies the same approach for the department as for the organization. With all (coming) BPaaS components in place the Information Department can operate as a fully operational service organization at a high maturity level.
Tools to support Information Strategy Management
See the eight capabilities of Strategy Modeling.
Advantages of the Enterprise Architects approach
- The SAFe™ Core Values are safeguarded and improved as follows
- Alignment
- Built-in Quality
- Transparency
- Program Execution