Agency IT Strategic Planning

Writing the Information Technology (IT) Strategic Plan is a collaborative effort between the business, finance and IT leaders within the agency. It cannot be written without input and involvement from all parties. The resources responsible for preparing the agency strategic plan must provide input to the resources responsible for the agency’s IT Strategic Plan (ITSP) to successfully write this section. The primary resource responsible for preparing the IT Strategic Plan is the agency information technology resource (AITR).

The ITSP is the primary tool for communicating how agency business needs drive IT investment decisions, and how the agency’s IT investments support the business goals and objectives of the agency and the Commonwealth. The ITSP provides a detailed view of the business value of agency IT investments, identifies the alignment of each individual IT investment to the agency’s service area objectives and performance measures, and provides additional information for each investment (i.e., costs, start and end dates, service area owner, etc.)