Question:

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:

Do the general principles and strategies of strategic planning apply to IT planning? What may apply, what may not, and why?

Please write a 2- to 3-page article 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 Trident Online Library to find some references.

Submit your paper upon completion.

Use information from the modular background readings as well as any good quality resource you can find. Please cite all sources and provide a reference list at the end of your paper.

The following items will be assessed in particular:

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.

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

Please include headers and solid conclusion

Cited references required.