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6.1IT Strategy and Planning
Learn the IT strategy that realizes management goals, Enterprise Architecture (EA) as the blueprint for organization-wide optimization, BPR/BPM and business process modeling that rework the business itself, RPA that automates routine tasks, and DX (digital transformation) that reshapes business models through IT. We also cover system planning and requirements definition when moving a system forward, external procurement via RFI/RFP, and forms of solution business.
Deciding how to use IT as the means to realize management strategy is the role of IT strategy. The strategy-系 domain rests on understanding the full chain from strategy to a blueprint for organization-wide optimization, through reworking business processes themselves when needed, to an actual systemization project.
6.1.1IT strategy and EA
- IT strategy is the medium- to long-term policy for how information systems will be built and used to realize management and business strategy. It is not merely an IT department plan—it starts from alignment with management goals.
- Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a method that organizes an entire organization's business and systems into four layers: business, data, application, and technology, and maps a migration plan from the current state (As-Is) to the desired state (To-Be). Its aim is organization-wide optimization, preventing a proliferation of systems each optimized only for its own department.
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