ICT shapes how well an organisation works. The priorities for developing it need to strike a balance between the appeal of new technology and the things that genuinely help learners learn, and people do their jobs, and between ambition and what is actually affordable and deliverable in the time available. Of course, the ICT strategy also needs to address the wider organisation’s strategic imperatives.
A strategy can be anything from a single-page vision to a comprehensive document setting out a roadmap for the next few years, with costed plans for each project. The fuller version takes time, particularly when you start, as we’d recommend, with the people who use the service, so the vision reflects what they actually need.
We offer a range of support around ICT strategy: facilitating stakeholder engagement, scanning the horizon for technology worth adopting, writing the strategy itself, and running the consultation that gets the priorities agreed across the organisation before it goes live.
We can also help with the operational planning that turns a well-written strategy into real projects. Those that deliver the benefits intended and have a tangible impact.
If you’d like to talk about ways that we can help, please get in touch.