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You Need to Focus on Tactics, and IT Needs Strategic Alignment

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None of us likes to be told how to get our job done. And the creative, well-educated problem solvers in IT hate it more than most. If you want IT leaders to support your every whim (or, more realistically, given the overwhelming demand for IT services, even one of your whims), it’s imperative to collaborate with them during strategic and tactical planning. Strategy is a carefully designed plan of action to achieve an important goal, and a strategy that has broad buy-in will allow you to take control of your destiny and help you secure the resources necessary to transform plans into ...

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