Not-for-profit Strategic Alignment – Part I

Inasmuch as having a sound plan is vital to accomplishing an entity’s mission, developing a strategically aligned information and communication plan is vital to achieving the entity’s objectives for reliability, confidentiality, integrity, availability, and compliance. Organizationally, a comprehensive and integrated strategic plan is typically crucial to defining information sharing and to authorizing creation as well as utilization of datum appropriate for the operating environment. In many cases, IT is critical to a not-for-profit’s success in providing timely responses to adverse circumstances. Therefore, ensuring a not-for-profit strategic plan is designed that encompasses IT considerations and IT is aligned with the entity’s objectives enables effective and efficient management.