Not-for-profit Strategic Alignment – Part VIII

Strategic design is generally developed in sequential order -- whether or not management has a formal or informal strategic planning system. To gain an understanding of the processes and to...
Not-for-profit Strategic Alignment – Part VII

Where optimal value to customers is an adopted strategic objective, depending on managerial acumen, IT can create a service advantage when acquired, designed, developed and/or deployed to provide exceptional...
Not-for-profit Strategic Alignment – Part VI

Controls are the activities increasing certainty that plans are achieving the desired objective. The dispersed nature of IT limits the...
Not-for-profit Strategic Alignment – Part V

Managers of not-for-profit organizational formations should continual seek conformation that IT is delivering reliable services supporting the entity’s strategic design for accomplishing adopted objectives. Strategic alignment is ensured when appropriate controls are deployed under an effective...
Not-for-profit Strategic Alignment – Part IV

Lack of transparency in objectives will lead to uncertainty in planning, structuring, and staffing an entity and in developing an information and communication control system to measure...
Not-for-profit Strategic Alignment – Part III

The primary task of management is to effectively and efficiently accomplish organizational goals linked to the entity’s overall objectives. Effectiveness refers to the degree to which the goal or objective is achieved. Efficiency refers to maximizing output for a given input. In practice,...
Not-for-profit Strategic Alignment – Part II

Entity strategic plans are derived from entity objectives. Consequently, as a foundational justification for ensuring IT governance deployment, an...
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....
Achieving Not-for-profit Organizational Objectives through IT Governance Deployment – Part VIII

Generally, IT governance deployment enables ensuring the entity’s technology assets and the encoded information contained within are: available,...