AN Information Technology Plan is a discipline field concerned with the planning process for information technology investments and decision-making. According to Architecture & Governance Magazine, (Strategic) IT planning has become an overarching discipline within the Strategic Planning domain in which enterprise architecture is now one of several capabilities. It's a time-consuming process to redesign plans in the direction that better meets business goals. IT should make plans that reflect what IT will actually do at the same time ensuring that these It related activities will help business meet its needs. An information technology plan needs to understand how IT contributes to business and its strategic goals.An Information technology plan should balance business needs with the costs to support it and manage risks of IT capabilities and include contingecies to neutralise the negative impact brought on by poorly designed changes or disasters. Even though the intrinsicacies of the IT plan vary according to the nature of business, the following items are usually included (compare the areas covered by the IT Plan and compare it with motivating factors for IT Governance. It's as if the concept of IT Plan was a answer to the establishment of IT Governance as a rule of thumb to manage IT resources according to business and meet compliance requirements on a strategic level...):
a) Service operation
b) Assistance capacity
c) IT insfrastructure
d) Application need
e) Service Provider Strategy
f) IT Principles
g)Information Security Policy (again ISO 27001)
h) IT architecture
i) Investments
j) Competencies
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