1.2: Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning Other Information:
Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating
its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. Looking ahead is what makes planning strategic. OPIC’s
IT strategic planning effort started with a single goal: Imagine the desired future state of OPIC. With that vision, the OCIO
was then able to analyze the present state, compare the two to identify gaps, and start to draw a road map for closing those
gaps and getting the Corporation to the goal. Project prioritization, risk analysis, and an analysis of the likelihood of
changes in technology were also considered in the strategic-planning process. While there are many approaches to strategic
planning, the OCIO followed a typical three-step process: 1) Evaluate the Situation - evaluate the current situation and how
it came about. 2) Determine the Target - define goals and/or objectives. 3) Define the Path - map a possible route to the
goals/objectives. The end result of that process is this OPIC IT Strategic Plan, containing directions for each of the five
strategic IT objectives.
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