produces a high-level view of the direction that an
enterprise sets for itself. A Strategic Plan is a composite EA artifact that should guide the
enterprise’s direction over a 3-5 year period in the future.
Strategic Plan
- describes the purpose and direction of the enterprise. This statement should be long enough to get the point
across but provide no detail (1-2 sentences is recommended).
answers the “who are we”
Mission Statement
- describes in abbreviated form the
competitive strategy of the enterprise. This statement should be short and memorable.
The Vision Statement answers the “how are we getting there?”
Vision Statement
This statement establishes the strategic direction that the
enterprise will pursue during the period covered by the Strategic Plan.
Strategic Direction Statement
This
analysis looks at internal and external factors to determine areas that the enterprise
should focus on to increase its survivability
SWOT Analysis
- Enterprises may find it helpful to develop detailed
current and future ________ that encompass
several years of operating activity, and which take into account different combinations of
internal and external drivers that were identified in the SWOT Analysis.
Concept of Operations Scenarios
- This area of the Strategic Plan identifies how the enterprise will
achieve success in pursuing its stated strategic direction.
Competitive Strategy
- are those objectives that when
achieved together will ensure survival and attain success, as defined in the outcome
measures and performance metrics that the enterprise develops for itself.
Strategic Goals
- which are
chartered by and support strategic goals.
Strategic Initiatives
- identify progress being made toward some new end-state, such as
better product quality, increased customer satisfaction, or more efficient processes.
Outcome measures
- provide data on activities and things, such as how many cars are
produced in a day, how many new customers are gained or lost each month, or how
closely an activity meets a quality checklist.
Output measures
- often needed by an enterprise in addition to the
general Strategic Plan. This is because the general Strategic Plan usually does not
address IT in sufficient detail to identify the various IT-related initiatives that may enable
many of an enterprise’s strategic goals.
E-Commerce/E-Government Plan
are those enterprise activities that directly contribute to mission
accomplishment.
Business Services
are the tangible and intangible goods that the enterprise produces in
pursuit of business and strategic goals.
Business Products
Because resources are limited in most enterprises, the
value of making a significant investment in IT should be shown in order to identify the
costs, benefits, and rate of return on capital.
IT Capital Planning Portfolio
- evolved from large mainframe databases that served multiple
applications and user groups across multiple systems and networks.
Knowledge Warehouses
– Data, Information and Knowledge
Information Systems
- are software applications that are designed to support the storage, retrieval,
updating, and deletion of data elements and/or data objects.
Databases
- Applications are software programs that provide a functional
capability for “front-office” IT systems
Software Applications
- is defined as any IT resource (e.g., application, program, database, or
information portal) that functions through a web-based graphical user interface (GUI),
such as a web browser.
Web Services
- a SOA term for a common operating
environment for systems, applications, and web services that is characterized by
nonproprietary open standards protocols and middleware for data exchange,
software/hardware interfaces.
Service Bus/Middleware
- marketed by vendors
as one way to increase application interoperability and reduce the duplication of
functions.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solutions
- are applications that enable computers to provide basic networking
and processing functions.
Operating Systems
- are designed to transport data and information in coded digital form
between various computers that support storage, retrieval, updates, and processing for
end-users.
Data Networks
