DB FPX 8405 Assessment 1 Emerging Wireless Technologies

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Capella university

DB-FPX 8405 Effective Organizational Leadership

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Management Functions

Planning: Planning is future-oriented and determines the direction of the organization.

Organizing: Organizing involves defining, arranging, and coordinating work subdivisions to ensure that each part is connected cohesively. This requires a formal authority structure and a clear flow of authority.

Staffing: Staffing entails hiring a suitable workforce for the enterprise, both at managerial and non-managerial levels.

Directing: The directing function includes leadership, communication, motivation, and supervision to ensure that employees perform their duties effectively to achieve the desired objectives.

Controlling: The control function involves actions to ensure that events do not deviate from the predetermined plans.

The Objectives of IT Planning

Raise Awareness: Raise awareness about the importance of strategic planning and the need to incorporate technology into the strategic plan, and regularly update and adapt this plan.

Provide Executive Leadership: Provide the executive leadership of aging services organizations with an overview of and guidance on approaches to incorporating technology and strategic IT planning into their strategic plans.

Offer Guidance and Tools: Provide detailed guidance, tools, recommendations, and resources to help an organization’s IT leadership conduct strategic and operational IT planning.

Share Case Studies: Share case studies from providers that have successfully conducted strategic IT planning.

Strategic Planning

Understanding an organization’s current position and possible avenues is essential to determine the direction through which it can pursue a particular course of action.

Key Questions:

1. What do we do?
2. For whom do we do it?
3. How do we excel?

Purpose of Strategic Planning

Set Priorities: Strategic planning assists an organization in setting priorities to better fulfill its mission.

Project Desired Future: An organization can project its desired future with the assistance of strategic planning.

Concrete Strategic Vision: The organization shouldn’t be limited by the strategic vision; however, it should be sufficiently concrete for the organization to use it to take action.

Regular Review: The strategic vision should be reviewed regularly.

Characteristics of an Effective Planning Process

Gradual Implementation: The process of effective strategic planning should be carried out gradually.

Defined Goals and Initiatives: Create a clearly defined list of strategic goals and initiatives to help the organization position itself for the near and long term.

Inclusive Exploration: Be a process of outside-in, inclusive, and collaborative exploration and decision-making.

Impactful Vision: Create a strategic vision, goals, and objectives that will have a big impact and are supported by the team.

Data-Driven Plans: Utilize data-driven strategic business plans to illustrate the organization’s strategic vision and goals.

Strategic Planning Process

Divergence:

• Conduct an external environment scan for trends, unpredictability, and external forces of change.
• Compare the company’s competitive capabilities with market groups, customer characteristics, and competitive structures.
• Evaluate the organization’s current culture, values, and competencies.
• Articulate key success factors and opportunities required to close gaps and become a future high-quality service provider.

Convergence:

• Create a strategic plan with long-term, short-term, and near-term goals.
• Identify strategic initiatives that provide a framework for moving forward.
• Develop comprehensive business plans for each project, estimating economic opportunity, resources, investments, and timeframe.
• Approve and prioritize strategic initiatives, integrating resource investments into operating and capital budgeting procedures.

Keys to Success

Take One Step at a Time: Recognize the organization’s capacity to lead, fund, and implement the prioritized initiatives, and understand the effort required for these tasks.

Enlist Help: Engage an outside consulting firm/consultant to lead the strategic planning process.

Monitor External Environment: Keep tuned to how changes in the external environment will impact strategic planning efforts.

Periodic Revisions: Revisit and evaluate the strategic plan periodically to make necessary changes and adjustments.

Involve the CIO: Ensure the CIO is a key member of the strategic planning team, integrating strategic technology and IT planning into the overall strategic planning process.

Executive Team, IT Leadership, and the IT Team

Comprehensive Technology Plan: Develop the most comprehensive technology plan by considering multiple steps to gather information and formulate plans.

Early Consideration of Key Elements: Include organizational objectives, data analytics, and integration early in the strategic IT planning process.

Elements of Effective Strategic IT Plans:

• Hardware and infrastructure
• Software
• Staffing and support
• Organizational objectives
• Data analytics
• Integration

Understanding Organizational Direction, Business Objectives, and Strategic Plans

Support Organizational Goals: The IT Department must support and enable the overarching goals and objectives of the organization.

Know the Organization: IT leaders should understand all the products or services offered by the organization and be aware of initiatives by competing organizations.

Ask Key Questions:

1. What are the strategic goals and objectives of the organization?
2. What areas of business is the organization looking to improve in the next 3-5 years?
3. What is the organization’s projected growth over the next year? 3 years? 5 years?
4. What operational issues concern the organization’s leadership?
5. What business processes need improvement?
6. What key indicators help assess performance, and does the leadership team have ready access to this information?
7. How does the leadership view the role of technology in the organization?

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