Throughout this course, the CIO or senior IT leadership perspective has been applied to the development of enterprise strategy and IT strategy. For the course project, assume the role of the new CIO of an organization. The organization can be your current company, a prior company, or any company of interest to you for which you can find adequate information on the nature of its business and industry.
Important Note: you can use the same company you used in the Week 3 discussion and the Week 4 Assignment. As you develop content for this assignment, you can reuse content developed during Weeks 3 and 4 but be sure to update and revise the content based on feedback provided by your instructor.
Write a paper in which you describe the organization and its current state, including the degree to which the organization relies upon IT. Develop a strategy for the enterprise and the IT organization based on course content. Describe the alignment of IT’s strategy to that of the broader enterprise organization. Discuss what changes will be needed and how you will lead those changes. Support the strategy with peer-reviewed resources.
To successfully complete this project, you will be expected to:
Conduct an external environment analysis and an internal analysis of the competencies, resources, and capabilities of the firm.
Use the PESTEL model to scan and evaluate a firm’s external environment.
Use the Five Force Model to analyze the industry’s profit potential.
Conduct an internal analysis of a firm’s core competencies.
Identify the firm’s VRIO resources.
Identify the firm’s value chain activities.
Conduct a SWOT analysis to identify a possible enterprise strategy that can be IT-enabled.
Identify the business strategies, corporate strategies, innovation strategies, and global strategies used by the firm. Explain how these strategies support the organization’s goals.
Develop an enterprise strategy for an organization.
Develop a basic IT strategy for an organization.
Analyze the alignment between an enterprise strategy and an IT strategy.
Create a plan for risk management in an enterprise.
Assess change management plans for implementing an enterprise-level strategy and an IT-level strategy in an enterprise.
Analyze the role of a CIO or IT leadership in instilling values in the organizational culture.
Communicate in a professional manner using scholarly resources that support the analysis through clear, concise, well-organized, and grammatically correct writing that incorporates appropriate APA style conventions.
Submission Requirements
To achieve a successful experience and outcome, you are expected to meet the following requirements for professional communication:
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. Grammar, punctuation, and style are used correctly and consistent with serious, professional discourse. The paper is organized in a hierarchical manner, with headings and subheadings as needed to facilitate the discernment of a logical structure.
References: Assertions are substantiated with one or more appropriate and supportive references to scholarly, published material. Any direct or indirect reference within the paper to the work of others is appropriately cited.
Number of resources: Minimum of 10 resources.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
Length of paper: 10–12 typed, double-spaced pages. In addition, the paper needs to include a title page, abstract, and reference list.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Be sure to review the assignment rubric to ensure that you meet all criteria before submitting your project by the end of this week.
Resources
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Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Evaluate multidisciplinary research and practices related to leadership, organizational structures, and culture to assess IT’s contributions to the entire organization.
Develop a basic IT strategy for an organization.
Competency 2: Evaluate IT leadership’s role in contributing to organizational resiliency.
Conduct an external environmental analysis and an internal analysis of the competencies, resources, and capabilities of the firm.
Identify the business strategies, corporate strategies, innovation strategies, and global strategies used by the firm. Explain how these support the organization’s goals.
Develop an enterprise strategy for an organization.
Analyze the alignment between an enterprise strategy and an IT strategy.
Create a plan for risk management in an enterprise.
Competency 3: Assess strategies for integrating ethical policies and practices into an organization’s strategic plan.
Assess change management plans for implementing an enterprise-level strategy and an IT-level strategy in an enterprise.
Analyze the role of a CIO or IT leadership in instilling values in the organizational culture.
Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of professional communities.
Communicate in a scholarly, professional manner.
Use appropriate APA style formatting.
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