Strategic Technology Planning

Lesson Learned Guiding Principles

  • Strategic technology planning helps to tie technology to organizational goals. Proper planning demonstrates that leaders understand how technology can serve an organization – not the other way around.

  • Good technology planning leverages existing planning skills and capacity to integrate technology into your organizational mandate…

Lesson Learned Key Success Factors in Strategic Technology Planning

  • Conduct a visioning exercise with the staff to understand how technology can help your organization. Getting feedback from the staff will help you to define your organizational needs.

  • Don’t just listen up, listen down as well. People in the field really know what the needs are. Getting feedback on what’s working, what’s failing and what’s missing can make stronger prioritization decisions in the strategic planning process…

Food For Thought

Funders want to buy social and economic benefits, not boxes and wires. Projects that involve technology should sell the strategic benefit, not the toolset. 

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