Information Technology Strategic Planning Framework
Goals
- Provide a cohesive blueprint for the IT organization
- Document strategies and priorities in a readily assimilable manner, enabling dialogue with and requirements gathering from stakeholders
- Ensure alignment of IT plan with overall University strategy and needs
Framework
The IT Strategic Planning framework spans and integrates four conceptual levels of strategic planning. It is designed for continuous revision so that it can incorporate short-term as well as long-term planning in a rolling manner. Responsibility is assigned to individuals within the IT organization to reach out to the appropriate campus stakeholders and constituencies on an ongoing basis and to propose projects that will advance our overarching campus goals.
Planning elements
- Vision - capsule description of defining characteristics of over-arching objectives
- Strategic principles - high-level guidance for pursuing the vision
- Initiatives - unifying points of focus for identifying needs and proposing actions related to key goals
- Projects - well-defined actions that achieve specific goals. Projects are grouped under the initiatives whose more general goals they further.
Navigation
The menus on the left may be used to navigate through the vision, strategic principles, initiatives, and projects. Elements are interlinked, so that the associations between specific strategies and initiatives and/or projects, or between initiatives and projects and/or strategic principles may be explored. A slide presentation, as originally presented to the UC Merced Deans & Directors, is also available.
Looking for help?
We offer a number of tutorials and FAQs available in the Guides & FAQs section.
If you have any questions, problems, or comments, please contact the IT Help Desk via email at helpdesk@ucmerced.edu, via phone at 209.228.HELP (4357), or visit them in the Classroom and Office Building room 132A.