Plan and Organize covers strategy and tactics, and concerns the identification of the way IT can best contribute to the achievement of the business objectives.
Provides direction to solution and service delivery.
The realization of the strategic vision needs to be planned, communicated and managed for different perspectives. A proper organization as well as technological infrastructure should be put in place. This domain typically addresses the following management questions:
None
Companies during this pandemic must protect core businesses even as they create mechanisms for thinking about new opportunities, write Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden of Harvard Business School. Cross-functional teams and agile structures can be valuable in identifying areas of inefficiency, along with tactics such as “the clean sheet of paper exercise,” which asks executives to imagine rebuilding the company from scratch.
Leaders can “stop reacting to change and become the agent of change” when they cultivate characteristics such as humility, openness, integrity and an ongoing passion for learning, writes John Thurlbeck. “Those characteristics will draw people to you who are engaged, focused, and willing to go that extra mile and provide a challenge to perceived wisdom.”