“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it,” said Ferris Bueller during his famous “Day Off.” The sentiment applies to IT these days.
You’re busy day-to-day keeping the lights on, integrating legacy and new technologies, and trying to support your business colleagues as they anxiously attempt to incorporate technology in everything. How can you be sure your efforts are connecting to the bigger picture and achieving results?
It’s no longer enough to be an indentured servant to an annual plan that’s outdated before you can say “Bueller?” The pace of business today makes it critical to constantly monitor and adapt to the ceaseless demands, changes, twists and turns of execution. What you need is more continuous planning to help deliver on your highest-priority commitments.
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Source: IT Strategy