title: IT strategic planning: what healthcare CFOs should know.
abstract: The following recommendations can strengthen your strategic IT planning: Recognize how differently your organization may have to operate during the planning horizon. Make your organization's longer-term plan and strategic vision detailed enough to frame its IT strategy. Frame the planning effort with financial guardrails. Make "IT speak" the language of your organization's IT strategy development. Adopt only those new technologies with true business value. Ensure that your technology strategy is based on open standards.
authors.affiliation: IBM Global Business Services, Houston, USA. ddavis@us.ibm.com
authors.forename: Deb
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Adams
mesh_terms: D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006268:Health Facilities / Q000191:economics*; D006270:Health Facility Administrators; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States