Strategic Initiatives
The 27 strategic initiatives
that enable the opportunities for excellence are :
1.
Developing long-term human resource plans
2.
Exploring new financing resources
3.
Improving working environment
4.
Streamlining & improving management decision making
processes
5.
Promoting closer relationship between MIS&C's staff and
users
6.
Projecting a new, improved image for MIS&C
7.
Improving communication skills
8.
Widening the dissemination of IT and MIS&C's activities
9.
Broadening the familiarity with IT through lectures,
forum,…
10.
Establishing a more effective relations program
11.
Employing qualified staff to hasten technology &
acquisition & adaption
12.
Improving accessibility to global technology databases
13.
Determining new technologies to be acquired
14.
Enhancing technology sourcing & acquisition
15.
Enhancing mechanisms & procedures for adapting new
technological development
16.
Reengineering key processes
17.
Implementing TQM
18.
Developing financial accounting system
19.
Improving communication systems
20.
Improving business decision making systems
21.
Collaboration with training centers for effective users
training
22.
Improving quality of services in order to obtain more
customers
23.
Improvement of reliability & functionality of
applications to attract and retain customers
24.
Improving awareness of managers to align with rapid
growth & acquiring new technologies
25.
Establishing R&D to provide service innovation
26.
Recruitment experienced & skilled staff
27.
Effective training of MIS&C's staff
The bases for the successful outcome for NPC are:
·
Initiating the
change:
·
Communicate the urgency to
change MIS&C practices
·
Get line management involved
and create ownership
·
Take action and maintain
momentum
·
Direct the
change:
·
Define user needs and mission
goals
·
Measure the performance of
mission processes
·
Focus on processes
improvement
·
Manage IT investments
·
Integrate planning,
budgeting, and evaluation
·
Support the
change:
·
Establish more efficient
relationship between users/suppliers and IT staff
·
Create a Chief Information
Officer (under supervisory of CEO)
·
Upgrade IT skills and
knowledge
·
Retaining management
commitment
Recommendations for successful implementation of IT strategy in NPC are as
follows:
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Consideration organizational resistance and the overcoming programs
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Modifying middle and senior management opposite attitudes regarding to IT
benefits
-
Communicating the necessity of enhancement of MIS&C responsibilities and its
transformation to IT
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Considering the difficulty to secure top management commitment
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Providing fundamental conditions and resource mobilization for the
implementation of the strategy
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Involvement of users in strategy implementation
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Implement IT investment decision-making processes; with criteria that
reflect cost, benefit, and risk considerations.
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Periodically analyze the entire portfolios of IT
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Design control and evaluation processes that include cost, schedule, and
quantitative performance assessments
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Use NPC’s Financial Planning and Budget Department evaluation of IT
investment control processes and IT performance results as a basis for
recommended budget decisions to the top management.
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Organize an inter-organizational group comprised of budget, planning,
financial, and IT professionals to develop, refine and transfer guidance and
knowledge on best practices in IT development to top managers.
-
Obtain expertise on an advisory basis to assist above mentioned
professionals in implementing complete and effective IT systems.
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