Information Resources Management (IRM) Strategic Plan

Strategic Information Resource Management Planning (SIRMP) is a process for identifying and prioritizing IT projects based on an organization's business strategy.

SIRMP helps build the IT project portfolio that's right for you based on these core concepts:
1. Information Resource Management - business information, business processes, and the IT projects that enable them are organizational assets, and should be managed as such.
2. Business Driven Projects - IT projects should address the true needs of the business.
3. Strategic Priorities - The portfolio of IT projects should be tuned to best support the organization's business strategy.

"Information technology investments create no more advantage or productivity, by themselves, than do investments in new machine tools. It is not technology, but technology-in-use, that creates value."
James McGee and Laurence Prusak, in Managing Information Strategically

Strategic IRM Planning is the conscious planning, organizing, realizing, and overseeing of the organization's resources involved in creating, storing, processing, transporting, accessing, presenting, and managing the organization's information.

Rather than focusing on specific, immediate projects, Strategic IRM Planning looks at the business strategy and Information Technology needs of the enterprise as a whole, and helps the organization develop the appropriate Information Resource project portfolio.

Conclusion

Technology is essential to any business today... but how can you be sure to deploy technology
effectively? SIRMP provides a practical approach to strategic IT planning that is driven from the
business strategy by business stakeholders. It will help business stakeholders and IT work together
better by establishing a common vision of the business direction and the best technology projects to
help the organization meet its goals. And it will help ensure that your investments in technology will
provide the maximum benefit to the business.