Just what do real CIOs think a real strategy looks like?

Strategy is supposed to be what a top tech exec is paid for, so it’s not surprising our recent roundtable on the subject was rather over-subscribed, giving us a mix of financial services, leisure, startups, national government and a couple of sizeable charities. What we explored was how to actually go about building a strategy …

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This all applies further down too. It's amazing how many "architecture" documents I see which don't even record the requirements of the business yet go on to explain which products are necessary and how to use them. There are also a lot of "design" documents which don't capture requirements or decisions and just state what's going to happen.