The systems strategy defines how the organization leverages information technology to accomplish its mission.
Just as organizations can’t operate without people, they can’t operate without information systems. Therefore, a systems strategy is absolutely essential for any organization. As with most strategies, every organization already has a systems strategy, they just may not know what it is. If that’s the case, you may not realize how much your de facto systems strategy is hurting your ability to execute the rest of your strategies, and you almost certainly aren’t benefiting as much as you can from the available technology.
Similar to the people strategy, there should be an overarching systems strategy for the entire organization and then cascading systems strategies for sub-teams. Each team’s systems strategy needs to align with the organization-wide systems strategy, but must specifically address how information systems will support the team’s own strategy.
The strategy will enable decisions about which systems and development projects get resources and what capabilities need to be acquired or developed within the supporting organizations.