However, while making the decision to put a plan together can be easy for an organization looking to develop strategically, knowing how to actually put the plan together can come a little harder. To help make things a little easier, we talked to a couple of experts that have made careers of helping nonprofits construct good technology plans. From those experts, we compiled some of the tactics they recommend for building a lasting, successful plan. Much as nonprofits, documents can have missions to fulfill. Budgets help keep the organization out of financial trouble.
Organizational charts give people some idea of who makes which decisions.
Unlike nonprofits, though, documents cannot establish and maintain their own mission. How the organization sees the plan that it is developing affects how the plan will perform in the future. For one thing, it helps if the organization regards the plan as being an important part of its overall strategy, says Joines. For Matuzak, a technology plan has to be defined as something that can last, flexible enough to change with the needs of the organization and stringent enough so that it can offer guidance. He also sees a technology plan as a living organism, ready to grow and change with the organization.