Being Strategic with Technology.
Here is the question I have for you: Is technology or the use of technology a part of your strategic plan? and if not, why?
Does your staff use technology; do your volunteers use technology? do your donors use technology? Then why are you thinking strategically about technology?
Technology has become one of the cornerstones of operating a nonprofit – we use email to communicate, cell phone to call and text information, Websites to provide information, services and collect donations, and yet Technology is not part of your organizations strategic plan.
Now this is not to suggest that you should throw out you strategic plan already in place and start again – that would be crazy! But what I am suggesting is that your organization take some time and make a technology plan. Then the next time you’re in strategic planning mode you can use the plan as a junping off point.
What should going into a technology plan? Start with where want to be and work backwards from there.
Inventory what you have and what you think you might need in the future consider everything from the phone systems to servers. What you think you might need may very well change right along with technology. Please don’t forget to considerany purchase cost maintenance and staff needs?
Look at how you presently use technology and how its changed – five years ago you bought a server, now with cloud computing is a server necessary? There are dollars to be saved by looking at these items.
What others areas of technology do you need to look at?
If we Work backwards from where we want to be we can learn our next step . You can see all the places where technology can help you succeed - Still need help figuring out the details – drop us a line at info@ishouti.com
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