Developing Forest Information Systems

Everything starts with initiation phase: strategic decision to start the programme, apointing a coordinator, carry out institutional mapping, establish a steering committee. Institutional mapping is a foundation for further work.

A really important issue is to analyse how to properly align IT with business. By business we understand activities which are important to achieve strategic objectives of an organization. First we need to understand organizational context. Then we should define and write down these business objectives. Knowing what these strategic business objectives are we will be able to identify IT-related objectives which – when fulfiled – will bring the organization closer to the business objectives. Since resources available are always limited, we need to identify which processes are critical and where an intervention can have the biggest impact.