Strategic Leadership provides the vision and direction for the success of a company. As change has become a
staple in companies, all executives need the skills and tools for both strategy formulation and implementation.
Managing change is very important for IT companies and hence there is a growing need for strategic leaders in IT
who not only provide a sense of direction, but who can also build ownership and alignment within their teams and
businesses to drive and implement change.
The objective of an IT leader should be to develop an environment in which his IT professionals can forecast
the company’s objectives in context of their own IT function. Being a strategic leader requires that you first
understand business priorities [25] and their long term and short term goals as well as have a clear direction on
how IT can contribute to it in a value-added way. Being an active supporter of the company’s strategy is one of
the key elements of strategic leadership for an IT leader.