ICT Strategic Plan Report: Red Chilli Clothing Analysis

This report analyzes the ICT strategic plan for Red Chilli Clothing, an online clothing store. The report focuses on how the company can leverage ICT to improve its business operations, including inventory management, customer data analysis, and recommendation systems. The strategic themes include implementing cloud computing, developing effective legal and contractual artefacts, and streamlining monthly billing. The report also explores the ICT capabilities of Red Chilli Clothing, such as accessing LEET IT Solutions for cloud computing, and utilizing business capability models. The analysis covers how strong ICT can enhance search engine research, social media management, and sales data retrieval. The report provides insights into how ICT can help the company address challenges like inventory tracking, online retail growth, targeted marketing, and efficient stock management, aligning IT investments with desired business outcomes. The overall objective is to strengthen the underlying value of the business and promote speed in the business.

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ICT Strategic theme:
With the rapid development of technology, ICT is playing a critical role in
incorporating the digital technology, which serves the companies with the ability to have
digital data storage and retrieval system which is the key of strengthening the underlying
value of business (Tarutė and Gatautis 2014). Red Chilli Clothing- the famous online clothing
store is highly intended towards improving their activity and thereby promotes speed in the
business. In order to improve the organisational process, the company has set two objectives
which include implementing effective cloud computing which can improve data access and
adopting recommendation system (Bifulco et al.2016).
 The fundamental strategic theme of Red Chilli clothing is to build recommendation
system in order to strengthen their statistics of profit. As the company is aiming to
implement effective cloud computing strategy, they can employ the strategy of
executing the ‘cloud-first’ approach which can help the company to source ICT as-a-
service (Ziemba 2019). The company can also access agencies who used to procure
cloud-based ICT services and can satisfy Red Chilli Clothing’s requirements related
to ICT.
 Developing effective legal and contractual artefacts is another vital strategic theme
which Red Chilli Clothing can set in terms of developing strong cloud computing.
This is the way, through which Red Chilli Clothing can be able to support
comprehensive and consistent approach in the way of contracting with that of the
cloud computing agents. It is true that implementation of cloud computing is a
complicated process.

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Figure 1: Artefacts
(Source: Bifulco et al. 2016)
 Streamlining the monthly billing is another vital strategic theme of Red Chilli
Clothing. This is the way, through which the company can be able to maintain healthy
relationship with that of the cloud computing vendors which is the key of tracking the
service providers properly (Barnett et al 2019).
ICT capabilities:
Being the online clothing store, Red Chilli Clothing is highly committed towards
improving their internal process. It is the core vision of the company to have LEET IT
Solutions which can serve them with the ability to acquire best managed service option best-
in-class IT support practices which can help them to manage their online operation of the
company (Palazón et al. 2019). Thus, the company should put consistent stress on building
their ICT related capabilities which can help them to work efficiency in accordance with their
mission, vision and objectives. One of the major strategic capabilities of the organisation is to
access LEET IT Solutions as the vendor in order to have high quality of cloud computing.
Business capability models is one of the most significant IT capability of Red Chilli clothing,
through which the company can be able to haves structured views which is the key of

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strengthening their organisational business capability and thereby ensure the alignment
between the IT investments and required business outcome.
Figure 2: Cloud computing
(Source: Onyinyi and Kaberuka 2019)
Building effective cloud computing is the major ICT capability of Red Chilli Clothing
which is helping the company to run their business in a logical and coherent manner by
keeping the entire organisation informed. With the help of strong ICT, the company is
becoming able to increase their search engine research which is the key of generating interest
among the customer. In addition, strong ICT is also helping Red Chilli Clothing to strengthen
their social media management capability and update their social media presence consistently
by posting necessary product related information in their official social media page. By the
help of cloud computing, the company can be able to store and retrieve necessary sales
related information and keep the accounts department informed about the sales and purchase
which is the key of streamlining the monthly billing process.

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