Designing A Model for IoT Strategic Planning, Implications for Public Organizations

With fast development and application, the Internet of Things (IoT) brings more opportunities to business. In the age of the Internet of Things as a disruptive technology, strategies can quickly fall behind, so the rhythm of planning has to keep pace. As well, the IoT concepts have to be added to the strategic agenda. Despite the importance of IoT strategic planning, few studies have been conducted on a suitable model for it. In this paper, to develop such a model using the meta-synthesis method, a systematic review was applied. Finally, the IoT strategic planning model with 4 components and 11 sub-components and their sequence was developed. “Identifying IoT business opportunities”, “evaluating IoT technical capabilities”, “evaluating IoT organizational capabilities”, and “economic feasibility of providing IoT technical and organizational capabilities” have been introduced as the components of the IoT strategic planning model. The model presented in this paper is general, but the implementation of each component, in any organization, industry, or sector (including the public sector) may have operational differences.