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Donald Hook is the founder of Full On Consulting, a technology and management consulting firm helping companies successfully leverage technology and deliver complex IT initiatives.
He is a former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Partner for a $14B IT services firm with over 50,000 employees globally. He has personally defined and executed IT strategies for mid-market and enterprise organizations — delivering $40M in savings from a DR/BCP plan, $400K in SAP licensing reductions, and transforming IT organizations from liabilities into growth engines.
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Ask a CEO whether their IT organization is aligned with the business — whether it is actively supporting growth objectives, revenue targets, and customer experience — and most will pause before answering. Ask a CIO the same question and you will often get a more confident answer than the business would give. That gap is the problem. And closing it starts with an IT strategy.
An IT strategic plan is not a technology wish list. It is a structured, business-aligned technology roadmap that defines how IT will support the organization’s goals — and how it will be governed, funded, and executed to get there. It is the foundation of any serious digital transformation strategy and the mechanism through which business technology alignment is achieved. Every company needs one. Most don’t have one that is current, complete, or genuinely connected to what the business is trying to achieve.
The data on what happens to companies that get this right is unambiguous. According to research by Accenture across 1,600 global companies, organizations that meaningfully integrate technology into their strategy are 2.3x more likely to exceed revenue growth targets and deliver 1.5x higher shareholder return over three years. Yet only 21% of companies have reached this level of technology-business alignment. The other 79% are leaving growth, efficiency, and competitive advantage on the table every year.
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More likely to exceed revenue growth targets — tech-aligned companies (Accenture)
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Higher shareholder return over 3 years — tech-aligned companies (Accenture)
65%
Of top-performing companies have technology leaders involved in enterprise strategy (McKinsey)
48%
Of top performers fully integrate technology planning with business planning — up from 18% (McKinsey)
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Of CIOs now report directly to the CEO — up from 41% a decade ago (Deloitte)
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Of CEOs are not confident their current strategy will remain competitive (Accenture)
What Happens When IT Has No Strategy
Without an IT strategy, IT does not stand still. It drifts — and the drift is always in the wrong direction. Systems fall out of support. Infrastructure ages. Applications multiply without rationalization. The gap between what the business needs and what IT can deliver widens year by year, often invisibly, until a crisis makes it impossible to ignore.
The business consequences are direct and measurable:
- Growth objectives stall — IT cannot support new markets, new channels, or new business models it was never designed for
- Revenue is left on the table — sales teams operate without the tools to prospect, quote, and close efficiently
- Operational inefficiencies compound — manual workarounds, disconnected systems, and bad data slow down every business process
- Customer experience deteriorates — outdated platforms and integration gaps create friction that customers notice and competitors exploit
- IT loses credibility — when IT can’t deliver, the business stops trusting it, stops funding it, and starts working around it
The absence of an IT strategy is not a neutral state. It is an active liability.
“The IT strategy is the playbook that aligns IT with the business — defining exactly how technology will help the company achieve its goals.”
— Donald D. Hook, Founder, Full On Consulting
Without that playbook, IT and the business are running separate games — and wondering why the results don’t add up.
Signs Your IT Strategy Is Broken — or Doesn’t Exist
Most organizations with a broken IT strategy don’t recognize it as a strategy problem. They see it as a budget problem, a talent problem, or a vendor problem. But the symptoms are consistent — and when you know what to look for, they are unmistakable.
Deloitte’s CIO surveys consistently find that when CIOs cannot articulate “why” for most of their current IT investments, the strategy has either drifted or never existed. North Highland’s Connected Change research found that IT organizations spending more than 70–80% of their capacity on keeping existing systems running have no strategic capacity left — and no path to recovery without a deliberate plan to get there.
IT is always reactive, never proactive
The team spends all its capacity fighting fires, patching systems, and responding to outages — with nothing left for initiatives that move the business forward.
Shadow IT is growing
Business units are buying their own tools — CRMs, analytics platforms, automation software — because IT can't respond fast enough or is seen as a bottleneck.
More than 40% of the IT budget goes to legacy maintenance
Technical debt is consuming the budget. Gartner research consistently finds that organizations without a strategy spend 40–60% of IT resources just keeping aging systems alive.
Nobody can explain what IT is working on or why
There is no prioritized portfolio. Projects are funded ad hoc. The connection between IT investments and business objectives is unclear — including to the IT leadership team.
Projects are chronically late, over budget, or descoped
Without a strategy that sequences initiatives by dependency and resources them honestly, programs fail from the start — before a single line of code is written.
Data is fragmented — multiple reports, different numbers
Systems don't talk to each other. Every department has its own version of the truth. Executive decisions are made on incomplete or conflicting information.
The business has lost confidence in IT's ability to deliver
Executives have been burned before. New initiatives are greeted with skepticism. IT is excluded from business planning conversations because it is viewed as a constraint, not an enabler.
New business initiatives wait 12–18 months for IT support
IT can't absorb new demand because it is too consumed by the existing backlog. Strategic opportunities are delayed or abandoned because IT cannot respond at the speed the business requires.
Security posture is unknown or unaddressed
Without a strategy that explicitly addresses security, compliance, and risk, vulnerabilities accumulate invisibly — until a breach, audit finding, or compliance failure makes them impossible to ignore.
IT staff turnover is high
Talented IT professionals leave organizations where there is no vision, no roadmap, and no strategic work to do. The best people go somewhere that has a plan. What remains is a team managing decline.
If three or more of these symptoms are present, the organization does not have a functioning IT strategy — regardless of whether a document exists that says it does. The presence of a strategy document is not the same as having a strategy. A strategy that is not current, not funded, not connected to business objectives, and not actively governing IT investment decisions is not a strategy. It is an artifact.
Large Companies and Small Companies Face Different Versions of the Same Problem
Larger organizations typically have a more mature IT function where an IT strategy is something they at least nominally have in place. The problem is that it is often out of date, disconnected from the current business direction, or so broad that it provides no practical guidance for prioritization or investment decisions.
For large companies, execution is where the strategy breaks down. They have the strategy document. They struggle to implement it — because of organizational complexity, competing priorities, skills gaps, and a project/program management capability that cannot absorb the volume of change the strategy requires. The strategy becomes a presentation rather than a plan. Research from North Highland found that many large organizations are “over-indexed on the technology component” — investing heavily in tools while underinvesting in the people, processes, and change management required to make those tools deliver value. Technology deployed without adoption is not a strategy. It is an expense.
Smaller and mid-market companies face a more fundamental challenge: they often have no IT strategy at all. IT has been funded reactively — solving immediate problems rather than building toward a future state. For these organizations, the absence of a strategy means every IT dollar is at risk of being spent on the wrong thing, and IT has no framework for saying no to low-value requests or yes to high-value investments that the business needs to grow. The good news: a well-executed IT strategy is not the exclusive domain of large enterprises. It is, if anything, more impactful for mid-market companies — where every investment decision carries more weight and misalignment has fewer places to hide.
What a Complete IT Strategy Contains: Roadmap, Architecture, Initiatives, and More
A well-constructed IT strategic plan is not a technology document. It is a business document that happens to be about technology. It starts with the business — the CEO’s objectives, the growth targets, the operational priorities — and works backward to define what IT needs to become in order to support them.
A complete IT strategy is more than a slide deck or a list of projects. It is a structured plan with enough specificity to be funded, executed, and governed. Here is what it must include:
Business Alignment Framework
A clear articulation of what the business is trying to achieve — revenue targets, growth objectives, customer experience priorities, operational efficiency goals — and how IT will support each objective by business unit and function. Every IT initiative in the strategy must tie back to a specific business outcome.
Current State Assessment
An honest, detailed evaluation of where IT stands today across five dimensions: applications (what's in the portfolio, what's supported, what's redundant, what's at risk), infrastructure (servers, network, cloud, end-of-life status), security (posture, gaps, compliance exposure), data (quality, integration, fragmentation), and organization (skills, capacity, structure). The gap between current state and what the business needs is what the strategy must close.
Future State Architecture
A clear picture of where IT needs to be at the end of the strategy period — the target application portfolio, the infrastructure blueprint, the data model, the integration architecture, and the security posture. Without a defined future state, there is no way to evaluate whether individual initiatives are moving in the right direction or simply adding to the complexity the strategy was meant to reduce. McKinsey research consistently finds that organizations without a target architecture spend heavily on initiatives that create new technical debt rather than reducing it.
Prioritized Initiatives & Roadmap
A sequenced, phased roadmap of the specific IT initiatives required to move from the current state to the future state — organized by quarter and year, with clear prioritization logic and dependency mapping. Not everything can go first. The roadmap must reflect what is foundationally required before other work can succeed, what delivers the highest business value per dollar invested, and what the organization can realistically absorb simultaneously.
Timeline & Milestones
A realistic, phased timeline for the full program — typically a 3-year horizon broken into annual plans with quarterly milestones. The timeline must reflect actual organizational capacity, not aspirational throughput. A strategy timeline that ignores this is a schedule the organization will miss.
Resource Needs
An explicit inventory of what it will take to execute the roadmap: internal IT staff (by role and skill), business stakeholder time (project sponsors, subject matter experts, change management), external partners and system integrators, and any new roles or capabilities that need to be hired or developed. Most IT strategies fail not because the plan is wrong but because the people required to execute it were never identified or secured.
Project Costs & Investment Requirements
A detailed view of the total investment required to deliver each initiative — software licensing, implementation services, infrastructure, internal labor, training, and ongoing support costs. The investment plan should be phased by year and presented in a format the CFO and CEO can evaluate against business case returns. Without specific cost estimates, the strategy cannot be funded — and an unfunded strategy is not a strategy.
Infrastructure & Security Baseline
No application initiative succeeds on a broken foundation. The strategy must explicitly address infrastructure currency (what is end-of-life and when), disaster recovery and business continuity capability, and security posture (gaps, compliance requirements, and the roadmap to close them). These are not optional components — they are prerequisites for everything else the strategy requires.
Risk Assessment
An identification of the key risks to IT and the business — technical debt exposure, vendor contract risk, compliance obligations (SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, etc.), cybersecurity vulnerabilities, single points of failure, and key person dependencies. Risk is not a standalone document. It informs prioritization: the initiatives that address the highest risks must be sequenced accordingly.
Organizational & Resource Plan
An honest assessment of whether the IT organization has the skills, capacity, and leadership to execute the roadmap — and a specific plan to close the gaps through hiring, training, restructuring, or external support. West Monroe research on technology-enabled growth consistently finds that organizations underestimate the organizational change required to execute an IT strategy — the technology is almost never the limiting factor.
Governance Framework
The operating model that keeps the strategy on track over its life: a steering committee structure with executive sponsorship, a reporting cadence (monthly operational, quarterly strategic), a decision rights framework for prioritization and investment decisions, and a mechanism for reviewing and updating the strategy as business conditions change. Without governance, even a well-constructed strategy drifts within 12 months.
Change Management & Business Process Transformation Plan
Technology is the easiest part of an IT strategy to execute. People and process are where most initiatives fail. Every major initiative in the strategy must have a corresponding change management workstream — a deliberate plan to communicate what is changing, why it is changing, and what is expected of each group affected. Users who understand the change and see the benefit are far more likely to adopt new systems and processes. Users who are surprised by change, or who were never brought along, will resist, work around, and ultimately undermine the initiative regardless of how well the technology was implemented. Business process redesign must be addressed alongside the technology. Implementing a new ERP, CRM, or workflow platform on top of broken or inefficient business processes does not fix the processes — it automates them, making them faster and harder to change. The execution of an IT strategy is the right time to identify process inefficiencies, redesign workflows, and align the business on the new way of working before go-live. Every initiative in the roadmap should include: a stakeholder communication plan, a business process redesign workstream, role-specific training, and a post-go-live adoption measurement plan.
The Hardest Part: Getting the CEO and Executives on Board
The most technically sound IT strategy fails without executive alignment. And getting that alignment — especially from a CEO who has lost patience with IT or a CFO who views technology spending as a cost to minimize — is often the hardest part of the entire process.
The approach that works is not presenting the IT strategy as an IT initiative. It is presenting it as a business initiative with an IT component. The conversation starts with the CEO’s objectives — revenue, growth, efficiency, customer experience — and demonstrates specifically how the current state of IT is constraining those objectives, and how a funded IT strategy will unlock them.
The same logic applies to other executives whose teams’ participation is required to make the strategy succeed. Business leaders who do not see the benefit to their function will not provide the resources, the engagement, or the sponsorship that IT initiatives require. Each stakeholder needs to understand what the strategy delivers for them — not just for IT.
Governance is part of this answer too. Executives who feel they have visibility into how IT spending decisions are made — and accountability mechanisms to ensure commitments are kept — are far more willing to fund and support an IT strategy than those who are asked to write a check and trust the outcome.
How to Build an IT Strategy: A Step-by-Step Framework
Start with the business objectives
Sit with the CEO and executive team. Understand the growth targets, operational priorities, revenue objectives, and customer experience goals. The IT strategy exists to serve these — not to exist independently of them.
Assess the current state of IT
Evaluate applications, infrastructure, security, data, organization, and processes against what the business needs. Be honest. The gap between where IT is and where it needs to be is what the strategy must address.
Define the future state architecture
Based on the business objectives and the current state assessment, define where IT needs to be — the target application portfolio, the infrastructure blueprint, the security posture, the data architecture, and the integration model. This is what the business actually needs IT to look like in order to support its goals. The future state architecture drives every initiative that follows: it defines what hardware, software, and platforms are required, and the roadmap will define when each component needs to be in place.
Identify the gaps, define and prioritize the initiatives
With the current state assessed and the future state architecture defined, identify the specific gaps — the delta between where IT is today and where it needs to be. For each gap, define the initiative required to close it. Then prioritize: not everything can go first. Prioritization must account for business impact, risk, and — critically — dependencies. Some initiatives cannot start until foundational work is complete. Infrastructure must be current before applications are upgraded. Security must be addressed before data is exposed through new integrations. The sequencing of the roadmap is as important as the initiatives themselves — getting the order wrong means downstream programs fail before they start.
Define the change management and business process transformation plan
For each initiative in the roadmap, define the change management requirements — who is affected, what is changing, and what they need to know, do, and believe in order for the initiative to succeed. User participation is not optional. Business stakeholders, process owners, and end users must be engaged early, kept informed throughout, and trained before go-live. Business process redesign must be part of this step. Every major initiative — an ERP upgrade, a CRM implementation, a new integration — is an opportunity to fix process inefficiencies and eliminate workarounds that have accumulated over years. Implementing new technology on broken processes does not fix them. Address the process first, then implement the technology. The IT strategy execution is also the right moment to tackle broader business transformation efforts: consolidating redundant processes across business units, standardizing workflows, and eliminating manual steps that can be automated. Change management is not a communications exercise — it is a structured workstream with a plan, a timeline, dedicated resources, and measurable adoption outcomes.
Assess the team's ability to execute
An honest evaluation of whether the IT organization has the skills, capacity, and leadership to deliver the roadmap. If gaps exist, address them in the plan — through hiring, training, or external support.
Build the business case
Quantify the value the strategy delivers and the cost of not acting. The business case is what gets the CEO and CFO aligned behind the investment. It must speak in business terms — revenue, cost savings, risk reduction.
Get executive alignment
Present to the CEO and executive team. Secure sponsorship. Establish governance. Without explicit executive commitment and accountability, the strategy will not survive its first budget cycle.
Implement governance to keep it on track
Define how the strategy will be measured, how priorities will be adjusted as conditions change, and how the business will maintain accountability for IT investments over the life of the plan.
Change Management and Business Process Transformation: The Part Most Companies Get Wrong
The technology in an IT strategy is almost never the reason initiatives fail. The reason initiatives fail is that the people who need to use the technology were not prepared for it, were not involved in designing it, or were never convinced it was better than what they already had. Change management is not a communications exercise tacked onto the end of a project. It is a structured workstream that runs alongside every initiative in the strategy — with its own plan, timeline, dedicated resources, and measurable outcomes.
Every person affected by an IT initiative needs to understand three things before go-live: what is changing, why it is changing, and specifically what is expected of them. When that communication is absent — or arrives too late — users revert to old habits, create workarounds, and resist adoption. The system goes live, but the business outcomes the initiative was funded to achieve never materialize. The technology worked. The change management did not.
Business participation is not optional. The most common mistake organizations make is treating IT initiatives as IT projects. A CRM implementation is not an IT project — it is a sales transformation that requires IT to build the platform. An ERP upgrade is not an IT project — it is a finance, operations, and supply chain transformation that requires IT to execute the technology. Business process owners, department heads, and end users must be engaged from the beginning: helping define requirements, validating designs, participating in testing, and owning adoption in their departments after go-live. Without that participation, the initiative is flying blind.
IT Strategy Execution Is the Right Time to Fix Business Processes
Every major IT initiative is an opportunity to address the business process inefficiencies that have accumulated over years. Organizations that implement new technology on top of broken or inefficient processes do not fix the processes — they automate them, making them faster and harder to change. The process design work must happen first.
Before implementing a new platform, map the current state of every process it will touch. Identify the steps that exist only because the old system required them. Identify the workarounds, the manual handoffs, the redundant data entry, and the approval chains that nobody can explain but everyone follows. Then design the new process — the way the business should operate, not the way it always has — and implement the technology to support that process. Done in the right order, IT strategy execution becomes business transformation. Done in the wrong order, it is an expensive way to preserve the status quo.
The IT strategy execution cycle is also the right moment to tackle broader business transformation efforts that have been deferred: consolidating redundant processes across business units, standardizing workflows that vary unnecessarily by region or division, and eliminating manual steps that technology can now automate. These opportunities do not require a separate initiative — they are built into the change management and process redesign workstream of each initiative already in the roadmap. Companies that recognize this use their IT strategy to deliver business transformation. Companies that miss it deliver technology.
What This Looks Like in Practice: A Real-World IT Strategy
I was brought in as CTO for a $400M distribution company whose CEO had set a clear objective: grow revenue by 40% in four years. IT had not been meaningfully invested in for over 15 years. SAP was out of date and out of support. Infrastructure — servers, firewalls, switches, and routers — was end-of-life. There was no disaster recovery or business continuity plan. The business had five conflicting revenue reports and no data visibility. Sales teams had no tools to prospect, quote, or track customer interactions.
The first step was understanding exactly how each business unit operated and what IT needed to provide to support the CEO’s growth objective. Then we built a three-year IT strategic roadmap, sequenced to address foundational risk first and business enablement second.
The strategy covered:
- Infrastructure modernization — servers, firewalls, switches, and routers updated to bring the foundation into support
- Disaster recovery and business continuity — cloud-based SAP DR with near real-time replication and end-to-end failover testing
- SAP upgrade — bringing the core ERP platform current across 5 business units after 15 years of deferred investment
- Salesforce CRM — giving the sales organization the tools to prospect, manage pipelines, and generate quotes in minutes instead of 8 hours
- Integration platform — connecting SAP, Salesforce, Magento eCommerce, and the data warehouse into a unified data flow
- eCommerce platform consolidation — two separate platforms (B2B and B2C) standardized onto a single technology stack, reducing the IT surface area to support
- Data warehouse and dashboards — near real-time visibility for the CEO, CFO, and each business unit leader, replacing five conflicting revenue reports with a single source of truth
- IT organization redesign — restructured to support day-to-day operations, business enhancements, and strategic initiatives simultaneously
The results were measurable and direct. The DR/BCP plan activated during a real data center fire and saved $40M in losses with zero missed customer orders. The SAP upgrade was delivered as the smoothest complex IT deployment in company history, with $400K in licensing savings negotiated directly with SAP. The Salesforce implementation, combined with the integration to SAP, reduced quote generation from 8 hours to minutes. The data warehouse gave the CEO and CFO real-time visibility into company performance — including identifying a business unit losing nearly $1M per year that had been invisible before.
The IT organization went from a liability — 7,000 open help desk tickets when I started, some over ten years old — to a strategic growth enabler that the CEO credited with enabling the 40% growth objective.
AI Makes This More Urgent — Not Less
The rise of AI has changed the stakes of the IT strategy conversation. Organizations that do not have a clear technology strategy are now making AI investment decisions without a foundation — deploying tools into organizations whose data is fragmented, whose infrastructure is outdated, and whose teams lack the skills to absorb the change.
Accenture’s research is direct on this point: companies with tech-fluent CEOs and a technology strategy integrated into business strategy are 1.3x more likely to be resilient and 73% more likely to reallocate resources dynamically as conditions change. The companies that will benefit most from AI are the ones that already have their data, infrastructure, and governance in order. An IT strategy is not a prerequisite for talking about AI — but it is a prerequisite for AI actually working.
IT Governance: Keeping Your IT Strategy Current and Effective
An IT strategy built in year one and reviewed in year three is not a strategy — it is a historical document. Business conditions change. New technologies emerge. Priorities shift. A living IT strategy requires a governance process that reviews progress quarterly, re-evaluates priorities annually, and adjusts the roadmap when business direction changes.
The governance process should include regular steering committee reviews with the executive team, a formal mechanism for the business to surface new IT requirements, and a clear process for evaluating and incorporating major technology changes — including AI, cloud evolution, and platform upgrades — into the forward plan.
Frequently Asked Questions About IT Strategy
What is an IT strategy?
An IT strategy is a documented, business-aligned plan that defines how technology will support an organization's goals. It includes a current state assessment, a future state architecture, a prioritized roadmap of initiatives, resource requirements, project costs, a change management plan, and a governance framework. It is not a technology wish list — it is the plan that connects every IT investment to a specific business outcome.
Why do companies need an IT strategy?
Without an IT strategy, IT doesn't stand still — it drifts. Systems fall out of support, technical debt accumulates, and the gap between what IT can deliver and what the business needs widens each year. Companies without an IT strategy consistently experience reactive IT, shadow IT proliferation, project failures, and an inability to support business growth. An IT strategy ensures every technology investment is deliberate, sequenced, and aligned to the CEO's objectives.
What should an IT strategy include?
A complete IT strategy should include: a business alignment framework, a current state assessment, a future state architecture, a prioritized initiatives roadmap, a timeline with milestones, resource needs, project costs and investment requirements, an infrastructure and security baseline, a risk assessment, an organizational capability plan, a change management and business process transformation plan, and a governance framework.
How long does it take to build an IT strategy?
A well-constructed IT strategy typically takes 8–16 weeks to develop, depending on the size and complexity of the organization. The process includes stakeholder interviews, current state assessment, future state architecture definition, initiative identification and prioritization, financial modeling, and executive alignment sessions. The result is a 3-year strategic plan with an annual roadmap and quarterly milestones.
What is the difference between an IT strategy and an IT roadmap?
An IT strategy is the overarching plan — it defines the business objectives, the current state, the future state, and the rationale for investment priorities. An IT roadmap is one component of the strategy — it translates the strategy into a phased, time-bound schedule of initiatives with dependencies, timelines, resource needs, and cost estimates. You cannot build a credible IT roadmap without first having an IT strategy to anchor it.
How do you align IT strategy with business strategy?
IT strategy alignment starts with the CEO's objectives — not with IT's technology preferences. The process requires sitting with the executive team to understand revenue targets, operational priorities, and growth goals, then working backward to define what IT must become to support them. Every initiative in the IT strategy should map directly to a business objective. Alignment is maintained over time through an IT governance framework that keeps the strategy connected to a changing business.
Full On Consulting Can Help — Small Companies and Large
We have defined and executed IT strategies for organizations ranging from mid-market companies to global enterprises. Whether you are a smaller company that has never had a formal IT strategy, or a larger organization whose existing strategy has drifted from the business, our senior consultants will work with your CEO and executive team to build a strategy that is aligned, executable, and governed for results.
Our IT Strategy Consulting engagement delivers:
- Current state assessment — applications, infrastructure, security, data, and organization
- Future state architecture — target application portfolio, infrastructure blueprint, and data model
- Prioritized initiatives roadmap — sequenced by business value, dependency, and risk
- Timeline with annual phases, quarterly milestones, and realistic capacity planning
- Resource needs — internal staff, external partners, and new capabilities required
- Project costs and investment requirements by initiative and by year
- Risk assessment covering security, compliance, vendor, and technical debt exposure
- Executive presentation and business case for CEO and board alignment
- Governance framework to keep the strategy on track over time
- Execution support — from program management to interim CIO leadership
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