This report serves as a toolkit to guide Information Technology (IT) Managers in carrying out strategic IT planning in government organizations. It presents process models and detailed descriptions of the various activities and tasks involved in a typical IT strategy exercise in public institutions. The report begins by explaining the concept of strategic planning and why it is an important exercise in achieving organizational-IT alignment. Next, it reviews different models for strategic planning and subsequently presents a generic process model for Strategic IT Planning guided by a set of principles. Later, the report describes each step or activity of the IT Strategy Process in sequence. For each activity, it provides: overview of the step, required inputs, expected outputs, tasks lists and process diagram, supporting tools, related tasks and general remarks. The strategy development activity is based on the Balanced Scorecard technique. As tool support for the strategy process, a set of templates and a strategy management software system which manages elements of IT strategies resulting from strategy activities have been developed.