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TOPIC 4: CORPORATE STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEM PLANNING - Coggle Diagram
TOPIC 4: CORPORATE STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEM PLANNING
ROLE OF IS IN STRATEGIC PLANNING
Decision Support System - allow timely and integrated info to managers.
Automate integration of data from diverse source
Gather a large variety of qualitative and quantitative data - presented in analyzed form
STRATEGY ROLE OF CATEGORIES OF SYSTEM PLAYER
MIS TRIAL
Board
(Cover budget policies, MIS needs and plans, objective setting and monitoring)
IS
(Budget and equipment adviser, options of project design, cost and benefit proposal)
User
(New service, choice of design, project control)
MIS ETERNAL TRIANGLE CARICATURE
1)
Top manager
(Ill informed - lack of info, reluctant to involved-only want result)
2)
IT profesional
(Defending Data Processing department, lack of strategic view)
3)
End User
(Increase awareness, impatient in IT)
MIS TRIAL: DANGER
1)
Top manager
(Low involvement - need involvement at policy level)
2)
IT professional
(Aware of new tools and technical changes)
3)
User
(Project failure - low involvement, inappropriate application environment)
STRATEGY PLANNING FOR MIS
IS need effective strategic planning, thus need to identify most appropriate targets for automation.
Planning helps an organization identify its information needs and find new opportunities of current trend
Organization IS strategy must have corporate plans, management's view of the role of IS in organization, its stage of maturity)
CIRCUMSTANCES THAT MOTIVATE IS STRATEGIC PLANS
Major corporate changes
(perceived role of IS matching new needs of new business)
External threats
(IS being competitive to improve performance)
Evolutionary Change
(Change agent - internal member which employee or external which client - eg: internal member have new idea, see new opportunity, propose idea with other people)
SISP?
Planning for info systems, begin with identification of needs
A management function, not technical one
Used to identify best target for purchasing and installing new management info system, organize maximum return on its info tech investment.
PERSPECTIVE OF SISP
Organization have to plan for info system not merely as tools to cut cost but as added value
5 APPROACHES TO SISP
1) Business-Led
Underpinning assumption - current business direction is only basis upon IS plan can built
Advantage - IS function get greater legitimacy, important strategic thrust that require IT support can be identified
Disadvantage - User complain of inadequate involvement, unsure recommendation to commit resources
2) Method-Driven
Typically search for best method or at least better than last method adopted
Advantage - Provide formal technique, plugs strategy gaps
Disadvantage - Limited user involvement, too influenced by method
3) Administrative
Expected to achieve aims of SISP through formal procedures
Advantage - All users have opportunity to submit proposals bcs procedure is visible, permitting complementary resources to be allocated in parallel
Disadvantage - viewed as not strategic which bottom-up instead of top-down, enterprise-level applications remain in background
4) Technology
Advantage - Down the approach to smaller exercise, focus on building better IT structure
Disadvantage - high profile activities, take too long to implement, little top management support
5) Organizational
Emphasis on process, especially management understanding and approval
Advantage - SISP become normal, promotes IS-user partnership
Disadvantage - Architecture become difficult, theme generation ( worry abt how next theme will be created)