Assignment 8

Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) is the process of aligning an organization's business strategy with effective computer-based information systems to achieve critical business objectives. SISP is a top concern of major executives and considerable resources (time and money) are spent in SISP activities. Many SISP initiatives are not successful due to the difficulty of implementing the recommendations.

These are the list of questions:

• What are the objectives and goals of the company?

Setting objectives and goals is of essential importance for any planning activity and is the center of its success, or failure and also goal is where the business wants to go in the future. Knowing how to set objectives is not exactly shooting up in terms of complexity, but any strategist should know the basic rules of how to formulate and propose the objectives. Objectives give the business a clearly defined target. Plans can then be made to achieve these targets. This can motivate the employees. It also enables the business to measure the progress towards to its stated aims.

• Why the company needs strategic information systems plan?

To determines where an organization is going over the next year or more and how it's going to get there. Typically, the process is organization-wide, or focused on a major function such as a division, department or other major function. Review how your external environmental factors have changed: particularly market segments, supplier markets, competition, regulation and the economy. Review your internal situation: particularly profitability analysis. You will now be able to craft your revised course and direction, goals, objectives and action plans.

• What are the factors associated with the SISP process?

• Increased cost of information systems
• Ability to develop systems across organizational boundaries
• Ensure that critical success factors/problem areas are addressed
• Attempt to control data redundancy and maintentance costs
• Application backlogs necessitate identifying important systems early

• What are the benefits, requirements, and drivers in SISP process

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Clearly define the purpose of the organization and to establish realistic goals and objectives consistent with that mission in a defined time frame within the organization’s capacity for implementation. Ensure the most effective use is made of the organization’s resources by focusing the resources on the key priorities. Produces great satisfaction among planners around a common vision and increases productivity from increased efficiency and effectiveness and also you can solves major problems.

• When Should Strategic Information System Planning Be Done?

In this situation, planning might be carried out once or even twice a year and done in a very comprehensive and detailed fashion (that is, with attention to mission, vision, values, environmental scan, issues, goals, strategies, objectives, responsibilities, time lines, budgets, etc) and if the organization has been around for many years and is in a fairly stable marketplace, then planning might be carried out once a year and only certain parts of the planning process,. Should also be done when an organization is just getting started. (The strategic plan is usually part of an overall business plan, along with a marketing plan, financial plan and operational/management plan.).

References:
http://scm.ncsu.edu/public/facts/facs060329.html
http://managementhelp.org/plan_dec/str_plan/basics.htm
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/HICSS.2000.926735