INFORMATION SYSTEMS

PLANNING

Presented by
Midhun Menon A
Information systems planning is a process for
developing a strategy and plans for aligning
information systems with the business
strategies of an organization
• How information system fit into a business
depends up on the nature of the business and
reasons for its success
 Nature of Business
• Customer is prime concern
• Cost control is prime concern
• New products are key for success
 Information system Planning
Methodologies
To assist the managers and executives in
developing information systems that help
achieve an organization’s corporate mission,
formal planning methods have been
developed and made commercially available
 Purpose of planning methods
• To describe an organization-wide direction for
a firm’s information systems.
• Identifying key elements on which
applications depend and are built
• Documenting current status of the
organization’s information needs or outlining
future plans
 Approaches to planning information
systems
• IBM’s business systems planning method
• Nolan, Norton & Co.’s computer architecture
strategic planning method
• Critical success factors method
 Business systems planning methods
• IBM’s business systems planning method
Focuses on identification of the data
necessary to run an organization
• Nolan, Norton & Co.’s computer architecture
strategic planning method links an
organization’s current capabilities with its
future needs
• Critical success factors method identifies areas
that are key to organization’s survival and
ensure that these elements are incorporated
into organization’s information systems
• Organization’s corporate mission should be
reflected throughout the preparation and
evaluation of its information system project
requests.
• Must take into account the firm’s existing
systems as well as its future requirements
Information systems planning requires a vision-a
view of the impact that information systems
have on an organization’s long term corporate
success, strategically and operationally.
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