Information Systems Strategic Planning

Failing to plan is planning to fail! Embarking on an automation or computerization project without careful requirements analysis and planning often yields a very low or no return on technology investments. Information Systems Strategic Planning (ISSP) is an exercise that helps enterprises determine the optimal path for fulfilling their business objectives.

It provides a way to plan and manage the use of information through a comprehensive and usable framework which links business objectives whilst focusing on information technology. Designing a technology architecture in this manner ensures effective management of information resources. Specifically, the ISSP helps:

• Align technology with the company’s business model;
• Assess the current and future information requirements based on the business model;
• Construct a “Business System Architecture” (BSA) that will satisfy identified information requirements;
• Construct an “Information Technology Architecture” (ITA) to support the BSA;
• Present the information technology recommendations to management in a way that they can readily understand, evaluate and act upon an implementation plan.

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