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    Strategic IS planning is initiated for several reasons: to align IS with business objectives after mergers or restructurings; to address quality, cost, or responsiveness problems; or to prioritize projects and investments. The benefits of IS planning include managing the IS asset effectively, improving the relationship and alignment between business and IS, and ensuring IS strategies support business strategies and goals. IS planning evaluates current systems, identifies gaps, and determines how technology can optimally enable the business moving forward.

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    Strategic IS planning is initiated for several reasons: to align IS with business objectives after mergers or restructurings; to address quality, cost, or responsiveness problems; or to prioritize projects and investments. The benefits of IS planning include managing the IS asset effectively, improving the relationship and alignment between business and IS, and ensuring IS strategies support business strategies and goals. IS planning evaluates current systems, identifies gaps, and determines how technology can optimally enable the business moving forward.

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    Strategic IS planning is initiated for several reasons: to align IS with business objectives after mergers or restructurings; to address quality, cost, or responsiveness problems; or to prioritize projects and investments. The benefits of IS planning include managing the IS asset effectively, improving the relationship and alignment between business and IS, and ensuring IS strategies support business strategies and goals. IS planning evaluates current systems, identifies gaps, and determines how technology can optimally enable the business moving forward.

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    CH 4.1 - Strategic IS Planning

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    Strategic IS planning is initiated for several reasons: to align IS with business objectives after mergers or restructurings; to address quality, cost, or responsiveness problems; or to prioritize projects and investments. The benefits of IS planning include managing the IS asset effectively, improving the relationship and alignment between business and IS, and ensuring IS strategies support business strategies and goals. IS planning evaluates current systems, identifies gaps, and determines how technology can optimally enable the business moving forward.

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    Strategic IS Planning

    Dr. Rajiv Kumar


    ASB Coimbatore

    Note: Content of this PPT has been copied from various sources
    Strategic IS Planning
    • An ongoing process
    • to keep current as business and technology changes
    • Enables IS to help the organization meet its business objectives
    Why IS Strategic Planning process
    initiated?
    • To meld the systems and processes of two previously separate
    organizations
    • application systems and processes vehicles for providing customers with a
    common face
    • consistent information to manage the newly merged company
    • leverage synergies, reduce overhead costs
    Why IS Strategic Planning process
    initiated?...
    • A small and growing company experiencing quality problems,
    losing its competitive edge
    • IS applications a roadblock to improving the quality

    • Assess the current IS state


    • planning an input for direction
    • creating a vision for the future
    Why IS Strategic Planning process
    initiated?...
    • Business frustrated with the response of IS
    • applications not able to keep pace with changes in business
    • planning determines
    • the cause of the problems
    • link IS closer to business
    • determine the proper solution
    Why IS Strategic Planning process
    initiated?...
    • A manufacturing division under pressure to implement a
    vendor-supplied application package
    • may not be the best fit for the unique business requirements
    • planning to determine the best solution
    Why IS Strategic Planning process
    initiated?...
    • Endless backlog of IS projects
    • planning to prioritize projects
    • align IS priorities with business priorities
    • determine whether to build upon and invest in the current systems
    • start over with a new set of business applications
    Why IS Strategic Planning process
    initiated?...
    • Planning to determine ways to reduce costs and gain
    efficiencies
    • leverage or consolidate multiple data centers
    • rationalize redundant business applications
    • A high-growth company restructured business to operate on a
    global basis
    • how to integrate information
    • to manage new world-wide business
    Why IS Strategic Planning process
    initiated?...
    • A firm completed its business planning process
    • documented its vision, mission, objectives
    • develop an IS Strategy
    • align with the newly stated business direction
    Why IS Strategic Planning process
    initiated?...
    • IS grew over time without a plan
    • high costs, redundant systems
    • planning to obtain a complete inventory
    • understand current environment
    • identify redundant systems
    Benefits of IS Planning
    • Management of a critical, expensive asset
    • IS a critical business function
    • An expensive asset
    • Demand planning, capacity and resource planning, monitoring – like
    any other asset?
    • Doing more with less – IS budget is squeezed
    • Business appetite for new applications and improved processes ↑
    • Planning balances the conflicting forces
    • manage the direction
    • rather than being reactionary
    Benefits of IS Planning…
    • Relationship between business and IS
    • business obtain an understanding of current IS
    • IS an understanding of business direction
    • identify how technology can assist with the firm’s objectives
    • mutual understanding working through the process 
    alignment with the business goals
    Benefits of IS Planning…
    • Aligning IS direction to the business direction
    • IS activities provide optimal support for business goals and
    objectives
    • true alignment
     IS strategy and business strategy developed concurrently
    • technology enables the business strategy
    • embed IS strategy within business strategy
    Business Value and Alignment

    Business Strategy

    IS Strategy

    Technology People Processes

    Metrics

    Business Value and Alignment


    IS Planning

    Top-Down Planning
    Approaches Inside-Out Innovation

    CSF Approach Value Chain

    Bottom-Up Evaluation
    Approaches

    System Audit
    Gap Analysis
    Matrix

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