The Value of Strategic IS Planning: Understanding Consistency, Validity, and IS Markets.

Author List: Henderson, John C.; Sifonis, John G.;

MIS Quarterly, 1988, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 187-200.

The impact of IS technologies on the competitive capability of the firm has increased the need for effective strategic IS planning. This paper argues that an effective strategic IS planning process must provide for (1) definition of key markets (within the firm) for IS products and services; (2) internal consistency, particularly between the strategic business plan and strategic IS plan; and (3) a means to assess the validity of the planning process. The need to establish validity is seen as critical in today's highly turbulent business environment. Results of an actual planning process are used to illustrate how assumption surfacing can be used as one means to address the validity issue.

Keywords: assumptions surfacing; critical success factors; strategic IS planning; Strategic planning

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#78	0.481	planning strategic process management plan operational implementation critical used tactical effectiveness number identified activities years effective developed issues empirical plans
#26	0.149	business large organizations using work changing rapidly make today's available designed need increasingly recent manage years activity important allow achieve
#124	0.125	validity reliability measure constructs construct study research measures used scale development nomological scales instrument measurement researchers developed validation discriminant results
#212	0.104	business digital strategy value transformation economy technologies paper creation digitization strategies environment focus net-enabled services processes insights challenges key response