Abstract:

Within the competitive global environment, Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) has been positioned as one of the significant factors for increasing an organizations competitiveness by changing the characteristics or overall management of organization. Although organizations are applying various well-known methodologies for implementing SISP successfully to maximize their strategic effectiveness, the current literature indicate that there is no perfect methodology or framework which satisfy organizations. Several problems originate according to organization’s internal-external business and IS/IT environment. This paper firstly identifies characteristics and various problems of current SISP practice. Then, issues of existing methodologies are discussed followed by a proposal of an integrated model for successful SISP implementation. The proposed model is differentiated from other established methodologies by adopting BPR and ITA to optimize capabilities, and at the same time minimize waste and systems inconsistency. The integrated framework is expected to provide organizations with an opportunity to verify and clarify business-IT processes. On-going research is planned to validate the integrated model and its flexibility and capability to manage new circumstances and demands as well as to look for other potential issues and factors to support cost and time effective and reliable performance.