I was hired and have been tasked to develop a strategic information systems plan for a company. These are the questions I would ask the officers of the company:
1. What are the natures of the present IS planning process the organization has?
In this question, I can come up new strategic awareness for the organization. This strategic awareness involves determining key planning issues, defining planning objectives, organizing the planning team, and obtaining top management commitment.
2. What is the current business and working environment the company has?
In this question, I can form a situational analysis. Situational analysis must include analyzing current business systems, analyzing current organizational systems, analyzing current information systems, analyzing the current external business environment, and analyzing the current external information technology (IT) environment.
3. How does the organization conceive present strategy alternatives?
In this question, I can construct new strategy conception. The idea of this strategy conception evolves on identifying major IT objectives, identifying opportunities for improvement, and evaluating opportunities for improvement, and identifying high-level IT strategies.
4. How extensive the present Selecting Strategy is implemented?
With this question, I can make a fresh strategy formulation. This strategy formulation identifies new business processes, new IT architectures, specific new projects, priorities for new projects.
5. What are the impacts of current strategy implementation to the organization?
With this question, I can produce strategy implementation planning. This new strategy implementation planning defines change management approach, defines action plan, evaluates action plan, and defines follow-up and control procedure.
6. What is the current alignment of top management regarding on information strategic information systems plan?
I can formulate new ideas regarding this question. These ideas consists of understanding the strategic priorities of top management, aligning information systems (IS) strategies with the strategic plan of the organization, adapting the goals/objectives of IS to changing goals/objectives of the organization, maintaining a mutual understanding with top management on the role of IS in supporting strategy, identifying information technology (IT)-related opportunities to support the strategic direction of the firm, educating top management on the importance of IT, adapting technology to strategic change, and assessing the strategic importance of emerging technologies.
7. How the analysis phase is done in the previous information systems planning of the organization?
This is the question that needs the knowledge in understanding the information needs of organizational subunits, identifying opportunities for internal improvement in business processes through IT, improving understanding of how the organization actually operates, developing a “blueprint” that structures organizational processes, monitoring internal business needs and the capability of IS to meet those needs, maintaining an understanding of changing organizational processes and procedures, generating new ideas to reengineer business processes through IT, and understanding the dispersion of data, applications, and other technologies throughout the firm.
8. In terms of cooperation, how the systems developers of the organization interact with each other in developing an information system?
In this question, I can come up new strategic cooperation process for the organization. This strategic cooperation process involves avoiding the overlapping development of major systems, achieving a general level of agreement regarding risks/tradeoffs among system projects, establishing a uniform basis for prioritizing projects, maintaining open lines of communication with other departments, coordinating the development efforts of various organizational subunits, identifying and resolving potential sources of resistance to IS plans, developing clear guidelines of managerial responsibility for plan implementation.
9. What are capabilities of current system developers in order to measure and make an assessment to have new plan?
The idea of this capability plan evolves on ability to identify key problem areas, ability to identify new business opportunities, ability to align IS strategy with organizational strategy, ability to anticipate surprises and crises, ability to understand the business and its information needs, flexibility to adapt to unanticipated changes, and ability to gain cooperation among user groups for IS plans.
1. What are the natures of the present IS planning process the organization has?
In this question, I can come up new strategic awareness for the organization. This strategic awareness involves determining key planning issues, defining planning objectives, organizing the planning team, and obtaining top management commitment.
2. What is the current business and working environment the company has?
In this question, I can form a situational analysis. Situational analysis must include analyzing current business systems, analyzing current organizational systems, analyzing current information systems, analyzing the current external business environment, and analyzing the current external information technology (IT) environment.
3. How does the organization conceive present strategy alternatives?
In this question, I can construct new strategy conception. The idea of this strategy conception evolves on identifying major IT objectives, identifying opportunities for improvement, and evaluating opportunities for improvement, and identifying high-level IT strategies.
4. How extensive the present Selecting Strategy is implemented?
With this question, I can make a fresh strategy formulation. This strategy formulation identifies new business processes, new IT architectures, specific new projects, priorities for new projects.
5. What are the impacts of current strategy implementation to the organization?
With this question, I can produce strategy implementation planning. This new strategy implementation planning defines change management approach, defines action plan, evaluates action plan, and defines follow-up and control procedure.
6. What is the current alignment of top management regarding on information strategic information systems plan?
I can formulate new ideas regarding this question. These ideas consists of understanding the strategic priorities of top management, aligning information systems (IS) strategies with the strategic plan of the organization, adapting the goals/objectives of IS to changing goals/objectives of the organization, maintaining a mutual understanding with top management on the role of IS in supporting strategy, identifying information technology (IT)-related opportunities to support the strategic direction of the firm, educating top management on the importance of IT, adapting technology to strategic change, and assessing the strategic importance of emerging technologies.
7. How the analysis phase is done in the previous information systems planning of the organization?
This is the question that needs the knowledge in understanding the information needs of organizational subunits, identifying opportunities for internal improvement in business processes through IT, improving understanding of how the organization actually operates, developing a “blueprint” that structures organizational processes, monitoring internal business needs and the capability of IS to meet those needs, maintaining an understanding of changing organizational processes and procedures, generating new ideas to reengineer business processes through IT, and understanding the dispersion of data, applications, and other technologies throughout the firm.
8. In terms of cooperation, how the systems developers of the organization interact with each other in developing an information system?
In this question, I can come up new strategic cooperation process for the organization. This strategic cooperation process involves avoiding the overlapping development of major systems, achieving a general level of agreement regarding risks/tradeoffs among system projects, establishing a uniform basis for prioritizing projects, maintaining open lines of communication with other departments, coordinating the development efforts of various organizational subunits, identifying and resolving potential sources of resistance to IS plans, developing clear guidelines of managerial responsibility for plan implementation.
9. What are capabilities of current system developers in order to measure and make an assessment to have new plan?
The idea of this capability plan evolves on ability to identify key problem areas, ability to identify new business opportunities, ability to align IS strategy with organizational strategy, ability to anticipate surprises and crises, ability to understand the business and its information needs, flexibility to adapt to unanticipated changes, and ability to gain cooperation among user groups for IS plans.
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