[8] 2002 e-business-strategies-for-virtual-organizations

Figure 4.1
The evolution of IS/IT
planning
IS planning strategies for emerging business models
4.3.6 Information systems planning at the
end of the 20th century
By the mid-1990s, it was reasonably well established that some
sort of formalized SISP was an appropriate undertaking for
most organizations. SISP was to be closely allied to the
organization’s business planning activity, the accepted wisdom
at that time suggesting that SISP should only be attempted once
a business strategy has been developed and articulated, and
hence an understanding reached of the direction the organization
was planning to follow for the next few years, its goals,
objectives, core business processes and its change agenda, for
example.
With this business strategy established and a shared understanding
reached amongst executives, an IS plan could be
developed, determining the information and information systems
needed to support the business strategy, and thus guiding
investment decisions into the future. Once an IS plan was
defined, an organization’s technology requirements could be
articulated, such that the technological infrastructure and
hardware would be made available to support and enable the
provision of relevant information and information systems. An
iterative and generative process was envisaged, recognizing a
general trend of establishing a business strategy, then an IS
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