How effective is your Information Systems planning?

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to prescribe an operational approach for making a comprehensive evaluation of an organization's process for IS strategic planning. This evaluation methodology addresses the entire range of the IS planning process, including its inputs and its outputs, because the quality of the resulting IS plan is only one of many determinants of the value of an SPIS process. The prescribed procedure is adapted from one that has been applied in various other operational contexts. So, its validity and operationality have been tested, at least in part, in a number of business firms. © 1988.