Unit 2
Strategic Information Systems
and Enterprise Systems
, Learning Objectives
1. Describe the evolution of the SISP process through four stages of
2. Applies to business networks,
3. Describe management of decision making,
4. Identify Data-Gathering systems,
5. Explain Expert Systems.
6. Critical Success factors in ERP implementation
, Background to planning theory
• Modern business environments indicate a need for new forms of business and IS/IT planning . Rea
• growth in the number and complexity of Inter organisational Operating Systems (IOS)
• distinct and probably different structures,
• strategies,
• business processes,
• IT infrastructures
• and organisational cultures.
• business models adopted for virtual organisations or extended enterprises
• business alliances and linkages to suppliers and business partners.
• In modern managers believe that the need for responsiveness, flexibility, and agility, are
success in the new “e-environment” of business and thus are resistant to formal planning.
• Others see such planning too heavy administrative, and too much based on an unchanging, fo
future, to be of much help. However, little empirical evidence supports such claims.
Strategic Information Systems
and Enterprise Systems
, Learning Objectives
1. Describe the evolution of the SISP process through four stages of
2. Applies to business networks,
3. Describe management of decision making,
4. Identify Data-Gathering systems,
5. Explain Expert Systems.
6. Critical Success factors in ERP implementation
, Background to planning theory
• Modern business environments indicate a need for new forms of business and IS/IT planning . Rea
• growth in the number and complexity of Inter organisational Operating Systems (IOS)
• distinct and probably different structures,
• strategies,
• business processes,
• IT infrastructures
• and organisational cultures.
• business models adopted for virtual organisations or extended enterprises
• business alliances and linkages to suppliers and business partners.
• In modern managers believe that the need for responsiveness, flexibility, and agility, are
success in the new “e-environment” of business and thus are resistant to formal planning.
• Others see such planning too heavy administrative, and too much based on an unchanging, fo
future, to be of much help. However, little empirical evidence supports such claims.
