Week 5 Project

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IS Plans

An IS plan is a road map indicating the direction of systems development. This includes:

Strategic systems plans

Current systems

New developments

Management strategy

Implementation plans

Budget requirements

Let us understand how an IS plan works in an organization. The organization should ful�ll some requirements for an IS plan to work. Let us discuss these requirements.

New Systems Should Support Business Plans

Enterprise analysis and critical success factors (CSFs) can elicit enterprise-wide requirements that the plans must address. Let us explore these two terms.

Enterprise analysis: Is an analysis of enterprise-wide information requirements that examines the entire organization in terms of organizational units, functions, processes, and data elements. The analysis pulls out the key attributes and entities buried in the �rm’s data. This analysis interviews a large sample of managers on their objectives and data needs, how they use information to make decisions, what is the source of their information, what are their environments, and who are the people affected. Data elements are organized into logical application groups that support related sets of organizational processes. The output of an enterprise analysis shows what information is required to support a particular process, which processes create the data, and which use them.

CSFs: Are a small number of easily identi�able operational goals that the industry, the organization, the manager, and the environment share. CSFs determine the information needs of the �rm and assure its success. The CSF methodology asks managers to examine their environment and consider how their analysis shapes their information requirements.