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Risks
I. Developing Strategic
Plans
Strategic planning serves as the primary
guideline for allocating scarce resources
throughout the firm and keeping the
organization headed in a profitable
direction.
Putting it all together
VISION OBJECTIVES
Represents what “might be” or an image
Help shape the articulation of a formal strategy
of the future
IT Objective serves as the foundation for setting
The growth and success of a business an explicit IT strategy, which details how the IT
organizations are limited only by their function will achieve its objectives through its
vision of what they believe they can organizational structure, relationships with
accomplish others and IT configurations.
STRATEGY
MISSION Used to develop a set of policies
Represents the guiding light for It should support the mission and objectives of the
developing a set of objectives organization
A mission statement translates the
vision and articulates it in a crisp,
understandable language. POLICIES
Designed to enact the realization of the strategy
IT Planning Process
Company Vision
Overall Company
Participants in
Systems Development
1) Systems Professionals
2) End Users
3) Stakeholders
4) Accountants/ Auditors
Important Policy Areas
for IT Function
1) Planning 6) Network
2) Organizational 7) Security
3) Human 8) Operations
Resources 9) Contingency
4) Software 10) Financial and
5) Hardware Accounting
II. Managing
Development Projects
The overall purpose of a project is to solve
a problem
Financial Feasibility
Determines if the project can be justified on an economic basis or if
the project is financially feasible
Cultural Feasibility
IF the company were to develop and implement the proposed system, the group should
question the adequacy of intellectual skills within the company to keep the system
operating.
Additional System
Development Issues
Business Process Analysis
Development and Testing
• Development, Production, Test Library
Security and Controls
Conversions and Interfaces
Implementation Testing
• Unit, Module, System and Stress Testing
Training and Documentation