Information Technology Mediated Activities in Organizational Contexts - A Case of Strategic Information Systems Planning

Abstract

Information systems planning (ISP) work has changed tremendously during the last twenty years. Previously as a work of IT/IS professionals it has now changed towards a collaborative planning challenge of several stakeholders, such as top managers, business unit managers, IT/IS professionals and even external stakeholders such as customers, partners etc. In addition to that it is very often labelled as strategic planning of information systems with many relations to business conditions and industry structure. Hence, ISP is not any more an isolated activity, it is a evolving work activity of business organizations. The emergence of information systems planning in organizations includes a number of theories and frameworks. They describe evolution of information systems and ISP in certain specific eras or stages, of which the most famous one is perhaps the stages of growth-model proposed by Nolan (1979). These theories and frameworks include one to ten different dimensions or factors which...

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