Within more turbulent, and increasingly globalized and digitalized environments, Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) has long been recognized as one of the most significant factors for better management. More recently, SISP has been included as one of the important components of IT governance frameworks. However, as business environments and IS/IT applications are rapidly growing in complexity, SISP needs to be implemented rigidly enough to meet project requirements, yet sufficiently flexible to adjust to environmental and managerial change. To diminish the problems and develop a successful SISP process, various enablers that make change possible both inside and outside of the corporation need to be identified and enhanced, and all possible inhibitors that prevent corporations from obtaining benefits and value need to be predicted and minimized. Besides, the inhibitors and enablers are intimately interrelated with each other. This paper presents a model of these interrelationships and reports on a pilot case study that investigated enablers and inhibitors of SISP in a large Korean corporation. The study demonstrated close relationships between enablers and inhibitors and benefits of SISP. Further research is planned to validate these findings in other large Korean corporations.

Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) is an important process in the implementation and use of IT systems in today’s dynamic and increasingly digitalized organizations. However, SISP is not a straightforward task, it is a process that covers simultaneous multiple planning issues often in changing environmental and organizational climates. Although SISP has been widely studied, and evaluating the SISP process has matured, theory on SISP facilitators that enable successful outcomes remain sparse. The main objective of this paper is to explore such facilitators and to investigate their relationship and contribution in achieving SISP success. By postal surveying a random sample of managers with SISP experience in South Korean organizations, we modeled the relationship between facilitators of SISP and their outcomes. The study used Structural Equation Modelling to analyze and validate its findings. This study suggests that facilitators positively affect successful SISP through business and IT alignment. It also demonstrates that effective SISP has a positive effect on organizational outcomes by ensuring organizational capabilities and IT infrastructure flexibility. The findings of this study expounding the role of facilitators adds to the theory of SISP and provides a guide to planners and managers responsible for information systems.

Within more turbulent, and increasingly globalized and digitalized environments, Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) has been recognized as one of the most significant factors for effective and efficient IT governance to improve organizations' effectiveness and capabilities by changing the characteristics or overall governance of organizations. Although organizations have been introduced, various well-known methodologies for creating the SISP successfully to maximize their strategic opportunities and values, the current literatures indicate that there is no perfect and fully comprehensive methodology or model to make organizations satisfactory. The purpose of this paper is to propose a model that can complement issues of the existing model and support improved flexibility and capabilities, and at the same time minimize waste and systems inconsistency by incorporating EA, BPR and concurrent approach. Ongoing research will be a case study to validate the proposed model in the government of Korea and to seek for other potential issues and factors compared with other sectors. BETTER IT GOVERNANCE FOR ORGANIZATIONS-A Model for Improving Flexibility and Capabilities of Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) through EA and BPR under e-Business Environment.