A New Methodology For Developing The MIS Master Plan

Social Media In Government: From eGovernment To eGovernance

“…Figure 1, an adaptation of the Input/Output Model of IT Planning (Dadashzadeh, 2009), identifies the necessary steps for strategic use of social media in government.…”

Choosing IT Platforms In The Age Of Stuxnet

“…• In many cases, decisions made today impact the organization's technology infrastructure for the next 3 or more years (Dadashzadeh, 2009).…”

“…Nevertheless, a fundamental impetus for EA, that is, aligning business strategy with the IT plan, can be accomplished via a more modest mechanism based on ensuring that the annual calendars for re-visiting/updating the organization's business plan and IT plan coincide, and that the IT plan is an input to the business planning process while the business plan is an input to the IT planning process. Figure 1 presents such a conceptual model of alignment of business planning and IT planning (Dadashzadeh, 2009). The model depicts the inputs and outputs of the planning process emphasizing that while there are many established methodologies for IT planning, the output of each, i.e., organization's IT plan, must document the following deliverables: IT policies, objectives, and strategies; organizational information requirements; required application portfolio; consensus project ranking; and multi-year implementation schedule.…”

“…In a fundamental sense, the long-term plan for information technology investments, i.e., IT plan, guides the continuing development and sustainment of the application portfolio that supports the organization's product development, service delivery, business processes, employee productivity, management planning, control, and decision making, on a foundation built upon data integration and communication integration. This vision of the firm's information architecture is illustrated in Figure 2 (Dadashzadeh, 2009) where enterprise applications such as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), SCM (Supply Chain Management), and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) span multiple application portfolio categories (such as TPS, MRS, and DSS) depicted.…”