Information System sometimes refers to a system of persons, data records and activities that process the data and information in an organization, and it includes the organization's manual and automated processes. Computer-based information systems are the field of study for information technology, elements of which are sometimes called an "information system" as well, a usage some consider to be incorrect.Information System Planning is important in a business industry; through this information system planning they can achieve their business goals with the help of the information system planning. In my own opinion information system planning is one of the key factors in a successful business. With the help of the information system planning or the information system itself a business will be in the right way in achieving their business goals. That’s why information system planning is extremely important in a business, it helps to the task of the employee to be more fast and accurate through the make use of the computers. I could say that having a very good information system in a business brings the business in more competitive and much functional. A information system helps your business requirements in achieving them and when making an information system for your business you must first make a information system vision that relates also in your business goals. The information system planning helps your current business and also your future business needs.
When making an information system you must look first the current information system of the company and indentify the weakness and strength of the current information system. After indentifying the weaknesses and strengths of the current information system of the company you will now get the needs of the business needs and you can now cite your purposes in making the information system plan. As I read some articles about information system planning, I come up some purposes of an information system planning.
Purposes of having an Information System Planning:
1. Identify the current and future Information System needs of the business.
2. Enhance business competitive position through technology.
3. Match the business strategy.
4. To make the business processes and financial much easy to work.
When seeing the purposes of the information system planning for the business we could be attracted of the purposes of making an information system. When our business has an information system planning it can help our present business and future needs of our business.Identify the current and future information system needs of the business. For this purpose of the information system we can identify what are the problems and what are lacking in out information system. In this purpose the weaknesses and the strength of the current information system will indentify. After they are identified we can improve the strengths of the current information system of the business and we can also solve the problems and what lacks of the IS of the business. This purpose of information system planning is extremely helpful for the business. Planning can provide you a right decision in your business.
The second purpose of having an information system planning is to enhance the business competitive position through technology. In this part the information system planning helps the business to be more competitive trough the use of the technology. With the technology that the business is using, the employee of the company will make their assign task more easy and fast to process. Technology refer to material objects of use to humanity, such as machines, hardware or utensils, but can also encompass broader themes, including systems, methods of organization, and techniques. After the definition about technology we are now aware that technology has an important role in the field of the business and through the technology also the business will become more aggressive.
The third purpose of the information system planning is to match the business strategy of the company. This purpose is very significant since an information system is the one who will help the business strategy or business goals achieve. When making an information system plan, the information system plan must be align to the business requirements so that they will work together properly. Matching the information system plan to the goal and requirements of the business will make fewer problems in implementing the new information system that is being plan.
The last purpose of having an information system plan is to make the business processes and financial much easy to work. In this purpose it helps the employee of the company to do their task easier with the help of the information system and also through the use of computers also. If the business has an information system planning it can help the processes of the transaction of the business much faster and gives accurate output. The goal of making an information system plan is to help the business and to know if the information system is fit to the business requirements.
All of this purposes that I come up are very important in making an information system plan. Building something that has no purpose it is useless. We do our jobs for a purpose, we study for how many years for a certain purpose, we love somebody for a purpose, and we plan the information system for good purposes. That’s the important of having a purposes in what you do. Everything you do must have a purpose so that you will know if you do well and you reach your purpose. Every purpose of the information system plan is very important in the business; think about your business that has no information system. Your business will only last for a month that’s for sure.
Challenge means call something into question: to call something into question by demanding an explanation, justification, or proof. Having this definition we can now understand the questions which what are the major challenges of the information system planning. The challenges of the information system planning are the one who give more strength to them to work much harder to achieve their goals. Having a challenge in your work it pumps up you to do your job extra harder and do your job together with heart. As well the information system planning is also the same, the major challenges that occur in planning pumps up the Information System Professional to their job well to reach the expected output of the business and that is to help the business. Major challenges of the information system planning are the Accuracy, Usability, and Time. All of these challenges that the information system planning is taken gives pressure to the Information System Professional on how the IS Professional do the information system that gives the business accuracy, usability and time of the information system. The challenges that the information system planning can help the information system professional to know whether he/she task is accurate enough to the business or the information system planning itself is accurate, is the information system planning is usable to the business, and if the information system planning gives fast transaction of the business so that less time will be wasted in waiting. Before we discuss the challenges of the IS planning I will first leave a question for you to answer after discussing the challenges of the information system planning. What could be the role of the challenges of the information system planning?
The firs challenge of the information system planning is the accuracy of the information system to the business. We first define what accuracy is and we will relate it to the information system plan. Accuracy is ability to avoid errors: the ability to be precise and avoid errors. From the definition of Encarta dictionaries regarding the accuracy will now relate it to the information system planning. When planning about the information system of the business we must consider the business requirements and goal so that when we now implement the information system to the business it will not make conflicts and it will avoid errors. In other words our information system planning must be accurate to the business and must be error free. Accuracy is a big factor and challenge of the information system since it tackles about how precise the information system handles the data of the company. Having this challenge in IS Planning gives extra care in management of the data and the information system professional must retrieve the data in detail so when accessing the data it will be more precise or accurate. The information that you provide someone with in order to make very important decisions must be exactly accurate. If one piece of data is wrong it could mean the difference between life and death, literally. For example, if a doctor receives fake information about a patient’s allergies he may give that patient medicine that could eventually kill them. Accuracy in giving information is very important or the information system must give accurate information.
Another major challenge of the information system is the usability of the information system in the business. Information system planning you must consider what could be the possible usage of this information system to the business and if this could help the company. Usability of the information system has key role in the business since you implement an information system plan to be use to the business and improve the performance of the transactions happening in the company. If the business uses software to access the business information it must be easy to manipulate so that the end-users can get information easily. The information needs to be with no trouble accessible from the hardware where it is stored. Also, if the information is generated into a report form of some kind, the report must be made so that it can be interpreted naturally in order to make exact decisions. The information provided should have value to the decisions at hand. Usability of the information system must be handling in a trouble-free. For example, you have bought a latest cellular phone and then you don’t know how to operate it, so how could you use it. That’s why this challenge also important in information system planning and it has a role about the usage of the information system.
The last challenge of information system planning is the time factor. As time progresses everything is built bigger and faster and people seem to be always operating at a faster pace, therefore information needs to be received at a faster rate. If a person or business does not get the information in time to make a prompt decision they could lose out on many opportunities. This concept all started when the phone was introduced and people could be connected to each other in an instant, instead of waiting a week for a letter in the mail. Now as the internet has evolved, people and businesses can send documents and other information to one another in matter of seconds, causing decision-making times to decrease dramatically. We make information system to improve the performance of our business transactions and so that it can access information in the faster way. As people remain to progressively become more frantically fast paced the challenge of information getting to them will need also to become faster.
These three aspects of Information Systems must be used in combination with one another. Information may be received rapidly and easy to employ, but if it is imprecise it is valueless. Just the same if the information is either too slow or unintelligible it is ineffective as well. The major challenge of these three issues is combining them as one in an efficient effectual way.
Purposes of having an information system plan and the challenges of the information system plan are the key factors of having a functional information system. All of the purposes of information system planning discuss earlier, each and every one of them are significant. The challenges if IS planning can motivate to the IS professional to work much harder to prove that they conquer the challenges. In conclusion, the purposes and challenges of Information System Planning has a different role in building a functional information system.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Relationship between the business plan and the Information System plan
Before discussing the nature of the relationship between the business plan and the Information System plan. For me a business plan is a direction of a certain business or a goal that must be attain so that the business will be successful and a business plan be obliged to make it before the construction of the business. In Wikipedia A business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons why they are believed attainable, and the plan for reaching those goals. It may also contain background information about the organization or team attempting to reach those goals. My knowledge about what is a business plan is almost the same to the description of the Wikipedia. Strategic Information System Planning is much focus on improving the management of the business and improves the performance of the business. Since I’m taking up the Management Information System subject now and we are studying about how the organizations do their Strategic Information System Planning (SISP). Strategic Information System Planning making has many factors to be considered the internal factors and external factors. In internal factors you must know what are the S.W.O.T. or Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunity and Threat of the organization. The external sides there are also factors that must consider the P.E.S.T.E or Political, Economical, Sociological, Technology and Environmental. These factors are very important in SISP. We will achieve a good plan for our organization if all these factors will be considered.
A business plan can be profitable or non-profitable. A business plans that aims for a profitable business is more focus and their goals are further gives attention to the financial side. Profitable business plan is the usual kind of a business that the intention is focus in having an income from their capital. For me this type of business plan is much more needed for the people that is business minded and want to earn cash. Non-profitable business plans are usually the public service or the government which their goal is not centers the income of the business but their goals is more focus in giving services to the people. In my own opinion non-profitable business plan is also a pleasant plan that tends to help the people around their society.
The Strategic Information System Planning has internal and external factors that are required to consider in constructing a Strategic Information System Planning. While the business plans provide and may focus internal business plan and external business plan. For the external business plan target goals that are important to external stakeholders, particularly financial stakeholders. Examples of external stakeholders are the investors and the customer for profitable business plan while in non-profitable business plan are the donors and the clients of the non-profit's services. The tax-payers, higher-level government agencies, and international lending bodies such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank can also be consider as a external stakeholders of the non-profitable business plan. For the internal business plans, they may cover the development of a new product, a new service, a new IT system, a restructuring of finance, the refurbishing of a factory or a restructuring of the organization. An internal business plan is often developed in conjunction with a balanced scorecard or a list of critical success factors. This allows success of the plan to be measured using non-financial measures. Business plans that identify and target internal goals, but provide only general guidance on how they will be met are called strategic plans.
Strategic Information System Planning is any technique employed to achieve an ISP must be accomplishable with less than 3% of the IT budget. Additionally, it must be timely, useable, maintainable, able to be iterated into a quality product, and reproducible. IT organizations, once they have completed their initial set of databases and business information systems will find themselves transformed from a project to a release environment. There are two factors that must think about which is that external and internal factors. In the side of the internal factors, the SWOT that must be consider or the Strength Weakness Opportunity and Threats of the organization in making the Strategic Information System Plan. Strength, we should recognize the strength of the organization for us to improve or continue the good deeds of the organization. The strong point of the organization should be properly handle and must be improve or retain since it gives plus point to the organization. Searching for the weakness of the organization is very necessary since it is the weak point of the organization we must find a technique to solve the weak point of the organization and improve it. Opportunity and threat is also a key factor in making a Strategic Information System Planning. External factors are composing of PESTE or the Political Economical Sociological Technology Environment. All of these external factors must consider when making a Strategic Information System Plan from the Political, Economical, Sociological, Technology and Environment so that your are not only focus in your organization but you will also know what is the factors that affects your business outside your organization.
Having the definition of the business plan and the Strategic Information System Planning, we can determine what is the relationship of the two. As well as what are their uses and what are the factors that may consider in having a business plan and the Strategic Information System Plan. I discuss also what are the limitation and focus of the business plan and the SISP. The relationship of the business plan and the Strategic Information System Plan are the business plan is only focusing in the attainment of the goals of the business in short it gives more attention to the business side while the Strategic Information System Plan focuses in improving the management side and to improve the performance of the business. For me the Business Plan and the Strategic Information System are very essential in a business and these two factors can lead you to the right path of business. As a conclusion, if you don’t have goal in your life why you are still living now? We live in this world to reach our own goals and make your goals as your inspiration. Don’t wait for your goal you must work for it.
God bless us all and Merry Christmas
A business plan can be profitable or non-profitable. A business plans that aims for a profitable business is more focus and their goals are further gives attention to the financial side. Profitable business plan is the usual kind of a business that the intention is focus in having an income from their capital. For me this type of business plan is much more needed for the people that is business minded and want to earn cash. Non-profitable business plans are usually the public service or the government which their goal is not centers the income of the business but their goals is more focus in giving services to the people. In my own opinion non-profitable business plan is also a pleasant plan that tends to help the people around their society.
The Strategic Information System Planning has internal and external factors that are required to consider in constructing a Strategic Information System Planning. While the business plans provide and may focus internal business plan and external business plan. For the external business plan target goals that are important to external stakeholders, particularly financial stakeholders. Examples of external stakeholders are the investors and the customer for profitable business plan while in non-profitable business plan are the donors and the clients of the non-profit's services. The tax-payers, higher-level government agencies, and international lending bodies such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank can also be consider as a external stakeholders of the non-profitable business plan. For the internal business plans, they may cover the development of a new product, a new service, a new IT system, a restructuring of finance, the refurbishing of a factory or a restructuring of the organization. An internal business plan is often developed in conjunction with a balanced scorecard or a list of critical success factors. This allows success of the plan to be measured using non-financial measures. Business plans that identify and target internal goals, but provide only general guidance on how they will be met are called strategic plans.
Strategic Information System Planning is any technique employed to achieve an ISP must be accomplishable with less than 3% of the IT budget. Additionally, it must be timely, useable, maintainable, able to be iterated into a quality product, and reproducible. IT organizations, once they have completed their initial set of databases and business information systems will find themselves transformed from a project to a release environment. There are two factors that must think about which is that external and internal factors. In the side of the internal factors, the SWOT that must be consider or the Strength Weakness Opportunity and Threats of the organization in making the Strategic Information System Plan. Strength, we should recognize the strength of the organization for us to improve or continue the good deeds of the organization. The strong point of the organization should be properly handle and must be improve or retain since it gives plus point to the organization. Searching for the weakness of the organization is very necessary since it is the weak point of the organization we must find a technique to solve the weak point of the organization and improve it. Opportunity and threat is also a key factor in making a Strategic Information System Planning. External factors are composing of PESTE or the Political Economical Sociological Technology Environment. All of these external factors must consider when making a Strategic Information System Plan from the Political, Economical, Sociological, Technology and Environment so that your are not only focus in your organization but you will also know what is the factors that affects your business outside your organization.
Having the definition of the business plan and the Strategic Information System Planning, we can determine what is the relationship of the two. As well as what are their uses and what are the factors that may consider in having a business plan and the Strategic Information System Plan. I discuss also what are the limitation and focus of the business plan and the SISP. The relationship of the business plan and the Strategic Information System Plan are the business plan is only focusing in the attainment of the goals of the business in short it gives more attention to the business side while the Strategic Information System Plan focuses in improving the management side and to improve the performance of the business. For me the Business Plan and the Strategic Information System are very essential in a business and these two factors can lead you to the right path of business. As a conclusion, if you don’t have goal in your life why you are still living now? We live in this world to reach our own goals and make your goals as your inspiration. Don’t wait for your goal you must work for it.
God bless us all and Merry Christmas
