Strategic IT planning as change specification

  • Authors:
  • William S. Shu

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Prioritising strategic plan executions and determining the most appropriate models and architectures for IT plans, as well as temporally sequencing and reconfiguring the latter for optimal solutions, can be tough without a supporting tool. This article therefore proposes a model where strategic plans are simple processes whose basic actions are events that change the states of institutional components and alter organisational structure. Therein, the strategic planning process, plan execution, and routine daily tasks are carried out, conceptually, in the same manner. Furthermore, the plans themselves may be reconfigured or modified according to changing organisational and architectural models for IT activities. The work assumes a formal model of time that enables one to track institutional transformations over time. Hence, the model underpins IT governance issues and tool support to investigate possible future scenarios of what could happen, analyse past activities of what happened, or just perform routine duties.