Information systems planning in the United Kingdom and Australia—a comparison of current practice
Oxford Surveys in Information Technology
Strategic information systems: myths, reality and guidelines for successful implementation
European Journal of Information Systems
The process of strategic information planning
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
The evaluation of strategic information system planning
Information and Management
The grassroots of IT and strategy
Strategic information systems
European Journal of Information Systems
Case study: the effect of IS maturity on information systems strategic planning
Information and Management
Strategic information systems planning: the IT strategy implementation matrix
European Journal of Information Systems
A real-world case study in information technology for undergraduate students
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on software engineering education and training for the next millennium
Information systems planning in a turbulent environment
European Journal of Information Systems
Business systems planning and business Information control study: a comparison
IBM Systems Journal
Information systems management issues for the 1990s
MIS Quarterly
Experiences in strategic information systems planning
MIS Quarterly
An examination of major IS planning problems
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
IS Strategic Planning for Operational Efficiency
Information Systems Management
Proceedings of the 2008 annual research conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists on IT research in developing countries: riding the wave of technology
A contingency model for estimating success of strategic information systems planning
Information and Management
International Journal of Information Technology and Management
A decision support system for strategic information systems planning
AIKED'10 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on Artificial intelligence, knowledge engineering and data bases
A competency-based system for supporting corporate information systems planning
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Contextual factors influencing strategic information systems plan implementation
Proceedings of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference on Knowledge, Innovation and Leadership in a Diverse, Multidisciplinary Environment
The role of content management systems in publishing firms
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Environmental assessment in strategic information systems planning
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Testing and Extending Theory in Strategic Information Systems Planning Through Literature Analysis
Information Resources Management Journal
Success factors for information logistics strategy - An empirical investigation
Decision Support Systems
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Early attempts to formulate information systems (IS) strategies concentrated on the analytical task of deriving IS strategies from business plans. The limitations of the static plans that often resulted from these formal studies were, however, soon discovered. The critics suggested informal and incremental planning to ensure flexibility, creativity and strategic thinking to comprise emergent strategies as well as planned strategies. In previous IS planning research, there appears to be a contradiction between the published planning methods and the generally held views about effective implementation of IS planning process. The explicit methods described in IS literature predominantly assume a comprehensive IS planning process. Despite the fact that many researchers consider incremental approaches to be more effective, methods that can be used to facilitate incremental IS planning are few, not detailed enough and not comprehensive. The four cycles method introduced in this paper attempts to combine the strengths of both the comprehensive and incremental planning to be able to recognise emerging trends and to make an e-business strategy. The method provides a basic schedule for organising planning activities. IS planning is seen as a continuous process that is periodically adjusted to the expectations of the participating managers. Practising managers can use the method to facilitate implementation of an incremental and continuous IS planning process. For e-business strategy research, the paper provides a theoretically based method that can be tested in future action research projects. The first results of conducted action research show that the method should not be used as a checklist but as a choice list. Each period had a constant focus on external developments and the fit with internal possibilities. The method provided a flexible and dynamic basis for actions. The emergent nature of the changes and the difficulty of formalising creativity and innovation placed restrictions on the planning process. We learned that a thematic approach where each cycle is given a creative subject helped to ''open up'' the users in the organisation. Future research should focus on the inter-organisational nature of e-business strategy. If it is difficult to get top management participation, it will be even more difficult with more organisations involved.