A Maturity Model of Strategic Information Systems Planning SISP: An Empirical Evaluation Using the Analytic Network Process

  • Authors:

  • Brian Corbitt;Zijad Pita;France Cheong

  • Affiliations:

  • RMIT University, Australia;RMIT University, Australia;RMIT University, Australia

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper Strategic Information Systems Planning SISP maturity models are empirically validated in Australian environment. A research instrument used to determine the degree of SISP maturity in Australian organisations is described. While empirical testing of a five-stage SISP model has only confirmed the existence of three levels of SISP maturity, statistical methods confirmed the adequacy of the establishment of the SISP assessment model as a third-order system. The study also opens the way for SISP thinking beyond the conventional approaches by introducing the Analytic Network Process and the Analytic Hierarchy Process methods to reduce complexity of SISP measurement in a natural and structural way. By using these methods, it was possible to obtain a single overall measure of SISP maturity, thus overcoming a problem of result synthesis measured by different scales.