[AISWorld] What is IS strategy and how to prepare strategic IS plans

[John Artz]

Jeet,

I begin with the premise that strategy is a plan to solve a problem. While
this is not universally agreed upon, it mainstream enough. The problems in
marketing or operations are a little easier to understand as the problems
in IS/IT are all over the map. They can range from infrastructural, to HR,
to cost overruns, to lack of innovation, to failure to adapt to rapidly
changing technologies, etc. etc. This list is by no means complete, as they
are just examples. Nonetheless, a good way to approach IS/IT strategy is to
look at the range of problems, pick one or two, attempt to come up with
strategies to solve them and then just apply vanilla business strategy.

I hope this helps,

John




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On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Jeet Gupta <guptaj at uah.edu> wrote:

> Hello Bob
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> I am back to with the same questions I had last year when you said you
> will provide me with some thoughts.  My questions are:
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> What is an IS/T strategy?  How does one prepare strategic IS plans in an
> organization?
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> Also, in a 150-minute class session of MS level IS students, what will you
> teach for the subject of IS/T strategy?  I am having a difficult time
> planning this session since a student asked me the question: What is IS/T
> strategy?  After thinking about it more than a year, I still do not have
> answered even though I have taught this course for a long time.  I could
> talk about SIS, what is done in IS from a strategic level, how could we use
> IS/T for competitive advantage or even IT governance.  But what is IS/T
> strategy? How do we prepare strategic IS plans>
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> I know I can define the Operations or the Marketing Strategy.  How about
> IS/T strategy?  What is the relationship with Digital Business Strategy?
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> Any thoughts?  Any copies of papers and/or slides will be helpful and
> appreciated.
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> Best regards,
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