Planning for information technology in a federated organization
This paper concerns strategic planning for information technology - computers, networks, and tele-communications - in decentralized organizations with autonomous sub-divisions and functional units. Long-term strategic planning, industry practice for years, is new to many components of the Federal government and useful lessons can be learned from progress there. The planning method described here was inspired by a government model with legislation as a strong driver. Nevertheless, the concepts apply to any multidivisional business organization with inter-dependent information resources, where separate business units have independent control over planning and decision making. The goal of strategic planning is strategy, not plans. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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