tailieunhanh - Strategic Information Management phần 6

Bằng việc áp dụng quan điểm này rộng hơn, điều tra cho thấy công ty đã sử dụng năm cách tiếp cận SISP khác nhau: Kinh doanh - Led-Driven Phương pháp, hành chính, công nghệ, và tổ chức. Mỗi phương pháp tiếp cận có đặc điểm khác nhau và, do đó, một khả năng khác nhau của | Measuring the Information Systems-Business Strategy Relationship 307 Appendix A Measuring alignment The scale used for measuring short-term alignment has four levels high moderate low and unknown as shown in the following table. Alignment rating Scale used to measure understanding of current objectives short-term alignment High IT and Business Executives The IT executives can identify the current objectives of the business unit. These objectives were the ones written in the business plan or articulated by senior business executives. The business executives can identify most or all of the current high priority projects of the IT group. Example of high congruence when executives are asked to list IT objectives Head of business unit Objectives are GOLD BEN-NET. The head of IT may have his own objectives like productivity. VP finance Bring GOLD in. BEN-NET. Development Productivity VP marketing GOLD - realize benefits. More Productive Systems Development. Head of IT GOLD BEN-NET. I also have productivity initiatives underway. Another example of clear understanding of IT objectives exhibited by a business unit head Her strategies you mean her goals The main one is to get the Ceded Reinsurance admin system in by July 1 on budget. And then the other one is to get the Received Reinsurance system in . it probably won t be in by the end of this year but to make enough progress so that it can be in by next year. Moderate IT or Business The IT and business executives have only a general understanding of each other s current objectives but cannot identify specific high-priority ones. 308 Strategic Information Management Alignment rating Scale used to measure understanding of current objectives short-term alignment Low IT or Business Neither the IT nor the business executives can identify each other s major current objectives. Example Head of business unit The IT head probably has his own strategies. I probably haven t gotten around to reading them yet and I would think that .