Strategic Information Planning: Alignment of IT Planning with Business Planning

The lives of the human beings has affected by the information technology in their daytoday lives, because of its progression. The technology has changed vastly, when time passes and so have the chances. The demand of increase in IT/IS has made the top management of the more and more complex and difficult. Strategic information systems planning (SISP) is a real way of emerging and upholding the IS/IT systems that support the business operations. The key aspect of SISP in the changing business scenario examined by the research. Main things for improved business performance are the alignment of the IS/IT plans and the business plans. We can find key aspects of the study in India by triangulation approach. The Data sets included the questionnaire to the IT and business managers of the three companies. IT and Business Managers views are compared with the literature and the available business documents for consistency to answer the research question. Questionnaires were sent to the respective IT and a business manager of the three companies. And other data was collected from the three companies. There was similarity in terms of planning and implementation of the IS/IT and business processes. ERP, SCM and CRM applications are useful to support the business processes. The Conclusion tells that there is no formal planning process in the three companies.