Proposal for a differentiated Information Strategy

This paper investigates approaches to information strategy. We make a distinction between three types of control mechanisms, the rationality-mechanism, the integrating-mechanism and the libertarian-mechanism. Based on the manner in which architecture development comes into being and the nature of the architecture itself, we explain that a 'top-down' approach will be effective in a rationally controlled organization, whereas an opportunity generating approach will be more effective in an organization which is run differently. Once the different types of organizational control within an organization have been identified, one can establish where information system planning can no longer successfully take place and where, therefore, other instruments for architecture development must be employed. One of these instruments is a more infrastructural approach to the IT facilities. Proposal for a differentiated information strategy