This paper discusses the roles and functions of strategic planning of information systems in health services. It selects four specialised methodologies of strategic planning for analysis with respect to their applicability in the health field. It then examines the utilisation of information planning in case studies of three health organisations (two State departments of health and community ser...

In this paper we propose the use of Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM), a well-established Artificial Intelligence technique that incorporates ideas from Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic, for E-Commerce strategic planning. FCMs create models as collections of concepts and the various causal relations that exist between these concepts. The strategic planning capabilities of the FCM structure ar...

This study addresses the strategic planning and environmental scanning activities of the hotel chains operating in Portugal, and compares attitudes towards planning and scanning activities by companies where strategy is formalised through a formal written strategic plan (intenders) and those companies where strategy is informally developed through a 'vision' or 'informal plan' (realisers). The ...

First developed by Kaplan and Norton [Kaplan R. S., & Norton D. P. (1992). The balance scorecard – measures that drive performance. Harvard Business Review, 70(1), 71–79], balanced scorecard (BSC) provides an integrated view of overall organizational performance and strategic objectives. BSC integrates financial measures with other key performance indicators to create a perspective that incorpo...

III. A / Practice Papers / 141 Learning from Complexity Theory: Is Strategic Planning Obsolete? During the last few years, twentieth century scientific thinking has been creating ripples and raising questions in the business world. These ripples, in the form of complexity theory (which includes chaos theory) have challenged the notions of scientific management, including strategic planning. Com...

This article examines the role of management in business processes in relation to the process-oriented organization and strategy formation as a formal process (strategic planning). A questionnaire designed to measure these variables after the validity and reliability among a sample of 183 managers, officials and experts in working systems, information technology and strategic planning in major ...

How can an organization establish an efficient IS resource? Over the years, the resource-based view (RBV) has provided important insights into the value creation by IT. Unfortunately, large parts of the literature suffer from broad and ambiguous constructs that are problematic to validate and difficult to concretely apply. Furthermore, the transmission from IT resources on one side to competiti...

In today’s complex and uncertain situations and environments throughout the world; the need for strategic planning is widely accepted for smooth and successful operations of all kinds of business organizations. Strategic planning constitutes an important path to successful business operations and is a part of every business. Managers realize, understand, and implement strategic planning in diff...

delay in implementation and delivery of projects of general contractors working in oil, gas and petrochemical projects, together with their law profits, are the main reasons for writing this paper. it has been tried in t6he article to present an actual and applied method of decision making to determine strategic goals, strategic planning and its relation with the standards of project management...

Alignment between business strategy and IS strategy is relevant to most large organizations today. We build on the literature on alignment and strategic IS planning to study patterns of antecedents that explain planning decisions. When addressing misalignment risks: Are there systematic differences in the patterns of antecedents that explain decision-making across differing strategic orientatio...