Classification and Comparison of Strategic Information Systems Planning Methodologies: A Conceptual Framework

Strategic planning for information systems remains as one of the top concerns and continues to be a critical issue for many chief information officers and their organisations. Also, a comprehensive review of the recent information systems planning literature reveals that selecting a proper methodology used in developing an information systems plan is one of the success factors related to the success of the IS planning process. Although this individual success factor should have attracted more research and discussions, there have not been enough attempts to create a framework to compare and classify strategic information systems planning methodologies to select a proper method for a specific organisation with its unique requirements, hence a gap in literature. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is primarily to bridge this gap by proposing a conceptual framework to classify strategic information systems planning methodologies to choose the suitable methodology(ies) according to specific requirements of an organisation. Hadi Kandjani Shahid Beheshti University, Iran & Griffith University, Australia Amir Mohtarami Tarbiat Modares University, Iran Mohammad Reza Taghva Allameh Tabatabaee University, Iran Amirhossein Eslami Andargoli Swinburne University of Technology, Australia