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Information Systems Strategy Triangle

This document discusses the importance of aligning information systems strategy with business strategy and organizational design. It introduces the Information Systems Strategy Triangle, which illustrates how business strategy drives and influences organizational and information strategies. The general manager plays a key role in ensuring information system decisions align with and support the business strategy. The chapter aims to help general managers understand these relationships and consider how changes in any one area could impact the others.

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Information Systems Strategy Triangle

This document discusses the importance of aligning information systems strategy with business strategy and organizational design. It introduces the Information Systems Strategy Triangle, which illustrates how business strategy drives and influences organizational and information strategies. The general manager plays a key role in ensuring information system decisions align with and support the business strategy. The chapter aims to help general managers understand these relationships and consider how changes in any one area could impact the others.

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Managing∧Using Information Systems: A Strategic Approach – Fifth Edition

CHAPTER I
The Information Systems Strategy Triangle

Learning Objective

 Determine the role general managers must take in decisions about IS


 Define and explain the Information Systems Strategy Triangle
 Understand the alignment between decisions of business strategy, information systems,
and organizational design
 Identify and define the various business strategy frameworks
 Explain the information system strategy matrix
 Understand and apply these models to different organizations
Real World Example

 The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill became the largest marine oil spill in human
history
 An estimated four million barrels per day flowed freely into the gulf waters
 Straining the marine ecosystem and threatening the shoreline from Texas to Florida
 A sequence of failures involving multiple companies and work teams
 Repeated failures to follow safety procedure
The Role of the General Manager

 A key decisions maker


 Not necessary to have a deep technical knowledge of there is
 Aggressively seek to understand the consequences of using technologies relevant to the
business’s environment
 Ask questions when it’s not clear
 Should not leave Is decisions solely to the IS professionals
Information Systems Alignment

 An IS that is inappropriate for a operating environment can actually inhibit and confuse
things, or even lead to a crisis environments
 The IS department is not island within a form
 The IS department manages an infrastructure that is essential to the firm’s functioning
 A firm’s IS must be aligned with the way it manages its employees and processes

IS Strategy Triangle
 The Information System Strategy Triangle presented in Figure 1.1 suggests
 Business Strategy drives all other strategies
 Organizational and Information Strategy are then dependent upon the Business Strategy
 Changes in any strategy requires changes in the others to maintain balance
 IS Strategy is affected by the other strategies a firm uses
 IS strategy always involves consequences
Questions for the General Manager

 What is a business strategy?


 Which factors influences a business strategy?
 How does a business change its strategy without losing balance or becoming out of
alignment?
 Are there specific events that induce a business to change its strategies? What are they?

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