Information Systems Planning

This research has been designed to isolate some of those factors that are most relevant to the design of an effective systems planning process. Unlike most previous work in the field, the primary result of this effort will be neither a prescriptive statement of how systems planning ought to be done nor a description of how it is actually accomplished.

Instead, it is the view of this research that (1) the design of a successful planning process must take account of various policy, control, and organizational factors specific to each organization, and (2) we know too little about the existence and interaction of these factors to be specific in advance about what they might be.