1. Chapter 4 : Identifying and Selecting Systems Development Projects

2. Objectives: Describe the project identification and selection process.
Describe corporate strategic planning and information systems planning process.
Explain the relationship between corporate strategic planning and IS planning.
Describe how IS planning can be used to assist in identifying and selecting systems development projects.
Analyze IS planning matrices to determine affinity between IS and IS projects and to forecast the impact of IS Projects on business objectives.
Describe three classes of Internet E-Commerce applications:Internet, intranets, and extranets.
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3. Project Identification & Selection Tasks
Identifying potential development projects
Identification from a stakeholder group
Classifying and ranking potential IS projects
Using value chain analysis or other evaluation criteria
Selecting projects
Based on various factors

7. Possible Evaluation Criteria When Classifying and Ranking Projects
Value Chain Analysis
Strategic Alignment
Potential Benefits
Resource Availability
Project Size/Duration
Technical Difficulty/Risks

8. Factors for Project Selection

9. Planning Based Approaches to Project Identification and Selection
Projects have often resulted from attempts to solve isolated organizational problems
Planning-based approaches generally ask, “What information or (data) requirements will satisfy the needs of the business today and in the future?”

10. Corporate Strategic Planning
A prerequisite for making effective project selection decisions is to understand where an organization is, wants to be and how to get there
Ongoing process that defines mission, objectives, and strategies of an organization
Corporate strategy involves:
Mission statement
Objective statements
Description of competitive strategy

11. Competitive Strategy
The method by which the organization will attempt to satisfy its mission and objectives
Three generic strategies, basis of competition, and also allows you to compare two companies in the same industry:
Low-cost producer
Product differentiation
Product focus or niche
Organizations with different competitive strategies often have different informational needs

12. Information Systems Planning (ISP)
Second planning process that can play a role in the quality of the project identification and selection process
An orderly means of assessing the information needs of an organization and defining systems, databases, and technologies that will best meet those needs

13. Information Systems Planning (ISP)
ISP must be done in accordance with the organization's mission, objectives, and competitive strategy:
Look at info systems in terms of how they help the business achieve its objectives
Model current/future organizational needs

14. Strategic and IS Planning Relationships

15. Approaches to IS Planning
1. Describe the current situation:
Top-down planning
Attempts to gain a broad understanding of information system needs of the entire organization
Bottom-up planning
Identifies IS development projects based on solving specific operational business problems or taking advantage of specific opportunities
Faster, less costly, but may fail to view the informational needs of the entire organization

16. Benefits of Top-Down Planning
Broader perspective
Improved integration
Improved management support
Better understanding
But, bottom-up planning can be faster and less costly, so may be beneficial in certain circumstances

17. Approaches to IS Planning
2: Describe target situations, trends and constraints.
Matrices of to-be situation can be created, considering trends and constraints
Focus on differences between current and future lists and matrices to identify project and transition strategies
3: Develop a transition strategy and plans

18. IS Plan Components

19. Electronic Commerce Applications
The Internet
A large worldwide network of networks that use a common protocol to communicate with each other
Electronic Commerce
Internet-based communications to support day-to-day business activities

20. Three Modes of E-Commerce
Internet-based
Supports business activities between a business and individual consumers
Intranet-based
Supports business activities within a single organization
Extranet-based
Supports business-to-business activities
A form of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) – use of telecommunications for direct transfer of business documents between organizations

21. Issues in Internet Application Development