Information Strategy Planning

The 1^st information engineering steps is information strategy planning which is also known as (ISP). The overall target of ISP are as follows: (1) to describe strategic business goals and objective, (2) to separate the critical success factors which will enable the business to get these objective and goal, (3) to analyze the impact of automation and technology on the objective and goals and (4) to analyze existing information to determine its role in get objective and goals. The ISP also builds a business-level data model which describes key data objects and their relationship to various business areas and to one another.

The words goals and objectives take on an exact meaning in ISP. The term objective is a general statement of direction example for, a business objective for a maker of cellular telephone might be to decrease the manufactured product cost. The term goals describe a quantitative course of action. To get the objective noted above the manufacture might state the following goals which are given below:

1. Reduce reject rate through 20 % within 9 months
2. From supplier's Gain 10 % price concessions
3. Reengineer keypads to decrease assembly cost by 30 %
4. Automate manual assembly of elements
5. Implement the real time production control system

Objectives tend to be strategic Goals are tactical

The Critical success factors can be together to an objective or to individual goals. A CSF must be representing if the goal or objective is to be achieved. Thus, management planning must accommodate it example for, CSFs for the manufacturing objective noted above may be:

1. Grand quality management strategy for the manufacturing companies
2. Worker motivation and training
3. Higher-reliability machines
4. Higher-quality parts
5. A sales plan to convince suppliers to decrease prices
6. Availability of engineering staff

The Technology impact analysis examines goal or objective and gives an indication of those technologies which will have an indirect or direct impact on achieving them profitably. The following questions the information engineer addresses: Is the technology available presently? How critical is the technology to the achievement of a business goal? How will the technology modify the way business is conducted? How should the business extend or adapt goal or objective and to accommodate the technology? What are the indirect and direct costs?

Because every business fields makes some use of information technologies the ISP must also identify what presently exists and how it is presently used to achieve goal or objective. Business procedure reengineering is an activity which examines existing systems with the intent of reengineering them to better meet business requirement.