The usage of modern information technologies will be successful only if information system development is aligned with the business system development strategy. Such an approach is usually regarded as the strategic planning of information systems (SPIS). A unified methodology for SPIS does not exist yet, although several methods, techniques and templates might be inventively integrated to develop a new IS for each particular business system. This paper presents how this integration could be performed to obtain a consistent methodology named SPIS. Such a methodology has been developed by the authors and applied to six large-scale projects in very different business environments. In this way a theoretical approach was confirmed and extended by new experiences, which are presented in this article.Keywords: Strategic planning, information systems, development methodology.
The Present State of SPIS MethodologiesThe strategic planning of information systems has become a very challenging subject for scientists and practitioners in recent years. The problem of poor IT/IS efficiency has also been recognised in Croatia. Therefore, in 1996 our faculty launched a new scientific project "Strategic Planning of Information Systems Development", which was supported by the national Ministry of Science and Technology. In