COB 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Information Technology Architecture, Resource Allocation, Systems Analysis
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Compeiive organizaions stay/gain strategic advantage: acquire new informaion technologies/systems, or modify new ones. Organizaional it strategic plan: must be aligned with the organizaion"s strategic plan, provide for an it architecture, eiciently allocate is development resources (on ime and within budget) Major tasks: link corporate strategy with it strategy, approve the allocaion of resources for the mis funcion, establish performance measures for the mis funcion and ensure that they are met. Elements: mission, is environment, objecives of the is funcion, constraints of the is funcion, applicaion porfolio, resource allocaion and project management. Always diicult to evaluate beneits because they are intangible. 3. conducion the cost-beneit analysis (cba: four common approaches for the cba. Roi = (net proit/cost of investment) x 100. A business case is an argument to jusify funding one or more speciic applicaions or projects. Organizaions can develop a new system or modify its exising system.
