Introduction and overview
- Understanding systems planning
- Information systems planning
- Who carries out systems planning?
- What are the approaches to managing an information system?
- How do you map information systems, and which maps should you use?
- What is a “systems planning project”?
Why combine systems planning with an IT roadmap?
- The IT roadmap: methods
- Systems planning and the IT roadmap
- Information systems planning methods
Cadastral systems planning
- Identifying business invariants
- Mapping business processes
- Mapping existing technical components: transactional, decisional and collaborative architecture, etc.
- Drawing up the land use plan: blocks, zones and islands
Forward-looking systems planning
- Carrying out a critical analysis of the existing system
- Identifying areas for improvement
- Defining an optimum level of application and data sharing
- Formalising a catalogue of systems planning rules
Putting together the land use plan: business mapping
- Business invariants
- Strategic objectives and value creation
Functional mapping
- Processes/activities/tasks
- Information databases and flows
Application mapping
- Application (specific and packaged)
- Technical architecture
- Understanding the interface concept
Infrastructure mapping
Defining a convergence path
- Defining the key stages in transforming the existing system into the target system
- Planning in line with operational imperatives and opportunities
- Putting in place the organisational structure responsible for convergence
- Preparing to support change
Systems planning projects
- Managing necessary improvement/compliance projects
- Applying systems planning recommendations to projects
- Learning from experience on the ground and developing one’s system
- Homogenisation tools
Components of an opportunity study in relation to an information systems planning project
- The role of projects within the IT roadmap
- Identifying and managing risk factors
- The role of the systems planning cell
- Communicating with departments
- Estimating ROI
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