MIS - FQ1_Chapters 7 & 8

An information system planning methodology that involves an evaluation of the potential benefits and risks a company faces when using information technology. Commonly used in this methodology are Opportunity Matrix and SWOT analysis.

• Critical Success Factor Planning

• Business System Planning Approach

• Planning for Competitive Advantage

This type of panning methodology can be used by itself or incorporated into other methodologies. Its major premise is that the information requirements of an organization is determined by a small number of key factors that the executives consider as critical for the success of the enterprise.

• Critical Success Factor Planning

• Business System Planning Approach

• Planning for Competitive Advantage

Preliminary study which investigates the information need of the prospective users and determines the resource requirements, costs, benefits, and feasibility of a proposed project.

• Feasibility Study

• Organizational Feasibility

• Technical Feasibility

This category of feasibility study is concerned with whether expected cost savings, increased revenue, increased profits, reduction in required investment, and other types of benefits will exceed the cost of developing and operating the proposed system.

• Organizational Feasibility

• Economic Feasibility

• Technical Feasibility

ABC Inc. is undergoing a cost/benefit analysis for their proposed information system. They were able to identify the cost of hardware and software, employee salaries, and the professional fees of the consultants who will implement the system. These types of costs are classified as

• Tangible Costs

• Tangible Benefits

• Intangible Costs

Mariel has been a loyal customer of DEF Inc. for over 5 years because of how good the organization treats her when she visits the office for service requests. DEF is planning to implement a system that will allow Mariel and other customers to file service requests online which will help them provide the services faster. However, Mariel is not that updated to using computers or even the internet, so she is planning to change her service provider. This situation explains

• Tangible Costs

• Intangible Costs

• Intangible Benefits

An in-depth study of end-user information needs that produces the functional requirements used by consultants as the basis of designing a new information system.

• Feasibility Study

• System Analysis

• Employee Analysis

Vince is a functional consultant involved in implementing a new information system for JFK Corporation. He was informed that the project needed to be finished in 3 months, so he decided to focus on building the new system based on the requirements provided and disregard analyzing their present system.

• Vince needs to understand how the present system works so he will be able to decide the best way to implement the new information system.

• It’s okay to disregard the present system since it will be replaced.

• Vince no longer needs to study the present system because the requirement is already provided to build the new system.

Are end-user information requirements not tied up to the hardware, software, network data, and people resources that end users presently use or might use in the new system.

• User Interface Requirements

• Processing Requirements

• Functional Requirements

Calculations, decision rules, and other operation and capacity requirements to convert inputs to outputs. 

• Storage Requirements

• Processing Requirements

• User Interface Requirements