TY - JOUR
T1 - Formation of Information Systems Strategy in a global financial company
AU - Peters, S.C.A.
AU - Heng, S.H.
AU - Vet, R.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Over the past few decades, the potential of information systems (IS) to support organizational activities and help them gain competitive advantage has been widely recognized. At the level of strategy, there is a genre of organizational activities dedicated to realizing this potential. Methods known broadly as strategic information planning have been constructed to support such activities in organizations but these methods have not lived up their promises. Meanwhile, the use of evolutionary approaches in the application of IS in organizations have also received some attention. This paper describes and analyzes a case study of the evolution of the IS strategy within LeaseHold NV, a Dutch global leasing company. The study reveals that no IS planning was used. Instead, concepts of organizational evolution are found to be useful in analyzing the development of the IS strategy at LeaseHold. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
AB - Over the past few decades, the potential of information systems (IS) to support organizational activities and help them gain competitive advantage has been widely recognized. At the level of strategy, there is a genre of organizational activities dedicated to realizing this potential. Methods known broadly as strategic information planning have been constructed to support such activities in organizations but these methods have not lived up their promises. Meanwhile, the use of evolutionary approaches in the application of IS in organizations have also received some attention. This paper describes and analyzes a case study of the evolution of the IS strategy within LeaseHold NV, a Dutch global leasing company. The study reveals that no IS planning was used. Instead, concepts of organizational evolution are found to be useful in analyzing the development of the IS strategy at LeaseHold. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
U2 - 10.1016/s1471-7727(01)00011-2
DO - 10.1016/s1471-7727(01)00011-2
M3 - Article
SN - 1471-7727
VL - Jan.
SP - 101
EP - 123
JO - Information and Organization
JF - Information and Organization
ER -
