Strategic information systems are aligned with business strategy and structure to help organizations gain a competitive advantage by changing how they compete. They have an external focus, support or change enterprise strategy, and are associated with higher project risk. Key features include decision support systems to align IS/IT with business strategies, enterprise resource planning solutions to integrate business processes, data mining capabilities to optimize use of corporate information, and real-time systems to maintain rapid response.
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Strategic Information System
Strategic information systems are aligned with business strategy and structure to help organizations gain a competitive advantage by changing how they compete. They have an external focus, support or change enterprise strategy, and are associated with higher project risk. Key features include decision support systems to align IS/IT with business strategies, enterprise resource planning solutions to integrate business processes, data mining capabilities to optimize use of corporate information, and real-time systems to maintain rapid response.
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Strategic Information System
is a type of Information System that is
aligned with business strategy and structure. The alignment increases the capability to respond faster to environmental changes and thus creates a competitive advantage "The information system to support or change enterprise's strategy." by Charles Wiseman Strategic information system is different from other systems as: - • they change the way the firm competes. by changing the goals,operations,products, services,or enviromentalrelationshipsof theorganistions to help them gain an over edge over competers. • they have an external (outward looking) focus. • they are associated with higher project risk. • they are innovative (and not easily copied Key features • 1) Decision support systems that enable to develop a strategic approach to align Information Systems (IS) or Information Technologies (IT) with an organization's business strategies • 2) Primarily Enterprise resource planning solutions that integrate/link the business processes to meet the enterprise objectives for the optimization of the enterprise resources • 3) Database systems with the "data mining" capabilities to make the best use of available corporate information for marketing, production, promotion and innovation. The SIS systems also facilitate identification of the data collection strategies to help optimize database marketing opportunities. • 4) The real-time information Systems that intend to maintain a rapid- response and the quality indicators.