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Analysis & Design of Information Systems

Notes  How significant is the problem?
 What does user feel is the solution?
 How will the information systems help?
 Who else knows about this and could be contacted?

The project selection committee is responsible to review the proposals carefully and finally
selects those projects which are most beneficial to the organisation. Therefore, a preliminary
investigation is often requested to gather details which are asked in the project request-forms.
Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
10. Someone in the organization must decide which ................................... to pursue and which
to reject.
11. ................................... committee, consisting of key managers from various departments of
the organization as well as members of information systems group, is responsible for
supervising the review of project proposals.
12. ................................... committee approves or disapproves projects and sets priorities,
indicating which projects are most important and should receive immediate attention.

13. In ................................... Committee Method, Individual departments hire their own analysts
and designers who handle project selection and carry out development.
14. The project proposals submitted by the users or the analysts to the ...................................
Committee is a critical element in launching the systems study.
15. A ................................... is often requested to gather details which are asked in the project
request-forms.

2.5 Summary

 Application Portfolio Management is the procedure consumers and IT utilize to maintain
the portfolio data current and to formulate investment conclusions.
 Managing application development portfolio is used to make sure you are functioning on
the correct things.

 Information system planning is defined as a process for producing a strategy and plans for
arranging information systems with the business approaches of an organization.

 Three broadly used strategies to planning information systems are business systems
planning (BSP) method; Nolan, Norton & Co.‘s computer architecture strategic planning
method; and the critical success factors method.

 Information system planning objectives are preferred future situations and destinations
the organizations intend to reach so as to accomplish its task.
 As an organization always has many projects (concerned with MIS or other business
functions) to do, the management must decide the priority of a system development in
order to streamline the business.

 Steering committee, consisting of key managers from various departments of the
organization as well as members of information systems group, is responsible for
supervising the review of project proposals.

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