ITPEC IP April 2019 Question 93
Which of the following is an appropriate item that should be clearly stated in the information system strategy of a company?
Explanation
IT governance policy — the information system strategy sets company-wide policy, and how IT is governed is part of it.
The information system strategy is drawn up from the business strategy and sets the direction for IT across the whole company: the policy on IT governance, the target state of the information systems (overall optimisation), IT investment and its priorities, and the organisation that runs information systems. Details of an individual system are decided later, in system planning, requirements definition and procurement.
Answer (a)
Why not others:
- •(b) — the structure for developing one particular mission-critical system is set in that system's development or project plan
- •(c) — criteria for evaluating vendor proposals are prepared at the procurement stage, when the RFP is issued
- •(d) — the analysed requirements of users are the output of requirements definition for a specific system
Key rule: Strategy states enterprise-wide policy; development structures, vendor criteria and user requirements belong to the planning stages that follow it.
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