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CHAPTER OUTLINE
13.1 Planning for and Justifying IT Applications
13.2 Strategies for Acquiring IT Applications
13.3 The Traditional Systems Development Life
Cycle
13.4 Alternative Methods and Tools for
Systems Development
13.5 Vendor and Software Selection
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Define an IT strategic plan, identify three
objectives it must meet, and describe the four
common approaches to cost-benefit analysis.
2. Discuss the four business decisions that
companies must make when they acquire new
applications.
3. Identify the six processes involved in the
systems development life cycle, and explain the
primary tasks and importance of each process.
IT Architecture
IT Strategic Plan
IT Steering Committee
IS Operational Plan
Contains the following elements:
Mission
IT environment
Objectives of the IT function
Constraints of the IT function
Application portfolio
Resource allocation and project management
Operation of an
Application Service Provider (ASP)
Customer
A
Customer
B
Customer
C
Application
Application
Application
Database
Database
Database
Operation of a
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Vendor
Customer
A
Customer
B
Customer
C
Application
Customer
A
Customer
B
Customer
C
Prototyping
Systems
Investigation
Systems
Analysis
Systems
Design
Deliverable:
Go/No Go
Decision
Deliverable:
User
Requirement
Deliverable:
Technical
Specification
Upper CASE
Tools
Joint
Application
Design (JAD)
Programming
and Testing
Implement
The
System
Lower CASE
Tools
Operation and
Maintenance
The SDLC
Major advantages
Control
Accountability
Error detection
Major drawbacks
Relatively inflexible
Time-consuming and expensive
Discourages changes once user requirements
are gathered
Feasibility Study
Technical feasibility
Economic feasibility
Organizational feasibility
Behavioral feasibility
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The Solution
The Results