STRATEGIC INFORMATION-SYSTEMS PLANNING SUCCESS - AN INVESTIGATION OF THE CONSTRUCT AND ITS MEASUREMENT

Strategic information systems planning (SISP) requires significant out lays of increasingly scarce human and financial resources. Yet, there exists very little understanding of how the success of this planning a ctivity is measured. Using classical frameworks for measurement develo pment as well as contemporary statistical techniques for assessing dim ensionality, this study theoretically develops and empirically tests a measurement model of SISP success. The results suggest that SISP succ ess can be operationalized as a second-order factor model. The first o rder constructs of the model are termed alignment, analysis, cooperati on, and improvement in capabilities. These factors are governed by a s econd-order construct of SISP success. The results of the study are fr amed as a tool, for benchmarking planning efforts as well as a foundat ion for operationalizing a key dependent variable in SISP research.