Report on Strategic Information System (SIS)

Running head: STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEM
Strategic Information System
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Discussion........................................................................................................................................2
Part 1: Roles of Stakeholders.......................................................................................................2
Part 2: Understanding the Business.............................................................................................6
Business Situation....................................................................................................................6
Business Needs........................................................................................................................7
Business Priorities...................................................................................................................7
Organizational Structure and Capabilities...............................................................................8
Business Challenges, Risks and Approaches for Mitigation...................................................9
IT Challenges, Risks and Approaches for Mitigation.............................................................9
Processes..................................................................................................................................9
IT Infrastructure and Operations...........................................................................................11
Information Systems and Enterprise Architecture.................................................................11
Budgets and Spending...........................................................................................................11
Part 3: About the CIO................................................................................................................11
Role of CIO in South Australian Police................................................................................11
Evolving Role of CIO............................................................................................................11
Expectation of Top Management from IT/ IS.......................................................................11
Influence of CIO in South Australian Police.........................................................................11
Performance of IT/ IS............................................................................................................11
Weaknesses of IT/ IS in South Australian Police..................................................................12
Recommended Improvement Actions for Risks....................................................................12
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
The strategic information system or SIS is the information system, which is developed for
corporate business initiative. This particular type of information system is mainly made for
providing competitive advantages to a particular organization or company (Galliers and Leidner
2014). The products or the services are delivered at low prices and are focused on a specific
segment of market. Strategic information management or SIM is the most significant
characteristic of information technology. The strategic information management helps the
organizations and businesses by categorizing, storing, processing and transferring the
information that are decided to be created or received. Moreover, this often provides certain
techniques to help the organizations for the information repositories (Peppard and Ward 2016).
The overall efficiency of the operations are also improved with the help of strategic information
management. The strategy planning is the most important step for any organization. When the
strategies of the organization are of error free, it is evident that the organization will be
successful in attaining the organizational goals and objectives.
The following report outlines a brief discussion on the strategy planning and formulation
of a real life organization or company. The objective of this report is to provide an opportunity to
plan and formulate information technology strategy in view of the real life constraints that an
organisation faces (Schobel and Denford 2012). The stakeholders play the most important role in
the strategy planning of an organization. The major stakeholders are CEO, CIO, CFO, CCO,
CHRO and external customers. This particular report describes about the role of Chief
Information Officer or CIO for a specific organizational strategy planning and formulation. The
report describes about the business situation, business requirements, and priorities of the
business, organizational structure, business challenges, risks, and approaches for mitigating the
risks. Moreover, the information technology risks and their approaches for mitigation are also
mentioned in this report (Pearlson, Saunders and Galletta 2016). The several processes,
infrastructures, operations and architectures of IT are also provided in this report.
Discussion
Part 1: Roles of Stakeholders
The stakeholders of an organization are group of individuals, person or a particular
organization. They are responsible for every growth of the organization and are affected by the
activities, actions, policies and objectives of that organization (Willcocks 2013). The examples
of major stakeholders are the employees, creditors, government, suppliers, unions and a
particular community, where from an organization has drawn the resources. The top management
is also considered as the stakeholders. These stakeholders are the CEO, CIO, CFO, CCO, CHRO
and all the external customers.
SA Police or the South Australian Police is the best police service in Australia. This
South Australian Police mainly gives the services of police without taking any break from the
work (Police.sa.gov.au, 2017). The services are twenty four hours in a day and seven days in a
week. They fulfil their duties and responsibilities for simply keeping the Australians safe and
secured. The South Australian Police agency was first formed on 28th April, in the year 1838 by
the Government of Australia. The agency was established under Henry Inman. There had been

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various significant and remarkable modifications and changes in the agency of South Australian
Police. This leading organization has amazing organizational and management bodies
(Police.sa.gov.au, 2017). The various stakeholders have several roles, responsibilities, routine
activities, concerns and strategic contribution for this particular organization. The various
stakeholders of South Australian Police are as follows:
i) CEO: The CEO of Chief Executive Officer of South Australian Police or SA Police is
responsible for leading the overall execution and development of the particular organization’s
strategies that are long term with a vision to create the value of shareholder (Mellott et al. 2012).
The leadership role of the Chief Executive Officer also involves being completely responsible
for all regular decisions of management and for the implementation of the interim and the long
term plans of the organization. The major responsibilities of the CEO of South Australian Police
are as follows:
a) The first role of the CEO is leading the Board of Members in such a way that the
organizational strategy is developed.
b) The second role of the CEO is to look after the implementation of the organizational
long term and short term plans.
c) The third role of the CEO is to be sure about the organizational structure and that all
the employees are working perfectly.
d) The fourth role of the CEO is to check that the major threats and the risks are assessed
properly and these risks are managed and monitored (Strand 2013).
e) The fifth role of the CEO is to ensure that the organization has proper systems for
enabling the activities ethically and morally.
f) The sixth role of the CEO is to make sure that the organization is maintaining higher
standards of the social responsibility and corporate citizenship wherever it does its business.
The major concerns and expectations of the Chief Executive Officer has from the Chief
Information Officer of South Australian Police are as follows:
Long Term Sustainability: The Chief Executive Officer of South Australian Police
normally has extreme expectation from the Chief Information Officer about the long term
sustainability of the organization (Arvidsson, Holmström and Lyytinen 2014). The long term
sustainability should be centralized to the strategic development process of the business. They
have the expectation that the CIO will merge the sustainability for the strategies of the business
and this will help them to plan ahead.
Maintaining Information Technology Equipments: The chief information officer or the
CIO maintains the equipments of information technology (Cassidy 2016). It is one of the major
concerns of the CEO of the organization that whether the equipments are maintained or not.
Investing in New Cost Efficiencies: The investment is again one of the major concerns of
the chief executive officer. It is the responsibility of the chief information officer to look into the
matter of investment in information technology for better efficiencies.