Strategic Information System

Strategic Information System is a type of Information System that is aligned with business strategy and structure. The alignment increases the capability to respond faster to environmental changes and thus creates a competitive advantage "The information system to support or change enterprise's strategy." by Charles Wiseman

Strategic information system is different from other systems as: • they change the way the firm competes. by changing the goals,operations,products, services,or enviromentalrelationshipsof theorganistions to help them gain an over edge over competers. • they have an external (outward looking) focus. • they are associated with higher project risk. • they are innovative (and not easily copied

Key features •

1) Decision support systems that enable to develop a strategic approach to align Information Systems (IS) or Information Technologies (IT) with an organization's business strategies • 2) Primarily Enterprise resource planning solutions that integrate/link the business processes to meet the enterprise objectives for the optimization of the enterprise resources • 3) Database systems with the "data mining" capabilities to make the best use of available corporate information for marketing, production, promotion and innovation. The SIS systems also facilitate identification of the data collection strategies to help optimize database marketing opportunities. • 4) The real-time information Systems that intend to maintain a rapidresponse and the quality indicators.