This paper reports on the development and application of an instrument to evaluate the overall IT fitness of medium sized enterprises. The instrument was designed in 1997 as part of an applied research project with the close co-operation of scientists and consultants, as well as various market...

Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) has been among the highest ranked issues on management agendas for many years. As such, SISP should be a major concern for researchers as well. However, SISP does not play that important of a role in the academic discussion, at least in Germany....

Wirtschaftliche Strukturänderungen stellen heute neue Anforderungen an die Organisationsstruktur von Unternehmen, die häufig nur durch den Einsatz von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik (IKT) erfüllt werden können. Gleichzeitig deutet das sogenannte Produktivitätsparadoxon darauf hin,...

Notwithstanding the substantial overall research efforts in the field of Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP), the “IS strategy“ as the goal and outcome of SISP has received only limited research attention to date. In addition, there is considerable evidence that the debates on IS...