When analysing an organisation with the intention of drawing up an IS Strategy, it is important to consider the internal aspects and operations of the organisation in question. Gregory Parsons suggests that generic IS Strategies exist and can be categorized into 6:
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Centrally Planned Strategy – IS is planned centrally yet responsibility for its execution and control is distributed;
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Leading Edge Strategy – Leading edge technology is adopted because it is perceived to give the organisation business benefit;
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Free Market Strategy – Users are allowed to make decisions on IS and they then negotiate for IS projects;
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Monopoly Strategy – Information is a protected asset and IS is planned and controlled centrally;
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Scarce Resource Strategy – Development of IS requires clear justification therefore users are made to bid for IS resources;
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Necessary Evil Strategy – IT is seen as a necessary evil and investment is only made ‘on sufferance’
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