Pitfalls in Strategic Planning

Lack of top management committment
Lack of clarity in organizational direction or business conditions necessitate change
Difficult to coordinate planning among decentralized business functions
Involvement of business users/mgrs to ensure successful system implementation
Strategic IS plan can not be kept up-to-date with changing business conditions

Notes:

Examples of each situation:

Apple: Bringing the Copland operating system out in stages because couldn’t wait the 1 year delay timeframe to bring it out as a complete product