IS Strategic Decision-Making: A Garbage Can View
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Developing information systems (IS) strategies and choosing the right IS portfolio for an organi-zation require, among other things, identifying the most appropriate IS projects, determining how best to organize the IS staff, and arranging for IS procurement. All of these actions involve deci-sion-making. This paper analyzes IS strategic decision-making in organizations, with the Garbage Can Model (GCM) of decision-making providing the theoretical framework. Our findings show that IS strategic decision-making often happens through GCM processes, and while these proc-esses are hard to control and predict, the decision quality tends to be high at the organizational level. At the individual level, however, Garbage Can processes tend to return low-quality IS stra-tegic decisions.
DOI: 10.28945/1028
Authors: Harald Fardal, Jan-Oddvar Sørnes
Institution: Vestfold University College
Language: English
Subfield: Management Information Systems
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W1489014637