Improving the development of IS strategies in a large multinational

Traditionally, companies have struggled with IS/IT (information systems/information technology) strategy development. Often they have assumed that it is heavily reliant on technical knowledge and therefore the domain of the IT professional – the IT ‘anorak’ as they might say. Recent literature, however, has pointed to the need for the whole organization to actively participate in, and own, IS/IT strategy development and implementation (see, for example, Scott Morton, 1991).