Thursday, February 4, 2010

Strategic Information Systems Plan

The task for this particular assignment is to assume myself hired by a certain company to develop a strategic information systems plan or SISP. The company officers have invited me to meet with them to discuss the direction of the company. Before the meeting, I was asked to provide a set of questions so that they can be prepared. Moreover, these questions should be answered with explanations to maximize the output.

Thus, I have to develop questions that start with “why”. Or I can also include questions that begin in “what” or “how” for as long as it is followed up with “why” or needs some elaborations.

I have provided set of queries which touches the behavioral aspects of the company which encompasses the adaptability to change, flexibility, development, management, business goals, analysis and decision making, business thinking, skills, innovation, orientation, motivation, planning and organization so on and so forth.

Provided the explanations and justifications, below are possible questions I would provide the officers which are obviously things that relate to the forthcoming meeting.

1. What are the mission, vision, goals, and objectives of your company? How and why did the company obtain these ambitions?
2. How does each of the department or unit contribute to the attainment of the over-all company goals?
3. How does your company reach your goals?
4. How do you develop a project team's goals and project plan?
5. How do you adapt to the changes affecting your company?
6. How do you prioritize things in your company?
7. Why do you consider IT as an important aspect in the development of the company?
8. What is the importance of having an Information System in the business processes of the company?
9. How important is developing a strategic information systems plan or SISP in your company?
10. How do you handle unexpected circumstances on the way of the project development?
11. What are the risks that your company has faced in the past? How did you handle it?
12. What are the challenges that your company has succeeded and what are those that you have failed to struggle? How did you arrive with the outcome?
13. What projects have you started on your own recently? What motivated you to get started?
14. How important is building a good relationship in your company?
15. What are the keys in building a good relationship in your company?
16. Do you consider communication as an important toll in the development of the project? Why?
17. Give me an example of a time when you were able to successfully communicate
18. How do you handle things such as language gap or communication between the parties who are technically oriented and those that are not?
19. Have you undergone to choose a tough decision? How did you go about choosing one?
20. Give me examples of projects/tasks you started on your own.
21. Do you consider innovation as an important part in building success in the company? Why?
22. What innovative procedures have you developed? How did you develop them? Who was involved? Where did the ideas come from?
23. Have you taken a risk to achieve a certain goal? What was the outcome?
24. Have you consider the traditional way of developing things or try to have the new approach? What was the outcome? What is the most effective way applicable in your organization
25. Have you experienced having a tough problem on ethical issues? How did you handle it?
26. Tell us about a specific time when you had to handle a tough problem which challenged fairness or ethnical issues.
27. Have you ever had to introduce a policy change to your work group? How did you do it?
28. Have you ever met resistance when implementing a new idea or policy to a work group? How did you deal with it? What happened?
29. Describe the most challenging negotiation in which you were involved. What did you do? What were the results for you? What were the results for the other party?
30. Tell us about a specific development plan that you created and carried out with one or more of your employees. What was the specific situation? What were the components of the development plan? What was the outcome?
31. Problem Solving
32. Describe the most difficult working relationship you've had with an individual. What specific actions did you take to improve the relationship? What was the outcome?
33. In having a development plan, have you experienced encountering a team member that has no contribution? How do you handle with it?
34. How did you deal with all types of conflict?
35. How do you communicate goals to subordinates? Give an example.
36. How do you involve people in developing your unit's goals?
37. What company plans have you developed? Which ones have you reached? How did you reach them? Which have you missed? Why did you miss them?
38. What goals did you miss? Why did you miss them?
39. What goals have you met? What did you do to meet them?
40. Describe what steps/methods you have used to define/identify a vision for your unit/position.

Reference:

http://blog.emurse.com/2007/05/21/complete-list-of-behavioral-interview-questions/





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