|
|
Article: ASSESSING THE HEALTH OF AN INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS PORTFOLIO: AN EXAMPLE FROM PROCESS MANUFACTURING [1].
- Article from:
- MIS Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 University of Minnesota, MIS Research Center. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Abstract
This paper presents a model of the IS applications portfolio and illustrates how its "health" can be assessed through an example from process manufacturing. The health assessment is based on an evaluation by senior managers of a business unit's portfolio of information systems. This assessment is made on five separate, but related, attributes of each system in the portfolio: importance, investment, technical quality, use, and management value.
The "Health Grid" is introduced as a way of representing the IS applications portfolio in order to facilitate the assessment and interpretation of its health. One of the advantages of using the grid is to ...