ABSTRACT: Strategic infonnation systems planning is the process of creating a
long-range plan of computer-based applications to enable an organization to achieve
its goals. Previous research has shown that many problems can potentially impede
information systems planners as they carry out the process. The current study uses a
survey of eighty information systems planners to investigate a causal relationship
among the problems. It reveals a causal model describing (1) the influence of
organization problems on hardware, cost, and database problems, and (2) the influence
of organization, hardware, cost, and database problems on implementation problems.
Cost problems had the largest direct effect on implementation problems.