Integrating Strategic Information Systems Planning into Nigerian Security Agencies

Abstract

Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) as a means for technology optimization plays important role along with Information system as the key player. Security information as the major resource for Information Systems is produced from the massive data collected by security agencies on daily basis. While other countries continuously strive to be several steps ahead of crime and their perpetrators, map out crime pattern, and implement efficient security personnel allocation by mining the voluminous data from their Information Systems (IS) as a means of achieving their organization goals, the absence of both hard and soft working infrastructure that can serve the purpose of collecting adequate data further complicates matters for Nigerian security agencies. These different security challenges can be identified and linked with strategic planning, obsolete computing resources, Information Systems features, data collection and Information Systems adoption. This study targets the audience of the top decision makers and managers of Nigerian security agencies by provides a framework for integrating SISP into security agencies. This is in order to facilitate the achievement security agencies organizational goals and make them benefit from a functional IS and put them on track to catching up with their counterparts around the world within the shortest possible time.