Strategic information planning and performance of SMEs: A structural equation modelling approach

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Human systems management Pub Date : 2023-07-27 DOI:10.3233/hsm-230044

Kadri S. Al_Shukri

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The business environment is getting unstable due to which execution of decision support systems has become significant to maintain competitive advantage. Small and medium enterprises in particular confront issues, such as insufficiency of devising strategic planning, strategic decision-making, and information exchange, as well as difficulty increasing performance. Because functional strategic management and decision-making are required, strategic information systems planning is employed to accumulate information and assist decision-makers in developing and implementing the best strategy for gaining superior performance. Executives in information systems focus on technical difficulties while ignoring decisions to support strategic plans. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to investigate how strategic information systems planning contributes to increased performance in SMEs. METHODS: Data was gathered through questionnaires distributed to information system executives in SMEs, primarily in Jordan. The data was collected with the help of questionnaires adopted from prior studies. For Analysis after applying the diagnostic tests, structural equation modelling has been applied to test the framework developed based on the literature. RESULTS: A structural equation modeling (SEM) was conducted, the individual loadings of the SEM items are investigated, reliability and discriminant validity is tested, and path coefficients of hypothesized relationships of the developed model are tested. CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggested that managers should prioritize implementing strategic information systems planning so that they can gain superior performance with better agility in the future. This research not only enhances the current understanding of the significance of strategic information systems planning but also assists supervisors to improve the procedure.

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中小企业的战略信息规划与绩效:结构方程建模方法

背景：商业环境越来越不稳定，因此决策支持系统的执行对保持竞争优势具有重要意义。中小型企业尤其面临着战略规划、战略决策和信息交流不足以及难以提高业绩等问题。由于需要职能战略管理和决策，战略信息系统规划被用来积累信息，并帮助决策者制定和实施最佳战略，以获得卓越的绩效。信息系统的管理人员专注于技术难题，而忽视了支持战略计划的决策。目的：本文的目的是研究战略信息系统规划如何有助于提高中小企业的绩效。方法：通过向中小企业（主要是约旦）的信息系统高管发放问卷收集数据。数据是在先前研究中采用的问卷调查的帮助下收集的。对于应用诊断测试后的分析，已应用结构方程建模来测试基于文献开发的框架。结果：进行了结构方程建模（SEM），研究了SEM项目的个体负荷，检验了可靠性和判别有效性，并检验了所开发模型的假设关系的通径系数。结论：研究结果表明，管理者应该优先实施战略信息系统规划，以便在未来以更好的灵活性获得卓越的绩效。本研究不仅增强了当前对战略信息系统规划重要性的理解，而且有助于主管改进程序。

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Human systems management MANAGEMENT-

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3.50

自引率

30.40%

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期刊介绍： Human Systems Management (HSM) is an interdisciplinary, international, refereed journal, offering applicable, scientific insight into reinventing business, civil-society and government organizations, through the sustainable development of high-technology processes and structures. Adhering to the highest civic, ethical and moral ideals, the journal promotes the emerging anthropocentric-sociocentric paradigm of societal human systems, rather than the pervasively mechanistic and organismic or medieval corporatism views of humankind’s recent past. Intentionality and scope Their management autonomy, capability, culture, mastery, processes, purposefulness, skills, structure and technology often determine which human organizations truly are societal systems, while others are not. HSM seeks to help transform human organizations into true societal systems, free of bureaucratic ills, along two essential, inseparable, yet complementary aspects of modern management: a) the management of societal human systems: the mastery, science and technology of management, including self management, striving for strategic, business and functional effectiveness, efficiency and productivity, through high quality and high technology, i.e., the capabilities and competences that only truly societal human systems create and use, and b) the societal human systems management: the enabling of human beings to form creative teams, communities and societies through autonomy, mastery and purposefulness, on both a personal and a collegial level, while catalyzing people’s creative, inventive and innovative potential, as people participate in corporate-, business- and functional-level decisions. Appreciably large is the gulf between the innovative ideas that world-class societal human systems create and use, and what some conventional business journals offer. The latter often pertain to already refuted practices, while outmoded business-school curricula reinforce this problematic situation.