Strategic IS/IT planning: A Rudimental Need for the Fourth Development Plan

Information Systems/ Information Technology (IS/IT) signifies an organization's use of computer systems for project completion and goal realization. Strategic planning has, for long, empowered the organizations to fully utilize the information systems and technologies at their disposal. Research findings, however, indicate how complex and fraught with setbacks this kind of planning can be. With Iran's Fourth Development Plan on the horizon, the planners should make extensive use of the information systems and technologies to foster an efficient administrative system. This would be an almost impossible feat without the application of information systems and technology in new economic fields and previously- Unventured domains. The present article underlines the need to plan for the development of information systems and technologies in a drive to revamp Iran's economic and social infrastructures and studies the prospects and challenges facing this initiative.