Critical Success Factors :
Critical Success Factors What are they?
Those few things that must be done well for the organization to survive and/or prosper. Computer Information Systems • Robinson College of Business • Georgia State University
Critical Success Factors :
Critical Success Factors Why have them?
So that you can pay attention to them! Computer Information Systems • Robinson College of Business • Georgia State University
Critical Success Factors :
Critical Success Factors For whom?
For senior and middle management – but not as the same group
Different levels of management will have different CSFs
To use CSFs effectively, you need to be capable of creative thinking Computer Information Systems • Robinson College of Business • Georgia State University
Critical Success Factors :
Critical Success Factors What are the benefits?
For specifying critical information systems
To focus attention on important matters
As an management alignment technique Computer Information Systems • Robinson College of Business • Georgia State University
Critical Success Factors :
Critical Success Factors How do you do it?
A five-step approach:
What objectives are central to your organization?
What critical success factors are essential to meeting these objectives?
What decisions are key to these critical success factors?
What variables underlie these decisions and how are they measured?
What information systems will produce these measurers? Computer Information Systems • Robinson College of Business • Georgia State University