The Relationship between Strategic Information Systems Planning Facilitators and the Success of South Korean Organisations

Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) is an important activity for strategic use of IS/IT in today’s dynamic and increasingly digitalized organisations. However, SISP is not a very straight forward task as it entails simultaneous multiple planning views as well as changing environmental and organisational issues. Although SISP has been widely studied, to date theory on SISP facilitators remain sparse. Therefore the aim of this study is to explore SISP facilitators for sustainable organisational performance and a competitive advantage. This study explores the relationship between SISP facilitators, SISP success and the outcome of SISP in organisations. This study proposes a model indicating the relationship between facilitators of SISP success and organizational outcomes. By surveying a random sample of SISP experts in large South Korean organisations, and via SEM analysis, the relationship between SISP facilitators and outcomes has been determined. The outcome suggests that facilitators positively affect SISP success through improved business-IT strategic alignment and IS planning effectiveness. SISP success includes the achievement of dynamic capabilities and IT infrastructure flexibility. This study proves that a positive relationship among facilitators is essential for SISP and successful organizational outcome. This finding adds to the theory of SISP, and provides a guide to Information Systems planners and organizational managers

The promise of organ and tissue preservation to transform medicine

The ability to replace organs and tissues on demand could save or improve millions of lives each year globally and create public health benefits on par with curing cancer. Unmet needs for organ and tissue preservation place enormous logistical limitations on transplantation, regenerative medicine, drug discovery, and a variety of rapidly advancing areas spanning biomedicine. A growing coalition of researchers, clinicians, advocacy organizations, academic institutions, and other stakeholders has assembled to address the unmet need for preservation advances, outlining remaining challenges and identifying areas of underinvestment and untapped opportunities. Meanwhile, recent discoveries provide proofs of principle for breakthroughs in a family of research areas surrounding biopreservation. These developments indicate that a new paradigm, integrating multiple existing preservation approaches and new technologies that have flourished in the past 10 years, could transform preservation research. Capitalizing on these opportunities will require engagement across many research areas and stakeholder groups. A coordinated effort is needed to expedite preservation advances that can transform several areas of medicine and medical science