A management information system for planning enables the corporation to have a central facility where large amounts of information can be gathered and stored.
This information can be rapidly retrieved and updated to assist managers in making decisions.
The first activity of the systems planning and selection phase of the SDLC is proj- ect identification and selection.
During this activity, a senior manager, a business. group, an IS manager, or a steering committee identifies and assesses all possible. systems development projects that a business unit could undertake.
Information systems planning (ISP) is a process of defining objectives for organizational computing and identifying suitable potential information technology (IT) applicable to the company.