1. The FBI is “an intelligence-driven and a threat-focused national security organization.” It has both intelligence and law enforcement responsibilities.
( http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/quick-facts)
2. The FBI’s mission is “to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners”.( http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/quick-facts).
3. Headquarted in Washington, the FBI has 35,344 employees. It has 56 field offices and 380 other offices in the US .It also has 60 offices in foreign…show more content… The Information Strategy Triangle:
The information strategy triangle represents the relationships between business strategy, organizational strategy and information strategy. The business strategy of an organization drives its organizational and information strategy. The organizational strategy includes components like organizational structure, HR policies, and vendor policies. The Information strategy includes decisions made about the software, applications, hardware etc. (Pearlson & Saunders,2013).
In the case of FBI, the three components of the Information Systems triangle, viz., business strategy, organizational strategy and information strategy were misaligned and did not support each other. Organizations in which these three components are misaligned rarely succeed to achieve to their stated missions and objectives.
“Business” Strategy of FBI:
The FBI is a government, not-for-profit organization with a serious mission. To achieve its mission, the FBI engages in “a number of important operational pursuits that are tantamount to enterprise business objectives, even though those operational pursuits do not have profit-making goals” ( McGroddy & Lin…show more content… Thus, in short, an enterprise system serves as a roadmap to an organization like FBI to visualize how technology can be deployed to accomplish the organizational objectives. The FBI failed in designing an Enterprise Architecture and there by failed to clearly envision how the proposed changes in its Information technology infrastructure could be linked to its mission and objectives ( McGroddy & Lin
