Factors Affecting the Use of Computerised Strategic Planning Tools (SPT): Measures Development

Abstract

Management literature is full of planning tools such as the SWOT and
different portfolio analyses. Many of these tools have been either partially
or fully automated to enable collaborative working, building and evaluating
of scenarios among other activities of strategic management. However, a
systematic and empirical evaluation of the use of the computerised planning
tools cannot be performed without valid and reliable measures which
apparently is lacking in literature. This paper endeavours to build and
validate these measures by developing a framework from literature. The
framework is operationalised and measured through questionnaires
completed by 143 practising managers and MBA students from
management positions in the UK. The analysis of the primary study shows
a high reliability and validity of the developed instrument for measuring the
use of computerised strategic planning tools. To facilitate a future
comparative study between the use of computerised and non-computerised
planning tools, advantage has been taken in this study to also developed
measures for the use of non-computerised planning tools.