Host: The Japan Society for Management Information
Entering 21st Century, being pressed for financial globalization, it has become imperative for Japanese financial institutions including banks and securities companies to establish global strategy and strategic information systems (SIS), yet such development has been delayed due to computer network system failures. In the past, those failures were often treated as technical issues. This study aims to make a different approach by clarifying the background and treating them as ones resulting from a strategic management. The author analyzes two case studies; a study on a city bank aspired to be a megabank and a study on Tokyo Stock exchange, a core institution of stock exchange, so as to indicate main challenges as well as measures which Japanese financial institutions face in developing SIS.
