The concept of Strategic Information Systems or "SIS" was first introduced into the field of information systems in 1982-83 by Dr. Charles Wiseman, President of a newly formed consultancy called "Competitive Applications," (cf. NY State records for consultancies formed in 1982) who gave a series of public lecture

Lecture

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s on SIS in NYC

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 sponsored by the Datamation Institute, a subsidiary of Datamation

Datamation

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 Magazine.

In 1985 Wiseman published an article

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 on this subject (co-authored by Prof.