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As the information system becomes more important with the environmental change of the information technology. the MIS stage theory of growth appears for the MIS efficient building and management of the organization. The growth stage theory supplies a conceptual framework for the change of the information system and its growth factors are necessary to be applied as general guidelines for information system planning. The purpose of this paper is to study the growth stage theory of information system related to the strategic MIS planning for the management issues of information system. The study of the growth stage theory stemmed from the four stages theory reported by Richard L. Nolan in 1973, which has been developed with times. Thus the context of this study is to evaluate its contributions and limits to the information system with the Nolan`s stage theory of growth as central point and relate its results to the growth direction of the information system theory. If the Nolan`s stage theory is not enough to explain the growth stages of information system with Korean companies in the further study, it is necessary to develop our unique measurement approaches based on Nolan`s theory and find the special growth stage theory for Korean companies.