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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE THAT SUPPORT STRATEGIC INITIATIVES, chapter-5-9…
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE THAT SUPPORT STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
Organizational employees must work closely together that create competitive advantages
Ethics and security are two fundamental building blocks that organization must base their businesses upon
IT roles and responsibilities
Chief information officer (CIO)
manager- ensuring the delivery of all IT projects, on time and within budget
Leader- ensuring the strategic vision of IT is in line with the strategic vision of the organization
Communicator- building and maintaining strong executive relationship
Chief technology officer (CTO)
responsible for ensuring the throughput, speed, accuracy, availability, and reliability
Chief security officer (CSO)
responsible for ensuring the ethical and legal use of information
Chief knowledge officer (CKO)
responsible for collecting, maintaining and distributing organization's knowledge
Chief privacy Officer (CPO)
responsible for ensuring the ethical and legal use of informtion
The gap between business personnel and IT personnel
Business personnel possess expertise in functional areas such as marketing, accounting and sales
IT personnel have the technological expertise
This typically causes a communications gap between the business personnel and IT personnel
Improving communications
Business personnel must seek to increase their understanding of IT
IT personnel must seek to increase their understanding of business
Its is responsibility of the CIO to ensure effective communication between business personnel and IT personnel
Organizational fundamentals- ethics and security
Ethics and security are two fundamental building blocks that organizations must base their businesses on to be successful
In recent years, such events as the Enron and Martha Stewart, along with 9/11 have shed new light on the meaning of ethics and secutiry
Ethics- the principal and standards that guide our behavior toward other people
major ethical issue : privacy
issue affected by technology advances
intellectual property
intangible creative work that is embodied in physical form
copyright
the legal protection afforded an expression of an idea, such as a song, video game and some types of proprietary documents
fair use doctrine
in certain situations, it is legal to use copyrighted material
pirated software
The unauthorized use, duplication, distribution or sale of copyrighted software
counterfeit software
software that is manufactured to look like a real thing and sold as such
security
Information security- the protection of information from accidental or intentional misuse by persons inside or outside an organization
E-business automatically creates tremendous information security risks for organization
