CHAPTER
5: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES THAT SUPPORT STRATEGIC
Olla everyone..!
Previously my post is about chapter 4 in IT. And today I would like to share
with
you guys about
chapter 5 in IT which is organizational structures that support strategic
initiatives. Lets check
it out..!
Organizational
Structure
·
Organizational
employees must work closely together to develop strategic initiatives that
create competitive advantages
·
Ethics
and security are two fundamental building blocks that organizations must base
their businesses upon
IT
Roles and Responsibilities
•
Information
technology is a relatively new functional area, having only been around
formally for around 40 years
•
Recent
IT-related strategic positions:
– Chief Information Officer (CIO)
– Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
– Chief Security Officer (CSO)
– Chief Privacy Officer (CPO)
–
Chief
Knowledge Office (CKO)
•
Chief
Information Officer (CIO)
– oversees all uses of IT and ensures the strategic alignment of IT with
business goals and objectives
•
Broad
CIO functions include:
– 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 relationships
The table below shows the average CIO compensation by
industry
While in this picture shows what concerns CIOs the
most?
•
Chief
Technology Officer (CTO) – responsible for ensuring the throughput, speed,
accuracy, availability, and reliability of IT
•
Chief
Security Officer (CSO) – responsible for ensuring the security of IT
systems
•
Chief
Privacy Officer (CPO) – responsible for ensuring the ethical and legal
use of information
•
Chief
Knowledge Office (CKO) - responsible for collecting, maintaining, and
distributing the organization’s knowledge
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 the business
•
It is the 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
security
Ethics
Here I would like to share with you guys with Issues
Affected by Technology Advances
While there is one of the main ingredients in trust
is privacy. Privacy is one of the biggest ethical issues facing organizations
today. Trust between companies, customers, partners, and suupliers is the
support structure of the ebusiness world
.
The table below shows the primary reasons privacy
issues lost trust for e-business.
Security
•
Organizational information is intellectual capital -
it must be protected
•
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 organizations
The figure displays the typical size of an
organization’s information security budget relative to the organization's
overall IT budget
While this this figure below displays the spending
per employee on computer security
THE END
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