Okey I have lot to tell you about this new chapter which is ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES THAT SUPPORT STRATEGIC INIATIVES .
There are several IT positions in the organization which is :
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER (CIO)
Responsible for oversees all uses of infromation technologies and ensures the strategic alignment of IT with business goals and objective . Broad functions of a CIO 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 ogranization
- Communicator : Building and maintaining strong executive relationship .
- Enhancing customer satisfaction
- Security
- Technology evaluation
- Budgeting
- Staffing
- ROI analysis
- Building new application
- Outsourcing hosting
Responsible for ensuring the throughput, speed , accuracy , avaibility , and realibility of an organization's information technology .
CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER (CSO)
Responsible for ensuring the security of IT systems and developing strategies and IT safeguards againts attacks from hackers and viruses .
CHIEF PRIVACY OFFICER (CPO)
Responsible for ensuring the ethical and legal legal use of information within an organization .
CHIEF KNOWLEDGE OFFICER (CKO)
Responsible for collecting, maintaining, and distributing the organization's knowledge . The CKO design programs and systems that make it easy for people to reuse knowledge .
SKILL PIVOTAL FOR SUCCESS IN EXECUTIVE IT ROLES
- Ability to communication effectively
- Strategic thinking and planning
- Understanding business processes and operations
- Negotiation or sales skills
- Thorough knowledge of technology options
- Technical proficiency
THE GAP BETWEEN BUSINESS PERSONNEL AND IT PERSONNEL
Business personnel posses expertise in functional areas such as marketing , accounting , and sales while IT personnel expertise in technologies . This typically causes a communications gap between the business personnel and IT personnel . To overcome this gap they must improving communication between them . Business personnel and OT personnel must seek to increase their understanding about each other . This is CIO responsibility to ensure that the effective communication between business personnel and OT personnel.
ORGANIZATIONAL FUNDAMENTALS - ETHNICS AND SECURITY
Ethnics and security are two fundamental building blocks that organizations must base their businesses on to be successful . The value of highly secure organization should be evident .
ETHNICS
Ethnics is the principle and standards that guide our behaviour toward other people . Privacy is a major ethnical issue . Privacy is the right to be left alone when you want to be, to have control over your own personal possessions , and not to be observed without your consent . Issues affected by technologies advanced :
- Intellectual property : Intangible creative work that is embodied in physical from
- Copyright : The legal protection afforded an expression of an idea such as song , video game , and some types of proprietary documents
- Fair use dictrine : In certain situations , it is legal to use copyrighted software
- Pirated software : The unauthorized use , duplication, distribution or sale of copyrighted software
- Counterfeit software : Software that is manufactured to look like the real thing and sold as such .
SECURITY
Information security is 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 . Organizational information is intellectual capital it must be protected .
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