Organizational Structures That Support Strategic Initiatives ( Chapter 5 )

IT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITY

Most organization maintain positions such as chief executive officer (CEO), chief financial officer, (CFO), and chief operations officer (COO) at the strategies level. The chief information officer (CIO) is responsible for overseeing all uses of information technology and ensuring the strategic alignment of IT with business goals and objective. The CIO often report directly to the CEO.

• Manager - ensure the delivery of all IT projects, on time and within budget.
• Leader - ensure the strategic vision of IT is in line with the strategic vision of the organization.
• Communicator - advocate and communicate the IT strategy by building and maintaining strong                            executive relationship.

1. Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is responsible for ensuring the throughput, speed, accuracy, availability, and realibility of an organization's information technology.
2. Chief Security Officer (CSO) is responsible for ensure the security of IT system and developing strategies and IT safeguard against attacks from hacker and virus.
3. Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) is responsible for ensuring the ethical and legal use of information within an organization.
4. Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) is responsible for collecting, maintaining, and distributing the organization's knowledge.

GAP BETWEEN BUSINESS PERSONNEL AND IT PERSONNEL

One of the greatest challenges today is effective communication between business personnel and IT personnel. Business personnel process expertise in functional areas such as marketing, accounting, sales and forth. IT personnel have a technological expertise. IT personnel have their own vocabularies consisting of acronyms and technical terms.

ORGANIZATION FUNDAMENTALS - ETHICS AND SECURITY

Ethics :-

• The principle and standards that guide our behavior toward other people.

Figure above shows for an overview of concept, terms, and ethics issues stemming from advances in technology.

• Privacy is one of the biggest ethical facing organization today. Trust between companies, customers, partners and suppliers is the support structure of the e-business world.