Chapter 5-Organization Structure that support strategic initiatives

Recent IT-related strategic position:

• Chief Information Officer (CIO)
• Chief Technology Officer (CTO)-responsible for ensuring the throughout speed, accuracy, availability and reliability.
• 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.

 

CIO-oversees all uses of IT and ensures the strategic alignment of IT with business goals and objectives.
Function:

• 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.
• Communication-building and maintaining strong executive relationship.

 

Ethics-the principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people.

• Privacy-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 technology advances:
• Intellectual property-intangible creative work that is embodied in the physical form.
• Copyright-The legal protection afforded an expression of an idea such as song, video games and others.
• Pirate software-The unauthorized use, duplication, distribution, sale of copy righted software.
• Fair use doctrine-in certain situations, it is legal to use copyrighted material.
• Counterfeith software-Software that is manufactured to look like real thing sold as such.

 

Security-organizational information is intellectual capital-it must be protected.

• Information security-the protection of information from accidental by persons inside or outside an organization.
• E-business automatically creates tremendous information security for organization.