ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE THAT SUPPORT STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

Organizational Structures

• 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 business upon.

IT Roles and Responsibilities

• Information technology is a new functional area and it has been around formally around 40 years.

# Recent IT-related strategic positions :

~ Chief Information Officer ( CIO )

= Oversees all uses of IT and ensures the strategic alignment of IT with business goals and objectives.

= Broad CIO function 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.

• Average CIO compensation by industry

• Concerns of CIOs 

~ 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.

• Skill pivotal for success in executive IT roles

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.

Because of this issue it create a communications gap between the business personnel and IT personnel.

Improving Communication

# 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 if 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.

# Ethics

=  The principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people.

# Privacy

= A major ethical issue

= 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 :

1.  Intellectual property

         - Intangible creative work that is embodied in physical form.

  2.   Copyright

         - The legal protection afforded an expression of an idea, such as a song, video game and some types of proprietary documents

   3. Fair use doctrine

        - In certain situations, it is legal to use copyrighted material.

   4.  Pirated software 

     - The unauthorized use, duplication, distribution or sale of copyrighted software.

  

   5. Counterfeit software

        - Software that is manufactured to look like the real thing and sold as such.

•  One of the fundamental and essential in trust is privacy
• Primary reasons privacy issues lost trust for e-business :

    

 

# Security

•  Organizational information is intellectual capital and it must be protected from any harm.

~ 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.