It roles and responsibilities:
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- Information technology is a relatively new functional area, having only been around formally for around 40 years.
· - Recent IT-related strategic position which is :
* Chief Information Officer (CIO).
* Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
* Chief Security Officer (CSO).
* Chief Privacy Officer (CPO).
* Chief Knowledge (CKO).
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
* Oversees all uses of IT and ensures the strategic alignment of IT with business goals and objectives. Make sure system that we used to save the information must align with the objective of the company.
CIO functions :
i. Manager is a ensuring the delivery of all IT projects, on time and within budget.
ii. Leader is a ensuring the strategic vision of IT is line with the strategic vision on the organization.Strategic those companies plans make sure align with the objectives of the company.
iii. Communicator is a building and maintaining strong executive relationships. Communicator very important to the company. It is because when company has a problem communicator will settle that problem.
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Responsible for ensuring the throughput, speed, accuracy, availability and reliability of IT. CTO more than efficiency
Chief Security Officer (CSO)
Responsible for ensuring the security of IT systems. Ensure that the system used to store company information taken care of properly.
Chief Privacy Officer (CPO)
Responsible for ensuring the ethical and legal use of information.
Chief Knowledge Officer (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 technology expertise. This typically cause a communications gap between business personnel and IT personnel.
Improving communications:
Business personnel must seek to increase their understanding of IT. Even though business personnel department don’t know about IT department but they must know how IT department do their job. It is because can easier business personnel department used technology if anything happen. IT personnel must seek to increase their understanding of the business. It is because can easier IT department do business personnel job if anything happen. It is the responsibility of the CIO to ensure the effective communication between business personnel and IT personnel.
Organizational fundamentals—ethics and security
- Ethics and security are two fundamentals building blocks that organizations must base their business on to be successful.
Ethics:
Ø Definitions for ethics are the principles and standards that guide our behavior towards other people.
Ø Issues affected by technology advance:
i. Intellectual property is the intangible creative work that is embodied in form such as architect.
ii. Copyright is the legal protection afforded an expression of an idea, such as a song, video game, and some types of proprietary documents.
iii. Fair use doctrine is the in certain situation. It is legal to use copyrighted material. For example song, different lyrics but same rhythm.
iv. Pirated software is the unauthorized use, duplication distribution, or sale of copyright software
v. Counterfeit software is the software that is manufactured to look like the real thin and sold as such. For example that property actually not original but when I sold that property same like original price.
Security:
o Organizational information is intellectual capital it must be protected
o Information security means the protections of information from accidental or intentional misuse by persons inside or outside an organization. CSO must guide this system for company information.
o E-business automatically creates tremendous information security risks for organizations.
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