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In this chapter,
I've learned the duties of the officers that relates with the IT. There are
many jobs and in this chapter, it will explain with details the roles of the
officers.
Organizational Structures
Employees across the organization
must work closely together to develop strategic initiatives that create
competitive advantages. Understanding the basic structure of a typical IT
department including titles, roles, and responsibilities will help an
organization build a cohesive enterprise wide team. It
also as communication flowcharts that communication in which managers at
various levels is required to deliver information to too many people for too
many levels of approval. Well-designed
organizational structures will produce efficient communication channels and
encourage fast, clean decisions. To develop strategic initiatives that create
competitive advantages organizational employees must work closely together.
IT Roles and Responsibilities
Every
organizational should have organizational structures. Information technology is
a relatively new functional area having been around formally in most
organizations only for 40 years. Job titles, roles, and responsible often
differ dramatically form organization to organization. There are 5 important
roles in IT department.
·
Chief information officer (CIO)
·
Chief technology officer (CTO)
·
Chief security officer (SCO)
·
Chief privacy officer (CPO)
·
Chief knowledge officer (CKO)
For the first roles, Chief
information officer (CIO), its responsible for (1) overseeing all
uses of IT and (2) ensuring the strategic alignment of IT with business
goals and objectives. The CIO often reports directly to the CEO. CIO must be
concerned with more than IT. Broad functions of CIO include:
- 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.
The next roles in IT department
is Chief technology officer (CTO) is responsible for
ensuring the throughput, speed, accuracy, availability, and reliability of an
organization's information technology. CTOs similar to CIOs but except that
CIOs responsible for effectiveness of ensuring that IT is aligned with the
organization's strategic initiatives. CTOs have directed responsible for
ensuring the efficiency of IT systems throughout the organization. CTOs possess
well-rounded knowledge of all aspects of IT, including hardware, software, and
telecommunications.
Chief Security officer
(CSO) responsible for ensuring the security of IT systems and
developing strategies and IT safeguards against attacks from hackers and
viruses. If there are no CSO, many hackers easy to hacks the website and
collect the data from the website.
Chief privacy officer (CPO) is
responsible for ensuring the ethical and legal use of information within an
organization. CPOs is the newest senior executive position in IT. Many CPOs are
lawyers by training, enabling them to understand the often complex legal issues
surrounding the use of information.
Chief knowledge officer
(CKO) is responsible for collecting, maintaining, and distributing
the organization's knowledge. The CKO design programs and systems that make it
easy for people to reuse the knowledge. These systems create repositories of
organizational documents, methodologies, tools and practices, and they establish
methods for filtering the information. The CKO must continuously encourage
employee contributions to keep the systems up-to-date.
Gap Between Business Personnel And It Personnel
The
gap between the business arm in a company and information technology is exist because
presence of perception business people that the Information Technology
Department generates expenses not income. This means, they looks alike
liability and not asset to the company. In the same time, The Information
technology department is “hidden” from the customer often classified as a “back
office” business initiative or process. This creates a different perspective to
the business personnel and the result, a gap is existing.
Ways to
Decrease Gap between both IT Personnel and Business Personnel
i.
Communication
·
Communication
is the main ingredient that will close the gap between the business personnel
and the IT Department. Business leaders must understand, really understand,
that Information Technology is not optional but critical to the success of
the business.
·
The
head of the company sets the tone for the entire business.
·
In
addition IT department teams need to understand the business practices of the
company.
ii.
Cross
Training
·
Rettig
suggests that initiating cross training is one way to reduce the distance
between business and IT.
·
Cross
training is a loaded concept and
most technologists will be specialists with years
of training in their chosen fieldt. This mean,
the IT personnel could be train with other department skills to instill some
confidence in them. Not to give them other job.
ORGANIZATIONAL
FUNDAMENTAL
1.
ETHICS
Ethics
is the principle and standards that guide our behavior toward other people.
Descriptive
ethics is exactly that a description of "what is" in the land
of business ethics. This perception seeks to recognize moral &
ethical systems shared by people, cultures, and societies. This form
seeks to know prevailing views and actions about ethical
performance. One problem to this school of thought is that using
this perspective may lead one to believe that an actual unethical behavior is
satisfactory because "everyone is doing it."
Issues Affected By Technology Advances:
2.
PRIVACY
The right to be left alone when you want to be, to
have control over your own personal possession, and to not be observed without
you concern. Some of the most problematic decision organization faces lies in
the murky and turbulent waters of privacy. The burden counts from the knowledge
that each time employees make a decision regarding issues of privacy, the
outcome could sink the company someday.
For
example, the boundaries and content of what is considered private differ among
cultures and individuals, but share basic common themes.
3.
SECURITY
– how much will downtime cost your business.
The
old business axiom “time is money” needs to be updated to more accurately
reflect the crucial interdependence between IT and business processes. To
reflect the times, the phrase up time is money. The leading cause of downtime
is a software failure followed by human error, according to Informatics
Research.
Unplanned downtime can strike anytime
form any number of causes, ranging from tornado to sink overflows to network
failures to power outage. Although natural disasters may appear to be the most
diver stating causes of IT outages, they are hardly the most frequent of
biggest threats to up time.
So, i will stop this chapter here. Hopefully, you guys understand and can take note about what i have explain. as usual....wait for the next chapter. see you again...XOXO...Bye!
So, i will stop this chapter here. Hopefully, you guys understand and can take note about what i have explain. as usual....wait for the next chapter. see you again...XOXO...Bye!