Chapter 5 : Organizational Structure That Support Strategic Initiatives

 Organizational Structures 

- Ethics and security are two fundamental building blocks that organizations must base their business upon.

IT Roles And Responsibilities 

- Recent IT related strategic positions :

Chief information officer (CIO) 

- Oversees all uses of IT and ensure the strategic alignment of IT with business goals and objectives.

- Broad CIO functions include : manager, leader and communicator. 

Chief technology officer (CTO) 

- Responsible for ensuring the throughput, speed, accurancy, availability, and reliability of IT.

Chief security officer (CSO)

- Responsible for ensuring the security of IT systems.

Chief privacy officer (CPO)

- Ensuring the ethical and legal use of IT.

Chief knowledge office (CKO)

- Collecting, maintaing, 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 knowledge expertise.

Improving Communications 

- Business personnel and IT personnel must seek to increase their understanding of IT. 

Organizing Fundamental-Ethics And Security

- Ethics : the principles and standards that guide our behaviour towards other people.

- Privacyis a major : the right to be alone, to have control over your own personal possessions. 

- Issue affected by technology advances : 1) Intelligent property, 2) copyright, 3) fair use doctrine,

4) pirated software, 5) counterfeit software.

- Security : the protection of information from accidental or intentional misuse by persons inside or outside an organization.