CHAPTER 5 : ORGANIZATION STRUCTURES THAT SUPPORT STRATEGIC INITIATIVE

CHAPTER 5 : ORGANIZATION STRUCTURES THAT SUPPORT
                         STRATEGIC INITIATIVE

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.

• 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.
• Counterfeit 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.