chapter 5 :Organizational structures That support strategic initiatives

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 roles and responsibilities

The chief information officer (CIO) is responsible for:-

overseeing all uses of information technology

ensuring the strategic alignment of IT wigh business goals and objectives

Broad functions of a CIO include:

Manager-- ensure the delivery of all IT projects, on time and within budget.

Leader--ensure the strategic vision of IT is inline with the strategic vision of the organization.

Communicator--advocate and communicate the IT strategy by building and maintaining strong executive relationships.

The chief technology officer (FTO) is responsible for :-

ensuring the throughput, speed, accuracy, availability, and reliability of an organization's information technology.

The chief security officer (CSO) is responsible for :-

ensuring the security of IT systems and developing strategies and IT safeguards against attacks from viruses.

The chief privacy officer (CPO) is responsible for :-

ensuring the ethical and legal use of information within an organization.

The chief knowledge officer (CKO) is responsible for :-

collecting,  maintaining, and distributing the organization's knowledge.

>>The Gap between Business Personnael and IT Personnel improving communications

Organizational Fundamentals---Ethics and Security

  Ethics and security are two fundamental building blocks that organizations must base their businesses on.

Ethics

Technology poses new challenges for our ethics---the principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people.

Privacy is the right to b e left alone when you wat to be, to have control over your own personal possessions, and to not be oberved without your consent.

Protection Intellectual Assets

Organizational information is intellectual capital.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) protectes the privacy and security of personal health records and has the potential to impact every business in the United States.

Information security is a broad term encompassing the protection of information form accidental of intentional misuse by persons inside or outside an organization.

>>basically, its this chapter explain about the function, roles and responsibilities of information technology. With the implimation of CPO,CKO,CSO,CIO and FTO, the information will delivery and spread morev quickly and accurate from one to another. Its explain that the itb have variety roles to ensure the information will delivery to the right person