Organizational Structure
Organizational employees must work closely together to develop strategic initiatives that
create competitive advantages.
Ethics and security are two fundamental building blocks that organizations must base their
businesses upon.
IT Roles and Responsibilities
Information technology is a relatively new function area, having only been around formally
for around 40 years.
Recent IT-related strategic positions :
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
- Broad CIO functions include :
*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.
*Communicator
building and maintaining strong executive relationships.
If they have any problem involve IT personal, CIO that will solve it.
(more effectiveness)
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
- responsible for ensuring the throughput, speed, accuracy, availability, and reliability of IT.
- effectiveness because make sure the system is efficient.
Chief Security Officer (CSO)
- responsible for ensuring the security of IT systems.
- to make sure the system we do, no person can hack.
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.
ORGANIZATIONAL FUNDAMENTALS
- Ethics and security are two fundamental building blocks that organizations must base their
businesses on to be successful.
In recent years, such events as the Enron and Martha Stewart, along with 9/11 have shed new light on the meaning of ethics and security.
- 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. sometimes, we fell want to alone. don't want anyone bother we don't want someone to corrupt our business.
- Issues affected by technology advances
- intellectual property.
intangible creative work that is embodied in physical form. for example, from idea to
something we can hold.
create new things. so, there is intellectual property, can touch.
things that comes from a creative idea.
such as architects, building that we can touch.
- copyright
- the legal protection afforded an expression of an idea, such as a song, video, game,
and some types of proprietary documents.
- fair use doctrine
- in certain situations, it is legal to use copyrighted materials. for example song from
oversea to Malaysia.
- pirated software
- the unauthorized use, duplication, distribution, or sale of copyrighted software.
more cheap and free.
- counterfeit software
- software that is manufactured to look like the real thing and sold as such. for example,
buy antivirus, notify original but not original.
*One of the main ingredients in trust is privacy. the system is effective because customer will be satisfied but efficiency because the system can be slow.
- Security
organizational information is intellectual capital - it must be protected.
- Information security
the protection of information from accidental or intentional misuse by persons inside or
outside an organization.
- the CSO who save the information.
- E-business automatically creates tremendous information
- security risks for organizations.
