CHAPTER 5 (MGT300)

Organizational Structures that Support Strategic Initiatives

  • Organizational employees must work closely together to develop strategic initiatives that create competitive advantage
  • Ethics and security are two fundamental building blocks that organizations must base their businesses upon
IT Roles and Responsibilities
  • Recent IT-related strategic positions: Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chief Security Officer (CSO), Chief Privacy Officer (CPO), Chief Knowledge Office (CKO).
  • Chief Information Officer (CTO)- oversees all uses of IT and ensures the strategic alignment of IT with business goals and objectives
  • Chief Technology Officer (CTO)- responsible for ensuring the throughput, speed, accuracy, availability and reliability of IT
  • 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
Organizational Fundamentals- Ethics and Security
  • Ethics and security are two fundamental building blocks that organizations must base their businesses on to be successful
Ethics
- the principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people

Issues affected by technology advances
  • Intellectual property
  • Copyright
  • Fair use doctrine
  • Pirated software
  • Counterfeit software
Security
  • Organizational information is intellectual capital
  • Information security- the protection of information from accidental or intentional misuse by persons inside or outside and organization


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