ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE THAT SUPPORT STRATEGIES INITIATIVES

ASSALAMUALAIKUM,

In this topic it related with the previous topic which is measuring the success of strategic initiative and we have to understand this topic for the better understanding.

INTRODUCTION OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES.

~Employees across the organization must work closely together to develop strategic initiative that create competitive advantage.
~Understanding the basic structure of a typical IT department including titles, roles, and responsibilities will help and organization build cohesive enterprisewide team.

IT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.

The Chief Information Officer (CIO) – responsible for overseeing all uses of information technology and to ensuring the strategic alignment of IT with business goals and objectives.

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

Ø  Leader – ensure the strategic vision of IT is in line with the strategic vision of the organization.

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

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) – responsible for ensuring the throughput, speed, accuracy, availability, and reliability of an organization’s information technology. *CTO are similar to CIOs except that CIOs takes on the additional responsibility for effectiveness of ensuring that IT is aligned with organization’s strategic initiatives.*

The Chief Security Officer (CSO) - responsible for ensuring the security ogf IT systems and developing strategies and IT safeguards against attack from hackers and viruses.  

The Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) – is responsible for ensuring the ethical and legal use of information within an organization. CPO are the newest senior executive position in IT.

The Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) – responsible for collecting, maintain and distributing the organization’s knowledge. The CKO design programs and system that make easy for people to reuse knowledge.

The Gap Between Business Personnel and IT Personnel

Business Personnel	IT Personnel
-         -    Process expertise in functional areas such as marketing -          - Have their own vocabularies based on their experience and expertise	-          - Have the technological expertise -          - Have their own vocabularies consisting of acronyms and technical terms.
Improving Communications -          Must seek to increase their understanding of IT	Improving Communications -          - Must understand the business if the organization is going to determine which technology can benefits (or hurt) the business

Organizational Fundamentals – Ethics and Security

-          - are two fundamental building blocks that organizations must base their business on.

Ethics – the principles and standards that guide our behavior towards other people.

Intellectual property	Intangible creative work that is embodies in physical form
Copyright	The legal protection afforded an expression of an idea, such as a song, video games and some types of proprietary documents.
Fair use Doctrine	In certain situations, it is legal to use copyrighted materials.
Pirated software	The unauthorized use, duplication, distribution, or sale of copyright software.
Counterfeit software	Software that is manufactured to look like a real things and sold as such.
^  Issues Affected by Technology’s Advance

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