#5 ; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES THAT SUPPORT STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

Organizational Structures

·         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 functional
   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 Office (CKO)

The Gap between Business Personnel and IT Personnel

·         Business personnel possess expertise in functional areas such
   as marketing, accounting, and sales.

·         IT personnel have the technological expertise.

·         This typically causes a communications gap between the
   business personnel and IT personnel.

Improving Communications

·         Business personnel possess expertise in functional areas
   such as marketing, accounting, and sales.
·         IT personnel have the technological expertise.
·         This typically causes a communications gap between the
   business personnel and IT personnel.

Organizational Fundamentals. Ethics and Security

·         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

·         Ethics–the principles and standards that guide our behavior
   toward other people.
·         Privacy is a major ethical issue

   –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

-          Copyright

-          Fair use doctrine

-          Pirated software

-          Counterfeit software

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.
·         E-business automatically creates tremendous information
   security risks for organizations