CHAPTER 5 : ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE THAT SUPPORT STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

• Organizational employees must work together to develop strategic initiatives that create competitive advantages.

Recent IT- related strategic positions :

   Chief Information Officer - CIO

   Chief Technology Officer - CTO

   Chief Security Officer - CSO

   Chief Privacy Officer - CPO

   Chief Knowledge Officer - CKO

• CIO oversees uses of IT and ensures strategic alignment of IT with business goals and objectives.
• CTO responsible for ensure the throughput,speed,accuracy,availability.
• CSO responsible for ensuring security of IT systems.
• CPO responsible for ensuring  ethical and legal use of information.
• CKO responsible for collect,maintain and distribute organization's knowledge.

ETHICS

Ethics - principles and standards that guide behaviour toward other people.

Privacy - right to be alone when we want,have control over our personal possessions.

PROTECTING INTELLECTUAL ASSETS

Organization information = intellectual capital that must be protected.

Information strategy is protection of information from accidental or intentional misuse by person inside or outside organization.