ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES THAT SUPPORT STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

Hello peeps. For today's lesson, i will talk about organizational structures that support strategic initiatives. So lets see what is the roles of information technology and its responsibilities. As we should know, information technology is a  relatively new functional area having been around formally in most organizations only for about 40 years.

There are 5 IT - related strategic positions that we should know in an organization : 

1. Chief information officer (CIO) - Responsible for overseeing all uses of IT and ensuring strategic alignment of IT with business goals and objectives.

2. Chief technology officer (CTO) - Ensuring the throughput, speed, accuracy, availability and reliability of organization's information technology.

3. Chief security officer (CSO) - Ensuring security of IT system and developing strategies and IT safeguards against attacks from hackers and viruses.

4. Chief privacy officer (CPO) - Ensuring the ethical and legal use of information within an organization.

5. Chief knowledge officer (CKO) - Collecting, maintaining and distributing the organization's knowledge.

One of the challenge today is effective communication between business personnel and IT personnel. Business personnel possess expertise in functional areas such as marketing as for IT personnel have the technological expertise. So in order to improve the communication, business personnel must seek to increase their understanding of IT. While for IT personnel must understand the business if the organization is going to determine which technologies can benefit the business. 

Besides that, we should know about ethics which is the principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people. There are 5 issues affected by technology advances which is : 

1. Intellectual property - Intagible creative work that is embodied in physical form.

2. Copyright - Legal protection afforded an expression of an idea.

3. Fair use doctrine - In certain situations,it is legal to use copyrighted material.

4. Pirated software - Unauthorized use, duplication, distribution or sale of copyrighted software.

5. Counterfeit software - Manufactured to look like the real thing and sold as much. 

This is what I have learnt in chapter 5 of MGT300. Thanks for reading. :)