ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES
- Employees across the organization must work closely together to develop strategic initiatives that create competitive advantages.
- Understanding the basic structure of a typical IT department including titles, roles, and responsibilities will help an organization build a cohesive enterprise wide team.
IT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- CEO (Chief Executive Officer) - is the highest-ranking corporate officer (executive) or administrator in charge of total management of an organization.
- CIO (Chief Information Officer) - responsible overseeing all uses of information technology and and ensuring the strategic alignment of IT with business goals and objectives.
- CTO (Chief Technology Officer) - responsible for ensuring the throughput, speed, accuracy, availability, reliability of an organization's information technology.
- CSO (Chief Security Officer) - responsible for ensuring the security of IT systems and developing strategies and IT safeguards against attacks from hackers and viruses.
- CPO (Chief Privacy Officer) - responsible for ensuring the ethical and legal use of information within an organization.
- CKO (Chief Knowledge Officer) - responsible for collecting, maintaining and distributing the organization's knowledge.
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Roles.
THE GAP BETWEEN BUSINESS PERSONNEL AND IT PERSONNEL
- Business Personnel - possess expertise in functional areas such as marketing, accounting, sales.
- IT Personnel - have the technological expertise.
- Their gaps is business personnel have their own vocabularies based on their experience and expertise.IT Personnel have their own vocabularies consisting of acronyms and technical terms.
ETHICS AND SECURITY
- ETHICS - the principles and standards that guide our behaviour toward other people.
- PRIVACY - the right to be left alone when you want to be, to have control over your own personal possessions, and to not be observed without your consent.
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