CHAPTER 5: Organizational Structures that support strategic Initiatives

Ethnics and security are two fundamental buildings blocks that organizations must base their businesses upon.Information technology is a relatively new functional area, having only been around 40 years.

1) Chief Information Office(CIO)
     *overseas all uses of IT and ensures the strategic allignment of IT with business goals and objectives.

2)Chief Technology Officer(CTO)
     *Responsible for ensuring the throughput,speed, accuracy,availability and reliability of IT

3)Chief Security Officer (CSO)
     *Responsible for ensuring the security of IT systems

4) Chief Privacy Officer (CPO)
     *Responsible for ensuring the ethical and legal use of information

5) Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO)
     *Responsible for collecting, maintaining and distributing the organizations knowledge.

Another new things that i learn in chapter 5 is what the gap between business personnel and IT personnel which is business personnel is a process expertise in functional areas such as marketing, accounting and sales.IT personnel is a have the technology expertise.The solution is improving communications and business personnel must seek to improve their understanding IT.