INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT 1 THE ROLE OF A CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER NEMAVHOLA MULALO 201432996 WORD COUNT 1334
Table of contents
Introduction 2
Who is a chief information officer 3
The role of information officer 4
Responsibility of a chief information officer 5
Conclusion…………………….. 5
Bibliography………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………6
INTRODUCTION
The assignment is about the chief information officer and their roles in the business entity. Improved contribution of information systems and their
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• Has to develop an information technology financial management system and oversee plans to reinvest in the information technology infrastructure as well as in business and technology professionals.
• Has to ensure that information processing needs of all employees within the organization are addressed.
• Has to be in charge of overseeing and managing all networks, information systems, enterprises application and software development and deployment in the
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• Develop, maintain, and facilitate implementation of a sound and integrated information technology architecture.
• Promote effective and efficient design and operation of all major IRM processes for the agency, including improvements to work processes.
CONCLUSION
Chief Information officer roles and responsibilities in the public sectors are fast evolving due to the important role of the ICT for government processes and electronic services. However academic research is still needed to establish if the role is beyond that of the private sector is restrained by the context in which it operates and the future of the position.
It can be concluded that the position of the chief information officer is changing from being only involved with information technology to someone who is more involved with reshaping the business and developing new tools to immediate the business plan and reaching the business’s
Critical Element 1: TITLE: Cash Verification (CV) Financial Reviews S: Conduct and complete mandated CV reviews on negotiable instruments and other assets to ensure sound financial management. Provide advice, education and training to appointed collection agents and departments to ensure fund management efficiency/effectiveness, ensuring strong internal management controls are practiced. M: Conduct 24 reviews; prepare reports, ensure RM is briefed and afforded an opportunity to respond to report results; report results to the CO in a timely manner; follow-up on any reported findings in subsequent reviews.
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The information revolution is sweeping through our economy. No company can escape its effects. Dramatic reductions in the cost of obtaining, processing, and transmitting information are changing the way we do business. “To get ahead in today’s business world, a company must utilize the right resources. One of the most effective, of course, is information technology (IT), which has become an essential tool for businesses across many industries” (2013).
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Many people in the company need access to data to help them do their job better. The main questions revolve around who needs what data, and who chooses what data gets to be shared. Looking at all the pieces, as well as the IT and information assets, the governance of the data belongs to a data owner (Khatri & Brown, 2010). The main questions to be answered must include who is the data owner? Who is responsible for data quality?
1.2.3 Strategies • Review IT organizational structure • Review IT policies and
Worth noting is that, IT governance and its mechanisms such as; IT organizational structure, governance committees, approvals and budgeting processes (Weill, 2004) can be found in every enterprise but the only difference is that, enterprises with an effective proactive governance also have in place active IT governance mechanisms which enables their appropriate behavioural patterns to be fitted into the organization’s goals, strategy, values, norms, mission, and culture, to crown it all successful. Therefore from the above description of IT governance one can now easily pin-point the key issues related to an effective IT governance mechanisms, highlighted in Galliers & Leidner chapter 12, (2009, p. 303-4) by Weill, (2004) as explained below:
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Q. 2. Recent development in Technology has enabled huge global organizations to avail information easily in their premises for smooth functioning of various departments within an organization. Much of a company's success comes down to its Supply Chain Management and logistics. The development of Information Systems in SCM helps in cost reductions, customer satisfaction and productivity.
2.3.2 Competitive Intelligence as a process Competitive Intelligence is the processes that made up of phases that are linked together (Nasri 2011). The output of any phase of these phases is the input to the next one (Bartes 2012). The overall output of the CI process is an input to the decision-making processes (Wright et al. 2009). The elements of the intelligence model have been investigated in many academic fields.
The information system provides the basic data on the informational database. To the enterprise, the information system has two subsystems are related. There is data processing or information supplying sub-system and a decision making sub-system. The responsible the data processing system are for acquiring, coding, processing and forwarding the information for the activity and operation. The responsible for decision making subsystem are the effect of directly or indirectly with management processes from data-processing systems.
• Executive information system which anchor the work of senior