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| managing information technology |
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| its different for each business |
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| CIO (Chief Informing Officer) |
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| oversees all use of information technology in many companeis and brings it into alignment with strategic business goals |
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| CTO (Chief Technology Officer) |
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| in charge of all information technology planning and deployment |
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| recruiting, training, and retaining qualified IS personnel |
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| centralization or decentralization of IT |
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| at first, it was a centralization trend, now its a decentralization trend. the creation of information centers to support end-user and workgroup computing has developed |
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| concerned with the use of hardware, software, network, and personnel resources in teh corporate or business unit data centers of an organization |
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| a system that allocates costs to users on the basis of the informatin services rendered |
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| systems performance monitor |
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| they look after the processing of computer jobs, help develop a planned schedule of computer operations that can optimize computer system performance, and produce detailed statistics that are invaluable for effective planning and control fo computing capacity |
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| a way to save money, focus on core competencies, achieve flexible staffing levels, gain access to global resources, and decrease time to market |
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| relocation of an organization's business processes to a lower-cost location, usually overseas. |
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| most companies require managers to be involved in IT decisions that affect their business units |
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| How much should we spend on IT? Which business processes should receive our IT dollars? Which IT capabilities need to be company wide? How good do our IT services really need to be? What security and privacy risks will we accept? Whom do we blame if an IT initiative fails? |
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Cultural; facing global business and IT managers include differences in languages, cultural interests, religions, customs, social attitudes, and political philosophies.
political: many countries have ruels regulating or prohibiting transfer of data across their natinoal boundaries, especially personal information such as personnel records
geoeconomic: refers to the effects of geography on the economic realities of international business activites. |
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| includes virtual business operations via global alliances, world markets and mass customization, global e-commerce and customer service, transparent manufacturing, global supply chain and logistics, dynamic resource management |
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| these have been a subject of political controversy and technology barriers in global business operations for many years but have become more visible with the growth of the internet and pressures of e-commerce |
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| highest internet penetration rate |
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| highest per capita internet usage |
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| transborder data flows and natinoal sovereignty |
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| business data flow across international borders over the telecommunications networks of global information systems |
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| convention on cyber crime treaty |
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| the primary objective of the treaty is to break the bottlenecks in international cyber investigations |
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