CHAPTER 5 : ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES THAT SUPPORT STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

Hye , this is the next Chapter 5 is organizational structures that support strategic initiatives.


Organizational employees must work closely together to develop strategic initiatives that create competitive advantages. The ethics and security are two fundamental building blocks that organizations must base their businesses upon. IT-related strategic position. Some organizations had many chief officer but it depends on the number of employees .The larger the number of employees, the larger the number of chief office such as :


Chief Information Officer (CIO)

• Responsible for overseeing all information technology use and ensure the strategic alignment of IT with business goals and objectives. Always CIO reports directly to the CEO. CIO also works to ensure the delivery of all IT projects, on time and within budget. Ensure IT strategic vision is in line with the strategic vision of the organization and building and maintaining strong executive relationships.

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

• CTO as the "Big Thinker" spend time to evaluate how technology can be used internally by the business. CTO's responsibilities often include advanced technology, competitive analysis, technology assessment, laboratory prototypes, cooperation, planning, and architectural standards.

Chief Security Officer (CSO)

• Responsible for safeguarding the IT systems and develop strategies and IT protection from hackers and virus attact. CSOs need to know the details of network and telecommunications as hackers and viruses usually find a way to get into the IT system through computer networked. Only experienced people who only knows how to handle security but these days most people have learned how to hack or steal other information.

Chief Privacy Officer (CPO)

• Establish high uniform level of data protection for all personal data, regardless of origin and location, but leave room for adjustments based on local law or specific customer requirements. Establish a complaint procedure and the right. Respond to and deal with requests from individuals. Respond to and deal with customer demand.

Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO)

• Responsible for collecting, maintaining and distributing scientific organizations. Program and system design methodologies CKO create document repositories, organizations, tools and practices, and methods for filtering information establish. They must continually encourage systems employee contributions to keep up-to-date. It is to ensure that employees get the information on time.

MEASURING THE SUCCESS OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

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Efficiency and Effectiveness IT metrics

Definition of metrics. Metrics is a measurement by which is efficiency, performance, progress or quality of a plan, process or product can be assessed.

Efficient IT Metrics

Efficient IT metrics is to measure the performance of the IT system and can be defined as doing the right thing. Focus on companies as utilize resources with an optimal way. to see how the company can use the resources to achieve the objectives of the company. Organizational resources consist of 4 M. 4 M is the Man, Money, Materials and Machines.

Effectiveness IT Metrics

measures how well a company or business is reaching its objectives and constantly questions as to a whether the right actions being taken to meet the given objectives. Sometimes employer make surveys in the company to know how well their employees work together as an organization to achieve their target or goals in terms to maintain satisfaction of customers such an example, how well customers of Apple products receive the similar information or updates of new products.

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CHAPTER 3 : ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING (ERP)

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a system that allows you to combine all the information or operations into a single unit. They use computer hardware and software to achieve this goal. The most important part of the ERP is a central database that is used to store a variety of modules. The goal is to integrate the various functions of the institution and it is not limited to the company and are commonly used by non-profit organizations, government agencies and other agencies. ERP has a great level of information flow and a higher quality of information that can transfer information from one place to another and act on data in a short time . Using ERP companies can manage inventory effectively. For example, when producing the product it will be done with a high level using a lower cost. 




Besides that , ERP also allows a company to effectively manage its inventory. For example, when the products are manufactured, it will be done with a higher level of precision. This technology also can make the cost more lower. The money saved by the organization can be used to invest in new products or marketing strategies. ERP also allows a company to become highly flexible. Means the company able to quickly adapt to changes that occur in the market. Flexibility is very important today because if an organization is not flexible, it will be difficult for them to stay competitive. Besides that, the most important of ERP is the implementation of software. In dealing with software issues, ERP can also help companies integrate their operations. At the same time, it is important to realize that there are a number of challenges involved with utilizing ERP and maybe it will be costly. ERP tools are outside the price range of many organizations. As we know all this are the importance of ERP. Okay , that all from chapter 3. THANK YOU . 

CHAPTER 2 CASE

Case : Say " Charge It " with Your Cell Phone

Questions and Answers :

1) Do you view this technology as a potential threat to traditional telephone companies? If so, what 

    counter strategies could traditional telephone companies adopt to prepare for this technology?

    Yes, if possible somehow tie the profits to the cell phone company to traditional telephone

    companies to make some money off it without putting them out of business. Then, make  

    traditional telephone more appealing to people and possibly cheaper packages then what they 

    already have.

2) Using Porter's Five Forces describe the barriers to entry for this new technology.

    We can see by using the Porters’s Five Forces the barriers to entry barrier are product or service 

    feature that customers have come to expect from organizations in a particular  industry  and must 

    be offered by an entering organization to compete and survive.

•       Cell phone company must offer customer an array of services that this new technology will provide.

 Then , switching costs-  are costs that can make customers reluctant to switch to another product or service :

•       Cell phone companies can monitor what customers buy

•        After many times of visiting sites they can tailor  products to what the customer likes

•       If they shop else where, there will be a switching cost since the new shopping site  does not have a profile of the past’s purchases the customers made. 

 

3) Which of Porter's three generic strategies is the new technology following?

    The Porter’s three generic strategies is the new technology is focused strategy to target a niche 

    market. It is show to targeting the growing market of cell phone users and purchasing products 

    and services from the cell phone.

4) Bescribe the value chain of the business of using cell phones as a payment method.

    Value chain increase the infrastructure of phone companies and improve technology development 

    are :

a.       Payment method can receive/store information from the consumers purchases and send that to the phone company. 

b.      More people will engage in this type of payment method. 

5) What types of regulatory issues might occur due to this type of technology?

     Type of regulatory issues might occur due to this type of technology People will be skeptical with 

     putting personal information out there not knowing what kind of security protection the company 

     has.Then, another type of regulatory issues is people will find a way to hack into cell phones.  

Alright , I think the case all answer and we will meet again . Thank you for reading my blog.