IS/IT LEADERSHIP ROLES

Assignment:

IS/IT LEADERSHIP ROLES:

CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions & Services, Global Outsourcing Services and the North American Public Sector. CSC's advanced capabilities include systems design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 91,000 employees and reported revenue of $17.3 billion for the 12 months ended Oct. 3, 2008.

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Information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) leadership roles have undergone fundamental changes over the past decade. And according to what I have researched, on 1996 Computer Science Corporation (CSC) has suggested six new IS leadership roles which are required to execute IS’s future agenda: chief architect, change leader, product developer, technology provocateur, coach and chief operating strategist. Below are the descriptions of the Six IS Leadership roles.

1. Chief architect. The chief architect designs future possibilities for the business. The primary work of the chief architect is to design and evolve the IT infrastructure so that it will expand the range of future possibilities for the business, not define specific business
outcomes.

2. Change leader. The essential role of the change leader is to orchestrate all those resources that will be needed to execute the change program.

3. Product developer. The product developer helps define the company’s place in the emerging digital economy.

4. Technology provocateur. The technology provocateur embeds IT into the business strategy. The technology provocateur works with senior business executives to bring IT and realities of the IT marketplace to bear on the formation of strategy for the business.

5. Coach. The coach teaches people to acquire the skill sets they will need for the future. Coaches have to basic responsibilities: teaching people how to learn, so that they can become self-sufficient, and providing team leaders with staff able to do the IT-related work of the business.

6. Chief operating strategist. The chief operating strategist invents the future with senior management. The chief operating strategist is the top IS executive who is focused on the future agenda of the IS organization. The most important, and least understood, parts of the role have to do with the interpretation of new technologies and the IT marketplace, and the bringing of this understanding into the development of the digital business strategy for the organization.

Although these roles produced by the CSC without any scientific approach, many people noticed that they seem very well tailored for scientific investigation into IS leadership roles. People who fill these roles do not necessarily head up new departments or processes, but they exert influence and provide leadership across the organizational structure.

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On the methods used to accomplish these functions, for example, Mint berg’s role typology, have been proposed. According to Mint berg (1990), the manager's job can be

Described in terms of various roles:

1. Informational Roles. By virtue of interpersonal contacts, both with subordinates and

With a network of contacts, the manager emerges as the nerve center of the organizational unit. The manager may not know everything but typically knows more than subordinates do. Processing information is a key part of the manager's job. As monitor, the manager is perpetually scanning the environment for information, interrogating liaison contacts and subordinates, and receiving unsolicited information, much of it as a result of the network of personal contacts. As a disseminator, the manager passes some privileged information directly to subordinates, who would otherwise have no access to it. As spokes person, the manager sends some information to people outside the unit.

2. Decisional Roles. Information is not an end in itself; it is the basic input to decision making. The manager plays the major role in a unit's decision-making system. As its formal authority, only the manager can commit the unit to important new courses of action; and as its nerve center, only the manager has full and current information to make the set of decisions that determines the unit's strategy. As entrepreneur, the manager seeks to improve the unit, to adapt it to changing conditions in the environment. As disturbance handler, the manager responds to pressures from situations. As resource al locater, the manager is responsible for deciding who will get what. As negotiator, the manager commits organizational resources in real time.

3. Interpersonal Roles. As figurehead, every manager must perform some ceremonial duties. As leader, managers are responsible for the work of the people of their unit. As liaison, the manager makes contacts outside the vertical chain of command.

As a student in the Initiative, I learn a lot about the computer and component manufacturers commit to producing products that meet specified power-efficiency targets, and corporate participants commit to purchasing power-efficient computing products and adopting policies and practices to increase power efficiency throughout their organizations by scanning and reading those stated leadership roles in IS/IT.

IT 313-Management Information System

ASSINGMENT:

1.) Why “MIS” describe as Management Information System?

University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP) as one of the premiere university in the country, one of its major purposes is to produce not just nationally but globally competitive students. Through this, the university provides courses for us students to pursue our desired carriers even if it’s hard. And one of its offered courses is the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology or BSIT under the Institute of Computing department.

As a 3^rd year BSIT student under the guidelines of the IC department. I and among of my classmates provided those subjects that will enhance our analyzing and computing skills. One of those assigned subjects is the “MIS” known as Management Information System, under the supervision of a strict but they said a cute instructor, Randy S. Gamboa.

“MIS” or subjectively known as Management Information System, because it is provided by the IC faculty among the students. Sometimes the term MIS and information system are often confused. Information systems include systems that are not intended for decision making. The area of study called Management Information System is sometimes referred to, in a restrictive sense, as information technology management. That area of study should not be confused with computer science. IT service management is a practitioner-focused discipline, which has also difference with other applications.

In addition, Management Information Systems (MIS) is the term given to the discipline focused on the integration of computer systems with the aims and objectives on an organization. By this definition, it make sense that “Management Information System” was focused on the development and management of information technology tools assists executives and the general workforce in performing any tasks related to the processing of information. With this, “MIS” systems are especially useful in the collation of business data and the production of reports to be used as tools for decision making for more valuable results.

At the start, in businesses and other organizations, internal reporting was made manually and only periodically, as a by-product of the accounting system and with some additional statistics, and gave limited and delayed information on management performance. Contagiously, the terms is now broadly used to assist systems applied in many industries and were used for the practical business of computing the payroll and keeping track of accounts payable and accounts receivable. As applications were developed that provided managers with information about sales, inventories, and other data that would help in managing the enterprise, the term "MIS" arose to describe these kinds of applications. Today, the term is used broadly in a number of contexts and includes decision support systems, resource and people management applications, project management and database retrieval application.

Furthermore, Management information systems are distinct from regular information systems in that they are used to analyze other information systems applied in operational activities in the organization. It also act as a subset of the overall internal controls of a business covering the application of people, documents, technologies, and procedures by management accountants or personnel in solving business problems such as costing a product, service or a business-wide strategy.

Academically, the term is commonly used to refer to the group of information management methods tied to the automation or support of human decision making and other information systems.

In other words, an “Management Information System” is a planned system of the collecting, processing, storing and disseminating data in the form of information needed to carry out the functions of management. In a way it is a documented report of the activities those were planned and executed.

“Management Information System” as of it keyword management, are now govern the social and economic life of many individuals through the wide use of many applied information systems and the contagious existence of the fast growth technologies.

REFLECTION: First day class in USEP

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Reflection:

First day class in USEP.

At first, USEP for me is just one of the state universities in the country that offer my course BSIT. Due to financial needs I was force to study here and so I plainly said “Sige na lang uy..!”

However, in the first day of class dated June 15,2009 we had also discuss with other subjects, and so I realized how little my knowledge was on what this university and the IC department has store for me. With the multitude teachers/instructor, competitive students, strict but supportive administrators and staff, challenging subjects, I could say I am quite proud of being a Usepian.

USEP makes me realize my becoming in life. It does not stop catering just the cognitive faculty but the other aspects as well. Students are trained how to be responsible with the limited vacancies of time and how to be how to be adoptive to the needed changes in the country and in the institution.

In deeper sense, USEP provides a kind of education apt to fight intellectual indolence, to focus student’s mind to the vessel of discipline and most of all the Divine Providence.

For all this things, I have only three reasons “Why USEP?”

First, USEP provides for me an expensive yet quality education. Second, my rights and freedom have no room for silence; and lastly, it’s in USEP where I have met my lifetime virtue. Here, I am always learning, discovering, growing and developing.