W1D2 Who is Responsible.

Some of you commented that
  1. This is not an easy question
  2. There is no right answer
To support "there is no right answer", seven of you strongly said "IT/CIO" and five of you strongly said "business management". Six people made arguments for both.  The numbers do not add up to the number of students because if you strongly supported one choice but also explained conditions under which the other alternative was right, I counted you twice.

It was also mentioned that individual users were responsible because they made the system they used work for the company. 

Some of you talked about financing and the role of the CFO.  My comment on this is that in general, systems operating expenses will go up and capital expenditures will go down and systems are moved from on-site to a cloud services provider.

Here are a couple of solutions that involve both business managers and IT managers.  

  1. One of you recommended https://deloitte.wsj.com/cio/2015/06/22/the-role-of-senior-leaders-in-it-governance/. 

  1. This article was originally published in the Tennessee CPA Journal and if you are going to read only part of it, read the small section on IT Governance.
(https://www.lbmc.com/blog/4-steps-for-effective-information-technology/)

If you don’t scan the entire article, play particular attention to point 2 “Establish IT Governance”.  Dominican follows the IT Governance approach in the article.

  1. Here is an article from the Harvard Business Review (https://hbr.org/1995/09/the-end-of-delegation-information-technology-and-the-ceo)

I think it is worth your time to read the ten paragraphs starting with “Jonathan Newcomb is President and CEO of Simon & Schuster”. 

 If you found this ten paragraphs very interesting, the read the ten paragraphs after "John F. Rockart is the director of the Center for Information Systems Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts."