問17
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経営戦略に基づいた情報システム戦略の策定とその実現に直接の責任をもつ役職はどれか。
平成22年度 秋期 ITパスポート試験 問17
ストラテジ系企業活動 › 経営・組織論
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問 17
Incorrectア
CCO refers to positions such as Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Customer Officer, or Chief Communication Officer, all of which cover areas such as legal compliance, customer relations, and external communication. The middle C does not stand for Information, so this is not the position with direct responsibility for formulating and realizing the information systems strategy.
Incorrectイ
The CFO (Chief Financial Officer) is responsible for finance as a whole, including fundraising, budgeting, accounting, and investor relations. The CFO may be involved in computerization by reviewing the budget for IT investment, but that is control over amounts of money, not responsibility for planning and realizing the information systems strategy itself.
- ウ
正解 The CIO (Chief Information Officer) is the top executive responsible for a company's use of information and its IT. Starting from the corporate management strategy, the CIO formulates the information systems strategy that supports it (which operations to computerize and how, where to allocate IT investment, how to procure and operate systems) and bears direct responsibility for realizing it. This is exactly the role described in the question, so the correct answer is ウ. CxO is a general term for Chief ○ Officer, in which the middle letter shows the area of responsibility. The I in CIO stands for Information, which links directly to the words “information systems strategy”. Note also that the CIO is not merely the technical head of the information systems department, but an executive-level position that joins management meetings and bridges management strategy and IT.
Incorrectエ
The COO (Chief Operating Officer) oversees the execution of day-to-day operations under the policies decided by the CEO. Because the COO covers the broad scope of running the business, the COO is also involved with information systems as a user, but formulating and realizing the information systems strategy is not the direct duty of this position.
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- CxO is a general term for Chief ○ Officer, and the middle letter shows the area of responsibility: CIO = Information, CFO = Financial, COO = Operating, CEO = Executive (overall management), CCO = Compliance or Customer, and so on. Using the middle letter as the clue is the standard way to solve this type of question.
- The duties of the CIO (Chief Information Officer) are to formulate and realize an information systems strategy that is consistent with the management strategy, to make decisions on IT investment, and to build the organization for promoting the use of IT. Also remember the hierarchy “management strategy → information systems strategy” (the information systems strategy follows the management strategy).
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