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CIO の役割として, 最も適切なものはどれか。
平成23年度 秋期 ITパスポート試験 問2
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問 2
Incorrectア
Checking and evaluating, from an objective standpoint, whether there are problems in operations and whether IT controls are functioning effectively is the role of auditing (an internal auditor or a systems auditor). Auditing presupposes independence from the department being audited, and the CIO is the party who plans and carries out the information strategy; if the CIO audited their own area, that independence would be lost. Under the idea of separating the side that implements from the side that checks, this is not the role of a CIO.
- イ
正解 CIO stands for Chief Information Officer, an executive post that carries the highest responsibility for a company's information and IT. This question asks whether you can tell the responsibilities of the CxOs (the group of executive posts) apart by the area each one is in charge of. The central role of the CIO is to plan the information strategy needed to realize the management strategy — which operations to computerize and how, and where to allocate IT investment — and to lead its implementation across the whole company. In other words, the CIO connects the management strategy with the information strategy and is responsible for making full use of IT as a means of achieving management goals. Choice イ, “Leads the planning and implementation of the information strategy for realizing the management strategy,” states this very definition, so it is the most appropriate role of a CIO.
Incorrectウ
Building HR systems, grasping the actual state of attendance, and overseeing the management and operation of human resources as a whole is the role of the executive who heads the HR department (a CHRO or similar HR executive). Its target is people and the organization, not information or IT, so the area differs from the CIO's responsibility. The opening phrase “for realizing the management strategy” is shared with choice イ, but what follows it is HR systems, and that is where the two can be told apart.
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Improving capital efficiency and maintaining the accuracy of financial accounting is the role of the CFO (Chief Financial Officer), who heads finance and accounting. Its target is funds and accounting, so the area of responsibility differs from that of the CIO, whose target is information. A CIO is also involved in the cost-effectiveness of IT investment, but that is a judgment made as part of the information strategy; the CIO is not in the position of being responsible for the company's capital efficiency or the accuracy of financial accounting themselves.
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- Definition of CIO (Chief Information Officer): the executive post that plans the information strategy for realizing the management strategy and leads IT investment and the company-wide implementation of computerization.
- Tell CxO responsibilities apart by area: information and IT go to the CIO, finance and accounting to the CFO, HR to a CHRO or similar HR executive, and the objective checking of operations and IT controls to auditors (internal auditors, systems auditors), with the implementing side kept independent from the auditing side.
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