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企業の情報システム全体の最適化計画に関する承認責任者として，適切なものはどれか。
平成24年度 秋期 ITパスポート試験 問3
ストラテジ系システム戦略 › 情報システム戦略
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正解 The key to this question is that what gets approved is the “optimization plan for an enterprise's entire information system” — a company-wide, cross-departmental plan. The scope of responsibility of the approver must match the scope covered by the plan being approved. A plan that spans all of the company's information systems and decides investment allocation, elimination of duplication, and standardization policy cannot be approved by the head of one department or one project; it must be approved by top management who oversees company-wide use of information technology. The CIO (Chief Information Officer) is the position that plans and oversees the information strategy and the IT investment plan in line with the management strategy, and that, as a member of the executive team, is responsible for the company-wide use of information technology. Therefore, the appropriate person responsible for approving the optimization plan for the entire information system is ア, the CIO.
Incorrectイ
An RFP (Request For Proposal) is a document used to ask vendors for proposals on an individual procurement item, after the direction of systemization has already been settled. The scope of responsibility of the head of the department that creates the RFP is limited to organizing the requirements of that procurement item and issuing the request for proposals; this person is not in a position to approve the company-wide optimization plan. On the contrary, the RFP is a downstream deliverable produced in line with the overall optimization plan and the individual plans that have already been approved.
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The head of the business department targeted by the core system is responsible for that department's business requirements and for how the individual systems related to that work are used, but the viewpoint stays inside the department — that is, departmental optimization. If a department head approved a company-wide plan, the result would be nothing more than a stack of each department's own requests, causing duplicated investment and broken integration, and damaging overall optimization. This person is not in a position to coordinate and approve across the whole company.
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The system development project manager is the person responsible for execution: based on an approved plan, this person launches an individual development project and manages quality, cost, and delivery (QCD) through to completion. The scope of responsibility is limited to the inside of the assigned project, and this person is not in a position to approve the plan itself. It is important not to confuse the person who approves a plan with the person who takes that plan and carries it out.
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- Definition of the CIO (Chief Information Officer): an executive position that links the management strategy with the information strategy and oversees company-wide use of information technology and IT investment. For an informatization plan that covers the whole company, the CIO is the person responsible for approval.
- Distinguishing overall optimization from departmental optimization: the approver's scope of responsibility must be matched to the scope covered by the plan. A plan covering the whole company is handled by top management, while plans covering an individual department, an individual procurement item, or an individual project are handled by their respective responsible persons.
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