- Facilitated by datacom
- Made difficult by end-user computing
- The information center is a good example
Downsizing
- advantage of cost reduction
- advantage of increased productivity with PCs located in user areas
- risk of lost security
- Objectives of Outsourcing
- Insuring
Outsourcer Services
- Data entry and simple processing (editing, formatting)
- Contract programming
- Facilities management
- Systems integration
- Support for maintenance, service, or disaster recovery
Objectives of Outsourcing
- Manage costs better
- Reduce
- Contain
- Predict
- Obtain relief from systems maintenance so as to concentrate on new system development
- Acquire needed expertise
Information Management in Three Pacific Rim Countries
- Countries were U.S., Korea, and Mexico
- Centralization versus decentralization
- Top management attitude
- CIO participation in strategic business planning
- Information systems planing
- Sharing information resources with users
The Future of the CIO
- Business computing is moving from centralized to decentralized computing in terms of
- equipment
- development
- decision making
Proactive CIO Strategy
- CIO must emphasize quality management of the IS resource
- Achieve strong user ties
- Strengthen executive ties
- Assemble an IS management team
- Assemble staff competent in leading-edge technologies and methodologies
- Build an IRIS
