Roles and Responsibilities of IT Organizations Presentation

• Providing the users with the information regarding technology.
• Controlling the flow of information.
• Providing the consumers with the adaptation, utilization and usage of technology.
• Aligning the technology in order to gain maximum efficiency and benefits.
• Allowing the businesses to use technology for achieving their objectives.

IT Organizational Structures

• Organizational structures guides the organizations about performing their jobs.
• Three types of IT organizational structures are discussed over here:
  • Centralized IT;
  • Decentralized IT;
  • Federal IT.

Centralized IT

Advantages

• The internal environment is predictable.
• The orders are uniform.
• Decision making is very strong.
• The control is top to down.
• The organizations are coordinated and quick.

Disadvantages

• Only leadership command and control is effective.
• Lower level employees are not utilized which reduces their morale.
• Only works in highly regulated or strict environments.
• It is unable to respond to the external environment which is dynamic in nature.

Decentralized IT

Advantages

• Response to the dynamic external environment is high.
• The morale of employees is high because of individual power.
• The requirements are fulfilled in customized ways.
• The new ideas can be easily introduced as everybody’s opinion is respected.
• The locations are self contained and self controlled.
• All the employees are involved in making decisions.

Disadvantages

• The operations are expensive.
• These organizations are hard to control
• The coordination is absent in most of the cases.
• Duplication of resources.
• Lack of learning environment because of competition among employees.

Federal IT

Advantages

• These organizations provide the employees with autonomy.
• The interest is already defined which makes the employees to think in the same direction.
• Strong coordination exists in the federal IT organizations.
• The leadership is very strong and gives attention to the employee’s opinion.
• The employees are well informed about the goals and objectives.
• Very few chances of conflicts exist in this type of IT organization.
• The employees are given with number of benefits.

Disadvantages

• The employees are under strict observation which makes them to underperform sometimes.
• The new ideas are easily generated but adapted rarely because of strong leadership.

Impact of Organizational Structure over Performance of IT Organization

• The performance of the IT organizations is greatly controlled by the organizations structure.
• The organizational structure allows the organizations to perform with efficiency and effectiveness.
• Strong attention should be paid while selecting the structure of the organization.

References

Allan Holmes, Federal IT flunks out (2006). Web.

Edward Cone, Social responsibility: doing the right thing (2008). Web.

Eric Berkman, IT organization management: Revisiting centralization (2001). Web.

Graeme Deans, How great companies grow in good times and bad (2003). Web.

N. Dean Meyer, The cost of decentralization (2006). Web.