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Politics of Information Management
The art of information management is widely known as the tactic of policy makers guiding the policy followers into doing so. Therein comes the practice of politics and it is known that politics portends power; consequently understanding power and its application to the art of information management is both appropriate and timely. Organizations now have been proliferated by computers to an extent that they control the entire operations and relationship between suppliers and customers in a business transaction. They also shape how the public institutions deal and communicate with individuals and private organizations (Strassman Inc., 1997).
In the process of communication and outside relations, a CIO is frequently found among the most visible executive managers in an organization or corporation. One of the reasons for this frequent appearance in public of the CIO as compared to the other managers is due to the fact that the IT encapsulates all the other sectors and departments according to Donovan, E. (2007). He goes on to point out that the other reason is purely since lots of department managers tend to influence the operations of the IT department to suite or appear to be suiting their own ambitions and visions. These two will arouse the urge of being a good political administrator in as much as they work near technology.
As Strassmann P., (2005) puts it, the CIO should be in control of the expenditure,...
He made it clear that his department and the organization at large were having updates problems and general IT failures and he not only confessed but also took responsibility for the same.
It was not right for him to act as he did at for the cons of such an act far outweighed the pros within public domain. Finney R., (2006) says that most people would like to "commit to a purpose, a goal, a vision that is bigger than themselves, big enough to make them stretch and grow until they assume personal responsibility for achieving it." But paradoxically in the case of the Overstock.com the CIO did the opposite and took public responsibility for the failure of it.
A good professional CIO should be able to determine the working environment and then be in cognizant of the unwritten rules and play by them. Many CIOs like the case in hand keep working towards the greater good tilt het lose sight and touch of the organizational information politics (Finney, R., 2006). This was the other error that…
References
Donovan, E. (2007). Overstock.com: The Perils of Being Too Accountable. Retrieved March,
19, 2011 from http://www.eddiedonovan.com/publications/ITM508MOD1CASE.pdf
Finney, R., (2006). The Politics of Information and Projects. Retrieved March, 19, 2011 from http://www.itmweb.com/essay008.htm
Strassman Inc., (1997). The Politics of Information Management: Policy Guidelines. Retrieved March, 19, 2011 from http://www.infoeconomics.com/info-politics.php
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