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IS/IT LEADERSHIP ROLES:

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Information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) leadership roles have undergone fundamental changes over the past decade. And according to what I have researched, on 1996 Computer Science Corporation (CSC) has suggested six new IS leadership roles which are required to execute IS’s future agenda: chief architect, change leader, product developer, technology provocateur, coach and chief operating strategist. Below are the descriptions of the Six IS Leadership roles.

1. Chief architect. The chief architect designs future possibilities for the business. The primary work of the chief architect is to design and evolve the IT infrastructure so that it will expand the range of future possibilities for the business, not define specific business
outcomes.

2. Change leader. The essential role of the change leader is to orchestrate all those resources that will be needed to execute the change program.

3. Product developer. The product developer helps define the company’s place in the emerging digital economy.

4. Technology provocateur. The technology provocateur embeds IT into the business strategy. The technology provocateur works with senior business executives to bring IT and realities of the IT marketplace to bear on the formation of strategy for the business.

5. Coach. The coach teaches people to acquire the skill sets they will need for the future. Coaches have to basic responsibilities: teaching people how to learn, so that they can become self-sufficient, and providing team leaders with staff able to do the IT-related work of the business.

6. Chief operating strategist. The chief operating strategist invents the future with senior management. The chief operating strategist is the top IS executive who is focused on the future agenda of the IS organization. The most important, and least understood, parts of the role have to do with the interpretation of new technologies and the IT marketplace, and the bringing of this understanding into the development of the digital business strategy for the organization.

Although these roles produced by the CSC without any scientific approach, many people noticed that they seem very well tailored for scientific investigation into IS leadership roles. People who fill these roles do not necessarily head up new departments or processes, but they exert influence and provide leadership across the organizational structure.

On the methods used to accomplish these functions, for example, Mint berg’s role typology, have been proposed. According to Mint berg (1990), the manager's job can be

Described in terms of various roles:

1. Informational Roles. By virtue of interpersonal contacts, both with subordinates and

With a network of contacts, the manager emerges as the nerve center of the organizational unit. The manager may not know everything but typically knows more than subordinates do. Processing information is a key part of the manager's job. As monitor, the manager is perpetually scanning the environment for information, interrogating liaison contacts and subordinates, and receiving unsolicited information, much of it as a result of the network of personal contacts. As a disseminator, the manager passes some privileged information directly to subordinates, who would otherwise have no access to it. As spokes person, the manager sends some information to people outside the unit.

2. Decisional Roles. Information is not an end in itself; it is the basic input to decision making. The manager plays the major role in a unit's decision-making system. As its formal authority, only the manager can commit the unit to important new courses of action; and as its nerve center, only the manager has full and current information to make the set of decisions that determines the unit's strategy. As entrepreneur, the manager seeks to improve the unit, to adapt it to changing conditions in the environment. As disturbance handler, the manager responds to pressures from situations. As resource al locater, the manager is responsible for deciding who will get what. As negotiator, the manager commits organizational resources in real time.

3. Interpersonal Roles. As figurehead, every manager must perform some ceremonial duties. As leader, managers are responsible for the work of the people of their unit. As liaison, the manager makes contacts outside the vertical chain of command.

☺☺As an aspirant BSIT student through my initiative, I learn to appreciate more about computers and its component that meets specified power-efficiency in people management application as well as power-efficient computing products and adopting policies and practices that increases power efficiency throughout their organizations by scanning and reading those stated leadership roles in IS/IT.☺☺

hOt abOuT my fiRsT dAy???

My first day class……….

What a wonderful day it is! My mind shouted.

Well, it is my new and first day of class in my new world of college life. Yes, new, not to mention my third year in college but it’s my new campus and my new place to reside for again about one school year.

I am an alien in USeP Obrero Campus on that day of June 15, of current year. An immigrant coming from Tagum-Mabini Campus. I am a stranger to any other older students, and a new face to professors.

I felt nervous and thrilled. I don’t know what to expect and how to act normally in a total strange place. I am thankful to have my classmates with me. We are 20 transferees and I am expecting to grow in my new institution.

When m day end up, I sighed, this is where my future begins……….my real life battle.

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MIS as subject description in BSIT...

A new environment, new campus, new professors and new subjects. A whole brand new atmosphere. I am a transferee, formerly a student of USeP Tagum-mabini Campus but now currently an officially enrolled in USeP Obrero campus taking up Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.

Our course was offered at Tagum campus only for just two years that’s why we are urged to move here in Obrero for it is what is planned before hand. And now were in major adjustment period.

In connection with my enrolled course-BSIT, I have my subject IT313 with description Management Information System (MIS) under the advisory of Dr. Randy Gamboa whom a totally stranger to me.

As blank as an white empty sheet of paper, I have no idea about the nature o my new subjects as well as with my professors. Until such time, Dr Gamboa approached the class. I was actually out of the scene because I weren’t there when he went to the prescribed room for the time was supposedly 10:00-11:30 in the morning but he arrived around 10:30.

Well anyway, I am fortunate enough to be informed by my classmates although were not yet acquainted. Funny but luckily I have this blessed courage to ask them about the left assignments. Then I was lately informed. At least!

Dr. Gamboa ask the class about the subject description which is Management Information System. Folks, if my notion would be asked, it is the term used or given to the matter which focuses with the integration of computer systems and human management with general goal of organization.

Let us try to separate the Management Information from its original clause for the mean time. It had discussed that ther are four related activities for management namely: planning, directional, organizing and controlling. We can have a text clues why we can say management is when someone needs to be manage; meaning you cannot work independently. Thimgs can be managed are processes, procedures and systems.

Consequently, Information system is another aspect. We have Information Technology which is composed of hardware and software which is extended into people ware in the end we can have an equated equation that goes: I.S. (Information System) = hardware + software + people ware.

Therefore, Management Information System or simply MIS can be considered as subset of the overall internal and external controls of a computerized system covering an application of people and technology.

Looking back with the equation of an information technology, it deals with software, hardware and people ware; the first two mentioned can be manage but not the people.

In connection, Management Information System really a prescribed and appropriate subject description for BSIT students in order for them to learn a so-called people management application.

The development and management of information technology tools assists future IT analysts and other related professionals in performing any tasks related to the processing of information.

In general, as an BSIT aspirant student, one must be willing to take all related leanings and beneficial things for Management Information System which is essential to know and study. Go beyond delving deeper.