ITPEC IP October 2023 Question 99

CIO — the Chief Information Officer, the executive responsible for company-wide information strategy, approves the plan to optimize the overall information system.

An optimization plan for the whole information system covers every department and system, sets investment priorities and aligns IT with the business strategy. Only an executive with company-wide authority over information systems can balance the departments' interests and commit the investment, and that is the CIO's role.

Answer (a)

Why not others:

• •(b) — the department that creates RFPs handles procurement for individual systems; it carries out the plan rather than approving it
• •(c) — the head of one business operations department speaks for that department, even one running a mission-critical system; the plan covers the whole company
• •(d) — a system development project manager is responsible for one project within the plan, not for the company's entire information system

Key rule: A decision that spans all of a company's information systems belongs to the executive accountable for them, the CIO; departments and projects work within it.

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