Chapter 5 and 6

This chapter told me about organization structures that support strategic initiatives that detailed explain and give knowledge to me about its IT role and responsibilities in term of their related strategic position such Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Security Officer, Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Knowledge Officer. Business personnel possess expertise in functional areas such as marketing, accounting and sales.IT have the technological expertise and this typically causes a communications gaps between the business personnel and IT personnel. So,business personnel must seek to increase their understanding of IT by improving their communication.Ethics and security are two fundamental building blocks that organizations must base their businesses on to be successful. Ethics here means the principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people and the security is important in order to protect the information  from accidental or intentional misuse by persons inside or outside an organization.
for chapter six,it is all about exploring business intelligence and valuing organizational information.Since the information is everywhere in an organization, employees must be able to obtain and analyze the many different levels, formats, and granularities of organizational  information to make decisions. The most important things here is the characteristics of high-quality information include accuracy, completeness, consistence, uniqueness and timeliness.