Analysis of Functions of IT Managers: Leadership Perspective

This report examines the essential functions of IT managers within an organization, emphasizing the importance of IT governance and its impact on strategic versus support infrastructure. The IT manager's role in decision-making, IT fund allocation, and coordination with other departments, such as the finance department, is thoroughly analyzed. The report highlights how IT managers contribute to the organization's goals by making key decisions during crises and ensuring efficient use of resources. The report also discusses the significance of IT governance and how it is crucial for the success of the company. This report is available on Desklib, which provides students with access to past papers and solved assignments.

Functions of IT Managers
I worked for an IT firm to handle the software and hardware issues for the technology
department. IT governance is essential within the company’s strategic versus support
infrastructure. Proper IT governance does enhance the productivity and creativity of an
organization towards the achievement of its goals since key decisions are not made on an
individual basis. IT managers are responsible for the verification and harmonization of the IT
initiatives to ensure the success of the company. There are various roles that IT managers do play
within the company’s strategic versus support infrastructure (Özleblebici & Çetin, 2015).
To begin with, IT managers are very important in decision making. In an organization, it
is always essential to make fast and key decisions during a crisis, and these are the decisions that
aid the organization in attaining its goals.
Secondly, the IT manager reviews the distribution of IT funds in the organization. Like
any other department, one cannot allocate funds in a field that he or she has very minimal
knowledge in (Zsolnai, Junghagen, & Tencati, 2012).
The IT manager also helps to coordinate the IT department with other user departments
such as finance department in a company. Through coordination with the user departments, the
manager educates and evaluates the staff members on Information technology. Through this, the
manager also gets various ideas that enable him to come up with an appropriate strategy for IT
governance. It is very important for the IT manager to come up with the best strategy for IT
governance because it is only through this that the manager understands the needs of other
departments and improve on them for the betterment of the organization’s performance (Azad et
al., 2017).

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