Ethics and Professional Issues in Information System Development

There is a failure on some projects. That failure happened maybe because of technical error, or human factors. Why FAIL? It failed because of many reasons and causes, such as: over commitment to projects, managers is not capable enough to take impartial view of project, and also social pressures that sometimes exist in an organization. Where do the problems LIE? Everywhere. When there is a community, people who compete for power & resources, people with different opinions, decision-making, etc.

We live in a world that most of the industries are using IS for daily work. That's what makes IS is one of important things we have to deal with. IS professionals have responsible to development and implementation of the system. And they have to do it professionally unless they wanna be fired by the boss ;-p because of that, IS professionals need to know the ethical attitudes in daily work.

Ethics?
The discipline which is concerning with what is good and bad and with moral duty & obligation.

Computer Ethics?
Analysis of nature and social impact of computer technology and the corresponding formulation & justification of policies for the ethical use of such technologies.

Professionalism?
Having standards that set by a professionals in terms of individual conduct, competence & integrity.

As a starting point to increase professionalism in IT/IS issue. There are many way you can do, such as: Take into account how professional issues in computing are taught, locate & increase self-awareness of teaching professional issues in computing curriculum, look into different approaches to delivery, and also, important issues have to be situated to create computing professionals in line with Engineering, Law, Medicine, etc. For more inspiring code of ethics, please visit ACM - Code of Ethics.

The Concept of IT Risk Management

In the early 1950s, there was a development for insurance in US. Because, some people in US purchased insurance but there was no attention to protection of the people and their property, and also poor awareness from the people about the quality of property protection, healthcare and safety standards, and other issues concerned risk control. So, because of that condition, they needed risk management.

What is Risk Management?

Based on Institute of Risk Management, it's a process that has purpose to help organizations understanding, evaluating, and taking actions on all their risks in order to increase the probability of success and reducing the probability of failure.

Is It Important to Learn Risk Management?

Earlier before, people use risk management only when they had to deal with hazard risks. Nowadays, it concerned to the improved of control risks and opportunity risks. Besides, because of many issues both in relation to managing an organization and changing in the market place, the importance of risk management is decreased.

Some major areas that needs risk managements are:

• Project risk management
• Medical risk management
• Energy risk management
• Operational risk management

Preliminary, an organization may be aware of a new risk and the need to take right action. In that case, there will be a necessity for the organization to REFORM in response to the hazard one. After that, the organization will find to CONFORM with the right risk control standards. Finally, the organization may recognize that there are some benefits to be gained from the risk. The organization will have the capability to PERFORM and see the risk as an opportunity risk.

Risk management has its own principle. A successful risk management aegis will be comparable to the level risk within the organization, in the tune with other business activities, comprehensive, systematic, and structured, also instilled with business processes, dynamic, iterative and responsive to change.

Perspective of risk management explained that each type of risk managements outcomes different result.  Hazard management creates less negative impact. Control management cut down on deployment of likely results. Opportunity management comes out with more positive result. :-)



References:

• Hopkin, Paul. Fundamentals of Risk Management. KoganPage: 2010.
• A Guide to PMBoK4thEdition