Boston Scientific faced the challenge of balancing openness and sharing with security and the need for restricting access to information. How did the use of technology allow the company to achieve both objectives at the same time? What kind of cultural changes were required for this to be possible? Are these more important than the technology- related issues? Develop a few examples to justify your answer.
Solution
The use of technology will definately allow the company to achieve both objectives at the same time. It explained in below given points .
1. With in the company we can apply the access rights on users level. We can identify the various group of users, and according to the need of users group, we can apply various access rights to each users groups.
2. Let take an example of social networking websites, lets suppose we have two users group in the company named A and B, where A have customer interfacing, so for user group A , we can enable the use of social networking websites, to communicate and make good relationship with customers.
3. Same can be done with company related emails also. We can sent the company related emails with digital signature. Here in this case the authentic user who having access rights can access the emails signed with digital signature.
Technology related issues are more important t han the cultural changes, In terms of cultural changes, we can change the setting arrangements within the organization, so that users or the employess with same access rights sit together, and employess with less access rights sit together in other places. Because if both type of employess sit together then it can happen than authentic information gets leaked.
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1. Boston Scientific faced the challenge of balancing openness and sharing with security and the
need for restricting access to information. How did the use of technology allow the company to
achieve both objectives at the same time? What kind of cultural changes were required for this to
be possible? Are these more important than the technology- related issues? Develop a few
examples to justify your answer.
Solution
The use of technology will definately allow the company to achieve both objectives at the
same time. It explained in below given points .
1. With in the company we can apply the access rights on users level. We can identify the
various group of users, and according to the need of users group, we can apply various access
rights to each users groups.
2. Let take an example of social networking websites, lets suppose we have two users group in
the company named A and B, where A have customer interfacing, so for user group A , we can
enable the use of social networking websites, to communicate and make good relationship with
customers.
3. Same can be done with company related emails also. We can sent the company related emails
with digital signature. Here in this case the authentic user who having access rights can access
the emails signed with digital signature.
Technology related issues are more important t han the cultural changes, In terms of cultural
changes, we can change the setting arrangements within the organization, so that users or the
employess with same access rights sit together, and employess with less access rights sit together
in other places. Because if both type of employess sit together then it can happen than authentic
information gets leaked.
