Share your successful experience, not a easy thing for CIO. After all, the quality of IT technology applies is one of the indicators that measures a healthy growth of a business today. As a CIO, Zhu Qiang should be lucky. A foreign company in a market research and analysis, because the company's emphasis on information is higher, which has gained enough attention in this company and has given a lot of rights.
Can't be too lying
Strictly speaking, as a decision-making layer managed by a CIO in the enterprise, it should be a service role in terms of work nature. CIOs to do is to implement the information system construction of the company in accordance with the overall development strategy of the company. Zhu Qiang also agreed with the role of CIO, but if CIO wants to further improve its position in the company, play a greater value, CIO can't "rest"
TNS is a foreign company research company, and their customers focus on foreign customers such as telecommunications, finance, consumer products. The company earns profits by providing market analysis reports to these customers. Due to the nature of the work, Zhu Qiang's company is extremely valued for IT facilities. "My direct leader is a company's hand, and many of my work is arranged through the global headquarters."
Although Zhu Qiang is very steady, it is very serious, but he is attacked by this high, it is not open to his company. Most of TNS's business is to provide users with market research reports, depending on the user's specific needs, according to different analytical models, this requires a powerful IT background to support. In addition, how to deal with data, what kinds of reports are provided, but also to understand that IT technology is responsible for those who know business conditions, so Zhu Qiang is very critical in TNS.
On the one hand, Zhu Qiang should appoint the construction of the company IT system. On the other hand, it is also responsible for the operation of data processing analysis, so on the business card of Zhu Qiang, the "IT and Data Department Manager" introduced. It can be seen that Zhu Qiang is not the kind of CIO thinking about our traditional concept. He is responsible for the construction of an enterprise IT system, and it is also in charge of the work of enterprises. Only by Zhu Qiang is a data report obtained by the analysis of information system every day.
As a CIO, two-course CIO, the pressure on the work will be in a lot of peace, Zhu Qiang can adhere to the TNS for 4 or 5 years, which is an unimaginable thing for the average person. After all, the data analysis is very pressure, requires many professional technologies, and each customer's needs are different. It is conceivable that Zhu Qiangong will be a situation when the company is dealing with it. Fortunately, Zhu Qiang can maintain a more good attitude.
Some CIOs have some disdain for Zhu Qiang now. Don't take the example of Zhu Qiang as a special case. The business characteristics of TNS company did determine that Zhu Qiang has an important position in the company. But when I turned back, in many cases, China CIO's work in the enterprise is mostly IT IT, they are indeed in the development of IT strategy, they are indeed in the operation of assisting companies. However, this connection between these CIOs and the daily operations is not as close as Zhu Qiang.
Whether in the manufacturing industry, circulation industries or retail industries, CIOs cannot divide their work in a inherent IT system building. They should close their work closely with the core business of the company, rather than being a firefighting player, and should never position themselves into a service support department.
Often in the core business of the enterprise, there are many IT needs. It is no wonder that some companies originally proposed that the departments requiring projects such as Masma ERP, SCM are not from CIO, but the leadership of the enterprise or a direct production department. Because the departments of corporate leadership and direct participation in the production and operation, the experience of market competition is most direct and most sensitive. In contrast, some CIOs often position themselves to the background of the company. Don't sigh Zhu Qiang's luck. For CIOs, you should close your core business with your business.
Conservative conservative
The university is mainly written with computer-related disciplines. The first company that he entered is a Lenovo computer. Zhu Qiang can be a complete IT talent. Such a background is not necessarily suitable for the role of corporate CIO today. Today's companies may need to find a double background of compound talents. On the one hand, the CIO must have experience in the industry in the industry. On the one hand, it is necessary to have an IT technology background. Excessive IT technology background, may limit the development of CIO in the future under certain conditions. "You should look at any kind of IT new technologies." Zhu Qiang also understood people who were born as an IT technology, often is very interested in new technologies and new products. If only a simple IT technician, dare to try, dare to adventure is not very uncommon. But as a CIO of a company, if there is such a mentality, I am afraid I will bring a fatal hidden danger to the company.
The decision of each IT system construction of CIO may affect the future development of the company. Doing something is cautious, but it is better to be conservative. "Our company is currently all system platforms still run on Windows NT." Zhu Qiang's sentence made the listener a little surprised. Microsoft now provides the latest operating system has reached Windows Server 2003, and as a multinational company, Zhu Qiang's system platform stayed in a seemingly old system.
Zhu Qiang has his own truth about such a question. The TNS company has large scale, Beijing, Shanghai has branches, and a comprehensive upgrade of a system requires consideration of week, and it is very likely to bring risks to enterprises. In addition, existing IT technicians have been very skilled in the use of Windows NT, and the existing company's business grinding is also very smooth, so from the actual application status, upgrade needs are not so eager.
"Of course, we also consider upgrading questions, but even if it is upgraded to Windows 2000 Server, it is also necessary to spend hundreds of thousands of costs." Zhu Qiang believes that this cost is more expensive, so he will not consider the latest process. Windows Server 2003 top. "As long as Microsoft launches Windows NT Server new patch, we will download it immediately, in general, the system is working well."
Perhaps Most CIOs' attitude towards IT products is similar to Zhu Qiang. They treat any new technological general meeting, because the emergence of new technologies often brings large risks and cost input. Risk does not use more, any new technology can become mainstream, take a period of test. Although IT vendors speculate on new technologies in the market, they even crown a high-risk high-altitude high hat, but as an old-fashioned CIO, these will not play any role.
In addition, the cost is a major reason why CIOs takes place for new products and new technologies. High purchase cost, high use cost, now the IT budget has been stretched in CIO, and the new technology is stopped.
Is it a core task?
As a CIO, it is impossible to do everything. Many IT systems in TNS China, Zhu Qiang will take self-discipline or outsourcing according to the importance of business. For example, build a network video website project, due to the communication between enterprises, communication between enterprises and customers, so it is a key IT project for TNS, so Zhu Qiang can only take self-development and self-management. Compared to other systems, such as email, or website maintenance, they can be done by outsourcing.
When the industry is talking about the benefits of talking about outsourcing, CIOs should maintain a normal heart as Zhu Qiang. After all, the IT system of the company has a light, some systems involve the core business of the enterprise, and some systems are to assist in daily work, all take outsourcing is not an achievable approach. Simple hardware equipment maintenance, system update, etc., can be serviced through third parties, but most of the ERP, SCM, CRM or bank settlement systems, will not be handed over to third parties.
Unlike TNS, many large companies in China often take another idea when building critical business systems. While cooperating with professional system suppliers, companies are also cultivating a professional team of enterprises. It can therefore be seen that many companies have implemented this batch of IT talents in the industry, in the industry, in the industry, in the industry. This phenomenon can be referred to as enterprise information construction with Chinese characteristics. It can be seen from it, any information system building involving key business, most of which is more assured to their employees, rather than paying all IT systems to other people's hands, even if the person has more high IT professional levels.
CIO's concern is determined by its work function, but in addition to paying attention to specific projects, CIO should care about funding, such as annual IT budget. "TNS has IT budgets each year, this ratio is related to the company's turnover, the proportion of funds is fixed." Zhu Qiang is not worried that the company will decrease in IT investment. What he needs to spend is how to plan the use of IT budgets, he has enough power, such as what kind of equipment to buy, what kind of system is established.
For the ability to control the ability to control the ability, it is a barometer that is a CIO in the enterprise. After all, Zhu Qiang is working in a Chinese region of a multinational company. It is relatively possible to involve the planning and construction of the entire information system. So he can take charge of the IT budget every year, even if it is very good. Many domestic CIOs are still deeply called the poor.
Most of CIO will complain that companies' attention is insufficient to IT, or the solutions provided by IT manufacturers cannot make companies quickly see the return of investment returns. All of these troubles will eventually be attributed to the CIO's own capabilities. After all, the business of the company needs a reason, that is, the reasons for each budgetary expenditure, the IT budget is also the case. If the recommendations proposed by CIO are not recognized by leadership, I am afraid that any IT budget will not be approved.
I don't know if Zhu Qiang has been frustrated in the application for IT budget, but at least he can now use the budget. This is already lucky enough. Those people whispering the Night CIO, I am afraid I have a printer equipment to all departments, but also to take several departments to approval.
