To run, you have to eat less. "This is not complained in the mouth of the Vice President and CEO of the HiSonal Global, and he feels that this is the company's requirements for IT and the performance of CIO value." Today's CIO should The first is a businessman, followed by the technical leader. He needs to use the businessman's vision and the mind. O. "For him," less spending more money "is the nature of the businessman's heavens, and the basic professional ethics of CIO.
In January 2001, after Robert joined the Exceptional company, he started to realize his IT planning with the awareness of businessmen. He believes that as the biggest challenge of CIO is that IT equipment and resources given to the exceptions, and keep IT costs minimize. "We must spend more money to do more things, because the esteem's main business is a monitor, I spend more money on IT means that the company will spend less than 1 penny in marketing and promotion." The company is a global monitor brand company, ranking first in the world's 18-inch LCD monitor market for two consecutive years, headquartered in California, USA, $ 1.3 billion last year.
In the IT strategy, Robert fully demonstrates the nature of his "less spending more business". In 2001, he entered the Exception, he integrates the IT system of the high-school branches, and he will unify the IT system of Europe, Asia and the US Branch to Oracle's ERP system, and use the system's standardization settings as much as possible.
The exception's products are produced by OEM vendors. It does not have a production workshop, so the company's IT system has no production management, mainly focused on managing financial, inventory and sales. In front of the Robert unified IT system, 3 sets of different information systems, databases and applications were run in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Each system is customized for region, with a total of more than 500 custom functions. From the perspective of the information system, they are not like a company, more like 3 different companies. Robert believes that the exception should be run at a high-efficiency and low cost, you must abandon the historical system, re-build the ERP system, and unify the software versions and standards of the three places.
In the next two months, Robed continues to discuss the process settings of the new system, personally to each branch to understand the needs. He has to hold a video conference almost every day and the European branch. Through the uninterrupted communication, Robert finally determined a complete solution for 02002. You have used Oracle management software to establish a unified and concentrated management platform in a global scale, achieving global unified procurement, finance, Order, warehousing and logistics management functions, breaking the status of 3 companies as politics.
In Robert, this change is not only to switch 3 different systems into a set of solutions. It makes the exceptions have changed a lot: First, standardize the business process of each branch; second, global business settlement It is short from 30 days to 3 days. In the past, the CEO Zhu Jiaoliang, which could only see the company's 30 days ago, because the United States headquarters, Europe, and Asia's data needed for 30 days. "The unified work T system enables the exception to a true unified functional company." Zhu Jiaoliang evaluated.
Robert highly emphasizes the standardization of the management information system. It is very simple - "Standard means saving money." So he tried to use the same software supplier and avoid making personalized development. Since all applications come from the same software vendor, each application can be seamlessly integrated, without much consideration to make an integrated interface between applications. Today, a few months will be upgraded to the world's IT system. Uniforms and standards make them only need to get all weekends.
Reducing Personalization Developed a lot of funds and manpower savings in Robert. Robert believes that many CIOs today require a large number of funding budgets and personnel today because they have used too much personalized system. "Although doing so, the system is ideal for their company's operation, but this requires more funds and human resources to maintain system." Obviously, Robert against this practice. " He insists that professional management software companies have accumulated management experience through learning other companies, "smart companies only need to move their software, it is enough. Of course, this requires appropriate to change the company's management operation mode "
You are only 40 IT staff in the world, which is responsible for the Oracle system maintenance; its annual IT expenditure accounts for 1% of its turnover, while the industry average standard is 3% ~ 5%. "The competition in the monitor market is very intense. If I spend a lot of money, I means that the company will add a high cost on the product, so in order to make the product price competitiveness, I have to minimize the cost of work T. Although Robert repeatedly emphasized that it is necessary to save money, he also said that there is a premise that it is necessary to provide the best IT service for employees.
When a global ERP system, Robert has been tremendously resistant due to the change of management methods, but he insists on communicating with each branch, and finally implemented smoothly. In Robert, "listening" and "say" are also a "businessman CIO" basic quality O "listening to the new needs of IT from the business department, listening to their opinions on the old system, so that the N satisfied business It is necessary to run through the enterprise like a nervous system. "In the second half of the year, the CRM will implement will be implemented by Robert from the salesperson" listening ". "Because there is no unified contact with customers, it will often cause this salesman to call the customer, then the salesman will contact this customer, the customer is very disgusted." "" Said 'is how to apply the IT system How to use IT to improve work efficiency telling business people to understand IT and use O "
Before coming to the exception, Robert has a 10-year CIO's workplace experience. He has witnessed the CIO "Rongli" company of many US companies, which makes him more convinced that CIO should have the nature of "businessman". "A successful CIO must be a very successful businessman so that he can turn into CEO."
However, Robert is not willing to do CEO. "I like technology too much, I just want to do CIO forever." Robert is a unconfilled CIO professional enthusiast, and he believes that it is not a CEO to go out of a CIO success. Every day, he is busy in the enrichment. Just hear or see the effect of IT to bring it, he will be as happy as the child.
"12 years of CIO experience, let me experience CIO in position, functional changes." In the 1990s, many companies started to invest a lot of funds in IT construction with the penetration of all levels of information from information technology. Robert believes that companies need a very technically doing CIO - "Because CIOs must first look at technology, then see if this technology can be used to company management." He believes that the current CIO must first look The company's business needs, then find technology and tools that meet business needs. "Today, the important responsibility of CIO is to understand the model of business operations, so that it can become a good assistant and strategy staff of CEO."
Robert is highly positioned with CIO's responsibilities. In 2001, before he joined the plate, he had touched many companies, and the CIO that did not report to CFO was the principle he had been insisting. You have given Robert this opportunity, and he did not let the exception disappointed. He uses "CIO should be first a businessman" to give the version of the company's corporate strategy with strong support. In his team, young people who also ask for technology must be interested in business. "I hope they have the ability to balance a variety of different needs, and use the business vision to put the best resources in the most effective place to the company."
