You are downgraded as a CIO. CEO will call you into his office and tell you, after thinking, he decided to let you report to CFO. Everyone knows what this means, IT does not have to report to the CEO, but in fact IT should not be like this.
Although IT departments are still visual as strategic assets, CEO adheres to the current IT is best managed by total overser, it must ensure that the company can get the biggest return from funds and operational investments, and This is CFO.
Of course, CEO fully understands your disappointment, but he still wants you to know that he fully supports your work and I hope you succeed. CEO believes that by reporting financial reporting, IT will have a greater impact on the company. In addition, he added that CFO is world-class, and he is very likely to be excellent CEO, or to be dug to other companies to do CEO. This new change is difficult for you.
When CEO said that he no longer needs you as a direct speaker, it means two points: things are going smoothly, so that he really does not need to communicate directly with you; or confession, relative to other affairs, you The report is not worth spending time and attention, so you should communicate directly with others.
It is undeniable that the destination is undoubtedly a blow, but if you rely on wisdom and courage to control yourself, you must revitalize IT and use the model of a company to return to CIO. Perhaps a crisis mission can predict success after the diverturge, then see if you are willing to pay extra efforts to help your new boss succeed.
Different strategies to treat different bosses
This issue is neither playing with anything else, it is a core of professional influence. When you report to the CEO, this clearly shows that the boss has successfully contacted the company's success. When CEO is considered to be a business strategy and brand, this is an unexpected fact; it is not a fact when your boss is CFO or COO.
Around the CFO to design IT strategies and budgets, design IT strategies and budgets around CEOs are completely different, different workloads, different recognition, and even individuality. Although the author did not have seen any study, it has never discovered that the employee used similar words to describe the temperament of CEO and CFO in the company of any wealth 1000.
Now that I have an important question that he must answer honestly is that he has been fully prepared to make CFO to get the success of CFO, not the success of IT staff. If you answer this question is "I don't know", "I am uncertain", etc., then CIO is difficult to succeed. If the new boss CFO thinks that IT is not a agenda, then it is necessary to rely on professional influence to change this idea of CFO.
Successful CIO uprising
As far as I know, a company's CIO is downgrade, requiring him to report to CFO, but this CFO is disgusted by the business executive, and finally CIO successfully organized an uprising against CFO. How to do? He secretly spends time to help business units develop IT, the department's business growth is ranked first, which makes the CEO to recognize the power of IT. When CFO said to the IT plan, CIO opposed his own boss under the support of the business department, resulting in the isolation of CFO. In this way, the CEO had to remove CFO, and the CIO returns to the high.
Why is this way to work? Because the business department is good at establishing a better balance between reducing cost and increasing profits, CFO is just a way to pursue reduction costs, then CIO has seen the difference between the two, and putting the bet on a bet. The business department is the supervisor, thereby success. In this case, "Help CFO Success" is at the expense of weakening corporate profits, which is why CEO will replace CFO to the chief. Moreover, more interesting is that the board of directors will soon expel the original CEO. why? Because the directors often hear the business unit complained, they work very unhappy under the CEO's leadership. So for CIO, his surface is to report to new CEOs, but he truly doing the regulator of high-level strategic planning and business department execution, CIO has become internal system administrator.
The power of the business department
How does professional effectiveness recover? To a certain extent, re-appointed CIO can invest in, allowing the company's new boss to succeed. In moral speaking, he must frank and have a spirit of cooperation and creative.
why? First of all, this is a profession, and I believe that professional ethics is critical to IT efficacy; second, CFO, and COO occupational sensitivity to CEOs are different, which makes CIOs have the opportunity to spend more energy for more energy Difficulties in drilling business. This is very important because the effective IT strategy is from the operation, not from the strategy level.
From Dell, Tesco, Wal-Mart and other companies, we can find that IT's strategic positioning makes it evolved from the skill type IT operation. For example, Tesco's loyalty plan from a marketing
I want to develop, and the starters of this marketing idea becomes the company's CEO. In other words, in a successful enterprise driven by IT, the change is derived from business operations, not from personnel changes. There are too many CIOs that don't really understand the subtle difference between business processing and technical support.
The author is indeed a little decentralized for CEOs, because IT exists behind every business growth, IT is becoming more and more important for the company's future. Moreover, some CEOs may never know the value of a world-class CIO.
