Guide - As an irreplaceable role in the enterprise, CTO must be far-sighted, and they must have the most clear understanding of the development of IT technology in the next 5 ~ 10 years. Like CEO, CIO, CFO these nouns, people have been solved, but how much do you know for CTO (Chief Technology Officer)? Miye, the dean of the Sun Chinese Engineering Research Institute, believes that as an irreplaceable role in the enterprise, CTO must be far-sighted, and they must have the most clear understanding of the development of IT technology in the next 5 ~ 10 years.
Be good at promoting yourself
CTO must have a deeper technical background, as well as the ability to analyze problems and persuading others, and the most important thing is that he should be good at promoting yourself.
What is the duty of CTO? "Four words: technical strategy." Miye talked about his understanding of CTO, "In different companies, the responsibility of CTO can be different. Like Sun, the company developed IT products and technology," His CTO has a macro grasp of the future of IT technology. In the next 5 to 10 years, which technologies will pop up? Which technology is essential to the company's development? This is CTO to be in the chest. For some non-IT companies, such as banks, telecommunications companies, although they are not directly involved in the research and development of IT products, their business has to rely on IT technology, IT technology can enhance their core competitiveness. In this case, The CTO also focuses on which favorable and adverse effects will be generated on the business. "As the CTO, some basic qualities must be available. First, there must be a deeper technical background. CTO should be very sensitive to technology development. CTO should look into six ways, ear to listen to eighth, other companies in the same industry are paying attention to which technologies, colleges or research institutes are studying what, this is the first CTO. A piece of information. Second, CTO should have strong analysis of the ability and persuasive ability. CTO is more important to persuade CEO to implement these ideas after deep research-related technical hotspots and find out related response. Miye has told such a sentence: "In modern industrial society, scientists must be good at promoting themselves." In a sense, CTO also has this self-propelling ability.
Since the CTO is important, is there a CTO in all companies? Miye believes that CTO is necessary for two types of companies. The first is IT businesses, such as Sun, Lenovo, etc .; the other is a large company that uses IT technology, such as banks such a large enterprise. For the above-mentioned enterprises, it is very important to clarify what products or which products or operations are to produce. These companies may have a clear set of CTO positions, and some may have the title of CTO, but there must be a specific person who is specific to the CTO duty.
Do the right arm of CEO
CTOs are different from the dean of the College Research Institute / Engineering, which should stand higher, farther, develop a macro technical strategy for enterprises.
A well-divided mature business, which may have a number of positions such as CEO, CIO, CTO. Only from the title, these positions may have a coincidence in terms of specific responsibilities. So, what is the positioning of CTO in actual work?
Miye believes that the positioning of CIO and CTO is completely different. CIO is generally only responsible for people within IT systems within the company, he is an IT product or technology. The main responsibility of CIO is to better digest IT technology within the company and use IT technology to improve the operational capacity of enterprise business systems. CTO is mainly to grasp the macroous direction of technology development, and the company has a guiding role in the company in the next stage. In actual work, some banks also have CTO, but their specific functions are the same as CIO.
In the enterprise, the CTO is the right arm of the CEO. CEO is mainly listening to all aspects. CTO is far-sighted, not only to pay attention to the mainstream technology of the current market, but more importantly, it will see technologies that will be popular in the next few years. CEOs are very important in balancing short-term benefits and long-term benefits, as well as in specific allocation resources, CTO's recommendations are very important. It is understood that in some enterprises, the dean and CTO of the Enterprise Research Institute are served by the same person. From a perspective of the dean of the current enterprise research, how does the palace do this phenomenon?
He believes that it depends on the specific positioning of the company. The dean of some enterprises research is mainly to focus on the development of future technologies. From this perspective, his responsibilities are coincident with CTO, which can be held by one person. However, companies such as Sun SUN have many product lines including hardware and software, and the division of work is more specific, so it is difficult to do CTO from the dean of a research institute. In addition, CTO is different from the dean of the Research Institute, and the CTO stands higher, it can be seen more, he is a large direction and will not be responsible for the specific product development. The dean of the Enterprise Research Institute may pay more attention to the short-term technology, such as the technology development within the next 2 to 3 years, and develop project budget accordingly. The CTO can be seen longer and may be the technology development of the next 5 to 10 years, and therefore develop a macro-enterprise development strategy.
CTO is not cultivated
CTO needs to accumulate, it can be cultivated by simple education, he must be a composite technical management talent.
On April 20th, the "China Information Promotion Alliance CTO Professional Committee" initiated the establishment ceremony in the "IT Innovation Night" in the evening of the 2004 China Information Technology Annual Meeting. The committee is based on China's information technology authorities, well-known IT technology experts, IT enterprises and technical supervisors, major industry information technology directors, major and medium-sized enterprises information technology, research and support for social welcoming people, economics Non-winning institutions composed of home and sociologists. Its aim is to promote China IT technology innovation and IT innovation mechanism construction, discuss the latest technology trends and hot topics in IT fields, promote information exchange and communication between members, and jointly promote the application of information technology in all walks of life.
Miye believes that a professional committee initiated to establish such a very meaningful thing. "In the past, people may have heard some CIO organizations, but the composition of CTO's group is more complicated. The situation of each company is different, and the positioning and responsibilities of CTO will differ. Therefore," China Information Technology Promotion Alliance CTO Professional Committee " The final establishment will provide a good communication platform for the CTO of the company. Everyone can interoperate, jointly promote the development of technology innovation and informationization.
Due to the special status of CTO, he is not like some technicians, through a complete educational system, it can be used in batches. "CTO is a senior talent. There is currently no assessment standard. CTO is not cultivated, but in practice with the general improvement of the advanced complex talent level," Miye Example said that "For example, Sun, each department has technical leaders, and there may be a CTO from such a group of high-quality talent team." CTO must have very good leadership, product, technology, and market development Good comprehensive judgment ability. During the technology innovation of the company, the role of CTO is more important, and it has played a key guiding role.
Although the CTO does not participate in specific innovation projects, he must find the context of future technology development. For example, the palace is said: "Now the chip mainly uses synchronous techniques. Then, the chip with non-synchronous techniques is more important when a company is going to make a decision, and the CTO's opinion is very important.
