Recently, the 2004 CIO Growth Forum jointly organized by the IBM Global Services Department and CCID Group. More than 100 enterprises CIO and information experts from the country participated in this forum.
With the rapid development of information technology, IT is increasingly becoming an integral part of the enterprise business, and the challenges and stresses faced by CIO are increasing. The role of CIO has already come out of programmer, system maintainer's category, and the role of enterprise development has become "passive" support for the promotion of "active". In this environment, CIO will walk into the core management of the enterprise, to become the main transformation power of the core business process, and CEO, CFO to explore the strategic direction and formulate development planning, and constantly integrate, improve and enhance the company IT. The function of the system makes information technology become a powerful propeller for enterprise development. CIO growth ladder will present a technique CIO, to tactical CIO, to the strategic CIO!
How does CIO develops, how to grow from IT support staff as an advisor to enterprise IT strategy? The view from all parties consistently believes that the key to CIO growth is two points: First, in the IT organization internal transformation and use effective information technology methods to promote business operation; secondly, a forward-looking strategic vision, will IT technology and development The trend is combined with the development of enterprises. Guo Shixun, deputy general manager of the IBM Global Services Strategic Outsourcing: "For companies, IT is no longer an internal investment, the service department that does not produce, IT has been closely integrated with the business department, and directly reduces costs for enterprises. Get gains. The responsibility of Acio is bearing more importantly. "
In the discussion, the strategic outsourcing is considered to be a key way to promote the development of enterprises. From the conceptual, outsourcing service is the service model that the company will complete or part of the IT work package; from the perspective of company management, the more accurate interpretation of outsourcing services is a strategic external resource: enterprise integration Using the best IT specialized resources to achieve cost, improve efficiency, and give full play to a management model of its own core competitiveness and enhance customer external environment. Long-term business practices and project experience draw conclusions: outsourcing is an enterprise management model that cooperates into a common goal. Enterprise CIOs are grabbing outsourcing, using the service provider's strength from system maintenance, etc., it can also use the professional advantages of IT service providers to develop informationization to enterprises.
