In 20 16, an industry enterprise conducted a survey of domestic 16 enterprises (see the table below), and the responsible persons of these 16 enterprises who participated in the survey gave feedback, "The information department is a weak department within the enterprise, and a considerable proportion of it is still subordinate to the office, finance and chief engineer's office, as well as all aspects of information design. It is conceivable that how a weak department coordinates various departments to carry out informatization construction, and informatization needs to be realized. This shows the role and awkward position of the information department in the enterprise.
So today, let's discuss how enterprise IT personnel should respond, how to break the situation and meet the challenge.
Personally, I think we should start from the following aspects:
First, IT personnel should seize the opportunity, highlight their roles and make breakthroughs in time.
At the beginning of this year, the COVID-19 epidemic broke out suddenly and spread rapidly around the world. As the most serious global crisis in the world since World War II, it has brought a serious impact on the global economic and social development, and also brought great disasters to the production and life of our people.
During the epidemic, risks and opportunities coexist. We should not only see the risks of enterprise operation, but also see the development opportunities of information construction. During the epidemic prevention and control in COVID-19, informatization has played a vital role in promoting enterprises to resume their work and production, and has brought remarkable results to enterprises. Enterprise leaders will pay more and more attention to information construction.
In the first half of 2020, enterprises used information technology and means to actively adopt various forms such as "cloud", "network" and "online" to actively resume work and production, and strive to reduce the impact of the epidemic.
According to the data of 280 enterprises surveyed by questionnaire during the epidemic period of an association, more than 98% of all enterprises surveyed use home office or home office combination. 69.29% of the surveyed units use comprehensive office (enterprise office+home telecommuting), 20% choose duty+home telecommuting, only 9.29% of the surveyed units use home telecommuting, and 1.43% of the units completely return to work. It can be seen that working from home is the main office form of enterprises during the epidemic. Among them, the efficiency of video conferencing, ERP, OA, PLM and other information systems has been significantly improved.
Second, with the help of tools, actively strive to carry out information construction and display information achievements.
IT personnel should not only work hard, but also learn to communicate and report their achievements to leaders and colleagues. Only in this way can we establish the strong position of informatization, satisfy the leaders and play the leading role of informatization.
The third information talent team construction
1. Establish a training mechanism, strengthen the ability and quality, and cultivate excavation talents on the basis of existing personnel.
2. Recruit it technical talents for enterprises and society.
3. Dig deep into resources, build a communication platform, aim at the talent market, and conduct directional drainage.
4. Formulate strategies to attract talents,
5. Implement the retention mechanism to retain talents.
The fourth enterprise IT leader CIO should be forward-looking and insightful.
Let's talk in detail about why CIOs should be forward-looking and insightful.
Enterprise informatization construction poses a great challenge to the leadership, especially the vision, of IT leaders and even CIOs. Leaders have two important tasks: determining the direction and employing people. Determining the direction is decision-making; Both decision-making and employment need vision. Decision-making needs foresight, foresight, perception and insight; Employing people is to know people first, and the wisdom of knowing people also needs insight and perception. Leaders should have an eye for selecting people and know people's wisdom. To sum up, a leader's vision includes foresight and insight.
Look forward
Foresight mainly refers to the judgment of IT development trend, and insight mainly refers to the judgment of things and people.
In the face of a sudden epidemic, it mainly depends on the vision of CIO leaders, whether they are helpless or find new opportunities.
The basic requirement of foresight is foresight, and foresight consciousness is to be able to grasp the future based on the present situation. CIO leaders should have a predictable understanding of the growth and development trend of the industry, be able to seize market opportunities keenly, see things that others can't see, be curious about changes, and find opportunities quickly and keenly.
The keen leadership of CIO can bring new development opportunities, find new breakthroughs and provide the right direction for the development of the organization. There are many positive and negative examples in this regard.
On 20 10, Tencent set up a WeChat founding team headed by Zhang Xiaolong in Guangzhou R&D Center to develop WeChat. Zhang Xiaolong is a man with keen insight and foresight. He changed the mode of qq, led the team to successfully develop WeChat products, and created a new situation of mobile socialization.
Jobs keenly foresaw the development trend of personal computers more than ten years ago, and in line with this trend, he foreseeably developed a brand-new Apple mobile phone, making Apple mobile phone a new favorite of young people, thus leading the market and leading the trend. However, Nokia's managers turn a blind eye to the global rise of Android and Apple systems, and still stick to Saipan system, stubbornly insisting on "falling not bad". After smart phones become the development trend, they still firmly believe that "anti-falling" can make Nokia young forever. As a result, it has become a "abandoned child" in the mobile phone market.
experience
Insight has several requirements: first, we must see through and see through the essence under the complex appearance. Second, we must see it accurately. Can find the key points of things and accurately judge the influencing factors and changing rules of things. At the same time, it requires an accurate understanding of people's thoughts, motives and behaviors. The third is to look carefully. Emphasize sensitivity to details! Preventing the influence of careless wind and ignoring the signs of hidden dangers and the buds of opportunities will easily lead to risks and miss the best opportunity to carry out work. Subtleties are sometimes the crystallization of life experience and work perception. The more things you experience, the deeper and clearer your eyes are.
A well-known domestic medical dressing production and export enterprise originally decided to hold a year-end executive meeting in Wuhan on February 20, 20 19, but according to news reports about the epidemic situation, it was decided to hold the on-site meeting instead of a video conference in other places and Shenzhen. On June 65438+ 10/0, 2020, the company made a forward-looking decision, which many people thought was ridiculous at that time. Now it is wise to arrange its only mask workshop not to have a holiday during the Spring Festival, and fully produce n95 masks, surgical masks and nursing masks, and produced109000 masks one month in advance. Become the biggest winner in the COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control war.
An insightful and forward-looking IT director or CIO can better create a project team, select the talents he needs, give full play to the advantages of informatization, create better products, improve the efficiency of enterprises and stimulate the core competitiveness of enterprises.
Fifth, information workers should be good at learning.
First, we must be proficient in technology and IT technology, so that we can be comfortable in the process of informatization implementation; Second, we should be proficient in management and improve information management and control, so as to achieve the purpose of improving management and efficiency; Third, we must be proficient in business. Only by being proficient in business can we use the IT technology we have mastered and combine the system and management purposes to achieve the management goal of efficient operation. Therefore, enterprise informatization talents are all-round talents and all-rounders of enterprises.