How does CIO arrange his daily work?

So how does a CIO do his daily work well? Let's look at a few short stories: First, the leader looks at the computer. This is a true story that happened a few years ago: a unit wanted to buy a computer and submitted it to the leader for approval. The leader thinks that computers are very important to the company in the information age, so he supports and approves the purchase of a computer, and Xiao Wang of the company is responsible for daily use. One day, the leader suddenly wanted to see how the computer was used, so he went to the computer to watch Xiao Wang's operation. Who knows that just looking at the desktop leader actually found a major problem: "Xiao Wang, how can you do this?" ! This computer was bought by the company and is a collective property. How can you write "My Computer"? "Wang was speechless. Enlightenment: the implementation of informatization can not be separated from the support of leaders at any time, and the support of leaders is the primary condition for the implementation of informatization. But in reality, many times, just like the leader in that joke, quite a few leaders don't know what informatization is and how to implement it. Sometimes they don't even know what benefits informatization can bring to enterprises. Just relying on an intuition or watching other enterprises engage in informatization and ERP, I feel that I am behind the trend of the times, so I also support launching informatization projects. At this time, we need the communication ability of CIO, the information supervisor. As a CIO, you must have the spirit of being responsible for enterprises and superiors, introduce the true meaning of informatization (implementing ERP) to your superiors, let the CEO understand the purpose of informatization, and sell your informatization ideas to superiors is the primary job of CIO. Generally speaking, the implementation of information engineering such as ERP should first make your boss, usually CEO, really understand what information is, what benefits it can bring to the enterprise, what steps it needs, how much budget it needs, what to pay attention to and so on. Let the CEO know fairly well. It is best to set up a leadership decision-making group, with the CEO as the team leader and the top leaders of various departments as members. The leading group mainly focuses on strategic decision-making and focuses on major issues, such as the formulation and realization of system objectives and organizational culture. Business process design, benefit, resource allocation and coordination; Guide and evaluate the work of the implementation team, study major management reform issues (including business process implementation and various incentive mechanisms) and be responsible for the success or failure of ERP projects; The whole process monitoring and supervision in the process of informatization. CIO is responsible for daily activities, specifically for emergencies and accidents encountered in the implementation process and the daily operation of ERP and other software, popularizing the concept of informatization, finding problems, proposing solutions and reporting them to the leading group for approval. When encountering major problems that need cross-departmental research, submit them to the Group for joint solution. This is the basic work of CIO before informatization. A group of mice held a meeting to discuss how to deal with the hateful cat, because the cat had eaten several of them. A mouse said, "Hang a bell around the cat's neck, so that as soon as it leaves, we can hear the sound and get ready to escape in advance." All the mice think it's a good idea. But a mouse asked, "Who would put that neck around a cat's neck?" The mice were speechless. Enlightenment: Theoretically speaking, the position of CIO is very strange: he should be the manager of an enterprise, but because the implementation of informatization requires the active participation of all employees below CEO, it is a work of full mobilization, so this manager has no corresponding personnel to match it, and at most he is equipped with the corresponding project manager, which leads to the situation that CIO is "nominal and defenceless". How to increase the execution of CIO is a blind spot in theory. However, the blind spot in theory does not mean that we can stagnate in reality and need to explore in reality. The process of informatization implementation needs the full support of all participants. Only with everyone's support can informatization be implemented. However, in reality, because the implementation of information technology may bring unstable factors to everyone's mind, affect the original welfare, weaken the original position power, and require employees to have higher quality, CIO has encountered resistance from all sides. Even in some enterprises, CIO itself is a dispensable thing, and some enterprises have this position without a series of institutional guarantees such as economic rewards and punishments, administrative penalties, personnel suggestions, which makes it difficult for CIO to advance enterprise informatization. Therefore, after getting the support of CEO, we should communicate well with the middle managers of the enterprise, let them understand the benefits of informatization and the importance of informatization to the enterprise, and let them be psychologically prepared to accept informatization; For ordinary employees, we should pay attention to training and strive to build the enterprise's workforce into a "pursuit of Excellence and continuous progress" workforce. 3. Xiao Wang, a doctoral student in the United States, is a China student who yearns for American universities very much. In order to make progress, he crossed the ocean and came to America. As a result, an old professor from a famous American university took a fancy to him and decided to admit him. He agreed to enter American universities without looking at his major. As a result, his doctorate was China's degree in ancient Chinese. That professor has a little knowledge of ancient Chinese characters in China, and many of them don't know at all. He often asks Xiao Wang to read to him from China, and then uses his own thinking to guide Xiao Wang's study. Xiao Wang is depressed. Revelation: It doesn't mean that everything outside is good. We can only outsource some things if our internal department can't do it well or it's not economical for you to do internal work. As the director of informatization, what kind of informatization software you choose, what kind of training method you choose, what content you train, how much the trainer knows about your enterprise, whether it can be closely integrated with your corporate culture, etc., are all issues that need to be negotiated with the outside world, and some of them need to be outsourced. The first step of choice is often the choice of information software: should we choose CRM, MRP, MRP II, ERP or collaborative software? Choosing software can't be as casual as Xiao Wang's major, so you must choose carefully. Only in this way can we avoid the final "reading troubles". Implementing enterprise informatization is a task to enhance enterprise's response ability, improve enterprise's efficiency and improve enterprise management mode. Choosing and implementing an information software with good performance is an important task of ……CIO as the information supervisor. After choosing the information software, the next step is the consideration of outsourcing resources. The bosses of some enterprises have a look: how is informatization a bottomless pit? When we first selected the software, we invited a consulting company and spent a sum of money. I bought the software and spent a sum of money, and now I have to outsource it. Is the outsourcing cost so huge? ! Can you reduce the cost? At this time, the CIO should explain clearly to the CEO the reasons for doing so, and when choosing outsourcing, he must not rashly engage in it. Otherwise, it is very likely to choose "outsourcing" like Xiao Wang, which is not worth the cost compared with the millions of expenses of introducing information software. When choosing outsourcing resource departments, we must choose enterprises with similar corporate culture and selected information software knowledge. At present, in China, consulting companies are mainly university teachers. The choice of such characters only knows the corporate culture or the software they choose, and the general knowledge is only one-sided; Software companies generally just brag about how good their software is, and they are not sure whether they can get in close contact with enterprises. Therefore, we must choose a consulting company with knowledge and technology to outsource. Fourth, Bajie looked in the mirror and said that Bajie had just been banished to the world and didn't know that he had cast a pig fetus. One day, Bajie found a mirror. He wanted to see Marshal Tian Peng's handsome appearance again, but he only saw a pig's head. The pig was very angry and broke several pieces of the mirror. The result is not to break the pig's head, but to map a pig's head in each segment. Bajie never looked in the mirror again. Revelation: Some things are beyond your control. For example, Bajie in the story doesn't want to see himself, but there is nothing he can do. He tried to avoid seeing his pig head by breaking the mirror, but on the contrary, more pig heads appeared. Corporate culture also has this amplification effect. Good corporate culture can improve quality of enterprise and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises.