The CIO is responsible for strategic information management.
Hong En Century Company believes that the duties of the CIO include five aspects:
(1) It is the most fundamental and important duty of CIO to provide reliable information for enterprise decision-making and effectively help enterprises formulate long-term development strategies;
(2) Effectively manage the IT department and put it in a position that can support or guide business needs;
(3) Keep up with the development of all the latest technologies, contact with science and technology and business strategies, ensure the competitive advantage of enterprises in technology, and quickly turn it into the driving force for business development;
(4) Correctly plan the IT development strategy, conceive and promote technology foresight, and ensure that the IT technical resources of enterprises have a long history;
(5) Establish and maintain a positive IT culture and cultivate good relations with all classes.
The skills requirements of CIO position include: strong business orientation, understanding the business organization process and development trend of industries and enterprises; Solve business problems with IT capabilities and advantages, while controlling costs and risks; Identify, judge and evaluate the applicability of new technology development to enterprise business; Fully communicate and understand the needs of internal non-technical departments and employees; Excellent organizational skills, centralized management of information systems and applications, and coordination of enterprise resources; Complete the conceptual design, project start-up and project completion of multiple IT projects with good quality and quantity within the specified time and budget; A good listener, an active team builder, a clear-cut advocate of enterprise IT vision, and a person who works tacitly with enterprise management team.
The personality qualities required by CIO post are: excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills; Able to play a role in a complex cooperative environment; Sensitive; Honesty; Smart; Strong judgment; Combination of strategic thinking and pragmatic style; Ability to be trusted by colleagues and build alliances.
In addition to the above, the CIO must also do the following:
1. Be responsible for the overall planning, organization and development of information engineering of the company (group) and its subsidiaries;
2. Participate in the strategic planning of digital projects of the Group and serve the operation and management of the Group;
3. Establish and improve the information management system and supervise the implementation, and clarify the post responsibilities;
4. Be responsible for implementing the management and control process of informatization projects and formulating the company's network architecture scheme;
5. Be responsible for the team building of the Information Department.