CIO is not only an IT technical leader of an enterprise, but also an elite of management. CIO should have the strategic thought in order to promote the information revolution and innovation of the enterprise.
Chinese enterprises are in a critical period of transiting from passive development to independent development, the survival environment of Chinese enterprises has entered into a fast-changing information age, as the backbone promoting Chinese enterprises' informationization process, what challenges will Chinese CIO face?
Management is the keyword that CIO must face
The foundation application construction of Chinese informationization is increasingly perfected, and gradually entering optimization and enhancement stage. The core challenge of Chinese CIOs is changing from the concern of foundation application construction to IT management upgrading.
According to the data, there are a half of the current ten challenges which Chinese CIOs are facing are related to IT management, these problems are directly or indirectly related to IT management optimization and upgrading, it shows that Chinese CIOs have recognized that to upgrade IT management is the key mean of promoting the integration of business and informationization.
The IT asset of enterprise is growing rapidly and the IT staff is in short and low quality, these have affected the service quality and cannot ensure the high availability, how can enterprises bring the IT resources into better play? How can IT connect more closely with business? From the real challenge of IT service management, the ill-considered overall strategic planning of business alteration, information system, service management and other aspects has affected the efficiency of IT service management, thus, it initiates that uses worry about the guarantee of the availability and business continuity. Through strengthening IT service management, the informationization level of users can be increased in many aspects.
Qu Xiaodong who is the general manager of CCW Research has pointed out that many enterprises are willing to accept the concept of IT service management, but it will face great pressure when in practical application, many Chinese users cannot do so because of many restrictions. Many CIOs are glad to accept IT service management, but they wouldn't like to put such a set too early. In terms of this, IT service management is a big challenge to users, CIOs also recognize so, but they have great practical difficulties.
The integration of informationization and industrialization is a consideration to Chinese CIOs.
The report of "17th Congress" stresses that we should focus on "vigorously promoting the integration of informationization and industrialization, which indicates that Chinese informationization has entered into a integration age. The experts of informationization have pointed out that the trend of the integration between informationization and industrialization mainly reflects: in time sequence, informationization and industrialization must be impelled at the same time; in space, informationization and industrialization are indivisible, interpenetrated, interdependent and symbiotic. The concept of informationization is having qualitative changes, from the support of core competitiveness into the important component of core competitiveness.
In the phase of the deep integration of business and informationization of Chinese informationization, the informationization construction should open out with focusing on three main important themes: strengthen competitiveness through integrating internal business process, supply chain process, internal and external application and other information integration; enhance the information security competitiveness such as data security, application security, risk control; upgrade the IT service management such as sustainable development, sustainable business development, the dynamic adaptive faculty of IT to business, in order to continue the competitiveness.
Information technology is the innovation of enterprises, it includes the services to enterprise design and manufacture itself, to promote the reforger and innovation of product, design and producing process through informationization.
CIO who is the backbone of an enterprise's informationization enhances the enterprise's IT capacity into enterprise's core competitiveness, the integration of informationization and industrialization is considering not only the understanding and application level of enterprises, but also the capacity of CIO, it requires that CIO should be the technical leader and also the management elite of an enterprise, what's more, a CIO should have strategic thinking to promote the informationization revolution and innovation of an enterprise.
