CIO's Bitter pill: re-building light It planning [1]

Enterprise Informatization always experienced ups and downs, and accompanied by contradictions and setbacks. When talking about the implementation of the company's informatization, many of the CIO, filled with emotion. When asked if the company has an IT plan? Many CIOs show reticence. For many CIOs, it may be crunching to develop an IT plan to develop an IT department work plan and budget to provide high-level reference and approval.

It turns out that CIOs in many companies are thinking too simple about it planning, such as one-sided listening to the application described by software vendors, without thinking and planning. In the actual implementation, not fully estimated the implementation process of the difficult, also did not take into account the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/18050.html "> Enterprise's own reality." Therefore, many walk a lot of detours, tried a lot of halberd pains, in the past several years of implementation of the informatization of many projects are also linked to the failure to make the decision to suspend the project. In fact, for CIOs, the process of planning a complete it plan often involves taking more factors into consideration, even long hours of painful work.

Why not focus on it planning?

"It's a plan, isn't it? It's easy, just think about it." No doubt, it planning sometimes pat the head can get the answer, and bother to do it planning to get similar answers, then the difference?

The reason is simple: on the surface to see the answer is almost the same, but under the iceberg can be very different. The biggest difference is that CIO's view of information is different, it is this different view of the information results have a great impact. For example, the former is often in a casual situation with the implementation of the information system, once in the process of implementation of obstacles, it construction of the rationality will be questioned, to bring greater risk to information. The latter is carried forward with the goal of a relatively consistent information technology. For example, it seems very similar to the implementation of ERP+PDM, but who first after the problem has a fundamental difference, we need to fully consider the current level of technology, management, corporate style and other factors. In it construction, a little careless may striking, Pat head can get the answer, but in essence, but is the information delivered in the sand in the high-rise.

It planning is essentially building a bridge between business management and it, and then managing problems from an IT perspective. Any enterprise in the development process will encounter a variety of business problems, some of them from the strategy, organization, and some from it, some are local, such as the unified management of customer information, there are global, systemic problems, such as high inventory and so on. Only by standing in the relatively high angle of collection, collation, classification, in order to clearly understand the problem involved, so as to propose corresponding solutions.

In any case, it planning is essentially a chance for the enterprise to comb through business issues and manage it through it. Therefore, it planning is to comb the business problem, open a door to solve the problem, successful it planning is often the bright spot is also here. But the following reasons often make the enterprise despise it planning.

Reference It planning benefits are "not obvious" and have concerns about investment

It planning benefits are "not obvious", directly leading to concerns about it planning investments. It planning is not like network building can immediately realize communication, unlike hardware investment can immediately have real it assets, even it software applications, it software applications can quickly meet the business needs of various departments. As a result, policymakers are more willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars on equipment, rather than spending human resources on it planning, not to mention planning.

Article It planning is disconnected from business development planning

It planning is one of the basic principles: it information planning and enterprise business strategy matching, to support and promote the implementation of business strategy objectives. And the actual situation is usually many CIOs in it planning is to shoot "head" and copy other company's information planning, and the enterprise's business development planning disjointed. The mistake that is often made in planning is to plan very grand, into castles in the water and flowers. Either the planning is very practical, the project is designed to solve specific problems, and there is no holistic and overall concept.

(3) The timeliness of planning is not enough

Planning is despised, the timeliness is not enough is a big reason. In the process of making, demonstrating and implementing it planning, the environment of the enterprise is changing rapidly. This rapidly changing situation, the big aspect even is the enterprise strategic transformation, the small aspect may also be a certain business process change, the planning application limitation if grasps is not good, is apt to end "The plan cannot keep pace with the change" the infamy.