CIO's Bitter pill: re-building light It planning [2]

"Light It planning, construction strategy" there will be a big fatal flaw. A very simple truth--afterwards control is inferior to the control in the matter, the control is inferior to beforehand control. Unfortunately, most CIOs wait for the wrong decision to make a big loss to find a remedy, more time to mend, too late, which is where it planning is meaningful.

We've all seen the acrobatic show "toss", and the acrobat throws four or five balls at the same time. Not only that, but also the ability to separate energy to accomplish other difficult moves while tossing. If you look at the ball as a project, the CIO also needs to master similar techniques to manage the implementation of multiple projects. Otherwise, the items on hand will fall to the ground like these balls.

From the implementation of individual IT projects in the past, to OA system, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/29808.html ">ERP system, CRM system, decision support system and so on the management of many projects, Is the enterprise will inevitably encounter a hurdle. Moreover, multiple IT project management will be a normal future, and more and more enterprises must execute more and more IT projects at the same time. Under the limited resources, how to manage it construction is an imminent need, and good it planning is the CIO to solve the problem of multiple project management one of the effective methods.

It planning should be step-by-step, bogey blind greatness

In recent years, many enterprises have been on-line a lot of projects, ERP system, OA system, mail system, financial system, CRM system. But gradually also feel that these systems in the application of fragmented, difficult to co-ordinate operations, the lack of a unified Enterprise Portal. Overestimate the difficulty, will weaken the people enterprising and the struggle courage and the confidence, causes the people to be forward and forward, but blindly greatness, can let it construction to be in trouble.

It planning can clarify the status and direction of the technology, to ensure a certain degree of business model and IT systems loose coupling, enabling IT systems to support the business model changes and adjustments for a long time. The development of it planning, the planning of the demonstration is the CIO's important responsibility, but the busy results, can be said to be a few happy several worries, some it planning smoothly through, and some planning is criticized, and finally left aside. How do you make an effective it plan?

(1) From the point of view of the boss

Do it planning, must stand in the boss's point of view, not light from the IT point of view, from the business point of view to do planning. such as the current enterprise production and operation of the problem and the status quo is what, Mister Main consideration of what the direction is, it planning should revolve around this core guiding ideology.

It planning can help an enterprise develop IT strategy and development path that can support business development in a certain period of time by analyzing it status and combining business requirements. In planning, it is important to start from the easy success of the project, to solve the current enterprise management in the most urgent need to solve the problem, but also must quantify the value of it investment, with digital speech, to meet the boss's focus on the profit, dilute it planning benefits "not obvious" weakness.

(2) integration with core business

"All things in advance, but not in advance", in the development of it planning, to fully understand the core business of the enterprise and the needs of high priority business. Understand which businesses play a pivotal role in the enterprise and analyze the status of business capabilities and it capabilities. Business capability analysis is to analyze the operation mode of business activities, to reveal the gap between the present situation and the enterprise's vision, and to identify the key problems. The analysis of IT capability is the current condition of diagnosing enterprise informatization, including basic network, database, application system, analyzing the adaptability of IT system to the future development of enterprise, and giving IT capability evaluation.

In an IT plan, you should first consider the needs of your core and high-priority business to ensure that the results of your IT planning do not adversely affect these systems, and that the results of it planning should be to drive the healthy operation and development of these businesses. In it planning, where organizations, people, processes, especially those involved in the core business, should first be reflected in the planning of the current aspects of the integration rather than the repulsion. In this sense, it planning is the auxiliary planning of enterprises, and it is the service for strategic development and business development planning.