How to build a professional CIO team in China

I. Experience of the United States

The United States is a more developed country of information technology, it is helpful to us to understand the CIO's status and function in the information-based society, and to study the emergence, development history and present situation of the CIO in our country. In order to make more effective use of information technology to reduce the cost of government administration and improve the efficiency of administration, the U.S. Government and Congress promulgated a series of laws on information management, such as the Federal Financial Management Promotion Act, more than 10 laws and regulations. There are two more legislation in relation to CIOs: the Kringle-Cohen Act of 1996 (Clinger-cohen Act of 1996, Public Law 104-106) and the 1995 Instrument Reduction Act (Paperwork reduction ACT (PRA) of 1995, public 104-13).

The Kringle-Cohen Act requires federal agencies to appoint CIOs to perform the IT management tasks stipulated in the provisions of this Act and the information resource management tasks provided for under the Instrument Reduction Act. The Kringle-Cohen Act also abolishes the original centralized procurement function of the General Services Authority, directly assigns procurement responsibilities to federal agencies, and encourages them to adopt modular, small-scale procurement projects. In the Kringle-Cohen Act, almost all federal administrations are required to set up CIO positions, such as: Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Labor, Department of State, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Finance , NASA, Agency for International Development, Federal Crisis Administration, General Services Administration, National Science Foundation, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, personnel administration, SME Bureau. The purpose of the CIO positions in these departments is to ensure that information technology inputs are expected to return and to provide advice and support to heads of department and senior management to ensure that access to information technology and the management of information resources are conducive to the implementation of departmental policies and responsibilities and are in compliance with the relevant legal provisions. To develop, build and maintain an integrated and optimized information technology architecture for the department to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of information resource management.

To ensure that the CIO of these organizations is competent for the CIO position, the Kringle-Cohen Act also sets out the core competencies that CIOs should have, and according to core competencies, organizes government, institution, and industry experts to develop a knowledge system that fosters relevant competencies, by government agencies, The organization of colleges and universities according to the knowledge system to prepare teaching materials, collation of typical cases and best practices, organize the CIO training, to ensure that the CIO's ability to complete the required job responsibilities.

After years of development, the CIO in the United States has become a leading member of organizations, and the following data can basically describe their group characteristics:

The IT budget that CIOs can control: an organization with an annual revenue of less than 100 million dollars, with an average of 8 million dollars in the IT budget the CIO can control. An organization with an annual income between 100 million dollars and 490 million dollars, the average it budget at its disposal is $12 million trillion, an organization with an annual income of between 400 million and 1 billion dollars, with an average of 26 million dollars in its budget, and an organization with an annual income of more than 5 billion dollars, with an IT budget of 114 million dollars or more at its disposal. On average, it budgets are about 6% of the organization's annual sales, small companies up to 8%, large companies down to 4%, small companies with a high ratio, but the absolute amount is small, large companies are low, but the absolute amount is large.

IT organization management model: in the CIO's organization, 61% of the organizations are centralized IT architecture, large corporate headquarters, internal application development and support capabilities, 22% of organizations using decentralized it architecture, independent branches have application development capabilities, Support capabilities both local and from the head office, 14% of organizations using distributed IT architecture, the distribution of sites without local development capabilities and support capabilities, these services are mainly dependent on a relatively centralized organization. On average, the CIO is responsible for managing 78 IT staff, supporting 5,300 users in the organization, and a staff/user rate of 1:69, that is, each IT employee supports an average of 69 users.

CIO's salary composition: basic salary accounted for 81%, bonuses accounted for 14%, stock options accounted for 5%.

The CIO's average remuneration is: $186,611. By industry: Insurance/Real Estate/Law for $255,975, computer-related (vendor, distribution, service, value-added services) for $228,338, manufacturing/Manufacturing (non-computer industry) for $213,280, Business Services/consultancy (non-computer industry) for $188,587, Finance/Banking/ Accounting for $174,576, medical/health care for $160,116, education for $145,384, federal, state, local government (including military) as $111,455; According to company size: The company turnover is less than 100 million, the CIO pay income is $ 141,497, the company turnover of 100 million to 490 million, the CIO remuneration income is $168,346, the company turnover is 500 million to 990 million, the CIO salary income is $226,612, the company turnover is 1 billion to 4.9 billion, the CIO salary income is $ 281,768, the company turnover of more than 5 billion of the CIO pay income for $302,825.

The main factors that affect the CIO's remuneration and performance reviews are the profitability of the company, the CIO's leadership, the value of the IT investment (or identity), the project performance, including the time and budget, the difference between actual and it budgets, and the performance of the company stock in the stock market. Who does the CIO report to? Report to the CEO accounted for 51%, to the COO report accounted for 12%, to the CFO report accounted for 11%; to the group CIO report accounted for 4%, others accounted for 22%. Where did these CIOs come from? What kind of work have you been doing before? Most of it comes from it, followed by consulting, management, customer service, sales, research and development, finance, engineering, marketing, manufacturing/production. Where are the CIOs going next? 44% or continue to choose to do CIO, 20% of people will be promoted to CEO, 14% of people will be promoted to COO, only 1% people will go back to do the CFO, choose another occupation of 21%.

Above is the CIO's group sketch, as an individual, what kind of position is a typical CIO position?