CIO And CFO: All Roads Lead To The Same Goal.

In most of the enterprises, the relationship between CIO and CFO is far from being calm. The role of "spending money" and "managing money" is bound to conflict between the two.

And when conflict occurs, CIO is obviously on the downside. More importantly, because most enterprises lack perfect information evaluation system, whether it is the project budget or project evaluation, the "human" factor dominates, so in many enterprises, the distrust between CIO and CFO aggravates the conflict and directly affects the business development of the enterprise.

In this interview, the reporter interviewed two CFO, who was the CIO of the enterprise. They had a lot of experience in the management of enterprise information construction.

No matter how to evaluate the benefits of information projects, or how to get along with CIO and CFO, they have given their own suggestions.

At the same time, in the interview, reporters also felt the difference between the informatization of foreign enterprises and domestic enterprises, especially in the information evaluation system.

All of these are only on the road to the current situation of information construction in China's enterprises.

There is only one goal for enterprises, that is, to maximize profits. Our interview goal is only one. That is to hope that CIO and CFO can live in harmony.

The topic behind this topic reflects the long road of informatization for Chinese enterprises, but we are glad that we are on the right road.

With the development of information technology, more and more enterprises have been deeply applied in China.

As the head of the information department, CIO has gained more discourse power and has become an indispensable person in the enterprise.

However, compared with the CFO and COO in the enterprise, the status of CIO in the enterprise as a rising star is slightly embarrassing, so in each other's dialogue, the relationship between CIO and CFO has also become a new focus of attention.

In some enterprises with huge investment in information technology, CIO and CFO, as both of them, have both sides.

Competition will also occur, and for the leadership of enterprises, how the two sides bring benefits to the business is their focus.

From the perspective of the duties and responsibilities of a post, people usually think that CFO is "money management", while CIO is "spending money". The relationship between them seems to be always opposite: one wants to make use of the resources of the enterprise to do something big, and one to try to see tight wallet, to provide financial support for business development.

In fact, their goal is only one: to promote the rapid development of enterprises.

But in this process, there will always be a game between them.

But if we analyze it carefully, CIO and

The starting point is exactly the same.

As the first financial department to use information technology in the business departments of Chinese enterprises, when the information technology has not yet been popularized to the business department, the finance department has begun to contact the computerization of finance, so the financial personnel have been walking at the forefront of the development of China's informatization.

From a financial point of view, it is more institutionalized and standardized.

For enterprise managers, key process control nodes are particularly important, and must have control measures and measures.

"Informatization can play a very important role at this time. For example, when we can use the ERP system, when will the management contract expire, and which stage will it be implemented? From the financial point of view, it is very consistent, and information can use tools to improve efficiency.

Headhunting.

So CIO and CFO are more cooperative, but apply different professional knowledge and technology. "

Beijing new Yansha Tongluowan Commercial Co., Ltd. CFO&CIO Sun Xueqi told reporters this.

For the two sides will produce

In the questionnaire issued by CIO weekly before the interview, most CIO indicated that the relationship between CFO and competition is very small at the operational level.

And when it comes to the fact that there is competition between them, it is also the competition for job promotion.

"If these two jobs are to compete, that's how we often talk about how CIO grows."

Sun Xueqi said.

In daily communication, there is a contradiction between intimacy and intimacy.

Similarly, as CFO and CIO, the probability of generating contradictions is not small in daily work.

As a necessary department set up by a company, CFO and CIO can only try to minimize contradictions when there are contradictions.

However, the contradiction is not a bad thing. "Constructive conflict is beneficial to the development of enterprises, and it is also a benign restriction.

If there is no restriction, it is very dangerous for an enterprise to say it entirely by one department.

It is equivalent to the mathematical optimization equation, by optimizing each parameter, to achieve the maximum result, and at the same time can balance each other, so that the enterprise can balance development, instead of unilaterally considering that I am technically leading and not considering the cost. "

Chen Mei CIO of Asia, a Saudi Basic Industrial Company, expressed his views on this issue.

This is also the fundamental purpose of setting up jobs. Not only does CIO think so, Rhodes's public CFO Zhen Lijuan agrees with this view.

In her view, the establishment of a company in all aspects of management is a check and balance process.

"We can solve problems and disagree with each other before we can find a more suitable way for company development.

If everyone in each position is treating the same problem with the same view, the position will lose its value.

Zhen Lijuan said.