The Relationship Between CIO And CFO

CIO and CFO seem to be opposite each other, because one of them wants to spend a lot of money to do great things, and the biggest thing to do is to only pay attention to the results and strive to spend the least money. In the implementation of the enterprise informatization, no CIO and CFO do not quarrel, but the success of enterprise information construction depends largely on their coordination.

CIO and CFO are not water and fire.

On the surface, CIO is full of CFO.

Dalian locomotive and rolling stock factory is a large enterprise with tens of thousands of people.

Guan Hong Zhi, deputy chief engineer of the factory, has been a director of Information Center for many years.

In his current work scope, information technology is still a part of its main task.

He said that the funds used in the project mainly came from the instructions of CEO, and there will be a certain budget every year.

Only for temporary projects will Guan Hongzhi apply for financial support from CFO.

How to apply for funds smoothly, Guan Hongzhi believes that from the perspective of enterprises and financial point of view to communicate with CFO, the effect will be better.

For example, the company changed its original software last year, Guan Hongzhi analyzed the problem from the financial point of view, and made a few words to the CFO to stake out the interests of the matter. The two sides soon reached an agreement. The fund problem of the genuine software was well solved.

In the process of informatization, the relationship between CFO and CIO is not the relationship between water and fire, but the relationship between water and fish.

Now the financial is more and more valued by people. The means of finance are more and more advanced. Advanced means can not be separated from information technology. CFO and CIO cooperate with each other and will become good business partners.

In 2009, the CFO made a cost purchase system, which realized the product purchase process and could find inventory status and fund usage in real time.

The system is almost finished. CFO asked Guan Hongzhi to give some advice to the system.

On the surface, there is nothing wrong with the system.

But from the perspective of enterprises, Guan Hongzhi pointed out that the system can not solve the problem of "not buying" or "when to buy" products, and helps CFO improve the system.

Resolving contradictions among enterprises

When it comes to the relationship between CIO and CFO, we have to talk about the relationship between CIO and CEO, CFO and CEO.

Professor Chen Min believes that CEO is a boatman. He proposes strategic goals and formulating strategies. But achieving strategic goals depends on CFO's ideas and specific solutions.

CIO is mainly controlled by information system.

That is to say, CEO puts forward the overall strategic objectives, CFO puts forward the system requirements, and CIO provides technical support, which is the three party's Golden Triangle relationship.

Speaking of the relationship between CIO and CEO and CFO, Guan Hongzhi told reporters about such a case, which just proves Chen Min's viewpoint.

At the beginning of this year, the manager of the factory set up a new annual operation index: sales should achieve 25% growth, and the cost should be reduced by 3%.

The two indicators were assigned to the sales director and CFO two people respectively.

"Open source, throttling, and internal and external efforts!" many managers have issued such a call from the bottom of their hearts.

However, the CEO of the company breaks down the goal of open source and throttling, and is executed by two departments.

For the marketing department, to achieve a 25% increase in sales, it is bound to increase manpower and increase investment in the market.

The director of sales can't afford to save money for the CFO's savings of 3%. For CFO, the growth of the market share is offset by its annual goal, that is, saving 3% of the cost.

From CFO's point of view, how could he "generously" to the market department's "wasteful" spending?

The market department and the finance department should have been a harmonious whole, but now they are antagonistic to each other. What should we do?

At this point, CEO called CFO, CIO and the sales director together and began to discuss a new rule of the game.

After the game rules were formulated, CIO established the system and process of CEO's thinking into the information system.

CFO and sales director mutual wrangling, not CEO again, the information system can be completed.

In the system, the distribution index of increasing sales revenue and increasing sales cost is stipulated.

In this way, CIO resolved the contradiction between CFO and the sales department, and the information system significantly improved the operational efficiency and strengthened the supervision mechanism.

Peacetime, the supervision of the information system to the supervision, the gatekeeper's checks.