At the time of the digital transformation, the CIO is at the heart of all the attention in the companies. One of the keystones is to become a true business partner by facilitating their collaboration. However, the CIO does not lose sight of the fact that its main priority is to ensure the security and efficiency of IT services. So, how can we reconcile these different functions? How to adapt to changes in the company and how to approach this new role?
Become the best friend of the business departments
The CIO has a key role for the management of digital projects. How? By increasing the power of the users and giving them the means to acquire new digital skills. To do this, the CIO and the businesses must work together to create an IT relay with privileged interlocutor of the CIO within the concerned department. The IT relay will bring the business knowledge and CIO, the technical solution. Humans are a major factor of success for a company’s projects, so it is necessary to give taste to everyone to participate with pleasure in the digital transformation.
The purpose of your collaboration will be to increase the efficiency of the businesses and thus improving the productivity of the company. Digital projects are increasingly transversal, involving different professions, so the company needs to be agile, not a place of confrontation between the CIO and the businesses. You have to force proposals and innovations to adopt new working methods and more flexible tools.
Become the darling of the management
Today, only 41% of companies surveyed by Experian trust their data to make an important decision. It is therefore essential to make your processes more reliable in order to improve the quality of the data of your organization (see our article: What new ideas to improve the quality of data in your Information System?). With Gathering Tools, you will be able to control your Excel files and the collected data and thus limit the number of errors. Your management will thank you and will be able to rely on you to make strategic decisions!
Moreover, facing the observation that “data is money”, you will quickly become the darling of the management. Indeed, the majority of the data of an enterprise is contained in many Excel files, dispersed in all the different departments. By using a tool such as Gathering Tools, you automate the process of qualifying Excel data, which will save you time and money.
Finally, thanks to the multiplication of these data integrated into the company’s Information System, you will be able to set up increasingly important digital projects, especially relating to Big Data.
Extend your power
With better business data management, you are able to go further and become a true leader, and no longer be seen as the “founder” of your business. You are able to bring value to the various businesses, offering them your help, listening to them and collaborating with them. To do this, you need to communicate more. Do not hesitate to show to the professional references models showing the progress of projects, involve your collaborators in the decisions and diffuse the best practices to the greatest number.
The creation of dual skills within the business lines, improving the quality of the data collected and disseminated, increasing the number of data and applications integrated into the Information System, are all key factors in developing innovation and the Agility of working methods.
