How big IT investments essential? IT does give enterprises to increase value? System running the return on investment enterprises can achieve much? This is the reason more and more business leaders before making IT investment decisions most concerned about.
IT investment should be the company's strategic behavior, returns from a business point of view of strategic behavior, company owners concerned about the rights of net profit margin, or how to maximize the value of the company to achieve wealth maximization is the central objective of strategic management. Any company's survival and development depends on the company's ability to create value.
Inside in the information society, the importance of information technology has tasted the sweetness of so many companies have stumbled so many companies. "Court death on the IT system is not on the IT system is waiting to die," Stuck to a lot of business for such a situation, FMC conducted a special investigation: Why IT returns in such a big difference between companies? The result is not information technology itself, but rather the management of top companies. Here are some of the findings, and gives the enterprise to improve IT investment proposals.
Some careful management of clothing enterprises will find such a confusing question, in the clothing industry, there is a small part of the business performance is outstanding but the use of IT technology is very rare, and this corresponds to the vast majority of business performance not very good, but the IT investment are many. Why would such a phenomenon? The answer is that small businesses get from their investment value is far greater than the cost.
In the management of the enterprises to return are those that can measure the value. There is no doubt that a small number of garment enterprises to make their information technology investments for maximum returns, while other companies were not the case.
In fact, FMC in a recent survey found that many good companies are going astray in this regard, now is the time for a change.
The problem is not the general performance of the enterprise is not to measure their return on information technology, the opposite of most of the companies have done. The key is that companies with high performance compared to other enterprises is not the key indicator measuring indicators - that high-performance businesses concerned, but also they are ignored.
Differences in management philosophy
Sometimes we feel like those high standards of corporate performance seems to say not the same as other businesses. For example, the high level of performance of enterprises attach great importance to the measurement of IT effectiveness. It felt very strange, however, there are more than 75% of the apparel business managers in the survey believe that their companies have also been measuring IT effectiveness.
When asked about the use of IT, what is the most important reason, the majority of IT managers the answer is: to reduce costs, ensure continuous business operations, based on current trends, or even an answer is to upgrade the technology and business operations platform.
In sharp contrast to the high level of performance point of view of financial service firms, they focus more on strategy came from the company to consider the application of information technology, ensure business prosperity, low cycle to a higher level of performance.
View a large garment enterprises have representation, they not only understand business Xu Yao Dao Lai Ying Dui through 应用 IT business cycle of the Bu uncertainty, Tong Shi Huan Ke Yi by information technology 在 certain extent, affected to change their business cycle.
The lack of real business innovation
The company interviewed, only 15% of enterprises in technological innovation and above for the larger investment, its investment in this area of the entire IT industry account for 15% of investment budget to focus on some professional techniques such as breaking the company is Some barriers to the promotion of competitive play or create a gradual change in the market. However, all enterprises in technological innovation above average investment of less than 5% of their budget.
Emphasis on technological innovation, are those obtained through information technology management to high-performance enterprise and between enterprises, the general performance of a very important difference. High-performance organizations are generally doing business and customer satisfaction above better than the counterparts that they adopt a very clear way to manage information management and technology investment, and can be reflected from the business return on investment.
But these high-performance businesses and technology investments in the information industry average, only 15% -20%, and in their investment in 40% of the amount of investment is very flexible. As a result, they can adjust their technology investments to the value of the key drivers and consistent.
In general the performance of enterprise Zhong has nearly 70% of the IT Zhichudoubu yes flexibility of Touzi, Qi Gongsishouru growth Yeshi very slow investment Hui Bao Zhi Suoyi very low due to these enterprises to invest Yu Mei You Jiazhiqudong Yinsulianji up. "If the system is not broken, do not go of it" - is the motto of these companies. However, once the system to wait until they themselves have felt the need for repair, then the cost is often enormous.
Important is the management approach rather than the number of inputs
High performance standards of corporate enterprises and the general level of performance difference is not how much they invest, but rather they measure the difference. For example, some companies use the Balanced Scorecard approach to measuring IT latitude to bring in four performance: customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, management effectiveness and quality of management.
With this management philosophy of business generally related to the enterprise long-term vision to measure the level of business performance. They used to encourage employees accountable for results, and together with the staff to pursue the true business goals and vision of IT systems.
Of course, in different enterprises, whether choice of IT management is different. Animal husbandry, such as the Kowloon King apparel business leaders pursued by drivers based on the business value of IT systems to access to information and technology management lead. When the enterprise's IT system does not support this idea, the firm's relevant business it is difficult to establish.
The vast majority of other apparel companies measure IT performance indicators has not or nearly do not see any relationship with the IT department. For these enterprises, the commercial success of virtually nothing to do with IT systems, sometimes also be made a major hinder high performance.
For the average enterprise, is no longer debating whether to invest in information technology, time. How to choose their own IT systems, we must first control at the top to see exactly what their position.
Second, the management practices of "management without measurement there is no" Can we have a lot of inspiration, IT of the investment, Daodi into what aspects of Caineng harvest Yu Qi Dao's 回报 The key lies in how to choose their measurement of business indicators, Shipi found the most basic of the enterprise value-driven elements.
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