Flickering The Boss's Four Magic Weapons

Today is the day when "cow IT" reports to the boss Ma on the information budget. When he solemnly passed the thick and thick proposal report to his boss for many days, he did not see it and put it aside. He said half jokingly, "old cow, you have done a lot of projects recently. You are not afraid of people saying that you are happy."

As soon as the old cow thinks about it, he immediately understands the boss's inner voice -- the boss is probably worried about the cost of controlling the operation today.

Sure enough, the horse owner, who was still joking, suddenly raised his face and said, "old cow, though I trust you very much, I am sometimes confused. Can you make sure that the project you approve is really meaningful when you sell me a multifarious" CIO "project to me? Is this project really important? How can I be sure that your CIO is not misleading the boss? "

"Cow IT" did not defend itself, nor did it brag about the so-called "information efficiency". Instead, she laughed and said, "in fact, we have IT's saying that" CIO is not a good CIO when it is not boss. "This means that CIO must have the ability to spend money by the boss.

The horse owner could not help turning his face cloudy, and said, "Aha! Today, you have to explain honestly that you are engaged in information technology. Be frank and lenient. " The old cow looked embarrassed, and said, "these strategies were" only children, not to be passed on to foreigners ". I was caught by the leader today, so I had to tell the truth honestly. In fact, we do not have the so-called thirty-six plan, generally speaking, the following four strokes are enough to make things easy.

First plan: gild the lily

Gilding the lily comes from a legend: a group of Chu goers decided to play a game of snake, who could draw a good wine first. One of them soon painted the snake. He said with great pride, "look, I'll add some more feet to the snake, and no one else will finish it." Unexpectedly, the man had not finished painting the snake, and the other man had finished the snake. The man said, "the snake has no feet. If you want to add a few feet to it, you can add it. You can't drink anyway." Some enterprises "leaders" are just like this person who gild the lily, and intentionally "gild the lily" with their peers in order to satisfy their vanity. Some smart CIO will take advantage of their bosses' mental attitude and make an issue on the "quantity" of project proposals - increase the number of projects, increase the number of people involved in the project implementation, and expand the business departments involved in the project. Many bosses are still in the "project mobilization meeting" when they are in full swing. Little does it know that this is to let the boss jump to "performance project" and "face Engineering" trap.

The second plan is to buy a friend and return a pearl.

In the spring and Autumn period, a jewellery merchant in Chu state, in order to make the jewellery popular, used jewellery in exquisite sandalwood boxes. A Zheng man saw that the box that contained the Pearl was exquisite and beautiful, and bought one. He opened the box, took out the treasure and returned it to the jeweler. Now many business leaders feel that the name of the information project is more "dazzling" and the more beautiful they are. This kind of psychology only looks at the packaging ("Jiao") without looking at the connotation ("Pearl"). Is it not like this person who buys beads and returns pearls? CIO has run into this kind of boss. Sometimes, in order to get the project done, he has to do enough articles on the packaging of the project. If he wins the title of the information model enterprise issued by the government, the reporter should write the article to puff up the boss as an "information model" and ask his boss to attend various "information high level forums" and so on, so that the boss can get enough addiction.

The third plan is: the seas run dry and the rocks run away.

This idiom is determined by the will and will never change. Even if everything has changed over time, it has insisted on the original oath. However, when planning the project period, many CIO also like to "destroy the seas and the rocks" - deliberately extending the project period when formulating the project implementation plan, and a project can be divided into one, two and three phases. This sounds like a huge project with obvious publicity effect, which can delay the negative cycle and suppress suppliers.

What is even more remarkable is that in the name of "phased results", the date of the overall acceptance of the project will be delayed, and the personal reputation risk of CEO and CIO can be transformed into "stage performance". The phenomenon of managers' turnover in three years and two years' shift is common.

Fourth measures: Fox and tiger

The more partners the project brings, the bigger the CIO is, the more beautiful it is, such as the "supply chain project named by mayor in the information work conference", "customer relationship management system developed with internationally renowned universities", "working with the world's first ERP supplier" and so on. This is similar to the story of the fox in the fable: Tiger eats the fox, and the fox says, "I am the king of all animals from heaven. I do not believe you go with me." Then the fox opened its way in front of him, and the tiger followed behind him suspiciously. Many small animals found themselves running away from the tiger behind the fox. At that time, the fox looked triumphantly over the tiger. When the tiger saw this, he could not help but tremble. But he did not know that the beast was afraid of himself, and thought they were really afraid of the fox.

Here, the old ox said to the boss, "in fact, these barriers are only effective for the leadership of vanity, and are self defeating in front of you." The owner of the horse was already cloudy and sunny. He laughed and said, "though I shook your tricks today, I can hardly guarantee that the height is one foot high." God knows that you CIO will go back to your mind and come up with any new tricks. I don't want to die of addiction.

Seeing the big boss Yue, the old cow hurriedly said, "then listen to me for a practical report."