Study On The Functions Of CIOs In The Strategy Of E-Commerce

Chief Information Officers (CIOs) who are response for organizations' IT strategy, execution, innovation, and communication, play a leading role in the informationization in the organizations. They must not only know how to manage IT, but also be good at business management. They have a variety of knowledge about IT and business. Of course, they are the advanced officers in any organizations. As we know, E-commerce has become a pusher, which improves the core competitive ability of enterprises, makes them become more valuable, and help them develop more rapidly.Although E-commerce in our country has made much progress in recent years, it is still at the infant period. The major reason is that the functions of CIOs in our country have not become active. The mechanism of IT management is the key factor for enterprises to succeed in the strategy of E-commerce. Therefore, as the leaders of the IT team, CIOs have just caught people's eyes. It is CIOs who will be able to decide how to make enterprises successful in the strategy of E-commerce.This thesis investigates and analyzes in detail the information management and the work of the informationization within 202 enterprises of a certain middle city. Then the thesis describes the status of CIOs in our country and analyzes the actions and relative problems encountered by the domestic CIOs in the informationiaztion and the strategy of E-commerce. Nowadays most people in our country still think CIOs are not critical to enterprises' development. Certainly, there are some main reasons, including the lack of a proper understanding of CIOs in our country, the inferior position and the quality of CIOs themselves.To properly master the roles and functions of CIOs, the thesis also makes analysis to the roles and actions of CIOs abroad. It especially analyzes the status and characteristics of CIOs in U.S.A enterprises and find the difference between Chinese enterprises and those of abroad.Based on analysis and study ,the thesis concludes and describes the CIOs' role requirements, which should take in Chinese enterprises. CIOs should act kinds of roles, including management expert ,investment expert, IT expert, supervision expert, strategy expert and communication expert. Furthermore, the thesis analyzes and concludes the lucky tips of successful Chinese CIOs.Finally, the thesis sets out several kinds of solutions as how a CIO take thorough actions in Chinese enterprises' strategy of E-commerce, which mainly includes establishment of CIO system, building of posts for CIOs, improvement of assessing CIOs, cultivation of the ability of IT controlling and supervision for CIOs, establishing the out-sourcing system for CIOs,etc.