Good morning,
The key to the success of a CIO in a company does not only lie in his ability to communicate well with the professions. You know it well: behind every project, there are relationships (of power?) necessary with the General Management, with the CEO, or even with the DAF.
However, discussions with them are often complex, and require a well-thought-out macro vision, a well-honed discourse, and verve arguments. And you, with your head still in summer vacation, may find it difficult to regain this confident posture...
Don't panic! For this fall newsletter, we have put together a lot of concrete advice for you to streamline your daily relationships with these various key players in your business, and advance the transformation of your business more quickly, as you imagine.
On the program today:
💡 The challenge of the month : how to give your CEO a credible estimate of the time/staff you need for your projects.
🔥 The lesson to remember : a smart tip to avoid the thorny discussion about the ROI of a project with a CFO.
🔩 AirSaaS news : view your portfolio in tabular form for a well-organized macro view.
And enough to fill up on good ideas for a month of September full of pep and transformation!
🎧 No time for reading?
In the subway, in the car, or in the middle of a jog, Listen to episode 74 of CIO Revolution. Inside, Frédéric Dufau-Joël, a fan of agile culture, reveals to us his atypical techniques for unlocking the transformations of a company. It introduces us to the fun side of agility, which allows us to learn through play. Or how to work for the complex transformation of a box in a fun way!
We're ready to bet that you still find it extremely complex to plan your macro need in terms of time/men per team for your projects - right? So, if you can't properly target these needs, it's no wonder that General Management doesn't want to hear about your recruitments!
However, it is crucial for you to always have at your disposal resources that are well correlated to what the Management and the professions wish to carry out as projects. Hard, hard...
Our position : What if you applied the T-shirt sizing technique to this macro calculation of your time/men that you need over the year? The idea is simple: you bring together all your projects over the year. Then you correlate an estimated number of days/man per team that you will need for each project, focusing on rough sizes (S = 5 days/man, M = 15J/man, L = etc.). By doing so, you can give your CEO an estimate - and without sighing!
📚 The must-read of our blog
What if you made a good resolution for the new school year: to create an even better climate between you, CIO, and your CEO, to advance the transformation of your business more quickly and further? In this article, discover the 10 best practices that processing professionals shared with us to brilliantly develop DG/CIO trust.
“We're talking about return on investment, and are you bored? Respond by talking about the risks to not invest!”
As soon as you go to see your CFO, the same subject always comes up on the table: the ROI of the project you are talking about. In these conditions, it is difficult to give you a precise figure without looking like a carpet dealer!
So instead, take the decision to divert the conversation by talking about the risks of not launching this famous project. If your CFO persists in stopping your project, you can then ask him to take responsibility for the risks inherent in inaction. Guaranteed effect to move the discussion forward 😉
In AirSaaS, you could already display your project portfolio as a Kanban, a list, or a timeline. But this already well-muscled arsenal lacked one type of view: the one in the form of a table.
Problem solved, with our new feature!
Thanks to this table view, in a few clicks, you get a macro view with a maximum of elements to monitor, which you organize in a very simple way. We love it!
This month, we loved listening to Matthieu Stefani, entrepreneur behind the Génération Do It Yourself podcast, but also behind the Alvo platform, which simplifies the business takeover process, talking with the Bulldozer teams.
In nearly an hour and a half, he explains why so many entrepreneurs are also afraid of takeover, and discusses the questions to ask yourself to sell or buy a business while overcoming these fears. It is Click here to watch on YouTube This genuine Must-Watch in this new school year for SMEs!
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