A Sharing with CIO
“Listen to your code, you can learn more and make significant improvement in the next version”, said Steve Siu, CIO of OOCL, at a luncheon sharing session for staff rotation program participants at the Zhuhai ISD center.
The rotation program in the Zhuhai ISDC was started in October 2010. Its purpose is to provide staff with opportunities to work in different teams and projects to expand their domain knowledge, technical skills, soft skills and to help them realize their potential and creativity.
Recently, the rotation program participants had an opportunity to attend a face-to-face sharing session with our CIO Steve Siu. Everyone was excited since it was the first time to have such a close conversation with our CIO. The session started off with a casual and free conversation, in which Steve shared interesting thoughts about his first position at OOCL as a technical support staff, the birth of IRIS2, what he learned about IT in shipping. He also answered some interesting questions raised by colleagues, such as relationship between promotion and responsibility, our consideration on choosing open source, Zhuhai ISDC’s advantages and improvement areas, improvements of IRIS4 over IRIS2, and so on. Furthermore, Steve gave a wonderful speech, covering quality, decision making, communication, and IT strategy. He also reminded colleagues to play an active role as a “project driver” instead of a follower.
Although the session ran for only one hour, at the end of the session every participant felt enlightened and concluded that it was very beneficial. Here are some enthusiastic comments from participants:
“Understand team leader, understand team members, and understand decision-making / product. All these understanding can translate into effective work and help achieve a successful product.”
“I am impressed by Steve’s view of adopting open source software to bring in cost efficiency. If we rely on open source, and maintain it by ourselves, we can control the cost and make sure its quality and function are competitive compared to commercial software.”
“Responsibility: to be responsible for work, for whatever we have done.
Communication: try to understand other's intention, try to trust and be trusted. We need to pay more attention to our communication with team members.”
“We saw that our CIO also uses the 5W1H (Who, What, When, Why, Where, How) approach to analyze problems and to get to the bottom of the issues. This principle is so efficient. We must use it more often in our daily work and life.”
