FROM CONSULTING TO IMPLEMENTATION, INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY ALSO NEEDS PROFESSIONAL DESIGN
Yufei Li
UFIDA, BeiQing Road No.68, Haidian District,Beijing,China
Keywords: Consult，Enterprises informatization，ITSP.
Abstract: Information construction is a project, only through good scientific design can ensure the continuity、
pertinence and controllability of the process of building the follow-up, and the infomationization design
process is mainly reflected in the information on management consulting services.
1 INTRODUCTION
Construction enterprise group has been great-leap-
forward development in recent years, the business
scale has been gradual expansion, an increasing
number of subsidiaries have been built, and the
numbers of projects are also rapidly increasing. It
would have been a good thing.But in the wake of the
development of enterprises, management level
increased quickly and management chain is longer
and longer, enterprise can not achieve effective
monitoring and go from bad to worse. For example,
the group leader can often get the group report that
there are only the result of a month ago, and the
basic real-time monitoring can not be achieved, even
the leadership do not know the exact number of
projects and staff distribution in Group's current
business (because almost every day the whole group
has new projects to complete and the staff always
need to adjust), so the risk of enterprise is gradually
increased.
In order to strengthen the group's management
and control, ensure the effective implementation of
enterprises strategy and improve the overall
efficiency of enterprises, some construction
enterprises start the information construction
programme. For construction enterprises, the
enterprises of information technology development
is unbalanced, there is no experience of group-level
information construction. At the beginning, we are
all confused about how to choose the method of
construction, and what should we build. Through
communicating to the enterprise which has excellent
application of information,understanding and
analysis the process of building the information,
based on the most familiar mode of construction we
confirmed the way of information—the engineering
information construction model. That is oneself as a
landlord. As regards the things that do not know
well, we have to ask the designer, administrater and
control the general contracting.
2 USE THE WAY
OF CONSULTATION TO LEAD
INTO INFORMATION
CONSTRUCTION
For any construction enterprises, must be extremely
familiar to construction process of Construction
entities. A formal construction process must have
five phases, there are planning and design, detailed
design, construction, consign and application.
Throughout the construction process
，
design is the
most important phase. Design phase will determine
the construction modelling and the function
application basically in the future. Also it can
determine the vitality of building future and the
corporate influence. A quality architecture project
base on two elements. First, a good design. Second,
a good coordination construction and quality control
under the introduction of the design and monitoring
of the supervisor.
In the course of building information, although
many of the current units follow the building
principles "master plan, step by step", they draw a
framework for information technology by
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FROM CONSULTING TO IMPLEMENTATION, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ALSO NEEDS PROFESSIONAL DESIGN.
DOI: 10.5220/0003603202970301
In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (BIS-2011), pages 297-301
ISBN: 978-989-8425-54-6
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enterprise's own information technology department.
And then they directly select manufacturers to
customization develop and implement. In the whole
process, over all planning is always in the condition
that "things do not always go according to plan".
Some of the results of the final construction of the
overall planning and even different from the
original. In fact, information construction is also an
engineering.Only through science and good design
can ensure the continuity, pertinence and
controllability in the design process of follow-up
building. Moreover, the design process of
information is mainly reflected in the information
management consulting services. It is become a
normalcy of information construction in other
country.
After identified the idea of introducing a
consultative way to execute the group's information
technology planning and preliminary design. The
problem of how to choose information technology
consultation methods placed in front of the leading
informatization groups. We explain three methods
by using the examples of Sichuan Huasin Group
Corporation Limited: First, company completed
independently. Second, find construction companies.
Third, find an independent consulting company.
There are a lot of advantages when company
completed it independently. Because staff knows
their business and Sichuan Huasin Group
Corporation Limited also have their own
information management organization and some
Software R & D capabilities. But on the other side,
there are also some problems when SHGC
completed it. For example, they are often unable to
analyze and make plan from multiple dimensions,
angles and benefits. Second, staff who working in
the information sector usually on the execution
level, they are implementers and hardly to make
information technology planning overall. Although
senior managers and policy makers may have a full
range of thinking, but they lacks the understanding
of basic issues and cannot determines what is
reasonable or not. Third, staff will takes shape to
different groups for the reason of economic interests
and positions. But essential changes sometimes harm
to the interests of certain groups and cause conflict
even resistance. Therefore, companies that conduct
their own planning and analysis of information often
lack the necessary notarized and objectivity, thus
affecting the effectiveness of its implementation.
And for architecture companies, information field
it's not their specialty.
When using the second method like other
information construction companies: Select a
industry construction manufacturers directly to
complete consulting and construction. The
advantage of the method is it can guarantee the
continuity of consulting construction. But most of
the information technology companies in China
haven't the ability of consulting, their management
consulting services is a program information even a
software manual, it's not a a targeted management
consulting, management analysis or planning
information. And the direction of advice usually
base on their software products and construction
interest. It's difficult to maintain the investment of
Sichuan Huasin Group Corporation Limited
effectively and fairness.
The third method is to choose a experienced
advisory organization. A good advisory organization
has a lot of management experts and information
technology experts. In the process, the organization
can helps a company to find out urgent problems and
propose the best recommendation of business
restructuring programs and the appropriate software
products after they surveyed the expedition of
business processes and environment. Eventually,
they can find out the solutions that can improve the
efficiency, saving, advanced and reasonable.
Identified the planning Information and development
strategy that in accordance with company status and
development requirements, it can share the
consulting experience and excellent management
experience of similar companies with Sichuan
Huasin Group Corporation.
After visits manufacturers case visits and several
rounds of bidding, Huasin Group Corporation finally
chooses a consulting partner. The partners have their
own professional consultants. Many consultants in
partners consulting firm have many years of work
experience in multinational companies. They used to
work in the internationally renowned consulting
firm. Compare with industry manufacturers
consultants in partners consulting firm, they have
more knowledge of management and experience in
consulting.There are many management experts and
software implementation experts in construction
industry. Compare with foreign manufacturers, they
have a better understanding of China's national
conditions and software implementation methods.
Consultants in partners consulting firm know
China's construction industry well. When provision
of programs, they can look outside of their own
products and based on the current situation of
customer to come up with treatments and solutions.
Then the later practice is also proved that the choice
of Huasin Group Corporation is right.
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3 INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING
WORK CONTENT AND
PROCESS
The fundamental purpose of enterprise
informationization construction is to services
business development strategy, in order to
comprehensively improve the management level of
enterprises themselves, to achieve to enhance the
competitiveness of enterprises. Therefore,
information technology planning must follow the
scientific method, the actual work process we
formed a set of enterprise IT planning methodology.
Figure 1 ： Methodological framework of information
technology consulting.
This methodology is committed to tightly
integrated business strategy, business requirements,
technical and managerial abilities. In guide of
strategies and business around the overall
framework of future information systems, in-depth
analysis and elaboration of enterprise applications
and integration of future integration. Planning on the
basis of the information supporting the application
software and network hardware systems and security
management strategy, and the implementation
process and results of the planning are described.
In the consultation process of enterprise
management informationization a large number of
research data and research questionnaire were
generated based on the methodology. Based on the
current management situation doing diagnostic
analysis of current situation including existing
business management,financial management, human
resources management, project management,
Figure 2： IT Consulting Methodology.
information management find out inadequate
management make the management enhance point
clear and build a blueprint and a summary of the
informationneeds of design.
For instance , during business process to collect
and process optimization stage of Huasin Group
Corporation, a total of 69 departments were involved
1412 process were teased out 469 of them were
optimized processes and instructions described.
Ultimately formed a series of reports including plan
implementation main report, strategies report,
Management diagnostic report etc. This series of
reports elaborated necessity of Huasin Group
Corporation doing Information Management.
Finally in the full research and analysis of the
situation on the basis of Sichuan Huasin Group
Corporation Limited, general framework based on
SOA of enterprise management informationization
of Huasin Group Corporation is given as following:
3.1 One Collaborative Body
Huasin Group Corporation is a scalable coordination
enterprise. In one collaborative the need for business
integration can be resolved in Internet environment,
make the application of various services linked by
defined inrerfaces and contracts.
3.2 Two Systems
Design two sets of system, safety system and
maintenance system to guarantee the management
informationization of Sichuan Huasin Group
Corporation Limited.
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Figure 3 ： Construction Group's financial management
systems.
3.3 Three Platforms
The creation of Hardware support platform, Support
software platform and Application system become
three foothold of management informationization of
Huasin Group Corporation.
Hardware support platform is the basis of the
information, support software platform supporting
the application of information systems; application
platform is Huasin Group Corporation's management
information means.
3.4 Nine Applications
Application System is the way that Huasin Group
Corporation can achieve constructing the
management informationization. Huasin Group
Corporation has nine applications in the Information
systems application platform. There are Project
Management, Human Resource Management,
Materials Management, Funds Management, Asset
Management, Financial Management, Audit
Management, Party and Management and File
Management.
4 CONSTRUCTION
AND IMPLEMENTATION
4.1 Implementation of Process Control
Designers participants in the implementation process
of the whole in order to avoid bias and increase
control, they are also involved in the process of
signing of the document.
4.2 Construction Group's Financial
Management System
Financial management solutions finally achieve the
centralized management of financial, multi-
organization structure management that meets the
control requirements of globalization.
Since the solution to support the implementation
of accounting standards in different countries.
Support different currencies and languages
accounting and reporting requirements it avoids a
large number of repetitive work over the past.
Through the centralized management of group
funds, Huasin Group Corporation controls the flow
rate of funds and uses the group funds for the
business of the areas of strength.
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4.3 Human Resource Management
System
With a gradual expansion of the Northwest Groups
scale, in term of human resource, there are several
problems appearing in the management of this
group, such as too many organizations, excessively
wide region distribution, scattered information, lack
of monitoring system and the failure of acquiring
whole information of the human resource in the
group in time.
While through manual methods or general office
software, when maintaining and collecting a great
amount of statistics, different parts of the human
resource departments fail to manage and maintain
the basic data and information conveniently.
Therefore, they can’t provide accurate and in-time
data analysis to help their company decide.
The work of various parts of the human resource
departments are focused on the routine processing.
Without energy and tools to incent, develop and
manage the human resource, people are not able to
perform the decesion of human resource
management.
Figure 4：Platform of decision support.
According to situation of Northwest Group
human resource management, combined with the
analysis result of its constructing feature, the human
resource solving project comprehensively optimize
the system of Northwest Group huamn resource
management by the management of employment,
training, self-service, salary, welfare and policy etc.
For instance, “CEO Platform” can provide all-
leval leaders a platform for making decision.
Leaders can inquire various data of statement and
analyse the charts through the platform. And they
can have reference for decision by analysing the
statistics.
Through the implementation of the human
resource system in effective information systems
platform, relying on group control, group synergy
and information systems to optimize the allocation
of resources, people can promote the realization of
human resource strategy additionally by promoting
the management ability of a comprehensive human
resources management. So that the realization of
human resource strategy is not only an important
parts but also the basic part realization of enterprise
strategy.
5 CONCLUSIONS
Through the development of constructing the
management informationization in construction
enterprises groups in recent years, constructing an
effective informationization relates to both
investment benefits and economic benefits of the
construction enterprises groups. It also relates to the
confidence in the whole construction industry of
constructing informationization. Furthermore, the
experience in consulting mode can avoid some
potential risks when constructing informationization.
This case shows that the informationization
system mentioned in this passage has a scientific
building program, advanced applying technology
and a reasonable architecture. This kind of
informationization system matches the actual needs
and future development of constructing the
management informationization in construction
enterprises. We will continue to the in-depth study
of building “consultative implementation”. At the
same time, we will try to solve problems during the
promotional application and make efforts to promote
it in a mature way.
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