INFORMATION INNOVATION OF CONSTRUCTION

ENTERPRISES WITH MACRO-ECONOMIC READJUSTMENT

Jun Jiang

UFIDA Software Co., Ltd. No.68 Beiqing Road, Haidian District, 100094, Beijing, China

Keywords: Macro-economy, Informationization, Construction enterprise, Innovation.

Abstract: The informationization in construction enterprises is attracting more and more people’s attention. According

to the “General Contracting Construction Enterprises’ Superfine Qualification Standards” revised by the

government has stipulated a list of superfine qualification standards conditions. Chinese construction

enterprises must meet some demands to get the superfine qualification. This paper listed some necessary

indexes in the evaluation system for certain enterprise’s degree of informationization to make reference for

construction enterprises.

1 INTRODUCTION

In 2007, the Ministry of Construction brought the

enterprise informationization into the standard of

construction quality for the first time. It is stated in

the revised “the General Contracting Construction

Enterprises’ Superfine Qualification Standards” that

the following standard conditions are required for

the application of superfine qualification:

 Local area network (LAN) or management

information platform has been established and the

networking of internal work, information transfer

and data exchange has come true;

 The external website has been set up and

launched;

 The integrated project management information

system, human management system and related

software for engineering design were being used to

make the archives and documents management

available. This paper systematically discusses how

the information construction in construction

enterprise can meet the requirements of

informationization of superfine qualification,

making reference for construction enterprises.

2 THE INDUSTRIAL CURRENT

SITUATION

At present, the industrial structure of Chinese

construction enterprises is unreasonable: Size of the

enterprises is neither big nor small; the big

enterprises are not so few while the small ones not

so many. This presents as the typical inverted

pyramid.

Figure 1: the inverted pyramid.

With the help of enterprises’ qualification

adjustment, the construction industry will get its

own key enterprises step by step to lead the

development of industrial economy. The industry

will present as a pyramid. At the top of the pyramid

are general contracting enterprises with serried,

integrated and interdisciplinary capital, technology

and management. At the middle of the pyramid are

construction enterprises with specialized technology

and management. The bottom enterprises with the

largest number are all kinds of professional

engineering company with professional and labour

services.

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INFORMATION INNOVATION OF CONSTRUCTION ENTERPRISES WITH MACRO-ECONOMIC READJUSTMENT.

DOI: 10.5220/0003603703230326

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At the same time, the industry will get the

following improvements:

 The competition level will be separated and the

market structure readjusted;

 The industry revenue will get distributed

reasonably on the basis of market level and

enterprise technology management level to change

the averaging situation;

 The industry will be restructured and expanded.

Chinese construction enterprises are facing with

difficulties and challenges brought by the

contradiction between lacking resource and

expanding scale. The leading group will convert

their concept and search for a way fitting with its

own development to create maximal benefit with

limited resources;

 Management and Control will be enhanced to

increase benefits. To get quality and benefit, the

enterprise cannot blindly chase for production

increasing but to enhance its management and

control too.

3 THE DEMANDS FOR

INFORMATIONIZATION

Construction enterprise projects are often distributed

at different places. The traditional management

methods won’t be helpful to projects supervising.

But only informatization can give the biggest help to

managers.

Chinese construction enterprises’ development

strategy has the following demands for

informationization:

 Business Development (BD). Business

development needs the information supporting from

external market research and industry analysis. The

new business unit asks future IT framework for a

more open connector and expandability.

 Business Integration. Groundwork is still the

core business and a business area that IT system

needs to support mainly. Now the synergism among

various business units is embodied in strategic

positioning. There are few demands for business

information integration among them.

 Strategy Implementation. Achieve decision

layer’s monitoring in the macro level on business.

Realize decision support by analyzing and using

internal and external information to find out the

deviation and improve opportunity when strategy is

implementing.

 Resource Allocation. Achieve the standardizati-

on and unity of management of enterprise basal

information to support resource sharing, allocation

and optimizing.

So, it is important to evaluate the informationization

in the general contracting construction enterprises.

4 THE EVALUATION SYSTEM

The evaluation table of general contracting

construction enterprise’s superfine qualification

standards and informationization is specific to

construction enterprises’ application demands about

treating project management as core business. On

the premise that enterprises are asked to carry on the

informationizational infrastructure (including

hardware capacities, network environment,

guaranteed safety, guaranteed fund, guaranteed

system and external web portals), focus the key

point of informatization construction on integrated

project management.

The necessary indexes in the evaluation table are

as follows:

 Informationization of the key integrated project

management;

 Informationization of the engineering design,

human resource management and archives

management;

 Collaboration management among various

functions and between enterprise and the project;

 Integration application between integrated

project management system and Human Resource

Management System (HRMS), Financial

Management System (FMS), Office Automation

System (OAS), Archives Management System

(AMS).

To promote the enterprise’s deepen application of

IT, the evaluation table have also set some leading

indexes such as e-commerce, knowledge

management, financial management and office

automation. Although financial management and

office automation are listed as leading indexes,

office automation is the starting of many

construction enterprises informationization for a

long time and financial computerization

management is the one of the main concerns in

construction enterprises especially superfine

qualification enterprises informationization.

It is clear that the superfine qualification

evaluation system has given a blue print for

construction enterprises informationization. Thereby

achieving integrated project management

informationization, achieving project management

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collaborative platform, achieving management

function field informationization. And finally, to

improve the project management capability and

comprehensive management level of the general

contracting construction enterprises. It is proved that

this is a explicit and significant industry policy

guidance.

5 CONCLUSIONS

Facing with the information demands for superfine

qualification, according to PMBOK and other

international advanced project management theory,

and learning from many domestic construction

enterprises’ experiences in project management, the

enterprise can establish an integrated project

collaboration management platform based on UAP

centring on integrated project management. In this

way, it can integrate all of the PM business of

subsidiaries and project department in a unified

platform. And then establish a platform for

information publishing, flowing, communication,

examining and approving to integrate the actual

businesses of PM and improve the enterprises’

collaboration management level. Further, integrate

PM and other application system to achieve the

integration of user, data and business among

integrated project management, Human Resource

Management (HRM), Archives Management (AM),

engineering design management (EDM), market

management, Office Automation (OA), knowledge

management (KM), Financial Management (FM),

Business Intelligence (BI) and e-commerce.

With integrated information management

system, construction enterprises can establish a

integrated project management system with distinct

gradations, clear goal, comprehensive applications

and integrated functions. At this level, with the help

of software system, the enterprise can improve its

informationization by doing the following things:

 Establish the business executive targets,

including management target, control target,

decision-making target and performance assessment

target, to carry out the Delicacy Management (DM)

upon PM’s key elements;

 Establish s unified system of organizational

environment, business process and data account to

promote construction enterprises’ transition to PM;

 Achieve all kinds of management function’s

integration, not only the horizontal project complete

management but also the vertical business process

and summarization of data. Thereby, promote the

enterprise management standardization, refinement,

integration, collaboration;

 Integrate project management (PM) and business

management (BM) to make BM’s strategic objective

match with PM’s operations objective, production

objective, profit objective and Quality Safety

objective.

In the level of PM, informationization construction

can help construction enterprises establish project

operation and management system from planning,

implementation to management. With management

system and data system, the enterprises can establish

a scientific PMS to strengthen the process

management of contract, cost, schedule, quality and

safety, and supportive management of material

goods and mechanical equipment. And finally,

improve the refining degree of PM.

In the level of BM, informationization

construction can help construction enterprises

establish operation system to arrange, manage and

control PM’s functions. With software system’s

help, an organizational system with functions and

PM connecting better will be built. And multi-

project implementation information feedback and

collect mechanism will be set up. With the

comprehensive control system which mixed the

enterprise hierarchy organization, examine and

approve process and information statistic analysis

together, the following items can be done:

 A PM process standard was established. For

instance, project approval, design, budget, plan,

purchasing, work progress, completion et al.

 Process monitoring and goal control of contract,

cost, schedule, quality, safety, materials, equipment

and other main functions, to make all of the goal,

plan, organizing, implement and feedback under

control;

 Centralized purchasing and supply management

of multi-project’s resources for production will be

built to optimize the product resources and assets

operating efficiency furthest;



The financial accounting management of unified

value income and profit in project and subsidiary

will be carried out to connect the PM and enterprise

economic accounting system and monitor their

financial operating status;

 Performance evaluation of PM core elements

will be established to provide data for enterprise’s

analysis and decision-making on the overall

operating status and strategy profile.

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