Research On Informationization Mode Of Construction Firms

With the stable and high-speed development of China’s economy, the firms arefacing more competitive. The ultimate goal of firm development is enhancing thelevel of integrated management and the core competitiveness, by it has becomenecessary that firms maximize profits through the means of informationization.Construction firms, the national economy’s pillar industries, have joined the force incarrying out informationization. Through years of practice and reference to theforeign countries, more construction firms have realized what firm’sinformationization can provide, some firms have also developed their owninformationization strategy. However, informationization in the constructionindustry is not satisfactory. On the one hand, few firms carried outinformationization; on the other hand, there are few cases of successfulinformationization. There is a serious process of ’mismatch’ phenomenon in carryingout informationization. Some firms invested a lot of manpower, material resources,but have not gained the desired effect, causing a serious waste of resources, but alsofrustrated the confidence of firm’s informationization. Some firms have realized theimportance of informationization, but do not know how to carry out theinformationization. A key issue for this is the choice of firm’s informationizationmode.This article summarizes different types of construction firms and tries to find outwhat kind of mode of informationization is more likely lead to success by analyzingthe mode of informationization of construction firms, who have succeeded. By thisarticle, the author hopes to give some inspiration to the similar firms, which aregoing to carrying out informationization work, and enable them to overtake the firmsInformationization better to the cost as small as possible.First of all, the paper describes the status of construction firms’ informationizationbased on a report of the Chinese Construction Firms Management Association. Atthe same time, the problems of construction firms’ informationization aresummarized. Next, basis on previous researches and the author’s field investigation, the paper presents the concept of mode of firm’s informationization and sums up7kinds of informationization modes and their characteristics.Finally, the paper summarized successful firm’s informationization modes and theirapplications in the firms by statistical analysis of typical cases. The research hasimportant reference value to the decision of construction firms on informationizationmode.