What does informatization mean?

The core difference between informatization and digitalization

0 1? informatization

Informatization is a management tool, and the work of informatization is the management of informatization.

Informatization means digitizing business processes such as production process, material movement, transaction processing, cash flow and customer interaction, generating new information resources through various information systems and network processing, and providing all dynamic business information such as "what is the business now" and "where is the process progressing" for people at all levels. In order to make a decision that is conducive to the optimal combination of production factors, make the resources of enterprises be rationally allocated, make enterprises adapt to the ever-changing competitive environment of market economy, and obtain the greatest economic benefits. Informatization is more of a management tool, and the work of informatization is for information management.

Digitization, digitization, digitization

Digitalization is the best way to promote informatization.

Digitalization refers to turning a large amount of complex and difficult-to-estimate information into binary codes of 0 and 1 that computers can handle in a certain way, thus forming digital twins in computers.

If informatization is the way of thinking in the physical world, then digitalization is to realize an increasingly broad digital world through digital tools such as mobile Internet, Internet of Things, blockchain and AR.

The physical world is being rebuilt and transferred to the digital world one by one. This process is not only the process of technology realization, but also the process of thinking mode transformation.

Digitization

Digitalization brings dataization.

Data is a description of things, which can guide business by recording, analyzing and reorganizing data. This is "dataization".

The most intuitive thing about digitalization is the various statements and reports of enterprises. Digitalization is to organize digitized information through intelligent analysis, multidimensional analysis and query backtracking, and provide powerful data support for decision-making.

If informatization and digitalization are more systematic concepts, then digitalization is more related to the concept of executive layer, and all businesses are digital. Taking data analysis as the breakthrough point, through data discovery, analysis and problem solving, we can break the traditional experience-driven decision-making mode and realize scientific decision-making.

The core difference between informatization and digitalization

First, the business focus is different.

Informatization: Pay attention to the construction and management of business information.

Digitalization: Pay attention to the formation and call of object resources in product domain.

Informatization is a record of the relevant information formed by enterprises and the results and control of all aspects of business; Digitalization is to make business and technology really interact and change the traditional business operation mode.

In other words, digitalization is the advanced stage of informatization, the extensive and in-depth application of informatization, and the extension from collecting and analyzing data to forecasting data and operating data.

Note: Digitalization cannot exist independently without informationization. Digitalization is to solve the problem of information islands between information systems in information construction and realize the interconnection of data between systems.

Second, different ways of thinking.

Informatization: Support and Tools

Digitalization: it is the way of thinking and the business itself.

For example: for example, office automation (OA).

OA in the information age is the process of putting offline paper rules, documents and processes online, but the last step is to print out a form for the leaders to sign manually, and then the approval form will prevail.

It is a tool and means, and has not changed the business itself. From the way of thinking, we still use the way of thinking in the physical world.

Digitalization is to collect all kinds of information all the time, directly change the traditional thinking mode and achieve the effect of reshaping the business model.

In digital OA system, all processes are completed in "digital space" without the intervention of "physical space". The formation of online office is a digital record of all employees at all times and in all scenarios.

Let's give another popular example:

The sports bracelet we wear and the social software we have been using are all centered on the digital world, and the traditional physical world has become an aid and supplement to the digital world.

This is why everyone eats at the same table but communicates with each other on their mobile phones. Because the speed and breadth of people's access to information in the digital age is much faster than that in the physical world.

Third, the data analysis methods are different.

Informatization: the type of data statistics

Digitization: Algorithm Type

The traditional informatization is based on simple data table records, and then statistics and presentation are carried out according to a small amount of data, only statistics are not analyzed. Every information application basically queries the data in the system according to the conditions, and then presents it in the form of graphic representation, without "analysis" in the middle.

Digitalization is to find the correlation between data through algorithms, establish the optimal input-output model, and then replace the human brain for management and optimization, thus realizing real data analysis.

Still using the above OA system, digital OA is not only simple information statistics, but also generates detailed data analysis charts according to the collected data to provide scientific decision-making basis for decision makers.

Or it can be said that informatization improves and assists people's memory and statistical ability, while digitalization directly improves people's analysis and decision-making ability.

Fourth, the organizational structure of enterprises is different.

Informatization: sustainable development

Digitalization: Transformation and Development

In the process of informatization construction, the organizational model of the enterprise does not need to be changed, but at most, IT departments and some jobs are added, and the overall structure and decision-making implementation process of the enterprise remain unchanged.

Middle-and high-level managers just changed from reading paper materials to reading mobile phone materials, but the decision-making still depends on their heads, and the whole process has not changed.

But when it comes to digitalization, the organizational structure of this enterprise is broken. Because a large number of data collection, operation and feedback processes are automatic and flat, giving people a handle directly, bypassing the traditional authorization mode.

The most typical is the emergence of data platform and technology platform.

Therefore, from IT to DT, not only the technical system is upgraded, but also the organizational structure of the enterprise needs to be changed, and the process will also change.

Many enterprises may have made strategic plans and envisaged organizational models in the past, but if they carry out digital transformation, it means that organizational models need to be reconsidered.

Five, the enterprise transformation path is different

It is relatively simple for enterprises to do information construction. The IT department's project establishment and inquiry, because the basic requirements of OA or ERP are formatted, the selection work is not complicated, and they are all customized on the basis of common products.

But it is much more complicated for enterprises to do digitalization. It is necessary to start with the investigation of the digital strategy of enterprises, rebuild the new business model of enterprises to adapt to digital survival and the new management model of digital employees, and then build a technology platform and data platform suitable for their own enterprises.

After such process and design requirements, most technology providers in the market can't provide products directly. Only after two or more parties discuss can they jointly develop solutions, make project plans and implement them cooperatively.

Therefore, in this context, the digital transformation of enterprises pays more attention to personalized and lightweight customized products.