An Analysis of the Management Techniques in the "Cloud" Era

The worldwide economic slowdown and the development of technology itself have led to a completely new economic environment. In this economic environment, extensive growth is difficult to move forward, in order to survive, companies must find ways to reduce costs, improve efficiency and respond quickly to the market. For large conglomerates, Baotuan has become more important than ever before, and global economic integration is already a general trend. So, how can enterprises realize the global coordination and integrated control in supply chain, business operation, etc. The development of new technology provides us with a new solution.

Now many new technologies, such as new materials, new energy, biotechnology, including a new generation of information technology and so on. The author believes that from the IT terms, a new generation of information technology is the focus of cloud computing. Cloud computing makes it possible to move the Internet and the Internet of Things. Cloud computing is the foundation of mobile applications, the Internet and big data. It is the heart of a new generation of information technology and a globally integrated solution for enterprises. For the pharmaceutical industry, cloud computing is the ultimate solution to new healthcare reform. Technological innovation is always accompanied by changes in management. At present, we need to pay attention to how to bring about technological innovation. From the perspective of cloud computing, how to make cloud computing truly operational through gradual management change and the solution of global integration of enterprises is what we should pay attention to.

Guoda pharmacy concept of cloud practice

Making big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things and other new technologies truly implemented in enterprises requires not only theoretical and technical support but also clear strategies and management and organization appropriate to new technologies. The traditional management organizations and new technologies do not meet, do not co-ordinate the need for change. In the management of the use of cloud computing concepts change, the China National Pharmaceutical Group Guodian integration of the national retail platform is a successful case for reference.

Many managers may have been plagued by problems such as more branches or chains, more and more businesses, more and more businesses, but more and more management problems, and perhaps even sudden One day became the last straw to be squeezed into the business. For example, information systems can not keep up. Branches have become isolated islands, which in turn leads to inefficiencies and increased management costs, making it difficult for enterprises to respond quickly to the market. "National Pharmacy" has also been plagued by such problems.

"Guoda Pharmacy" is affiliated to China National Pharmaceutical Group and operates the pharmaceutical retail business of China National Pharmaceutical Group, with nearly 2,000 pharmacies throughout the country. Under the good momentum of development, the scale of pharmacies in the NUS headquarters is constantly expanding, with more and more chain stores opening up. However, signs of gradual weakening of business management have also emerged. The one hand, the original information system unsustainable, can not keep up with business strategy and market demand. On the other hand, branches of different regions adopt different information systems, resulting in a number of isolated islands of information. It is difficult for the headquarters of the National Uni- versity to complete data service integration and integrated operation and management across regions.

In this case, the refinement of business management, application integration is imminent. Based on the concept of cloud computing, in recent years, the National Pharmacy successfully built an integrated national retail chain platform. Different from the previous ERP platform, the integration platform of Guoda Pharmacy has the characteristics of "simple, standard front-end, centralized and unified powerful back-office service management system". This powerful headquarters backstage, providing management and service for more than 2,000 pharmacies, has realized the concept of integrated operations management. Based on the concept of cloud computing, the use of virtualization technology, the National Unification Pharmacy ERP integrated hardware platform only uses one quarter of the cost of the traditional way. Moreover, simplifying the front desk, centralizing and standardizing the backstage architecture has become a sharp weapon for the rapid expansion of the NUS pharmacy. Originally, a branch opened in three months and now can open a home in three weeks.

The successful application of Guoyao Pharmacy's integrated retail platform marks the full success of Guoyao Group's cloud computing philosophy from the planning, management and control, standards and hardware infrastructure to the implementation and operation of Sinopharm Group. It further promotes Sinopharm's "integration, transformation, innovation, Across the "management and operation of the implementation of the strategy.

From traditional IT to cloud evolution

Someone asked me whether Sinopharm Group has "cloudized"? How can our own enterprise "cloudize"? To answer this question, you must first understand: What is cloud computing for enterprises?

What is cloud computing? My definition of cloud computing is "one, two, three, four, five":

The so-called one, refers to the cloud computing is "a" kind of new IT resource delivery and use of the model, through the network on-demand, dynamically scalable way to get the necessary resources (hardware, platforms, software, services), provide resources The network is called "cloud."

The so-called two, refers to the cloud computing by the "two" layer structure. Cloud computing can be divided into two levels of technology and services, which are composed of cloud computing platform and cloud application services. The former mainly undertakes the integration of IT resources and provides the application developers with dynamic scalability. The latter encapsulates the resources provided by cloud computing according to different requirements and provides the applications for various applications to the end users.

The so-called three, refers to cloud computing to provide "three" types of services. From the point of view of providing services and user experience, cloud computing can be divided into three service delivery modes: infrastructure as a service (IaaS), development platform as a service (PaaS), and software application as a service (SaaS).

The so-called four, refers to the enterprise to achieve cloud computing has "four" kinds of deployment configuration mode, namely public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, community cloud. Community cloud can also be called the industry cloud, that is, industry-centric, all industries in the supply chain to share services around the cloud, start commercial activities.

The so-called five, refers to the cloud computing should have five characteristics, virtualized resource pool, based on the network access, on-demand self-service, fast, flexible, the use of cost can be measured.

From the above five aspects, we can see that cloud computing on the management of enterprises have strict requirements. The cloud is a collection of resources that are delivered to users in the form of an overall service, whether public or private. Therefore, the concentration of such resources will inevitably bring about the adjustment of the organizational structure and business processes of the company, especially for some large enterprises. The biggest advantage of doing so is platform management: to achieve the unity of the whole group business process, the whole group data and information concentration, business processes, data and information aggregation in the cloud. Accordingly, many management functions are moved up, reducing the hierarchy and improving management efficiency.

Therefore, the cloud service inevitably has an impact on the organizational structure and job responsibilities of the enterprise, flattening and coordinating the management of the company. The one hand, the traditional management methods and organizational structure to apply to the cloud computing enterprise management environment changes require a process, on the other hand, cloud computing itself is mature technology is an evolutionary process. After years of evolution of the Internet to form the situation today, Taobao is not formed in one day. Therefore, after long-term strategic readjustment and organizational change, the enterprises may enjoy the "beauty of the cloud" when the internal and external environments are ripe after the evolution to the cloud.

Back to the top Many people ask the author's question: "Sinopharm Group is not a cloud?" The author's answer is: "Nowhere, but we are using the concept of cloud computing to plan and continue to evolve. To carry out information construction, the competitiveness of our business continues to improve. "

Manage "cloud" roadmap

Enterprises from the traditional evolution of the cloud to the cloud, there is a gradual, linked, smooth transition. Want to "walk in the clouds", I suggest that companies should pay attention to several aspects.

First, we must clarify the principles and concepts of cloud computing. Second, we should pay attention to the suppliers with mature technology. Third, we must understand what their own business is actually in the state, to carry out management and management mode, enterprise structure changes. In addition, enterprises should be business components, business components, the formation of a number of service modules can be delivered, these modules by the management and business aspects of evolution. Some businesses are small, can be transformed in a very short period of time. However, some large enterprises, large data centers, thousands of servers, hundreds of software systems, such enterprises to start the revolution is a painful course. However, it should be noted that cloud computing is the ultimate delivery service for enterprises. It is a disruptive service delivery model that can help enterprises, customers and employees serve well. At the same time, enterprises from the original decentralized operation toward the integration of collaborative operation. Therefore, the governance environment of the cloud is actually managing the environment so as to integrate the originally scattered isolated islands so that the enterprises can reduce costs, improve efficiency, respond quickly to the market and enhance their competitiveness. The key to the evolution of enterprises to the cloud is whether it can save costs and respond quickly to business, but this can not be accomplished overnight.

We can summarize the essence of cloud computing as "six" words, namely: "wisdom, resources, patterns." For enterprise CIOs, to pay attention to how to make use of the wisdom of cloud computing, CIO wisdom integrates the enterprise's IT resources to form a service model that is delivered to employees, customers and suppliers. For CEOs, pay attention to how to integrate the resources of an enterprise through the wisdom of enterprises, the wisdom of cloud computing and the wisdom of CEO to form a business model based on cloud computing platform and deliver it to enterprises, customers and suppliers They provide service.

Taobao is not up overnight. Ten years ago, Jack Ma still unknown, and few people know what Taobao is. But now even with more funds can not be copied out of another Taobao. If there is no Jack Ma on the economic situation, business and operational insight, there is no logistics layout, but just to wait for the technology maturity, there will be no powerful Taobao today. Similarly, with the ever-changing new technologies, evolving into the cloud, the operation of enterprises, organizational changes and business models must all be accompanied by changes. If enterprises rely solely on hardware technology, but not in the cultural, strategic, organizational changes in preparation for cloud computing applications can not produce the corresponding business value. Therefore, enterprises must think in all aspects, in which the change of manager's concept and role is very important. Only by gradually preparing for the enterprise, and to work hard to prepare for the general trend, to make changes in the planning, culture, mechanism and management will it be possible to seize the opportunity when the technology is mature.

Cloud computing for different industries, the meaning of the meaning of different people is not the same. For enterprise IT managers, it means using these cloud computing capabilities to bring IT resources across the group together to deliver a service to customers and employees to reduce IT infrastructure and operational costs. Enterprise CIO as a bridge between technology and business, to think about how to implement the corporate strategy through technology, technology to guide the implementation of corporate strategy. For the CEO, it means how to integrate the management, business and resources of the enterprise on this platform to form an innovative mode to deliver to the employee employee of the enterprise, improve the efficiency of the enterprise, reduce the cost of the enterprise and quickly enter Market, making enterprises more competitive. CIO to think about how technology is landing, how to achieve the strategy. The so-called smart city, the wisdom of the earth, is nothing more than cloud computing for resource integration, the formation of models and services. Therefore, cloud computing is difficult to understand because it involves not only a computing concept of technology, but for different people, different businesses, different industries mean different meaning.

What is the future business?

Technological advances are driving business progress, and business progress in turn promotes technology, which is an interaction. In this interaction with the business model, management changes. Economic globalization is the largest integration after industrialization. The realization of globalization is based on "the cloud." This is the trend of the times. Cloud changes not only technology, but also deeply changes the present and future of the enterprise and society, but also changes people's way of life.

The future of the enterprise will be a platform-based enterprises, corporate boundaries will disappear. With the acceleration of global economic integration, industries, enterprises and resources will continue to be integrated. Organizational and management methods will also be constantly changing. Enterprises will gradually be flattened from fragmented forms of corporate governance to integrated and collaborative platforms. Large groups evolved into a community cloud or platform cloud, and the market operation and management of the enterprise are carried out through such a platform. The exchange and cooperation of internal information, the processing of the process and the external customer service form a stop on the platform Style service

The future of the enterprise will be self-healing smart enterprises. Under the cloud computing, the ultimate trend of enterprise development is smart enterprise, intelligent management, all information must be spread through the cloud platform. Enterprises in this platform to optimize business flow, self-management, self-repair and self-growth, a smart team. Entrepreneurship management philosophy is embedded in the cloud computing, corporate decision-making is not rely on the experience of leading experts to shoot their heads, but rely on data analysis, the formation of intelligent and intelligent decision-making.

Just as people treated the 19th century electrification of industrial electrics, rejected businesses will eventually be eliminated. Faced with cloud computing, companies should consider how to embrace it. Cloud computing will completely change the traditional business community model, if the business within five to 10 years to create a cloud computing platform, the formation of innovative models, the competitiveness of enterprises will continue to improve. Moreover, if China's large enterprises can evolve on the platform of cloud computing, it will become an important driving force for the vigorous development of China's economy.