Reduce The Cost of Digital Transformation for SMEs

Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission has joined 145 units to jointly launch the "Digital Transformation Partnership Action (2020)" online. In response to the problem of  digital transformation of small, medium and micro enterprises that "will not transfer, cannot transfer, dare not transfer", the "Digital Transformation Partnership Action Initiative" (hereinafter referred to as "the initiative") was issued, and the first batch of more than 500 service initiatives for small and medium enterprises were launched From information docking, open resources, capacity support, software and hardware support, supply chain support, consulting services, professional training to platform base construction, overall solutions, targeted financial support, ecological construction and other comprehensive support and services.

Innovating business models and reconstructing core competitive advantages are the core driving forces for enterprise digital transformation. The survey shows that companies with a business scale of more than 2 billion yuan are generally looking for an effective way for digital transformation. The current  epidemic of new coronavirus pneumonia has forced and accelerated the pace of digital survival and digital transformation of enterprises, such as the continuous popularization of remote office and the development of online sales channels. At present, the hot live streaming is also the epitome of enterprises accelerating digital survival and transformation. In particular, small and medium-sized enterprises have been hit hard by the epidemic and have many difficulties. How to help more small, medium and micro enterprises rescue from the difficulties? The initiative proposes to jointly build a "government guidance-platform empowerment-leading leadership-institutional support-multiple services" joint mechanism, focusing on driving the  digital transformation of SMEs.

This digital transformation partner action, a number of Internet platforms and software companies also actively responded, such as Tencent launched the "Digital Ark", Ali launched the "Spring Thunder Plan", Jingdong's "new kinetic energy plan" and so on. There are also software companies that have launched plans one after another, such as Kingdee Software, one of the first batch of advocacy software companies, and Eden Software, which recently landed in Hong Kong stocks. Billion State Power also clearly proposed to strengthen the "smart agriculture" service, focusing on providing digital transformation consulting and platform docking work for county agricultural products enterprises.

The most striking thing is that PricewaterhouseCoopers announced that it will launch the enterprise dynamic monitoring system "Qiyun Cloud" in June. Enterprises can find corresponding sections according to their information needs and use them for free. The author analyzes the difficulty of  digital transformation for SMEs. A key factor is undoubtedly the high cost of transformation, such as online sales. Compared with large online platforms that require fees, many small and medium-sized enterprises prefer to use free public social platforms to achieve their sales. Therefore, how to reduce the cost of digital transformation, shorten the transformation period, and improve the digital survivability of small, medium and micro enterprises is the key to building a digital enterprise, building a digital industry chain, and cultivating a digital ecology.

The core of reducing the digital transformation cost of small, medium and micro enterprises lies in the four words of "inclusive and win-win". This requires consensus in many aspects. Only with this consensus can it promote the  digital transformation of enterprises and the cooperation platform between digital enterprises and digital ecological partners. Only by building together can we truly build a digital ecological community. The initiative proposes to strengthen the research and development of common solutions for digital transformation; for the common problems of traditional enterprises 'digital transformation, develop targeted solutions and standards to provide guidance for enterprises' digital transformation. It is foreseeable that the introduction of common solutions will greatly reduce the cost of enterprise digital transformation.

It is understood that in response to the needs of SMEs 'digital transformation, we will study and compile guidelines for SMEs' digital transformation, and launch inclusive, low-cost, and diversified “smart cloud with digital intelligence” products or services. At the same time, explore and adopt The sharing economy model opens up digital transformation resources, etc. These measures will undoubtedly greatly reduce the cost of digital transformation of SMEs and improve their digital survivability. In fact, the fundamental to reduce the cost of digital transformation for SMEs also lies in strengthening the construction of digital basic industries, building a public digital service platform and related industry promotion policies.

The development of the world's digital industrial economy is the general trend. It is understood that the added value of the digital economy in the three major industries is 29% in the service industry, 17% in industry, and 6.2% in agriculture. At present, it is in the period of  anti-epidemic. Digital transformation is also a move by various enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises for survival and development. How to reduce the cost of digital transformation for enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises Platform enterprises and institutions "inclusive and win-win" is the key.

In the future, the digital ecological model of "production services + business models + financial services", network digital ecological chain systems such as "virtual industrial parks" and "virtual industrial clusters" are probably hard to imagine today, but with the advancement of 5G, It can be said that the future of digitalization and intelligence has come, and the digital transformation and survival of enterprises are imminent.