Sunday, September 19, 2010

View from the MIS MIS success or failure of their own


Enterprise Management Information System has been nearly 20 years. But look at the national enterprise management information system construction, less than satisfactory, successful few, mostly losers. Analyze the reasons and misunderstandings lie, MIS MIS itself decide that the construction of complex and changeable. Solution Where?

It is understood that construction of China's enterprise MIS, including the manufacturing of the MRP-II and ERP, successful or more successful only about 20%. Analysis of failure and the Faults, such as leadership attention to the issue of MIS concepts and understanding, develop by the way, is not standardized questions, which of course are important reasons, but some units of money give money, they want people to people, even leaders tackled, personally involved in building enterprise MIS, but the results are still poor. So where is the root cause? Over the years I have been discussing this issue, through repeated observation and thinking that this is inseparable from the MIS own characteristics.

Five Characteristics of Enterprise MIS

Enterprise MIS construction is a very vast and complex system engineering, it is not only a technical project, but also a social project.

High complexity

MIS is a multi-enterprise theory, multi-disciplinary, multi-technology sets: the integrated use of corporate MIS systems theory, information theory, methodology, management science, behavioral science, operations research, mathematics, computer technology, communication technology, network technology. Computer technology, including computer software, hardware technology, data, theory and technology and so on.

Enterprise MIS is an integrated multi-management business: Corporate MIS in addition to banking, securities, shopping malls, hotels and other industries business is relatively simple, fairly standard, the others are more complicated business, usually a dozen or two dozen subsystems . Basic management business of financial management, labor management, production management, sales management, inventory management, equipment management, as well as personnel management, records management, material supply, infrastructure, comprehensive statistics. In addition, there are some special industry sectors management business, such as between the various management business it has complicated internal relations.

MIS is a man-machine engineering companies: MIS is a business people closely related with the project, its planning, construction and application of good or bad, and accuracy of data with high-level business leaders, managers, active participation, with the extent and operator of political, business is closely related to quality.

Difficult of

Enterprise MIS involved in the numerous theories, disciplines and techniques are all highly theoretical and high-tech, the so-called high-tech, very difficult, while companies in a variety of management business also has a very deep knowledge, but also will organically combine the two to form a complete and practical system, the difficulty is even greater.

Hidden and dependence

MIS is a large enterprise application software, it has the typical features of the software is that it's hidden. It is an invisible work, outsiders invisible, impossible to visually see it the whole picture, only a small number of development staff to understand the mystery. Because of this reason, few in the know who it has a strong dependence.

Variability

Enterprise MIS of variability in two ways. First, the user demand variability: Our country is in a period of major change. With the depth of economic reform, enterprise's management system, Guan Li model and some management systems are constantly taking place Bian Hua, Xu Qiu Ye follow the user's constantly changing place. Second, the development of operating environment variability: At present, the rapid development of computer technology, constantly upgrading computer hardware, software development and changes constantly, new software emerging, the old software is continuously updated version of the capacity increase.

MIS development difficult

As the company has more characteristics of MIS, MIS development to determine the difficulty:

Set of technology and management in a

As the complexity of enterprise MIS, the world's very difficult to have such a genius, not only familiar with the companies involved in the MIS theory of various technologies, but also familiar with the management of corporate knowledge. Not to mention some of these theories and technologies are high-tech, need to have a lot of modern scientific and technological knowledge, is the management of each project is a professional. Now is the majority of people who know computers do not understand business management, knowledge management do not understand computers. Is engaged in management can only be limited to their own work or closely related to one or two areas. For example, does not understand the financial management practice of labor management and sales management, engaged in production will not necessarily understand the financial management and materials management. A person's energy and talent is limited, can not cover everything. As MIS developers, even a senior systems analyst, to the business of an enterprise is difficult to understand. Moreover, also from the perspective of the system to analyze the intrinsic link between the business and reasonable to carry out sub division, function modules, the overall data planning. Only enterprise data model is a very complex task, but also to analyze data, and even assisted decision-making, it is even harder.

Large and long-term projects

MIS is a man-machine engineering enterprises, must be business leaders and senior managers of the business involvement and cooperation, but also to fully invested, can make the whole enterprise MIS, global, and system point of view, the real business of the meeting management business needs. Most companies do not develop their own power, mainly by companies or institutions to help develop, and companies or institutions to pay attention to economic benefits, they can not put a business in a short time really understand the real needs and to achieve it . And because MIS is hidden, business leaders and MIS managers can intuitively understand the real face of difficult problems were found difficult to ensure the quality of the projects.

Technologies to meet changing needs

Variability due to user demand, so the software very heavy maintenance work to keep the function of the MIS to make changes and adjustments, or add features, consume large amounts of time and manpower. As the system development for a long time to run the development environment is changing, so always keep up with corporate MIS development and change of environment, the pace of completion of the MIS has a backward sense of the total. Past few years, developed using Foxpro system now to make changes or add new features, if the original platform development is somewhat behind, and in the new database platform (such as Sybase, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.) developed The results they are not unified with the original platform, to increase the number of data conversion interfaces, environment becomes complicated, really torn.

Solution where

As the company itself, the characteristics of MIS, MIS construction determines the difficulty and complexity. I think this is the building of enterprise MIS success rate is not high the first place. Estimated for this reason will be for a long period of time constraints and the impact of the development process across the enterprise MIS. Correct understanding of the characteristics of corporate MIS, MIS construction affect the success or failure to understand the objective factors, which according to its characteristics to take a more active and effective measures for the development of corporate MIS. I think we should focus on considering the following aspects:

People-oriented

Great efforts to train not only understands complex computer professionals who understand the management, cultivate high-level planning, data management and systems analysis personnel to meet the needs of building enterprise MIS. Businesses have to build the industry's powerful professional development team, carefully study the industry, MIS building, the only way possible to really understand the business and the industry needs to develop a truly useful MIS. Same time, enterprises must also teach proper development and maintenance personnel, so as not to rely entirely on the developer.

The role of commander in chief

Enterprises must set up "general information division" or "Deputy Information" post, there are full-time leader in charge and coordinate the work to be possible to build the enterprise MIS and responsibilities in the organization are protected.

Emphasis Integration

Development organizations to take the right way. So far, many enterprises do not understand the application system integration, in particular the importance of data integration, they still use the individual sub-system development methods, the results are not unified operating platform of each subsystem, the data code is not unified interface style is not reunification, the subsystem close to each other, the data can not be exchanged, can not be shared, the formation of large amounts of data redundancy, networks can not play a role, does not form the enterprise information system. Only way to the development of system integration to solve the problem.






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