Recently, Lenovo Group, a typical representative of "Shuangshi Enterprise", and China Information and Communications Research Institute released the industry’s first "China Enterprise Intelligent Maturity Report (2022) " (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"), from the dimensions of new intelligent methods, new insights, new benchmarks, and new expectations, comprehensively presenting the current situation and future advancement path of intelligent transformation of enterprises in our country.
The "Report" especially launched the "Enterprise Intelligent Transformation Framework" and "Enterprise Intelligent Maturity Model" (hereinafter referred to as the "Transformation Framework" and "Maturity Model" respectively), aiming to provide a set of operational "methodology" and a high-reference "coordinate system" to help Chinese enterprises’ intelligent transformation anchor the general direction, run out of "acceleration", and accelerate the process of digital and real integration in our country.
Intelligent transformation, how can enterprises answer this "must-answer question"
Intelligent manufacturing is the deep integration of advanced manufacturing technology and new generation information technology, and is the main direction of building a manufacturing power. Its development degree is directly related to the quality level of our country’s manufacturing industry.
At present, the world is in a century of unparalleled changes, the international environment is becoming increasingly complex, global science and technology and industrial competition is becoming more intense, the strategic game of major powers further focuses on the manufacturing industry, the United States "advanced manufacturing leadership strategy", Germany "national industrial strategy 2030", Japan "society 5.0" and other development strategies to revitalize the manufacturing industry as the core, all take intelligent manufacturing as the main breakthrough point, and strive to seize the commanding heights of the new round of global manufacturing competition.
At present, our country has turned to the stage of high-quality development, is in the transformation of the development mode, optimize the economic structure, the transformation of the growth momentum of the research period, but the manufacturing supply and market demand is not high, the stability of the supply chain is facing challenges, resource and environmental factors constraints tightening and other issues highlighted.
Standing at the historic intersection of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation and our country’s accelerated high-quality development, promoting the intelligent transformation of enterprises and accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system are the general trend and the "must answer" questions that every enterprise must answer.
The Party Central Committee and the State Council have attached great importance to the role of the digital economy in promoting the development of the real economy, and have made a series of major decisions and arrangements: the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasizes that "building a modern industrial system" "insists on putting the focus of economic development on the real economy" "Promote the high-end, intelligent and green development of the manufacturing industry"; the "14th Five-Year Plan" also clearly states that "to meet the digital age, activate the potential of data elements, promote the construction of a network power, accelerate the construction of a digital economy, a digital society, and a digital government, and use digital transformation to drive changes in production methods, lifestyles, and governance methods as a whole."
In recent years, the intelligent transformation of enterprises in our country has made positive progress. As of September 2022, our country has cultivated more than 1,700 digital workshops/smart factories leading the development of the industry and more than 5,500 regional leading enterprises through unremitting efforts. The enthusiasm of localities, industries and enterprises to implement intelligent manufacturing continues to increase, and the development of intelligent manufacturing has made great progress.
Intelligent transformation is not only an important breakthrough point to empower traditional enterprises and enhance their core competitiveness, but also an urgent requirement to promote industrial transformation and upgrading and economic stability. Intelligent transformation, enterprises are the main body. At present, some enterprises have realized the necessity and urgency of intelligent transformation, but there is a problem of "not turning" and "not daring to turn". It is urgent to explore the implementation path of standardization, modularization and precision to provide guidance for more enterprises to transform and upgrade.
Liu Jun, executive vice president and China president of Lenovo Group, said that innovative technologies such as big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain based on 5G are accelerating the process of the fourth industrial revolution in the world. At this historical moment, Lenovo and China Academy of Information and Communications Technology play their respective advantages and cooperate, hoping to more effectively promote the intelligent transformation of Chinese enterprises, help realize the Chinese path to modernization, and seize the opportunity of the times for China’s economic development.
He pointed out that intelligent transformation is a powerful tool for Chinese enterprises to cross the economic cycle in the next decade, and advocated that Chinese enterprises formulate intelligent transformation strategies forward-looking, directly build digital bases based on new IT architectures, and seek leapfrog development of intelligent levels.
"Inquiry" intelligence, building enterprise transformation framework and maturity model
In recent years, the top-level design of intelligent development in our country has been continuously improved, the digital infrastructure has been continuously consolidated, and the intelligent transformation of enterprises has shown an accelerated development trend. However, weak foundation, weak awareness, and unclear path also restrict the advancement of transformation. The "Report" shows that more than 80% of enterprises in our country are in the early and middle stages of transformation, and the current situation of transformation is not optimistic.
To achieve a successful intelligent transformation for enterprises is no easy task. It requires a set of practice-tested and systematic transformation frameworks, as well as a methodology that allows enterprises to recognize the current situation and effectively guide the transformation route.
Abrikmu Ablimiti, vice-president of Lenovo Group and vice-president of strategy and business development in China, said that the intelligent transformation of enterprises is not a "turnkey" project, which can be completed by investing some money and doing a few projects. It also involves organizational and cultural changes. This is a long-term work.
The "Report" focuses on the shortcomings of the intelligent transformation of Chinese enterprises, and innovatively launched the intelligent transformation framework and maturity model. The "Report" pointed out that the intelligent transformation framework and maturity model have widely absorbed the research results of the industry, and conducted practical research on more than 500 large and medium-sized enterprises in many industries in our country, which has been highly praised and widely recognized by the participating enterprises.
In the report, the intelligent transformation framework is guided by three major values: operational value, strategic value, and industry and social value. It integrates and promotes the intelligent transformation of enterprises from four aspects: formulating an intelligent transformation strategy, practicing intelligent business operations, investing in and upgrading the digital base, and promoting organizational and cultural change.
Among them, the intelligent transformation strategy lies in clarifying the vision and goals of the transformation, forming a consensus, and decomposing and formulating the stage transformation blueprint, so as to achieve "compass". Intelligent business operation is to build a digital base, agile and flexible central product platform, and digitize and intelligently upgrade all links of the enterprise value chain. The digital base is the "foundation" of the intelligent transformation of enterprises, and needs to be built based on a new IT architecture that integrates "end-edge-cloud-network-intelligence". Organizational and cultural change aims to create a digital organization that integrates professional, IT and business, and is the "soil" for the intelligent transformation of enterprises.
Based on the "Intelligent Transformation Framework of Enterprises", the report proposes a maturity model. The model divides the maturity of intelligent transformation of enterprises into five levels, namely L1 in basic information construction, passive digitalization/intelligence attempt, L2 in partial exploration of digitalization/intelligence, L3 in comprehensive investment planning and construction of company-level digital bases for intelligence as reserves, L4 in the whole value chain to promote intelligent operation, and L5 in the development of business intelligence driven by new IT technology, and L5 in the transformation and innovation of the industry driven by openness and empowerment.
The "Report" specifically mentions that L1 to L5 is not a path that requires gradual progress, and there is no need for advanced development. Enterprises can make appropriate forward-looking arrangements to seek leapfrog development, and make different recommendations for enterprises at different levels.
At present, our country’s enterprises are in a critical opportunity period for the intelligent transformation of enterprises. Wei Liang, vice president of the China Academy of Information and Communications, believes that in recent years, enterprises in various industries have actively carried out digital and intelligent transformation exploration, forming effective experience and paths. In the next few years, the digital and intelligent transformation model and value will also be clearer, and bring about many aspects of improvement and change:
The first is the transformation of the production mode to high efficiency, precision, intelligence, flexibility and collaboration; the second is the transformation of the business form from traditional products to intelligent products + intelligent services; the third is the transformation of the industrial organization mode from supply chain-based and value chain to networked and platform-based organizations; the fourth is the transformation of the business model from direct sales of products and services to the results economy; the fifth is the transformation of the innovation paradigm to the innovation paradigm driven by data and artificial intelligence; the sixth is the transformation of the technical architecture to a platform-based, distributed and highly agile form.
"Endogenous externalization" to deeply empower high-quality economic and social development
The "report" believes that the intelligent transformation of enterprises is a full journey and spiral process that spans "the formulation of transformation strategies, demand analysis and program design, selection and implementation, continuous operation and operation and maintenance", and requires accompanying full-cycle services.
In recent years, Lenovo has embarked on its own practice and embarked on its own path of intelligent transformation by laying out a new IT technology architecture of "end-edge-cloud-network-intelligence", building an "DynaSky" intelligent IT engine, and building and upgrading a digital base.
Taking Lianbao Technology, Lenovo’s Hefei intelligent manufacturing base, as an example, AI algorithms can complete production scheduling within two minutes, improving efficiency while achieving energy conservation and consumption reduction. In addition, compared with 2017, Lenovo’s direct business in China has increased from less than 4% to more than 30%, and the per capita output of sales personnel has increased by 2 times.
The "endogenous" intelligent transformation experience has been continuously "externalized" into industry solutions, "adding salary and sustainability" to the intelligent transformation of thousands of industries – it has been applied to more than 1,000 enterprises and institutions such as CATL, Sany Heavy Industry, and BYD, covering dozens of industries and fields such as smart education, smart manufacturing, smart parks, smart finance, and smart energy.
At present, Lenovo has formed an "Enterprise Intelligent Transformation Suite" including an intelligent transformation framework, a maturity assessment model, as well as assessment tools, transformation courses, consulting, and more than 40 general solutions, which can provide detailed intelligent maturity diagnosis reports, as well as related consulting and intelligent services.
Only by continuously strengthening, improving and expanding our country’s digital economy and promoting "deep integration of data and reality" can we better achieve high-quality development.
Accelerating intelligent transformation is not only a strategic choice for our country’s enterprises to grasp the new round of scientific and technological revolution and new opportunities, but also an important aspect of promoting innovation to drive high-quality development and improve people’s well-being.
As a "double real enterprise", Lenovo has continued to increase its investment in innovation. Data show that Lenovo’s medium-term plan to double its R & D investment continues to advance vigorously. In the last fiscal quarter (July-September 2022), R & D investment increased by 15% year-on-year, and R & D personnel increased by 26%.
Facing the future, Lenovo revealed that it will continue to promote investment in scientific and technological research and development, consolidate the foundation of intelligence with continuous innovation, and join hands with strategic partners such as China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and more enterprises to empower the intelligent transformation of various industries and escort high-quality development.
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