Excellent CIO and understands IT’s CEO
—Beijing Institute of architectural design company information Minister, 14th North CIO class interview with Bu Yiqiu
When it comes to architecture, a lot of people will immediately think of the “bird’s nest”, “water cube”, “CCTV new building” styles, impressive architecture, and, architectural design in this industry is very “tall.” As architectural design of pilot enterprise, Beijing architectural design Institute Limited (following referred to: Institute) bear and completed has Beijing and the country many important of design project, contribution has different period of design classic, as 50 generation symbol new China image of here, and revolution History Museum, and culture Palace,; 60-70 years generation reflected China independent technology strength of workers Stadium, and Beijing Hotel,; 80 generation reflected reform of China International Exhibition Center, and 11th session Games venues; 90 generation has perfect international mostly city function of airport 2nd, Terminal floor, and international financial building,; 21st century yilai of National Centre for, and airport 3rd, Terminal floor, and national stadium, and five tree pine culture sports center, and Olin Olympic Park National Conference Center, and Olin Olympic Park Center landscape and the sinking square, and China oil building, and Beijing TV Center, and Shanghai Expo, large important project, award countless, employees has more than 4,000 more people, can be described as is architectural design industry of giant no PA enterprise. So, the enterprise’s information about what information is how to support the huge range of business? with such doubts, CIO network reporter an exclusive interview with the times, Beijing architecture design Institute of information Minister Ms Bu Yiqiu, 14th North CIO trainees, she started building design industry’s “mystery”.
Beijing Institute of architectural design company information Minister, 14th North CIO trainees Bu Yiqiu
Designer transition IT to business and IT closer
Interview at the beginning, said Bu Yiqiu, do not consider myself a professional information technology people. She was born architect, have done many years of design, done after so many years the technical quality of access to information. Information Department’s responsibilities was complex, apart from overseeing the company’s information, networking, and application development and maintenance, book also includes resources such as file management and so on. She said modestly: “limited to my professional background, I’m no good at talking about IT technology, we can from the architectural design industry talk about the characteristics of information. ”
Bu Yiqiu said, architecture is rather special in this industry, it belongs to the creative industries and to both engineering and technical fields. It not like manufacturing that can be mass industrial production. Project design, construction and building to use relates to building design, construction, equipment, Government, commercial, property management, and many other aspects. Due to the particularity of these industries, from an overall management point of view, compared with other industries, General information was extremely difficult in the construction sector, information level of performance is not very high. But judging from the design itself, IT technical support is very strong, more than 20 years ago, for instance, has achieved full CAD, calculation, analysis, simulation and other technologies are also very developed. Institute of information management, from single management requirements development and management systems, has entered into a business process integration of information management. They’re hitting from the design process to the information management process interoperability, progressively eliminating information Islands. When it comes to long-term objectives, she said: “our long-term goal of Design Institute of Design Institute, is also the goal of our entire industry, it is eventually realize using BIM of the whole industrial chain of information. BIM building information model. Narrow from a design perspective, our design based on two-dimensional drawings based on multi-dimensional model instead. This objective, both design techniques and the management would be a huge challenge “
Key factors affecting the information: strategic planning
Look back on six years of work, BU Yi-Chiu with mixed feelings. Although not the information professional, but familiarity with business doing her a favor from another angle. Understanding of information, she also has her own view: “the most critical factors affecting the informatization construction, I thought it was the company’s overall strategy, corporate strategic influence on the development of information technology. Technology itself is relatively simple, there is a clear strategic plan and roadmap, technology of hate clear. “In addition, the industry is talking about” transformation “,” Internet “, which also affect the design industry. In this regard, the Bu Yiqiu also said there is a lot of pressure: “a lot of colleagues have said, if our industry will be overturned one day, then what we should do now? I think that due to the particularity of the industry, possibly upending our industry will slowly, but may not necessarily. Must keep up with the new technology direction and at the same time new technologies may lead to transformation of the thinking mode of sufficient sensitivity. ”
Although Bu Yiqiu self-deprecating said “no experience doing information” but asked “what core competencies are attributes of a good CIO” this problem, prompt response to her: “in my opinion, excellent CIO it is not easy to do. First of all, has some thoughts on strategic level and, secondly, besides IT basic competencies, also must have the operational capacity and so on. For our business, and also understand the design needs of all professional requirements, project management and quality management, business and marketing requirements, and so on. ” In General, she thought that CIO if we really want to be CEO‘s right-hand man, was positioning himself as “someone who understands IT and knows CEO.”
A successful woman, perfect balance between work and family
Institute of designers in almost half of all men and women. But among IT, women rarely. When it comes to gender issues, she said the Institute information one-fourth women, is the sector with the lowest proportion of women hospital. Woman’s personality traits is fine and soft, strong communication skills, thinking compared to men is simple and straight forward. Men and women think differently, can’t say which is better which is bad, I think there are pros and cons. Not like everyone’s hopes and ideals, way of dealing with work and life are not the same. In my opinion, a complete woman, would have to be able to balance work and family.
Interviews end, reporters asked her yet or the entry of women in the workplace and give some suggestions for working and living. She’ll talk to: “with colleagues often talked about this topic. I think people must have their own objectives and for this goal step by step forward, but not so much with every step. Perhaps your job may not fit your expectations, but you’ll find you every year, every piece of work experience is not in vain, it will reward you at a certain time in a certain way. So it need not be too much of some worse than expected in every detail, every step went quite down to Earth. Believe me this work ‘ the old man ‘, any pay, will not be in vain! “