Sichuan Unicom, Information Technology Planning

Telecom industry is a pillar industry to national economy. Under the trend of economic globalization and informationization of society, the only way to advance the modernization of the whole industry is to facilitate the informationization of companies, so as to strengthen the core competence. Via informatizaiton and improve innovation ability of technology and management, companies and their products can have advantages over their competitors in the market. Sichuan Unicom is a large telecom operator in China. After 10 years of difficult exploration, Sichuan Unicom has now entered into the stage of high speed growth. Development of informationization has been shifted from being driven by passive and simple business requests to proactive informationization planning and execution. Informationization is imperative if Sichuan Unicom intends to improve its economic results and maintain its sustainable competence in the opportunity of telecom restructuring.Therefore, the article aims at infomationization planning of Sichuan Unicom. Firstly, in this dissertation, characteristics of the industry, internal and external environment and core competence of Sichuan Unicom are thoroughly analyzed using strategical management theories and methods and introducing history and strategic planning of Sichuan Unicom. Secondly, the present imformationization condition is analyzed by using the way of information engineering. Meanwhile this article elaborates the whole economic background and development trend of Sichuan Unicom. Thirdly, the information system of Sichuan Unicom is re-planed by using a combination of SST, CSF and BSP. The realization of informationization planning is determined by implementation of infomationization. Finally, the dissertation describes the infomationization implementation system. Research measures and conclusions in this article can be a guidance of the informationization planning and enhance the core competence of Sichuan Unicom.