Yunnan Datang International Power Company Standard Management

Benchmarking，reengineering and strategic alliance are known as the threemanagement methods in the1990s. Nowadays Enterprises place more and moreimportance to benchmarking at home and abroad, and look on it as an important wayto improve the management level. Power industry is the fundamental industry of thenational economy and the power companies are state-owned. They have beenundertaking business of power investment, grid planning and power and servicesproviding. However, the planned economic system has long-term impact on theelectric power enterprises, which leads to many deep-seated problems in theoperation and management of the electric power enterprises. These problems havehindered the development of the electric power enterprises seriously. Therefore theelectric power enterprises need make full use of the benchmarking method in theindustry, even extensively worldwide to find their backwardness and improve theirmanagement level. After recognizing these problems, the grid companies and powergeneration groups of companies carried out a series of management revolutions andthe power companies have changed from extensive management to fine managementand from traditional management to modern management by means of the advancedmanagement concepts of benchmarking.Firstly, we reorganized the research status about benchmarking at home andabroad, then gave a clear explanation of the basic theory of benchmarking, at thesame time, introduced the application of benchmarking in power generationenterprises at home and abroad, and established the evaluation process andevaluating indicator system of the benchmarking, and finally researched the practiceof benchmarking at Yunnan Datang international Power limited company incombination with the theory above and the lessons of the power enterprises at homeand abroad. We found out a group of problems existed in the management andtechnology through benchmarking evaluation and analyzed the reasons for theseproblems, and identified a series of improvement suggestions which are suitable forYunnan Datang international Power Company.