Table of Contents
1 Status of ICT
2 CT and IT Companies
Specific Overview Similarities Differences1 Status of ICT Editorial
In the Okinawa Charter for the Global Information Society, issued by the G8 in Okinawa at the beginning of the 21st century, it was argued that "Information Communication technology is one of the most powerful drivers of social development in the 21st century and will rapidly become an important engine of world economic growth."
In fact, the ICT industry does not have a uniform understanding of ICT. As a technology, the general understanding is that ICT can not only provide a wide range of services based on broadband, high-speed communication networks, and not only the delivery and ****enjoyment of information, but also a general-purpose intelligent tools. As for the business will be more to what extent, this tool will be "intelligent" to what extent, the current concept is still very vague. Three-network convergence is only a foundation and a prelude to ICT, IPTV, mobile TV and so on, I am afraid, is just the tip of the iceberg.
For fixed-network operators that have blown the trumpet of transformation, ICT is now more often used as a service to customers, and this service is a combination of IT (information industry) and CT (communications industry) services and intermingling of the two services, the communications industry, the electronic information industry, the Internet, and the media industry will be integrated in the scope of ICT. Fixed network operators such as China Telecom provide customers with one-stop ICT services, including integration services, outsourcing services, professional services, knowledge services and software development services. As a matter of fact, ICT services not only provide line building and network architecture solutions for enterprise customers, but also alleviate the burden of enterprises in establishing applications, system upgrades, operation and maintenance, security, etc., and save the operating costs of enterprises, and thus are welcomed by enterprise users. At present, the intersection of IT and CT is mainly embodied in the construction of IT enterprises' support systems for operators, and it is worth mentioning BOSS (Business Operating Support System), which is known as BOSS for mobile, and BSS for telecom and Unicom in general.
2CT and IT enterprise editing
Specific overview<
In China Telecom's corporate strategic transformation guidelines, ICT has become one of the four major business areas of expansion, along with Internet applications, video content and mobile communications.
The background for the emergence of ICT is the convergence of the industry and a strong demand for information and communication services, and fixed-line operators to enter the field of ICT is the fixed-line space is squeezed all around, and the enterprise enters into the fatigue of the development of the development of the period of recession, the choice is strictly a crisis, and is not the best choice. Strictly speaking, it belongs to crisis transformation or weak transformation. In the transformation of the pioneers, both from the wood processing industry such as Nokia successfully transformed into the IT industry companies, but also in the transformation process of the century-old store AT& T. Therefore, China's fixed-line operators need to comprehensively examine the distance between themselves and IT enterprises. Let's make a simple comparison between IT and CT companies.
Similarities
CT and IT belong to the information industry, industry characteristics are similar, the industry chain has a number of nodes overlap, complement each other, inseparable. On the one hand, many IT vendors are also CT equipment suppliers, such as the production of network switches, routers, equipment vendors. On the other hand, CT itself is a major customer of the IT service industry. For example, in 2004, the proportion of the telecom industry in the industry structure of China's IT service market was 17.9%, second only to the financial industry (18.6%). Meanwhile, in the process of informatization, the integration of IT and CT is getting closer and closer. Usually, a successful information application system is bound to organically combine the knowledge and resources of both IT and CT, such as in the fields of distance education, telemedicine, e-agriculture, e-government, e-commerce, and information security.
Differences
1. capital structure is different. CT industry is characterized by capital-intensive field, without a certain strength is difficult to enter, with economies of scale, equipment, capital is the main production factors. IT services industry is an intellectually intensive field, people are the main factors of production of the enterprise. the proportion of IBM's IT service revenue in the proportion of the whole business is about 40%, while 130,000 services worldwide. At the same time, the world's 130,000 service professionals account for half of IBM's total workforce. For IT service providers, personnel investment is the main investment. IBM in 2003 with the Swiss power and automation technology company ABB a service contract, for example, the service contract in 10 years will generate 1.7 billion U.S. dollars in revenue, but IBM will pay more than 90 million U.S. dollars a year for this labor costs, calculated that the proportion of labor costs up to 53%.
2. The content of the different offerings. CT services are mainly to provide functional product services, such as telephony, broadband access, SmarTone, networking, etc., with some value-added services; IT services are mainly human services, technical services and provide solutions to profit.
3. The product life cycle is different. CT product life cycle is long, from 1876 Bell invented the telephone has been more than a hundred years, broadband through so many years is still in the growth period. IT services need to be supported by high technology, the correlation between the evolution of technology is very close, the product life cycle is short.
4. Employment characteristics are different, CT companies have long formed a set of perfect employment system, employee compensation, job system, career development, etc., there is a more fixed pattern, the workforce is more stable; IT industry, knowledge-based staff concentration, flexible employment system, employee mobility. According to the survey, due to salary, work pressure, career development and other reasons, nearly 40% of the IT enterprise employees ready to jump ship.