IT advances vital for economic restructuring

The Chinese economy's transition from traditional manufacturing should be coupled with advancements in information technology, a senior executive at The Open Group, a global IT industry consortium, said in Beijing on Wednesday.

The method used to push the transition toward "more services and integrated manufacturing" is surely of significance, Chris Forde, general manager for the Asia-Pacific Region and vice president of Enterprise Architecture at The Open Group, told the Global Times on Wednesday, speaking of the enterprise-architectural approach that integrates industrialization and informatization.

Rather than starting from a blank piece of paper to achieve the transition, enterprises of varying sizes and from different sectors were advised by Forde to embrace the approach which he believed would serve as an accelerator to drive value and enable business transformation.

The practice of enterprise architecture that aligns the building of IT systems with businesses will have high potential in China, estimated Forde, as the reform-bound economy is heading toward quality and efficient growth.

The Open Group that works toward enabling access to integrated information also addressed the rise of homegrown Chinese technologies that come across as being disruptive to existing international IT standards.

When asked about how the domestic context in China can influence those international standards, Forde noted his consortium wants to shift the conversation from bringing international technology standards into China to helping domestic standards move out of the country into the international community, taking into account the rapidly growing Chinese technologies.