What are the main differences between virtual enterprises and traditional enterprises

At present, with the rapid development of network technology and information technology, changing the way people obtain information and transfer of information, time and regional constraints on the enterprise is becoming smaller and smaller, enterprises in a larger range of joint, low-cost expansion in order to achieve a favorable position in the new competitive environment, so the emergence of the virtual enterprise.

Virtual enterprise is when the market appears new opportunities, with different resources and advantages of enterprises in order to *** with the development of the market, *** with the other competitors to deal with the organization, built on the basis of the information network *** to enjoy the technology and information, share the cost of joint development, mutually beneficial enterprise alliance. The virtual enterprise is a representative cooperative enterprise strategy, which is in fact a short-term, limited to one or a few project cycles of enterprise network combination. Specifically, the Internet enables greater space for cooperation, greater corporate transparency, lower monitoring costs, and the ability of core companies to achieve optimal allocation of resources using credit as a bond.

Mutual equality and independence of enterprise relations not only to ensure that each partner to use their own optimal technology, including know-how and technology know-how into the development of sub-projects, but also do not worry about the leakage of these technologies, so as to ensure the quality of sub-projects.

Because of the networked operation and the use of parallel engineering and computer simulation, the fit between the respective projects is guaranteed, thus improving the overall quality of the project.

However, the problem of opportunism in corporate cooperation is highlighted by the fact that the virtual enterprises are independent of each other, the formation of a long-term supply chain cannot be guaranteed, and the risk of uncertainty in their respective projects is high in technological innovation projects, coupled with the fact that after successful development of projects in the respective lineages, the equilibrium of the supply chain may be disturbed in order to form a technological monopoly. Former partners are likely to become today's competitors, such as the rise of Microsoft Corporation and Intel Corporation.

It is generally believed that virtual business refers to an enterprise or multiple enterprises with resources as the core, in order to implement specific enterprise strategic objectives,

relying on information, through a kind of network-style alliance, to realize the optimal combination of resources and the rapid development of enterprises. By retaining only the most critical functions of the enterprise and omitting others, virtual enterprises can reduce market risks and make full use of resources by means of a flexible operating mechanism.

Reasons for the emergence of virtual enterprises

With the advancement of science and technology and the development of society, the world economy has undergone significant changes. People according to their own production, work and life needs, the varieties and specifications of the product, color and style put forward diversified and personalized requirements, enterprises face the ever-changing market, in order to survive and develop must have a high degree of flexibility and rapid response capability. To this end, the modern enterprise to the organizational structure of simple, flat direction of development, so there will be able to knowledge, technology, capital, raw materials, markets and management and other resources to unite the virtual enterprise.

The difference between traditional enterprises and virtual enterprises is as follows:

I. Enterprise Operation Mode

The operation mode of an enterprise refers to the various aspects of the composition of the enterprise's form of expression, operation methods.

Including: facilities planning programs, organizational forms, product structure, production methods, logistics forms, sales methods and so on.

The mode of operation of the enterprise can be various, such as: the organization of the enterprise can be linear system, departmental system, project management system and so on.

Enterprise mode of operation and the type of products produced by the enterprise, production methods, the surrounding environment have a great relationship between the enterprise mode of operation to choose the correct or not on the operation of the enterprise has a decisive role in the effect. Virtual enterprise operation mode refers to the establishment of modern communication technology, especially the Internet technology, based on transcending national boundaries of an enterprise's operation mode, is the inevitable trend of enterprise development. It is in order to adapt to the rapid, changing market demand, manufacturers joint suppliers, distributors, customers, to *** the same, timely development, production, sales of diversified, user-oriented products of a business model. From the point of view of resource allocation, the virtual

proposed business model is a resource integrator, these resources from different members of the enterprise and is integrated, with "1 +1 & gt; 2

" effect.

Second, the enterprise's products

Virtual enterprise products for virtual products (including tangible goods and services). Ideal virtual products, for customers, according to their needs, in a timely manner to be produced and delivered to their hands; for manufacturers, most products have preceded its production and existence,

the design of the product concerned, the mode of production has existed in the consciousness of the work team, exists in the computer, exists in the flexible production line. Even if there are no identical products, there will undoubtedly be many extremely similar ones. In this way, manufacturers are able to increase customer satisfaction with a higher input-output ratio.

Three, corporate communication

An important part of the virtual enterprise is virtual communication.

As the name implies, virtual communication is the creation, exchange, access, application, distribution, preservation, modification and **** enjoyment of information and knowledge in support of work and learning. Because of the importance of communication in a virtual environment, communication is treated as a formal rather than a supportive task.

And because communication plays a complex and important role in virtual operations, it becomes critical and must be well planned to ensure that the information infrastructure is fully utilized.

Four, get rid of time and space constraints

Traditional companies use a 40-hour work week schedule, working hours are relatively small. At the same time, due to the difference in the earth's time zones,

The world in different time zones of the enterprise is difficult to coordinate work. With the globalization of the economy, enterprises across regions and time zones will become the mainstream of the joint, then the formation of virtual enterprises will overcome the limitations of working hours, to achieve business activities around the clock.

Fifth, from vertical management to horizontal management

For the virtual enterprise, enterprise internal and external boundaries are blurred, each group within the enterprise, they have a great degree of freedom and independence, they can be free to combine, but also free to split. The virtual enterprise emphasizes horizontal management,

it breaks the vertical management mode of traditional enterprise pyramid. Vertical mode and horizontal mode is divided on the basis of vertical mode refers to the process from value generation to value recognition inserted in many intermediate links of the mode, while the horizontal mode is the value of value generation and value recognition of the mode of direct correspondence. With the popularization and application of computer technology, the traditional supervision and coordination function of the middle manager has been replaced by the computer network, in the top and bottom of the company's management can be achieved through the computer network communication and liaison,

The company's organizational structure tends to be flat development trend, so the traditional vertical management is gradually being replaced by horizontal management.

Sixth, fuzzy business boundaries

Virtual enterprise as a kind of independent suppliers, manufacturers, producers and customers with their own independent advantages for the node and the form of organization, often for their own network members of a certain strategic considerations and the formation of a temporary dynamic mode of cooperation. This network relationship breaks the traditional enterprise clear organizational boundaries, the formation of a "you have me, I have you," the form of the network.

VII, the organizational structure of the enterprise

Virtual enterprise internal organizational structure is simple. For each independent network members of the virtual enterprise, often with their own certain advantages to form a virtual enterprise, so that you can focus on the limited resources to maintain and develop their own competitive advantages, and other low value-added functions for the enterprise virtualization, diffusion to the virtual enterprise, with the help of other members of the enterprise to be integrated, thus streamlining their own scale, which helps the enterprise members to maintain their own flexibility and creativity. members to maintain their own resilience and creativity.

VIII. Competitive Advantages

Virtual enterprises have strong competitive advantages. Developed network technology, low transaction costs and coordination costs, so that the organization can **** enjoy information resources. At the same time, because the virtual enterprise will be the respective advantages of the strong combination, therefore, will make the virtual enterprise as a whole has a strong competitive advantage. Virtual enterprises with the help of the Internet can realize the rapid collection of information, automatic processing, wide dissemination of information, online procurement, online settlement and other businesses, and for virtual enterprises, access to the international market and the domestic market there is no difference,

Therefore, it will greatly reduce the cost of the enterprise to develop the market, so as to achieve the purpose of reducing costs.

Nine, the dependence on infrastructure

Traditional enterprises need to run a certain scale of infrastructure support, such as warehousing facilities, product showrooms, sales outlets, etc.,

And the virtual enterprise is to set up a Web page through the Internet to open up new sales channels. The Internet provides an opportunity for the development of new virtual enterprises, which can hold as little or no inventory as possible and operate without physical presence, thus reducing their dependence on infrastructure and minimizing the cost of property management.

Virtual enterprise is the new development direction of the future enterprise. Some people even predicted:

Virtual enterprise will become the 21st century an important business management model. This management model emphasizes the formation of competitive advantages in cooperation, to achieve a win-win situation.

Virtual enterprise will become an important enterprise management model in the 21st century.