Innovation is the soul of the progress of a nation, an inexhaustible driving force for the prosperity of a nation and the most profound national endowment of the Chinese nation. In the intense international competition, only innovators advance, become stronger and win. For enterprises, innovation is the accelerator for progress, and a key element to enhance their core competitive forces and realize sound and sustainable development. Management innovation is the core power of enterprise innovation and it can build an ordinary enterprise into an excellent one or an excellent one into an outstanding one.

In 2008, after HEI first introduced the international advanced project management platform, HEI made constant efforts in management philosophy innovating, organization structure reforming, institutional system building, business flow reshaping and management improving…… over the past 10 years, in the course of management innovation. HEI has kept exceeding itself. It has made unremitting efforts to develop and it has grown from a small enterprise to a big one, then a strong one, excellent one and at last an outstanding one. The achievements brought by its innovation achievements have been expanding, marking the start of the new journey of leap-forward development of HEI.

In 2008, HEI took the lead in introducing the international advanced project management platform and carried out its research and exploration centering on the process control, business standardization and knowledge accumulation of the whole process management of overseas projects. By combining the management platform with its standard project budget system, it has established the cost management and control methods of estimation, budget estimate, budget and final settlement and realized HEI’s whole-process cost control mode in project management.

In 2009, HEI’s PMS project management platform was put into use officially. Through advanced management tools and scientific management approach, HEI realized flow-based, visible and systemic control in project management.

In 2010, HEI officially unveiled the prelude to organization reform and management innovation, launched organization reform and management innovation program, and completed the organization structure optimization design, position design and evaluation, and the HR management system design for management innovation.

In 2011, HEI, through organization reform and management innovation, comprehensively implemented the management mode of the business division system, realized wholly-new optimization of its organization structure, built a complete institutional system, reshaped the business flow and provided a solid institutional guarantee for high-efficient operation of all the departments of the new organization structure.

In 2012, HEI made continuous efforts to deepen management reform. Through internal sharing and exchange, it further enhanced their uniform view on project management, lifted their project management level and launched the "Project Management System Upgrading Program". In order to adapt to the management mode of the business division system and the requirements of the budget-cored total budget management, it completed the project management platform upgrading. Meanwhile, it also built the financial informatization management system with "the accounting system as the base, the organization system as the guarantee, the budget management as the core and the capital management, assets management and supervision management as the hub".

In 2013, HEI successfully completed its project management system upgrading program, published the Documents for the Project Management System, realized 7-stage and 9-element control mode, built the three-level (company level, business division level and project department level) management system, established the electric power simulation training center, met the needs of project owners and corporate employee training, lifted the business management level of owners’ working personnel and enhanced owners’ satisfaction with HEI.

In 2014, HEI conducted the international modern project management knowledge system training, the international project management practice training and the project management system training, which greatly improved the employees’ levels in the project management cognition, idea, tool, method and application. Moreover, on the basis of its project management characteristics, HEI completed a series of documents such as HEI International Project Management Appraisal System and HEI International Project Management Capability Maturity Evaluation Manual. It also launched the information communication OA platform building project and established a cloud platform-based comprehensive information communication platform, integrating the OA function business expansion and the HOLA file system and meeting its needs of corporate standardized business management.

In 2015, HEI planned and implemented a quantized evaluation on project management, quantized the project management goals of all the business divisions departments and lifted the whole project management level. In the year, HEI’s information communication OA platform was put into online operation officially, realizing electronic circulation of main examination and approval flow of all the departments, effectively solving the problem of business circulation due to trans-regional personnel flow of the company, and greatly lifting its work efficiency and standardization level.

In 2016, HEI upgraded the project management platform and realized the whole-process project management and control. By introducing to Saudi Arabia ACWA, Hong Kong CLP and other project owners its project management system, method, approach and control capability, HEI demonstrated its project management platform, and was fully affirmed and recognized by international owners in terms of the project management capability and level.

In 2017, HEI stuck to the targeted improvement and focused on key controlling points. By customizing and developing the purchase plan, the tendering and the supplier management modules on the project management platform, it enhanced resources sharing and standardized purchase operation. In order to practice the idea of lifting the project management, it comprehensively summarized the execution process of Indonesian Banten Project, prepared the Process Management in the Project of Indonesian Banten 1X670MW Supercritical Coal-fired Power Station, which consists of five sections with more than 2 million characters, and covers the whole-process practice cases in Banten Project, accumulating valuable experience in HEI project management.

10 years of management innovation experiences have accumulated power and strength for HEI’s take-off and leading in the international market. Looking back at the road of management innovation over the past 10 years, HEI’s every break through in an unfavorable circumstance or transformation could not go without "management innovation". It can be said that "Management Innovation" supported the whole development of HEI, and will accompany HEI’s development in the following 10 years, 20 years and 30 years……