Experience in cooperation with foreign project managers

When dealing with foreign personnel, they pay attention to which standard is adopted. They will inspect strictly according to the standard requirements. Moreover, they pay great attention to the process. It may be difficult for them to flexibly change the process. They will strictly follow the process requirements. This is their advantage and disadvantage.

My original company was a French company. What impressed me the most was not how perfect the system was, but the process of cooperating with foreigners. Foreign countries seem to pay special attention to data and charts, that is, each question must be explained with text and various charts. It is best to have pictures. The more detailed the better. In short, numbers come first. Many people are not very good at work, but they are very beautiful in data processing and the results are very popular. This impression is very deep.

The statistical data and charts of foreign engineering companies are based on real observations and scientific statistics, which are very helpful for judgment. Therefore, foreign companies have much more management manpower than domestic companies, and the data they produce is also very convincing, and has achieved certain results in trend prediction and prior control. Domestic engineering companies do not pay attention to this, but simply manage based on experience. Generally, they control after the fact. The effect is often much worse and the progress is difficult to control. When the time comes, they often put forward slogans such as "Work hard for XXX days", which is also a Chinese characteristic. Therefore, when foreign engineering companies come to China to work on projects, they are often not accustomed to the local conditions and find it difficult to integrate with Chinese characteristics. Sometimes the project management results are not as good as those managed by local Chinese companies. After so many years of integration with Chinese companies, foreign companies have gradually adapted to Chinese characteristics, and Chinese companies have also learned to "borrow". However, what China has borrowed is not the management essence of foreign companies, but only some superficial management processes and norms, and they have not been truly implemented. As a result, the management of domestic engineering companies is now "local but not local, foreign and not foreign". I often hear domestic managers say how poorly managed foreign engineering companies are and how unreasonable their standards are. That’s because the gap between China’s management level and others is too big. If you haven’t seen it, Chinese engineering companies can’t enter the developed world. * * market, we can only lag behind * * We hope that Chinese engineering companies will humbly learn from advanced international engineering companies. * With advanced management technology and scientific management methods, we will soon grow into an internationally competitive engineering company.

I feel that foreign engineering companies are very standardized in their work, so the quality of the projects can be guaranteed.

We have come into contact with a project in Iran. I feel that the people there are not very honest. I hope everyone will pay attention to this issue.

Foreign technical personnel are relatively easy to get in touch with, but the most difficult ones to interact with are managers and business personnel. They are very dogmatic and everything must be explained in writing. The data that can be calculated on the drawings are not recognized at all. They have to be written out and signed before they are recognized, which causes a lot of trouble in our work.

Foreign engineers are serious and follow procedures

Haha, Chinese people often feel troublesome. In fact, I think it is caused by the different ways of doing things between Chinese and foreign partners. Generally speaking, international engineering companies have a long history of development and changes, and have experienced many different types of engineering projects and engineering accidents, so the procedures for doing things are indeed relatively complete, and basically all work must follow the procedures. On the contrary, Chinese engineering companies are still in the process of rapid development. They pay more attention to efficiency and have fewer rules and regulations. Therefore, Chinese personnel often feel that foreign personnel are more dogmatic, just like at the beginning* * The international Li De is the same in China.