It veterans Chen Xudong's manifesto: Remove honor and return to zero

This morning, Chen Xudong, who has been paying attention and support to his friends, will become CEO of the new company, the new company will be the internet thinking to build product plans, the new business model will be end-to-end integration of hardware? Software? applications and Internet services.

The full text reads as follows:

October 15 is important for Lenovo and for me. On this day, Lenovo announced the establishment of a new subsidiary, will be entirely based on the Internet platform to build China's leading internet model of intelligent terminals and services business. I will be the chief executive of the new company and will step down as president of China and Asia Pacific emerging markets next April.

After the announcement, many friends are very curious and concerned, have asked me about the pressure is not big, how to do in the future. Frankly, this is a really big challenge. The new company will build the product plan with the Internet thinking, take the user's depth to participate as the core, realizes the major breakthrough of the business; The new business model will end-to-end consolidate hardware? Software? applications and Internet services. This means that I can not completely replicate the success of the existing experience, but to return to zero mentality, to start again, and constantly groping learning.

Looking back on my career in Lenovo, I've been constantly encountering new challenges:

1996 was sent to serve as North West District general Manager, I took a new approach, so that North West District from the completion of the performance indicators, to become the sales champion in various regions; 1999, I was responsible for the Ministry of Commerce, Step-by-step groping to build Lenovo's E-commerce system, and then in 2003 by the company to be responsible for quality Effectively improve the quality of the product; 2004 participation in Lenovo Dual-mode design and construction; 2006 Lenovo began to Internationalize, I was also as the first batch of foreign staff, in Singapore spent a very difficult and I harvested a lot of time; five years ago, I began to take charge of the Chinese area, At the beginning, everyone said Lenovo in China's PC market share has been to the ceiling, it is difficult to make a big breakthrough; later, with our concerted efforts, China's PC market share has grown from 26.6% to today's 37.1%, and net profit has doubled.

My experience, probably to the company left a "good problem-solving" impression, so I hope I go to new positions, to meet new challenges. Now, in fact, I was Lenovo's first batch of "NET" people: 1999 I led the building of Lenovo's E-commerce system, but also in the Ministry of Commerce to "no big no small, not right", advocating that we have problems can speak freely, in fact, is now a kind of internet culture. In the past few years, I have opened my own Sina Weibo, now also is a big V, I have my own micro-shop, every Sunday evening will be open, and I have my own micro-credit subscription number.

So when Yuanqing and I were talking about the idea of a new company, I did not offer any terms, and I soon agreed, on the one hand, because I was willing to embrace new challenges and, on the other hand, I had some experience in the Internet field.

Of course, the new company to succeed, I alone is not enough. To make things happen, it is important to have three points: ideals, will and opportunities.

First of all, we have to say goodbye to the comfort of the system of courage, there is the ideal of embracing entrepreneurship, willing to go to a new environment to try. From the current recruitment situation, this has the ideal team we have the basic.

The second is willpower, which I am still very confident that I can keep an eye on a goal, perseverance to do, to solve the problem. There is no such "green Mountains do not relax" willpower, but also the future test of the new company, one of the important standards.

The third is the opportunity, and the luck comes to the temporary we can hold. Although some people think that we get into the internet late, but actually enter the morning and evening each have advantages. I think we can still find the way forward on this sea, create greater value for Lenovo, and finally realize the ideals of each of us.

With ideals, will and opportunities, it is not enough. To succeed in business, the bottom line is to do a good job, to bring value to customers. Speaking of which, we must mention our new Bench (NBD), this is the "New business development department" that I set up in the first half of this year in China to explore the changes in the Internet age, a pioneering support platform created by 13 of Lenovo people in just 4 months, hatching smart glasses, smart routers and intelligent Air purifiers and other excellent products. September 24, Lenovo and Baidu launched the smart Router Newifi mini in Beijing and East officially on sale, less than one hour down 100,000 spot by snapped. This shows that to seize the user's heart, the most critical must be a good product. Next, we will play the NBD "small, fast, flat" advantage in the mobile internet and the thing networking domain, quickly carry out the business, in the hardware, the software and the service domain to give the customer a better comprehensive experience.

Finally, I'm going to make a small advertisement for the new company, also before a lot of friends concerned about the employment needs: we have senior operational engineers, senior product managers, senior UI designers and other job needs, I hope that the Internet has the ideal, have willpower, can grasp the development opportunities of talent to join us, there will be more career opportunities to provide to everyone.

I hope you will always support the new company and support me. Thank you. (Huangyao)