Why Lenovo can remain competitive

Summary: This morning, the chairman of Lenovo's board of directors, Liu, sent an internal letter. In this letter, Liu reviewed the history of Lenovo's development and summed up the reasons for Lenovo's ability to remain competitive: engine culture. The following is the original letter from Mr Liu:

This morning, Liu, chairman of Lenovo's board of directors, sent an internal letter. In this letter, Liu reviewed the history of Lenovo's development and summed up the reasons for Lenovo's ability to remain competitive: engine culture. The following is the original letter from Mr Liu:

Liu always wrote a letter to the staff:

Lenovo all my colleagues:

This year is the 30 anniversary of Lenovo's founding, which is a very memorable year.

These days, looking back on the ups and downs of the 30, as the film emerged. One of those 15 years ago was clearly visible. It was 1999. In the Great Hall of the people, Lenovo staff gathered together to commemorate the 15 anniversary of the establishment of the company, the opening of my theme report, but also my heart condensed feeling:

"In Lenovo's queue, the young people who were born in the 1978 have begun to appear." History is like a book, it is a page binding. The new page is born and raised, it is difficult to understand, imagine has turned over a page described in the matter. The youngest member of the Lenovo team, born in 1978, listened with admiration to the discussion of Big brothers and sisters about buying new cars, and they could not imagine that their parents, 20 years ago, had to buy a Shing for their children one months ahead of their budget. And we, in the 1978 before the Fear of class struggle, the idle life of the science and technology workers do not think that, in any case, because of the emergence of a great man, due to the emergence of a historical conference, 20 years later, China's everything will become so incredible! Lenovo's founders, in any case, did not think that the small front of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which started their business 15 years ago, was a testament to the Republic's magnificent history of reform and opening-up. ”

In the face of this text, recall the recent 15 years of the Sun and moon month, can't help but the mind, ripples ups and downs.

1978 was born, 1999 associate friends should be not much, when the Big Brother big sister with the work of the little boy turned 36 years old, now you are where? Do you have a car or a room? Is it okay to have a good time?

The Public relations Outreach Department, which commemorates Lenovo's 30 anniversary, asked me to write an article on the company intranet, the main point is two: first, we are prepared to commemorate the 30 anniversary of the event (this is the decision of the Executive Committee), and the second is that I write in this article in the past 30 years the deepest emotion.

The first thing good to do, the executive Committee's idea is very consistent, Ming and the next year is Lenovo holdings of the listed years, there is a lot of work to do, we do not spend energy big feast, big invite guests. But 30 years down, there are enough lessons to reflect on, enough experience should be summed up. How to sum up? It is best to first fragment the summary: Everyone feel at any time to write out on the Internet, sent to the micro-letter, micro-blog, but also organize a variety of seminars, forums, please the company and outside the friends and we clean up ideas, evaluation gains and losses. This year is only 30 years, we have to continue to run, keep up with the times never left behind. After the summary of the fragmentation, we will decide by the end of the year whether to open a centralized meeting.

The second one is difficult, and it is difficult to say only one thing that impresses the deepest. In these 30 years, we have many times desperate, some of these early years of the system of planned economy to bring great trouble, some of our strategic decision-making errors caused by the bitter fruit, which has a large number of unforgettable pain; Of course, in this 30-year, we are more full of hard teeth insist, breakthrough escape, The pleasure of landing on the stage--there are plenty of vivid, lifelike stories.

If you just say one thing, what do you say?

Two days ago, on the intranet, I saw an article by Zhou, general manager of the Hong Kong office, referring to her Hong Kong colleagues ' "engine" culture, which is not used to Lenovo, through the process of adapting and improving:

"Most of these colleagues are as accustomed to their work as I am, but not words, their past work environment is the level of responsibility of the instructions to work the main way, did not experience like Lenovo, not only the high-level to really pay attention to collective wisdom, summary planning, but also to develop the overall work plan, comprehensive inventory of work gain and loss to push to the frontline grass-roots management staff , it is not easy to make a summary and a plan that meet or exceed the company's expectations, in the same way that the daily work has already been heavy and it has come less than a year. ”

In my impression, Hong Kong people tend to do things, meticulous, the boss is called What to do, the boss to do how to do, not lazy, nor ultra vires. In Lenovo this is called "gear culture", the gear can operate efficiently, but it does not generate power. Lenovo advocates "engine culture", meaning that the top management is a big engine, and the leader of the subsidiary, the leader of the functional department is the synchronized small engine.

Big engine set up the next stage of the company's development goals, strategic routes (of course, when these are also invited to small engines to participate in research), each small engine tries to get a thorough grasp of the overall goal and then leads back to the sub goals of this part of itself, and the corresponding responsibilities, rights and benefits (responsibility, rights, and benefits can be discussed with the big engine). Accordingly, the small engine set up a work plan, first put forward a summary and large engine to see whether the correct understanding of the superior intention, which is called "to the big blood vessel." Then can convene the backbone of the Department of Research, to go over to the river to Peaches, we are shipbuilding, or building bridges? Can you swim? So the small engine will have a variety of innovative solutions, you will find more potential small engine seedling, but also consciously continuously improve the implementation of the incentive to use more in place, the final result, most of the situation is excellent to complete the task.

The feeling of the engine accomplishing the task is quite different from the way the gear is done--full of fulfillment. And in this time and again in the design, implementation, the sense of ownership is becoming more and more strong, small engine seedling emerging more and more. These small engines can not only continuously transfer talent, but also want a larger platform.

Think about the big engines of Lenovo independently, Yang, Guo Wei, Zhu Linan, Hony, Chen ... Is this how the tender seedlings grow into towering trees?

In Lenovo's tens of thousands of engines, I would like to particularly talk about the Chen example. Shaoxing Peng from the grassroots sales, from the northwest to South China, south, although are very challenging areas, but he can always find ways, in every place quickly opened the situation. And then he was in charge of China, and eventually the whole Lenovo Group's global emerging markets, and it was clear to me that what I was trying to say was after he went to Lenovo's leading agricultural sector.

Lenovo is determined to enter modern agriculture, although know that this is a very promising industry, but because never done, the country even learn from the object is not easy to find, imagine how difficult. Shaoxing Peng originally in the IT industry is familiar, but just into the door of agriculture, all from the beginning, nature is facing a lot of problems: how can we understand the industry as soon as possible? What strategy should be put in? What kind of corporate culture is established? Where do the people who meet the needs of modern agriculture come from? ......

Only two years later, Shao Peng will be essay. He took the team and spent a year visiting domestic and foreign agricultural enterprises and experts and scholars, the cultivation of agricultural products, deep processing, cold chain logistics, channel sales, marketing and so on not only know well, but also formed their own set of play; they worked out the whole industry chain, globalization, full traceability of the "three-full" strategy to create " Six unified "chain planting mode; On the basis of Lenovo Root culture, this paper puts forward five cultural emphases which accords with the characteristics of Jia-wo at present stage, and then starts to develop the cooperation with universities in order to solve the talent problem. Globalization alone, the idea is very open, and all of a sudden solve a lot of problems in China can not solve, for example, every fruit has its seasonal, but if in the southern hemisphere also has a layout, it can form a good complementary to the northern hemisphere.

Shaoxing Peng University After graduating soon into Lenovo, do agriculture has been in the Yuanqing department work, is Yuanqing brought out the engine. Now, I am proud of the leader who has Chen in agriculture, I am more than Yang can bring out a group of people like Chen Proud!

If I were to say one thing, I would say this engine culture. Only the big and small engines are invested, the enterprise can develop better. Only the enterprise develops well, in turn can create bigger stage for the size engine. Although, an enterprise to be able to continuously rapid development, engine culture is far from a sufficient and necessary condition, but for 30 of years, Lenovo is like a rush of the days of people, front, there will always be the goal of high pick, at the foot, it is the size of the engine, and synchronous full power, only to give birth to a surging momentum, push us forward

Liu

April 7, 2014