In his old age, HP China "Telecom Godfather" can still eat?

Hewlett-Packard set up a new position, only to usher in a Browns veteran.

"HP China's chairman"--this is to invite 69-Year-old Mao-yu South "Mountain", Hewlett-Packard China has never been established in the history of new jobs. Not only that, the future work of Mao-Yu-Nan will also bypass the HP Asia-Pacific region, reporting directly to HP's president and CEO Whitman, who visited China three times a year.

With more than 40 years of experience in telecommunications and information industry, Mao-Yu South, has been known as "The Godfather of telecommunications" in Taiwan. He was Yen Yi 62 years old, the 3Com company in the Nasdaq on the brink of a crisis in the back of the city, the market value soared 4 times times. Now he is once again invited to the mountain by Hewlett-Packard, whose performance is falling.

In the past few years, HP has put forward the transition strategy, but the transition has not been successful, but the global PC sales of the first throne to let Lenovo.

The airborne in the south of Chongqing is seen as a sign that HP China is stepping up its efforts in the fields of communications, Internet of Things, software and services. But in the context of Dell's privatisation busy and China's "Go IoE", the outside world evaluates that Mao-Yu-nan looks more like an "image project", can he really bring good luck to HP China?

A family-born telecommunications godfather

A senior media person who had contacted Mao and Yu South, said, "The tall Mao-Yu South has a noble family Childe's wisdom, humor, introverted, also has the Chinese traditional literati's elegance and low-key." ”

Mao Huanan Body Most prominent label, is the former Juntong spy head hairy son. However, he has never been involved in military affairs, but has shown his talent in business.

1972, Mao-Yu South joined the United States International Telegraph and Telephone Company (ITT), from a first into the IT industry, responsible for the bags of the Asia-Pacific Vice president of the assistant began his career.

"Handbag, is a growth process, looks (bit order) is very small, in fact, the development of space is unlimited." "It was a very important experience in his life," said Mao Yu Nan, who had previously told the media. In just two years, he followed the vice president through the Asian market, wrote countless investment reports and had a broader vision.

Two years later, Mao-Yu-nan, just over 30 years old, came to Taiwan with the team, representing ITT and the Taiwan Telecommunications Bureau, and set up the First Sino-foreign joint venture company in Taiwan with 5 million US dollars: Taiwan International Standard Electronic (Taisel). From the purchase of land, plant to the Belgian relationship with the negotiation of business negotiations technology transfer, Mao Yu South are hands-on.

80 's, Mao Yu South first entered the mainland telecom market, all the way "eat" Motorola, Nortel Network, Ericsson's market share. Some media said that in 7 years, by selling the switch to the mainland revenue of more than 1 billion U.S. dollars;

From 1995 to 1997, Mao Huanan served as the president of the Alcatel Company's Greater China region. 1997, Mao-Yu South officially served as Nortel Network in China's president, and by leading Nortel China to obtain 2 billion U.S. dollars in order to become famous in the industry.

As a result of the Confucian education, Mao and Yu South in the management of special emphasis on "lead by example." At Nortel, even during the worst months of SARS, he insisted on going to work and was the first to leave the office at the latest.

He often conveys a management philosophy to his subordinates: "We should not think of organizational structure as a reporting system, it is really a support system, I am your boss, not because I am older than you, you have to report to me, but because I should support you, when I can not support you, I can not be your boss. ”

2002, took a fancy to Mao Yu South in the Telecommunications Circle network and technical strength of Gou, repeatedly invited Mao Yu south to take Palm hai in the field of wireless communications total team. At that time, Mao-Yu South was busy helping North power to open up business, did not officially serve, but finally led to the merger of the Acer and Hon Hai.

In 2006, Mao-Yu-Nan, who was retiring, resigned from Nortel, but also played the role of "fire fighting" for a failed merger and accepted the 3Com invitation to serve on the board.

The 3Com was bought at $2.2 billion by a private equity fund, Bain Capital, and the two sides agreed on a transfer of equity on April 28, 2008, but the US Congress vetoed the deal on grounds of national security, as 3Com set up a joint venture with Huawei in China (H3C).

Soon, Mao Yu South was pushed by the board of Directors as the new CEO, picked up the "hot potato." He is on the one hand to go to Wall Street to tell the story, to restore investor confidence, on the other hand, is a drastic internal reform, the global research and development personnel, the rest of the focus on China, China into research and supply chain headquarters.

Until 2010, in the south of Mao and Chongqing, Hewlett-Packard Company completed the acquisition of 3Com company. After entering HP, Mao-yu south for HP's overall business to provide strategic advice. In addition, Mao-Yu south is currently serving as Energy Recovery Inc. Company, Yu Long Nissan Motor Company and the board members of the Taiwan Chinese automobile Company.

Can stepped create miracles again?

Ben in the north after the end of the Mao-Yu South, still 69-year-old parents to the first line, the appointment of Hewlett-Packard China chairman, this may be his career in the last battle.

Previous media sources said HP internal staff for the arrival of Mao Yu South more optimistic attitude, they hope that the past 40 years, especially the 3Com period of some of the tactics introduced to HP, that is, through the construction of China into a research and development and supply chain center, to help Whitman comb the cost of HP company issues.

Last June, Whitman came to Lenovo Group, Hong Kong and Taiwan South Korea region, the former President Miriam Xiao-Hui as the president of HP PPS China, hoping to improve the performance of the Chinese market to ease HP's global personal system sales pressure.

And now specifically for the Mao-Yu South set up the China District chairman of the post, that the HP global to increase the investment and management of China, in addition, this will also unified the previous HP China's business units independent separatist situation. There are also analysis that more than 30 years of the telecom industry in the south of Mao and Chongqing, or directly promote HP China's enterprise-class business, especially with telecommunications-related infrastructure, such as Intelligent city, the internet of things.

Hewlett-Packard President and CEO Whitman also said, look forward to Mao Yu South in the common strategic vision to further cohesion and stimulate China's HP team energy.

However, the Mao-Yu-nan face of HP seems to be terminally ill.

For now, HP is not a good day. Hewlett-Packard recently released the third quarter of the 2013 fiscal year, HP's third-quarter net revenue of 27.2 billion U.S. dollars, compared with the same period last year, 29.7 billion U.S. dollars fell 8%; net profit of 1.39 billion U.S. dollars, the same period last year, the net loss of 8.857 billion U.S. dollars, the year-on-year losses

According to Business division, the third quarter HP personal system group revenue reached 7.704 billion U.S. dollars, down 11%; Enterprise group revenue of 6.786 billion U.S. dollars, the year-on-year decline of 9%; corporate services revenue 5.843 billion U.S. dollars, the year-on-year decline of 9%; software sector revenue of 982 million U.S. dollars, only increase by 1% The Financial Services Department's third-quarter revenue was 879 million dollars, down 6% from a year earlier. In August this year, Whitman said that the corporate spending environment was weak, and sales pressures in Europe and China were growing. HP's corporate and personal-computer sector faces a dilemma. She predicts that HP's 2014 revenue is unlikely to grow.

HP's dilemma stems from its unclear strategy.

In the face of the ailing PC market, Hewlett-Packard once decided to divest its PC business and transform itself into a provider of cloud computing, solutions and software. However, the plan to divest the PC business was stillborn because of high spending. Since then, HP's strategy has wavered.

While it is still contributing to HP's main revenue, its PC business has been stuck with the PC as the focus of the business. Lenovo's market share reached 16.7% in the two quarter, nearly 1% higher than HP, the second-highest.

Meanwhile, in the process of transition to software, autonomy, the acquisition of British software company, has lost as much as $8.8 billion to HP, slowing the pace of its takeover expansion. In a recent commentary, Whitman said that HP would not spend too much money on acquisitions to avoid a repeat of the "deal-making, not so good" history.

HP's challenge in the Chinese market is no less small.

Previously, China's HP in accordance with the global architecture model, in China, divided into four parallel departments: Enterprise groups, Enterprise Services group, Hewlett-Packard Software group, printing and information products Group, four departments to report to the headquarters, and no one unified strategy makers.

After taking office, Mao Huanan may be responsible for the strategic direction of HP's China market. And Mao-Yu south of the reporting object around the Asia-Pacific direct to Whitman, but also revealed a positive signal: HP China will receive more resources to support, more flexible policy and greater autonomy.

But does HP's current complex environment allow Mao and Chongqing to reform aggressively, as it did in 3Com? In the ever-changing today's IT world, has been mainly in the telecommunications industry, MAO-yu South can also point out a clear road for HP? All this is still unknown.