Liu talks about entrepreneurship: whether you can innovate and decide if you will starve to death

Today morning, Liu published an open letter on the Internet thinking, entrepreneurship and other content to express their views, he thought, can be in your industry to introduce internet thinking and results of innovation, breakthrough, it is really possible no longer "eat good" problem, but "will not starve to death" problem.

The full letter reads as follows:

Dear friends, Lenovo Holdings of micro-letter public account officially opened, which is a big deal for the company, one, we need to let friends in the interactive way to more in-depth, comprehensive understanding of us, we also hope to be more directly to hear friends of the valuable advice. Second, I can also be more convenient for you to "meet", chat, discuss some interesting topics. Some may interest me, some may be interested, of course, not necessarily a conclusion. But the discussion, the debate itself is very enjoyable, it often makes you flash, inspired.

I like to talk with people. Read a good book to talk to the author, saw a good film film on Want to talk to the director, in fact, is at a certain point, a certain aspect was inspired, or have different ideas to expand the outcome. I listened to "Luo thought" is quite touching. I recorded it and listened when I was free. In the heart think a person how can read so many books, and can from "pick up" leng link to "Internet thinking", this kind of thinking big jump of the connection some really very reasonable, make me clap a wow, want to give an example to add. I think there are some points to be discussed. Of course, there are more and richer topics to be discussed in addition to academics and business workers working on the frontline, including my Lenovo colleagues. Here, I want to talk specifically about innovation, entrepreneurship.

I started the industry, is today Lenovo Group in the industry, belong to IT industry, this is a nearly half a century to lead the world economic development of the industry. It is constantly innovative, constantly new leader, but also constantly have a large number of people left behind, or even thrown out of orbit. Today it has fully penetrated all walks of life. The traditional industries, including the Lenovo-owned consumer industry, the new service industry, and the manufacturing sector, are not linked to big data and do not make good use of mobile Internet services, and you can only struggle with the Red Sea. Therefore, can not in your industry, in your business, the introduction of Internet thinking and results of innovation, breakthrough, it is really possible no longer "eat good" problem, but "will not starve to death" problem.

But said that the innovation, the enterprise industry different, the history is different, the scale is different, more important is the leader's style is different, how different enterprise innovates? This is worth our business workers must ponder (including see how others do), practice. And the key is to dare to try, dare to break, after the test to try again after the change. The reason that the company is more daring to innovate, is that they are barefoot, more grounded, more dare to break. What about businesses like us with different sizes and Carrin? In my mind, how to let the Enterprise live long, live well, hundred years old shop is the first important question. Innovation is the necessary means to make the enterprise live long and live well, but it is by no means necessary. Innovation alone, even if successful, the enterprise will suddenly appear power. However, in the end it will be like a runner in a long-distance race, midway through a period of a sudden surpass the opponent lead and glamorous, and then be surpassed, even because of physical overdraft fell to the last. Society will continue to progress because of enterprise innovation, even if your business collapsed, you can proudly say, I have been in a field of innovation, and promote the progress of the industry, said right. But I still want to let our own enterprise can do hundred years old shop, can live long.

To sum up, I mean: no innovation will degenerate or powerless, or even live, but the lack of a comprehensive system of management thinking to lead the enterprise, technological innovation, business model innovation is likely to make the enterprise a flash in the pan. I've studied the world's leading bat in the internet today, they have a history of more than more than 10 years, not only in the competition to light a match, it is commendable that their research strategy, research corporate culture, research people-oriented, can be the match to burn the torch, and finally ignited a prairie fire. Their management base is very solid. As for entrepreneurship, it is a more young people concerned about the topic, but also let me fall black and blue, is still full of injury topics, as long as we are interested, Lenovo people will be particularly willing to explore with friends.

We have an entrepreneurial training called Lenovo Star. The first 400 million Angel investment fund, is to pass the training process of interactive discussion, incubator investment, and friends in the industry to cooperate with each other, in China to form a boundless spark, and finally able to prairie, to promote the economic development of the whole country, the improvement of people's livelihood.

Innovation and entrepreneurship is the trend of the times, it contains unlimited space for our time people excited, we can do is never stop thinking and practice. It is believed that in the new "micro-space" of Lenovo Holding, it will not only let us know more about Lenovo's growth, but also have more interesting discussions and even debates, so that we can inspire each other, promote each other and make more friends.

Liu November 18, 2014