Chapter 677: The Acquisition Failed Completely
However, soon Fang Chen couldn't laugh anymore, and Taylor took out the documents from his bag and posed as if he was going to report.
Glancing at Taylor helplessly, Fang Chen felt that the company had learned badly from Duan Yongping, no matter who came to pick him up, he would seize every minute and report to work as soon as possible.
He really felt that it was necessary for him to announce it, and it was better to write it into the company's management regulations, and they would not be allowed to pick him up in the future.
Who came to pick him up, obviously looking for an opportunity to report to work.
It's hard to feel like you're haunted by a lot of things as soon as you get off the plane.
Looking at Fang Chen's expression, Taylor suddenly looked embarrassed, in a dilemma, it was not to put it back, and it was not to report it next.
"Okay, take it all out, let's talk about it, but don't report the matter of the Auto Union, you can report it to Berezovsky. Fang Chen said lightly.
Seeing this, Taylor couldn't help but feel a sigh in his heart, and instantly became worried, but he had no choice but to do what Fang Chen instructed.
All of a sudden, the originally thick stack of documents disappeared by two-thirds in an instant.
Fang Chen couldn't help but roll his eyes, he is not a person who can't listen to his subordinates' reports, after all, they also make money for him, but he can't just take it and report whenever there is something, he really thinks that he, the boss, is bored all day long, so he can only listen to them report on work and solve problems?
And it is foreseeable that with the development and growth of the enterprise, there will definitely be more and more things at work.
It seems that the establishment of the head office, Duan Yongping, the general manager, is imminent, and it has even reached the point where he can start implementing it now without waiting for him to go to college, and the other thing is to quickly delegate power.
After all, if you don't give more power to the grassroots, the only way to solve the problem is to recruit more senior managers, but Fang Chen feels that this is not a good way, too many senior managers will make an enterprise extremely bloated, procrastinated, and sluggish.
The current president of General Motors, Welch, is known as the world's No. 1 CEO, and in less than 20 years, he has increased the market value of General Motors Group from $13 billion to $480 billion.
On his first day in office, he fired more than 100 vice president-level executives of business units, and then reduced the company's cadre hierarchy from nine to four.
Why is there not much of the number of executives of Fang Chen's subordinate companies such as Xiaobawang and Auto Alliance, if compared with other companies of the same size, it is simply pitiful, it is because Fang Chen adheres to this idea.
The least Qingtian Communications, the general manager and deputy general manager, plus the chief engineer, are only four executives.
Fang Chen would rather give more money to the company's executives than recruit more executives.
However, the interesting thing is that since GM Group entered Huaxia, Welch has come to Huaxia once a year, but he said that although he comes to Huaxia every year, he really doesn't know much about Huaxia, and every time he comes to Huaxia, he can gain new understanding.
Just kidding, let alone Welch an American, even Fang Chen, a native of China, didn't dare to say that he knew China very well, when the rich cultural history, large population, vast land, etc., these factors are intertwined, it is too complicated.
Really, there are few people in this world who can understand Huaxia.
Checking the documents that became a little fluttery in his hand, Taylor said with some trepidation: "First of all, I have already obtained the ticket for the International Radio and Television Technology Exhibition for you." ”
Fang Chen nodded slightly, but he didn't care about it.
Although the International Radio and Television Technology Exhibition is an invitation-only event, most of the people who come to the exhibition are some related companies, TV stations, reporters or scientists, and ordinary people can't get it at all, but it should be a trivial matter here in Taylor, not to mention that he has notified Taylor more than two months in advance.
If Taylor can't even handle this matter, then the head of the European and American offices, he really has to consider a replacement.
However, after saying what he had just said, Taylor suddenly froze, and although his mouth moved a few times, he couldn't say a word.
After a few breaths, Taylor lowered his head and said embarrassedly: "As for the acquisition of the research institute, I apologize to you, there has been no progress at all. ”
This is why he was worried just now, if you add the matter of the automobile alliance, today's work report can be better, after all, in the past few months, the number of luxury cars shipped to Russia from the United States, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and other countries has increased by 20% compared with before, and it is still growing steadily, which is all his credit.
And why did he follow Wu Maocai's instructions before, it was nothing more than to please Fang Chen, so as to make up for his current work problems in this matter.
Hearing this, Fang Chen couldn't help frowning, but there was no scene such as scolding as Taylor thought.
Taking a deep breath, Fang Chen slowly asked, "Isn't there a single research institute that can be acquired?
The acquisition of research institutes related to the field of communications was one of the important purposes of his visit to the United States.
"No, they either offer too high a price or they don't talk to us at all. Taylor said stiffly.
Fang Chen took a light bite of the soft meat in his mouth, although he had expected that the acquisition would be difficult, but he didn't expect that there would be none.
After a long time, Fang Chen sighed faintly, turned his head to look at Taylor's cold and poignant and frightened appearance, couldn't help but pinch the corners of his mouth, gently patted Taylor's shoulder, and then said, "I know it's difficult, you don't have to worry." ”
He was not one to blame and punish employees indiscriminately, and although he did not have much contact with Taylor, he still heard a lot of praise about Taylor from Berezovsky's mouth, saying that after Taylor was in charge, the performance of the automobile union rose rapidly.
That's why he didn't listen to Taylor's report on the Auto Alliance.
Moreover, he also knows that in the United States, the status and wealth level of research institutions are really not low, so it is naturally not easy to acquire.
For example, the most famous Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States, which belongs to the U.S. Department of Energy but is managed by the University of Berkeley, employs more than 3,000 people, visits more than 5,000 visiting scholars every year, and spends more than $400 million a year on experiments.
That is to say, not to mention the intricate political relations, from the economic point of view alone, the size of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is several times larger than the entire Qingtian Communications, how can this be acquired.
Moreover, some scientific research institutions have a very special relationship and status, such as the Lincoln National Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where 90 percent of its annual research and budget of nearly $500 million is distributed by the US Department of Defense.
However, the most terrifying is the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which employs more than 10,000 people, visits more than 20,000 scholars a year, and has an annual funding of more than $2 billion.
In other words, even if you count the money earned from buying the oil field this time, Fang Chen has worked hard in the past few years, and all the working capital is enough for a laboratory and a year's expenses.
But even a smaller research institute couldn't be acquired, which Fang Chen didn't expect.
After a while, Fang Chen took a deep breath again and said, "If you can't buy it, you can't buy it, let's build it up slowly." ”
He finally knew why Huawei had established its own R&D center in the United States in the past, and had built four of them in one go.
As a high-tech enterprise, it must have a considerable number of research institutes in the United States, which is the so-called scientific and technological hegemony.
But in fact, it doesn't matter, it's just a little depressed.
He wanted to acquire the research institute before, but it was nothing more than to look at the previous research results of others, because a research institute, not to mention the research failed projects, said that more than half of the successful research projects were unrealizable, or other well-known companies, such as Lucent, Motorola, AT&T, etc., did not need it, and could not look down on it.
But these are still valuable for the poor and white, and there is nothing.
In addition, it is nothing more than wanting to borrow the foundation of others to build its own scientific research center, after all, borrowing chickens to lay eggs is better than making something out of nothing.
Besides, if you don't buy it for him now, it's okay, no problem, and when Bell Labs is finished in the future, don't blame him for making a move.
Bell Labs is a legend in the communications industry, physics, telephones and mobile phones were invented by him, and Bell Labs has 11 scientists who have won the Nobel Prize, 16 scientists have won the highest science and technology awards in the United States, and four scientists have won the Turing Award.
Among them, Claude Shannon published a paper "The Mathematical Principles of Communication", which laid the foundation for modern communication theory.
Including the UNIX system and the C language, the C++ language was also invented by Bell.
But after many splits by the U.S. government, Bell Labs declined rapidly, and began to be sold one after another after 2000, and it was time for Fang Chen to take over.
"What about patent acquisitions and scientific research project commissions?" Fang Chen asked in a deep voice.
Hearing this, Taylor was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "Some switch patents and analog communication patents have been acquired a lot, but the 2G mobile network you focus on is not sold by a few research institutes, and the price is not low." ”
After speaking, Taylor handed the specific list in his hand to Fang Chen, and then looked at Fang Chen with a worried face, hoping that these could make up for his previous work mistakes.
Fang Chen looked through it, and indeed most of them were switches and analog communications, that is, 1G patents.