Chapter 810: The Structure of the Middle Office System (Subscription Requested)

The so-called intelligence is not called intelligence when you use mobile phone APP to see information, but it contains a whole set of logic, and it also supports a lot of new ways to play technically. Voice-controlled, remote control, etc., needless to say, there are also some location-based intelligent controls, which are more difficult to deal with than mental retardation at first, and they choke poppies enough.

But it will soon be good to get used to it, at present, the poppy beauty does not need a key and a mobile phone to enter and exit the villa at all, the easiest way is to stand at the door and ring the doorbell, and then Chu Yuanxi's mobile phone will remotely pop up a prompt, and then look through the camera, and open the door remotely and directly.

Thinking of the upcoming meeting with Yanan, Feng Lin took a deep breath, peeked at Chu Yuanxi, and found that Chu Yuanxi's face was quite festive!

She stomped her feet hatefully, and said in her heart, even if you make it clear that you want to open a harem, shouldn't you say something?

I saw Chu Yuanxi enter the door first, take off his shoes in front of the entrance cabinet, and then take out a pair of girl-style slippers and put them in front of Feng Lin.

"Yu Yanan's?"

"yes, she's a little bigger than you. Chu Yuanxi said, finally approached, and whispered: "That, Yu Yanan ......"

"Why are you afraid that I'll be jealous?" Feng Lin had been waiting for this sentence for a long time, and interrupted unceremoniously with a sneer, "You can't drive her away, I know." ”

"Aren't you entangled?" Chu Yuanxi rubbed his hands excitedly, wanting to hug Feng Lin and take a bite.

I only heard Feng Lin snort a few times: "Now I'm not entangled, I'm just a prospective girlfriend, am I entangled? When I fall in love with you one day, it's time for you to be entangled." ”

At this time, in the sound of footsteps, Yu Meiren walked out coolly and smiled teasingly at Feng Lin.

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As long as people don't get entangled, many psychological difficulties can be passed, Feng Lin and Yu Meiren don't get entangled in the East Palace and the West Palace, etc., and almost made Chu Yuanxi a king from now on.

Not going to court early may be because you are lazy, or it may not be that the emperor doesn't want to go to court, but you really can't get up. The emperor's enjoyment is not beautiful? I can't afford to enjoy it without excellent physical strength, and the young people are strong because they haven't been beaten by life, and they don't look busy chattering all day long when they work in a start-up company, but in essence, there is no essential difference from a fat house, and they are getting worse and worse if they don't exercise.

Chu Yuanxi is still good, there are so many equipment at home, and he occasionally exercises, but he really doesn't have time after getting busy. For example, the time when online content is to be developed.

On Monday, June 10th, the APP development group, VR group and map group in the six IT development teams of Xiaokang ushered in a historic day.

In fact, the game of grabbing a parking space is also one of the online contents, but there is no need to keep it secret, because when choosing a site to get the land, there are already relevant parking space requirements, so that all the well-off stores have a vacant piece in front of them.

At the same time, Chu Yuanxi also fully learned the lessons of the original world, and asked all stores to occupy the vacant land as soon as possible and wait for the installation of parking space piles. At present, almost all of the current stores of Xiaokang are opened in the bottom of the community, and they have not entered the business district, which has virtually caused a shortage of parking spaces in various communities. Although there are only about three parking spaces, there are many discussions, and it is impossible not to notice them within the well-off, and the reasons cannot be hidden.

However, grabbing a parking space is only a small module with a very simple function, and the main link that may cause problems is not in the parking space itself, but in the transaction link.

Online content is the meridian of a well-off ecology, and the currency cycle is the true qi flowing in the meridians. If you want to become a martial arts expert, you first need to practice your internal skills, and then control the mysteries of martial arts by big data and AI.

However, it is not easy to "practice internal skills", because the true qi is not practiced by oneself, and it is necessary to absorb it from the outside world, the first source is bicycles, the second largest source is called shopping rebates, and the third source is actually mostly related to bicycles, which is online content. To achieve internal strength, it is necessary to perfectly coordinate all kinds of true qi and then fuse it into one furnace, which requires considerable development ability.

Only grabbing a parking space has nothing to do with bicycles, so it is regarded as a small module of online content with simple functions. Therefore, the parking space grab, as a milestone 4, will be launched in August, that is, two months later.

The new features launched at the same time also include the short video live broadcast in the APP, which is currently under development, and the work is classified into the APP development team.

Thanks to the prosperity and maturity of these two fields, the relevant siege lions on the market are relatively easy to recruit, and the difficulty of doing basic functions is not high. And the key is that the well-off APP really just needs functionality, not against the fighting shark and Douyin, so there is no need for UGC content, and there is no need for the algorithm siege lion to settle in, and the future broadcast will be official content.

Although these two are also online content, they are not the online content that Chu Yuanxi emphasized, and it is almost the same as calling it an online function. Chu Yuanxi's highly-anticipated online content needs to go through a development process of more than half a year of history, and the actual launch belongs to milestone 6 instead of 4, but development must start at this stage, otherwise it will be too late.

Of course, Milestone 4 is not only an update of functions, but more importantly, the launch of stores, the emperor will invest in bicycles in the whole city, and the other five first-tier cities will open flagship stores first. This is a plan that has been set a long time ago, but the uproar on the Xiangjiang side is no show, and it just relieves some of the financial pressure.

Of course, the employees of the APP group still don't know what online content is, and Chu Yuanxi didn't instill this concept. Today they were summoned for a meeting, and Chu Yuanxi crossed the heads of each project team to personally explain the tasks.

"The next stage we want to develop is a game based on LBS and virtual reality, comrades, pay attention, it is a game, but it requires the cooperation of three teams, it is not a simple project, so the development of this project is personally responsible for coordinating everyone's work.

The basic planning documents you have in your hands. Let's take a look at the detailed time node, the perfect function, roughly will be launched in the spring of next year, that is to say, it will take less than ten months to complete the full game. The leaders of each group should pay attention to the workload, and I personally think that there is still plenty of time. ”

Chu Yuanxi stood on the podium of the conference room and scratched the PPT on the wall with a laser pointer, reminding each working group what specific content it was responsible for, and what degree of sticking and communication with other project teams was needed.

In fact, he can also take another approach, which is to transfer employees from the existing project team to fill key positions, and then recruit and expand to form a new project team, which is the seventh team of the IT department, dedicated to the development of online content. That's what map groups do.

However, to do so would be to enter the big hole that Meituan has stepped on.

Why is Meituan's development not as smooth as expected?

In 2018, it was also a loss, ByteDance lost a shocking loss, and Meituan also lost a shocking loss. But ByteDance was frightened because he was afraid that his financial operations were too line-oriented, and he made a lot of money, but he was losing money on the books, and he was hung up and whipped by the relevant departments. Meituan, on the other hand, suffered a blood loss, with an operating loss of 8.5 billion, in addition to a fair value change loss of more than 100 billion, that is, a book loss caused by option appreciation, with a total loss of more than 110 billion.

Even if you don't consider the non-operating profit and loss, the loss of 8.5 billion is a lot, after all, the loss of A-shares in 2018 Wang Tianshen only lost 7 billion, this is the benefit of not being listed, and no one is accountable for any loss. Among them, the R&D expenses are very eye-catching, but in the world's high-profile money-burning projects, Meituan is more efficient and purposeful because of its refined operation and management.

A study of Meituan's specific organizational structure will show that Meituan's personnel are gluttonous, rich and capricious, and have sufficient cash reserves, so whenever a new project is set up, it will be expanded at one time, and the big project will be expanded and the small project will be expanded, so the R&D team will roll bigger and bigger, and the wheels will be more and more.

Although it is said that increasing R&D investment is encouraged by the state, and it is also beneficial to the society, creating more jobs, everything must be scientific and advanced. Although Meituan's style of expanding projects is fierce, although it can carry out a large number of talent reserves, and it can really burst out with huge work energy at critical moments, it is difficult to form a joint force internally in normal times, because each department has its own KPI, and the situation of a large number of project teams is neither conducive to helping each other, nor is it conducive to mobilizing the energy that should be mobilized in the body.

It is important to know that energy is often released more efficiently in the body than absorbed from the body. To do new projects and use old employees, you can understand what the company wants to do and what it wants to do without too much training and explanation, and to what extent, and the newly included talents still need to run in, maybe three old employees in the body can do things, and ten people need to be recruited from the new project, and the salary is huge.

The reason why Chu Yuanxi adopted the current arrangement is to implement the Zhongtai system within the well-off, so as to release greater work energy without overflowing manpower.

The so-called middle platform system is the same IT development work, but it is artificially divided into three parts: "front, middle and back", which is not about the client and server of the program ape, but how far away from the user.

The front desk does the product directly to the user, the middle office does the service to support all the front desk, and the back office does the lowest level of work such as warehousing and logistics system.

After this distinction, there will be significant differences in the work style in the three different areas, and the front desk is the most sensitive, ready to match the needs of users or adjust. The middle office serves the front desk, regardless of how the user is, and only responds to the needs of the front desk. As for the backend, as long as it remains stable, even if it is occasionally unstable, it will not cause a bad impact on the entire IT system to shut down.

In this way, a firewall is invisibly erected, and even if there is a systemic risk, only one-third of the area will be affected.

In fact, there are many groups in the business structure of the well-off with strong front, middle and back office attributes, such as the newly established map group is the standard middle platform, which serves cycling and online content. A more obvious example is that the art platform in a game company is also a standard middle office that supports various development teams.

However, the newly established company cannot do this, and can only develop according to the organizational structure of the project team, because the business volume is not enough. There is no abundant business, and each group is super awkward after being forcibly divided into front, middle and back offices, and only when the company forms a certain scale and the business volume also keeps up, can the structure be reorganized.

For example, an ordinary game company must have a project team at the beginning, at most two, all artists are members of the project team, bonuses and KPIs are within the project team, and at most they support each other. When the company has five or six project teams, it can concentrate all the artists to build an art platform. The Pakistani game was supposed to be this line, but the reorganization of the group disrupted the process.

However, the current well-off is somewhat special, although it is not yet time to change the structure, but the structure is richer than the business. If the well-off business wants to usher in an explosion, it will have to wait until the fourth milestone at the earliest, and now it has a lot of cash, and the function is not developed at all, so the internal structure of the shelf is set up first.

It is most natural to follow the trend and open up the process through business, because all R&D and business activities are idling if there is no business.

It is this unique feature that has formed a special business state of the well-off, which can set up some middle-level shelves in advance, but does not carry out a thorough structural reorganization. The business used to glue the project teams and members of each middle office is the online content business.

If Chu Yuanxi's plan goes well, the transformation of the moderately prosperous Zhongtai will be super-fast, unique among all enterprises above designated size in the Celestial Empire, and may be included in the textbook many years later, become a benchmark, become history, and be given a false name such as "the Nth case of the entrepreneur's devil's operation", because it is not easy.

For example, Pinduoduo, the speed of enterprise development can be described as fast, and the rate of valuation skyrocketing is faster than that of a rocket, but it is still developed from small to large, without structural restructuring and without the concept of middle platform. Its organizational structure is so simple that business execution and management are directly handed over to management, and each person's title is the person in charge of such and such a project.

This is also the reason why Chu Yuanxi has always believed that the valuation of Pinduoduo is relatively empty, even if it is on the same level as Goudong's GMV, but the organization's endogenous and business structure are too far apart, and it is only because the growth rate is extremely high to seize the consumption upgrade needs of the sinking market and urban and rural users.

As for Meituan, compared to Pinduoduo, Meituan is definitely a target that should be pulled out and beaten. It is normal for Pinduoduo to give priority to the needs of business development, but Meituan has been established for almost ten years, and it is estimated that it will be entered into the "Nth case of entrepreneur devil operation" if it does not change its structure.

Therefore, in the past six months, Meituan has frequently carried out "organizational upgrades", but after half a year, wow, it is the platform, the business group, the user side, or the project system that has been reconstructed, which makes Chu Yuanxi moved to tears.

Of course, the above are Chu Yuanxi's psychological activities, sitting in the audience are key employees and middle-level members of the project team, hearing the words "LBS" and "virtual reality", all of them are "chuckle", suddenly, someone asked: "Mr. Chu, what kind of game is it? Why can LBS still be mixed with 'virtual reality'? Isn't it all AR?"

Some people also asked: "Mr. Chu, is this a direct project?"

Chu Yuanxi noticed this concern, and although some people didn't speak, their worries were overflowing. The concern is very good, and the worry is also very good, which means that the employees love this company and do not want the company to go a fork in the road, Chu Yuanxi smiled secretly in his heart, and said in his heart You still have no confidence in me, if you change to the employees of the Ba people, it is estimated that this will not be the case.

Still, their questions are very professional.

VR virtual reality, AR augmented reality, these two brothers are very close, but whether it is from the technology or look at the application scenarios, the difference is huge, and the so-called LBS game is a location-based game, that is, a game that imports the user's realistic map.

There are many companies that have tried LBS games, such as those who have tried to socialize games through LBS, and those who have tried to add gameplay to LBS, but in the end, the foothold that can make money is basically LBS+AR. Among them, the popular ones are "Pokemon" in the island country, and "Let's Hunt Monsters" with big penguins recently, all of which have achieved the detonation effect, blending gameplay, sociality and reality, with excellent performance and excellent income levels.

And VR, not to mention the integration with LBS, there are not many games that can understand VR by itself.

"First of all, let's answer the question of project initiation. Chu Yuanxi said and glanced down and said, "Anyone has any questions related to the project, please raise your hand." ”

Below, the hula almost all raised their hands.

Chu Yuanxi laughed: "It seems that your adaptation to the OKR system is not enough, go back and copy the company's OKR system by hand three times, I want to see your spiders crawling, no one is allowed to be lazy, otherwise the bonus will be deducted." ”

The group of programmed apes below suddenly became colorful, they were not afraid of heaven and earth, and they were not even afraid of losing their hair, but they were very, very unaccustomed to writing with a pen, and they were all over the place in a moment.

Chu Yuanxi didn't care about their lack of livelihood, and then said: "This project is very important, it can be said to be the most important function of all the milestones of Xiaokang, but there is no need to set up a project team, and there is no so-called project establishment, all of you belong to the original project team, but you are just receiving the task package of online content."

Comrades, we have been working together for a long time, and you have integrated well into the company, but you still carry the work imprint of the KPI era, which is not good. What is the essence of our OKR system?

Now your work is nominally called OKR, but in fact there is any difference between it and KPI? No, it is a group of people in the internal team of a project to take on a certain task, at most, you need people from other groups to support you when you encounter a problem. ”