Chapter 1035: The Lenovo Group that met on a narrow road
As a typical Korean woman, Li Yinxin especially knows how to highlight her graceful figure with well-cut expensive clothes.
This style, in a few years, will be introduced to China with the rise of Huaxia Ha Han Ha Ri and become a fashion that is not a niche.
Fortunately, although Li Yinxin is dressed very Koreanly, her makeup is much more natural, without heavy makeup, exuding a faint fragrance.
Retracting his gaze from the other party, Wu Tao opened his mouth and asked, "What is Miss Li looking for me?"
"I'm here to thank you. As soon as Li Yinxin spoke, Wu Tao was taken by surprise.
"Why?"
"Although it's a little embarrassing to say it," Li Yinxin said with an embarrassed look on her slender hair that fell from her sideburns: "Last time, your judgment and analysis of your sister's marriage were all right. ”
Wu Tao couldn't help but stroke his forehead, is it worth stopping his car on the street just like this? What is this Korean woman thinking in her head!
"What's so thankful for that? It's not really good news, is it?"
Li Yinxin's slender legs were tightly pressed together, her hands were slightly shrunk into a show fist, and she put them on her legs, and her delicate pretty face slowly recovered and said: "This is indeed not pleasant news, but through this incident, you have changed my immature view of love, so I want to invite you to dinner, thank you." ”
Wu Tao waved his hand and said, "Forget about eating, this little thing is not enough to worry about." ”
Li Yinxin still didn't give up, "If you're busy, I can make an appointment with your secretary." Anyway, as an expatriate employee of the group, I will be resident in Huaxia for a long time in the future until the wholly-owned LCD company of the group is completed and put into operation here. ”
“…… Moreover, Yuanqi Technology's Lotus mobile phone business is so good, there is a lot to learn from Samsung mobile phones. I believe that there will be many opportunities for us to communicate together in the future. ”
Listening to Li Yinxin's serious and humble words, as a bystander, I feel that I can be learned by a multinational foreign company, I am afraid that I will inevitably be complacent and proud.
However, Wu Tao's reaction was very flat, if he hadn't suddenly remembered a question to ask, I was afraid that he would have been talked about to death that day.
"What is Samsung's LCD business plan for touch screen research and development?"
"I know that very well. Li Yinxin perked up, "In short, we attach great importance to the order of Lotus mobile phone touch screen. A large part of the construction of a factory in Huaxia this time is to cater to the demand market for screen components of domestic mobile phones in Huaxia. ”
Wu Tao sighed and asked, "So in addition to resistive touch screens, does Samsung also carry out the research and development of other types of touch screens?"
This question was a little deeper, and after listening to it, Li Yinxin pursed her lips and said, "Unfortunately, I don't know much about this, but I can help you ask." ”
Tian'an Company and Yuanqi Technology are both in Ningjiang Development Zone, in fact, they are not too far from each other.
So the two didn't say much, and the car arrived at the door of Tian'an Company.
Li Yinxin was a little unsatisfied when she got out of the car, but Wu Tao quickly threw herself into the meeting of Tian'an Company.
When I arrived at the large conference room on the 5th floor, the meeting time was just right.
After Wu Tao sat down, he took the meeting materials handed over by Tong Tong and flipped through them casually, only to know that the issues discussed this time were indeed a little tricky.
After preliminary investigation and contact, Cheonan determined that IBM did indeed have the intention to sell the Thinkpad business.
Compared with the growing server cluster business, Thinkpad, a laptop business for the civilian field, has seen its profits decline rather than increase, and even show a downward trend.
This is categorically intolerable for an enterprise like IBM, which pursues high profits.
Previously, IBM had been in contact with other companies in the same industry, such as Dell and Toshiba, but did not reach any substantive intentions.
Originally, I thought that the sale of the Thinkpad business would be shelved like this, but I didn't expect that all of a sudden, two Huaxia companies expressed interest in the Thinkpad business at the same time.
Cheonan is one of them.
As for the other, it is Lenovo, which contacted IBM earlier.
This makes the problem a bit tricky.
This kind of trickiness is not that the emerging Tianan company is afraid of the old Lenovo company, but because of the emergence of this rival, the company's senior management has become more divided on the way to develop the notebook business.
Under the chairmanship of An Rong, the meeting was carried out step by step.
In addition to An Rong herself, who did not express her position, starting with Gu Fei, the deputy general manager, and the heads of various departments of marketing, production, and technology took turns to express their opinions.
Wu Tao noticed that there were many new faces here, and he couldn't name more than half of them.
It can be seen that the business expansion of the previous brand desktop has caused the company's talent echelon to expand rapidly.
Now, after just a few months, it is estimated that the run-in between these talents and the team has not yet been completed.
This can be seen from the chaotic situation at today's meeting.
As for the outcome of the discussions, there were no more than two opinions.
One is to call on oneself to go it alone and independently develop, which is conducive to controlling costs and forming core competitiveness.
The other is that the technical content of the notebook business is significantly higher than that of assembled desktops, and independent research and development is full of risks, so it advocates the direct acquisition of mature businesses and solutions.
After everyone finished expressing their opinions, An Rong and Wu Tao exchanged glances and began to summarize and analyze.
“…… The company is now in a period of rapid development, we have just set up offices across the country, and at the same time expanded the desktop business and enriched the product line. While the company's business has taken a big step forward, it has also brought great challenges to the company's management......"
As the general manager, An Rong did not directly state her position, but stated the company's current situation and the pros and cons of the two ways.
As soon as An Rong finished speaking, the entire conference room fell into silence.
Everyone was frowning and thinking, until An Rong threw the right to speak to Wu Tao and said, "I don't know the boss, is there anything you need to add?"
Wu Tao nodded, put his hands together and said, "Since everyone has discussed it to this extent, then I will say a few words." First of all, I very much agree with Mr. An's analysis and judgment of the current situation. ”
“…… Secondly, I would like to ask all of you, is there anyone who is worried that we may not be able to play Lenovo when we acquire the Thinkpad business?"
The people below immediately smiled, and faced Lenovo one by one, their faces were relaxed, and no one took it to heart.
Wu Tao glanced around, and then said: "Very good! When the brave meets on a narrow road, everyone is not afraid of competition with Lenovo, then I can rest assured." ”
“…… But not afraid of competition, does this mean that we must fight to the end with Lenovo in the acquisition of the Thinkpad business, and blindly throw money until the other party knows the difficulty and retreats?"
Throwing out this question, Wu Tao glanced around, and then replied to himself: "Obviously not, the same Huaxia Company can't be a senseless snipe and clam competition, so that IBM, a fisherman, can profit in vain." ”
“…… This means that there must be a scientific upper limit on valuation. ”
“…… Similarly, there is a dividing line between independent R&D and acquisition integration. I think that's the focus and basis of your next work. Find it, and the answer will come naturally. ”