With the improvement of the market in the past two years, Lenovo's profitability has improved greatly. Full-year sales are expected to exceed $25 billion, ranking second in the global PC market. In the last fiscal year, Lenovo's revenue was $21.6 billion and its net profit was $280 million, which will obviously exceed this fiscal year. After Liu Chuanzhi replaced Yang Yuanqing, the effect was remarkable, but the market did not react much, and the market value has not exceeded 60 billion Hong Kong dollars.

"Are you interested in joining Lenovo's board of directors?" Liu Chuanzhi did not reply to Zhou Shi's request, but talked about irrelevant matters.

"Lenovo has you, what can I do when I go?" Zhou Shi

"If you join the board of directors of Lenovo, in addition to this unconditional cooperation with you, including the acquisition of IBM's x86 server business, I can also promise you to make a major adjustment to Lenovo's strategy according to your ideas. Liu Chuanzhi said calmly

When Zhou Shi heard this, his heart pounded, how could this old guy be so bold? Although he has always said that he is a conscientious enterprise of the US imperialists, he cannot erase their previous achievements in the slightest; in that particular era, it was they who carried the banner of the domestic high-tech industry and invigorated the spirit of domestic entrepreneurs. Not to mention IBM's PC business loss, but there is also huge brand value and abundant cash flow, which can make a third-tier brand achieve a qualitative leap. In the end, Lenovo did not grow to the height that everyone expected, and many reasons were due to changes in the market. Including Dell and HP can't stop the market change. And his transformation road is not so smooth, in the final analysis, Yang Yuanqing has a lot of responsibility. Internally, we cannot build a united and combative team, and externally we do not have a clear strategic thinking. In particular, some words and deeds are infinitely amplified by some public knowledge with ulterior motives, and the company's external publicity and brand and public image maintenance are a mess.

"You surprised me, what do you want me to answer?" Zhou Shi

"Seeing you build a world-renowned brand from scratch in such a short period of time made me realize that my original thinking was outdated. Liu Chuanzhi

"There are a lot of accidents in the creation of the Guoke brand, which I didn't expect, but the development of the times, the popularity of mobile Internet and social networks, the time required to build a new brand will become shorter and shorter. In addition to traditional TV advertising, Guoke brand uses social network advertising the most, which promotes the development of YouTube, Friends.com and Twitter.

There are many facts based on the fact that the brand building time in the previous life has been greatly shortened, the most representative is Luckin Coffee, which has established a well-known coffee brand from scratch in half a year, whether it is market share or sales, it is enough to surprise people. The changes of the times have brought about changes in business models, and many of the ideas of the older generation have indeed not kept up with the times. The most powerful blow to the dimensionality reduction in business is probably to surpass the opponent by one level in thinking, and the opponent can't understand or learn his own style of play at all, which is desperate. The effect of being able to understand and learn is worse, and if you can understand and learn, then you can only see red with a bayonet.

"I believe that your arrival can bring a good change to Lenovo. Liu Chuanzhi

"I'm afraid it's difficult, I believe that talent is the most important factor in the development of enterprises, any change in my past is achieved through people, I think strategy is secondary, the key is whether you can find a pattern big enough people, and as a multinational enterprise, can you do me-oriented, eclectic, rather than let the acquired corporate culture become dominant, Lenovo is a Chinese enterprise, and then a multinational enterprise, can not ......" Zhou Shi

"Lenovo has a very good team of talents. Liu Chuanzhi

"But the bureaucratic atmosphere is also very heavy...... "Zhou Shi

"You have a bad word...... But...... True!" Liu Chuanzhi continued: "I also know that Xiao Yang's ability is still insufficient, but apart from it, there is no better candidate. ”

In addition to state-owned enterprises, most of the private enterprises are the chairman and CEO of the boss himself, and there are fewer well-known professional managers in the manufacturing industry. This is mainly due to the lack of historical accumulation.

Lenovo's former candidates for successors include Sun Hongbin and Guo Wei, but now that Yang Yuanqing, Sun, and Guo have been selected before, they will not have another chance. As for why you don't choose overseas professional managers, that's another question.

"Give Xiao Yang a little time, and you can also help me keep an eye out for the right candidates," Liu Chuanzhi

Now, what else can Zhou Shi say? After all, he owes Liu Chuanzhi a lot of favors.

"I'll try, don't get your hopes up, I don't know much about the PC industry after all, but can you ask, is your goal to build a great brand or to build a money-making business?" Zhou Shi

"How do you say this, is there any difference?" said Liu

"Lenovo is a high-tech industry, if you want to achieve greatness, you must have your own technological advantages, if you just want to make money, then do whatever is popular. "Zhou Shi

"How will you choose?" Liu Chuanzhi, "Look at my brain, ...... "How Zhou Shi chooses, do you need to say? Datang Telecom at the beginning is a good proof of this.

"I don't know what Mr. Liu thinks about cloud computing?" Zhou Shi

"Cloud computing? I've heard that you've been promoting cloud computing for many years, but are there any results now?"

In 2011, the global cloud computing market reached 100 billion US dollars, of which the SaaS industry was the largest, followed by IaaS, that is, Amazon, Time Cloud, etc. Time Holdings' investment in the public cloud is at least one billion US dollars per year, and Galaxy Capital injects funds every year, and cloud computing is the majority, followed by Android, browsers, etc., and then artificial intelligence, time payment and other projects.

"This year's revenue from public cloud computing is likely to reach $500 million, and last year's revenue was less than $200 million, but the investment is several times that of this figure. Zhou Shi (Amazon AWS's revenue in cloud computing this year should be around $10 in history, and the financial report shows that AWS revenue in 2014 was $4.6 billion, and revenue in 2015 was $6.2 billion)

"In other words, there is a possibility of success in cloud computing?" said Liu

"The technology of cloud computing has matured, and now it is mainly for infrastructure investment, as well as user migration ......," Zhou Shi

"Do you mean to let Lenovo enter the cloud computing market and compete with time?" Liu Chuanzhi

"It's not that I underestimate Lenovo, there are times in China, Ali and Huawei, and it is basically impossible for Lenovo to succeed in the public cloud market. I want Lenovo to give full play to its own advantages, do private and hybrid cloud, and at least provide more supporting services for cloud computing. "Zhou Shi

"Let me think about ......," Liu Chuanzhi

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