Chapter 469: Copycat is also the way to strengthen a country (Third update, please subscribe)
Wolf cub!
In Nanyang, there are many wolf cubs like Jiahe.
In fact, this is the most special thing about Nanyang enterprises. Many seemingly independent enterprises are actually shadow subsidiaries of large companies. Their founders were born in large companies, and their products are also supporting large companies. , whose businesses are part of the supply chains of large companies.
But among these shadow subsidiaries, there are also companies whose products directly compete with the parent company. The managers of these companies also come from large companies.
What is the purpose of creating these businesses?
It is to "raise wolves".
The "Wolf Raising Plan" was proposed by Li Yian last year. To put it simply, it is to send the company's key personnel to start companies outside, so as to activate the Nanyang business community and avoid the situation of one company being the only one.
The most special thing about Nanyang is that the company's investment involves all aspects. In order to lay an industrial foundation, it invested in many fields, from infrastructure construction to enterprise construction, and most of these enterprises were "exclusive operations". It is "one enterprise, one enterprise".
Faced with this situation, what did Li Yian think about?
Monopolistic management will only lead to arrogance and sluggishness.
How can a successful enterprise be cultivated in a market without sufficient competition?
If there is only one company in an industry, there is no competition. So after careful consideration, Li Yian proposed the "Wolf Raising Plan", which is to send company employees to start businesses and provide them with loans, investments, and even markets to help them develop.
The reason for doing this is to cultivate competitors for the company.
By artificially establishing competitors, various industries and fields are enlivened. Only when competitors appear will large companies not be left flat because of industry monopoly.
The most familiar term in the other world is the "catfish effect", which makes oneself stronger by cultivating competitors.
"We need a group of wolf cubs! In this world, it is difficult for a lone wolf to survive. Only by forming a pack of wolves can we defeat the real opponents-foreign competitors in the fierce market competition!"
This is Li Yian’s speech at the company’s executive meeting last year, and it is also the reason why industry leaders in Nanyang cultivate “wolf cubs”.
How far will these "wolf cubs" grow in the future?
No one knows the answer, but their emergence has indeed activated the market and broken the monopoly of large companies on the industry.
Before they grow up, those large companies are like she-wolves, constantly providing small businesses with the milk they need for growth.
Because in essence they are one, which is what Li Yi'an emphasized as "Nanyang is a company." Who are the competitors of this company?
It is not an internal competitor, but an external one. Those foreign companies are competing to the death with those foreign companies. In this case, everyone must form a team. A close alliance.
This is called the united front of the enterprise. It is the so-called industrial aircraft carrier.
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Jiahe Chainsaw Factory, the factory director’s office.
With the help of workers, the crates were unpacked.
"Ma Fei, what kind of thing is this? It looks like a trolley!"
Guan Pengju asked curiously.
"Manager Fang said this is a lawn mower, a new product from the United States that was just launched last year and is very popular in the market! Each one can sell for hundreds of dollars."
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Pointing to the lawnmower in front of him, Ma Fei lowered his voice and said.
“However, according to Manager Fang, this lawn mower is not a product on the market. It is a prototype machine being developed by a company in the United States and has not yet been put into the market.”
Simple A lot of information was revealed in one sentence. Although he didn't know how the company obtained it, Ma Fei didn't care about it at all. What he cared about was whether the product could be produced.
He said:
"Director, please take people to dismantle this lawn mower and see if we can copy it!"
"Let me take a look."
After checking carefully, Guan Pengju said.
“This product doesn’t seem to be complicated at all. It’s just a gasoline engine driving a rotating blade. There should be no problem in imitating it.” Nodding, Guan Pengju immediately called a few people, took out tools, and removed them repeatedly. Er then dismantled the lawn mower into eight pieces.
While Guan Pengju was studying the gasoline engine, looking at the parts on the ground, Ma Fei asked:
"How about it, can we copy it?"
"Is this engine made in the United States? The workmanship is really good! This engine is much better than similar engines from BMW, smaller in size, lighter in weight, and more powerful. Bigger, this Yankee is truly a Yankee."
Taking the parts, Guan Pengju said with some emotion.
"Who asked you to make an engine? Just use a domestically produced BMW engine instead! When we make chain saws, don't we also use BMW engines?"
Ma Fei's words paused. After a pause, he continued:
"With a domestic engine, are you still worried that you can't drive a lawn mower?"
"That's what I say, but."
Guan Pengju held the starting accessories and said:
“This engine is really advanced, with a power of 4KW. In terms of power, there is no problem in replacing it with a similar engine from BMW/”
“You mean, let’s build the engine?”
Guan Pengju studied it carefully and then said.
“But the blade of this lawn mower should be an alloy material. I don’t know if Nanyang’s steel mills produce similar materials. However, the steel we use to make saw blades should be no worse than it. It can be directly Use it instead!"
Picking up the lawn mower blade, Guan Pengju continued:
"I just don’t know if such a replacement can meet the lifespan. This needs to be done by us. Further testing!”
“Then let’s build this product first!”
Ma Fei said immediately.
“When can we build it and can we catch up with the exhibition in the second half of the year?”
“One month!”
Guan Pengju laughed and continued:< br>
“Speaking of it, it is not more complicated than our chain saw, and it will only take a month at most! I will definitely be able to catch up with the exhibition by then.”
Just when Renhe Chainsaw Factory received a lawnmower, a seemingly low-tech product, many companies in Nanyang received certain products, including "wolf cubs" like Renhe and Fenghe. As an industry leader, as the earliest harvester manufacturer in Nanyang, it not only produced the first rice harvester in Nanyang, but also designed the world's first cassava planter and harvester, which solved the problem of mechanized cassava planting and harvesting. This saves a lot of manpower for Nanyang agriculture.
However, the management of Fenghe Company is very clear that cassava is only a substitute food. After all, the staple food in Nanyang is still rice. Therefore, solving the mechanized planting of rice has become the biggest issue before the company.
It’s just that compared to cassava planting, mechanized rice transplanting is more difficult. But just when they were making little progress, they received a rice transplanter.
“Is this a rice transplanter?”
Company manager He Ming and more than twenty technicians from the project team gathered around this rice transplanter without any markings. They were more than surprised. It's doubtful.
"Yes, I heard that it is an engineering sample obtained by the intelligence department through some special channels."
He Ming said after a brief explanation to the technicians around him.
“This is our only prototype, and the technical information is very limited, so your next task is to first figure out its working principle. After all the preparations are made and the principle is understood, Then we dissected the engineering prototype, formally understood it from the actual internal mechanical structure, parts, and materials, and then copied it as it was. "
Copying it as it is is actually a "copycat" in this machine. In this era, many mechanical equipment can be completely copied through reverse engineering. This is not difficult. It may involve a series of problems such as metal processing and parts tolerances, but as long as you slowly explore, you can always solve the corresponding problems. question. Then in this process, the technological progress of the enterprise is achieved...
(End of this chapter)