Chapter 1384 The Battle of Ideas
"Xiao Zhou!" Li Guangnan saw Zhou Zhi coming in, stood up and stretched out his hand to him: "What are you talking about? These nonsense have nothing to do with you."
"Welcome, I really didn't expect you to come here in person."
It's funny to say this, because when it comes down to it, the person in front of me is a serious business person. senior.
At the beginning of 1984, Mr. Li had organized a research team to develop two key products for Chinese character processing, the ten-year-old "111" Chinese character information processing system and a handwritten text recognition machine.
On this basis, Mr. Li quickly developed the "LX80 Lenovo Chinese Character Graphics Microcomputer System"; and in November of this year, he was invited to serve as the chief engineer of the "New Technology Development Company of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences".
By 1989, this company already had several very successful products. The Lenovo Hanka has become a flagship product. These all benefited from the Lenovo input method invented by Mr. Li, so everyone decided to use the name of the input method as the new name of the company, and Mr. Li continued to serve as the company's director and chief engineer, presiding over the development of the Lenovo series of microcomputers;
This year, Lao Li was selected as the first batch of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and is also a director of the Chinese Information Society of China and the Computer Society of China.
It should be said that Lao Li has always been engaged in the research and development of computers and their applications, and even participated in China's first self-developed tube computer. It was only in the 1960s and 1970s that he became a monk halfway and started to develop Research on Chinese character processing and character recognition, pioneering the associative function in Chinese character input.
The association function is to increase the convenience of input by organizing commonly used "vocabularies". The idea is the same as Zhou Zhi's current four-leaf clover input method. However, because the association function requires additional resources, if the algorithm is not enough If it is powerful, the amount of additional storage required will be very large. In today's world where storage units are expensive, it cannot be compared to the Wubi input method that uses the operator's brain power instead of the algorithm and relies on the memory of the root words solidified in the mind to assist input. .
"Is the dust settled here at the company?" Zhou Zhi asked.
"Yes," Li Guangnan sighed, and comforted Zhou Zhi in turn: "That's it, but you can't deal with this matter. Xiao Zhou, you don't need to have any psychological burden."
As for the next stage of the company's development, it has now entered a stage of intense disagreement. On the surface, it is the so-called dispute between Lao Li's "technology, industry and trade" and Lao Liu's "trade, industry and technology".
However, Zhou Zhi sneered at such a statement, because even when the company developed to the highest profit level, it did not invest much in scientific research and development. Even Xiaomi and VIVO among the younger generations were inferior to their elders. Far.
Once you have reached that point, you have broken the truth and it has nothing to do with "trade, industry and technology". It means "earning money from trade and industry", or making money for the shareholders' meeting.
And ten thousand steps back, as the chief engineer in the founding stage of the company, he didn't even have any original shares. This fact itself is evil.
Li Guangnan's situation in this life is even worse than in the previous life. Because of the rise of Clover and the completion of Hanwen's large font library, the Hanka business, which was developed under the leadership of Li Guangnan and was once the company's largest source of profit, has completely withdrawn from Lenovo's main business scope.
After the completion of the first phase of Hanwen Library, Clover Company began to develop rapidly. Just as Lenovo began to turn to the PC business, vigorously divided the existing business and completed the preliminary preparations for "eliminating Li", it would have lost competition. The production and manufacturing of the powerful Lenovo Hanka was simply transferred to Clover at a very low price.
The intersection between Zhou Zhi and Li Guangnan also happened during that time. The business of Hanka and Hanwen Library were successfully integrated and the results were transformed. There was also the sincere cooperation between the two. "I still stick to what I said to you before. Silicon Valley cannot be developed by relying on trade alone. Silicon Valley is not a trade center. Silicon Valley is the birthplace of new technologies. It will not last long as a trade center!" Li Guangnan sat. On the other side of the desk, his expression and tone were very calm: "Xiao Zhou, you are also a technical person and you do a good job. You must know what I mean?"
"We should take technology as the guide, establish our advantages, create our country's own core computer technology, form application products, and win the favor of the market. This is the development path proposed by Li Gong, and I firmly support it." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "We Siye The grass company is currently following the technical, industrial and trade route.”
“Yes.” Li Guangnan said with a smile, “This is the Shanghai model. Let me judge whether China's future Silicon Valley will appear in the capital or Shanghai. My answer is the latter."
"But then again, your company's decision cannot be said to be wrong. "Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "In fact, whether it is technology, industry, or trade, what we pursue is to balance technology, products, and profits."
" Taking both sides into consideration is the ultimate goal of reaching the same goal through different paths, while trade, industry, and trade, or trade, industry, and technology, are just a master-slave relationship that was separated when it was impossible to balance both sides."
"In fact, when Lao Liu first asked me to come out. , also supports my view." Lao Li sighed again: "This morning, Lao Zeng and Lao Li have read out the "Report on Disagreements in the Group's Leadership Team." ", which qualifies the opinions I put forward about the group, including the opinions I put forward last year on decision-making, employment, the company's declining performance, etc. This year, I think the company's decision to change the selection of the financial director is a kind of decision. The retaliation against those who made comments at the beginning of the year, including my questions about capital operations and other issues, have all been put on the table..."
"Now that the investigation is completed, Lao Liu has no problem. He also explained his 'management principles'. He wrote a letter to the board of directors and hospital leaders, and an open letter to company-level cadres, saying that he can no longer work with me."
< br>"Mr. Liu, they are well prepared. I heard that just the speech notes have been prepared. Four pages of A4 paper?" Zhou Zhi said with a meaningful smile: "Thank the organization for restoring his innocence, expressing his care and respect for you, claiming that he has never said a word dissatisfied with Ni Guangnan on any occasion, and also claimed that if you start a business or The research institute needs people from the group, and he will express his support to anyone who wants to go. After discussions between the board of directors and the president's office, we will also try our best to support it in terms of funding?"
"Hahaha..." Li Guangnan said with a smile: "It's just a declaration of victory. It also said that if I work in my personal capacity, the board of directors will Think of me as the main entrepreneur and consider my living conditions! ”< br>
“I have also expressed my opinion that I am relieved of my administrative duties, so that I will have more time to do some research work. This may help me to seriously adapt to the changing environment.”< br>
Today’s meeting was actually destined more than ten days ago.
The secret battle is over long ago.
Being able to prepare well shows that Lao Liu had already learned of his victory before the meeting, and the meeting itself was nothing more than a judgment ceremony, and Lao Li had obviously lost most of his supporters. The attitude of the company's top managers is very clear.
“Actually, it’s better this way,” Zhou Zhi nodded: “We have different paths, so we don’t want to work together. Mr. Li, since you are willing to continue on the path of technology, industry and trade, and you also believe that Shanghai will be the Silicon Valley of the future, It is the development and output base of the national information industry, so why not develop there? ”
(End of this chapter)