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Mergers and acquisitions of enterprises can reduce management and operating costs.

The two companies must have their own functional departments such as the finance department, marketing department, and personnel department, but if they merge, they only need unified department management. This part of the repetitive employees can be cut to reduce management costs.

The same is true for "small skin, big research and development", which can expand the thinking.

Youyou.com, Xiaonei.com, Mobai.com, Weimi.com, etc., except for finance and personnel, which are unified by the headquarters, other business departments are all independent from the headquarters.

Although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs, and all the departments of website operation have it.

Such as website maintenance.

Friends.com may need 25 people, Xiaonei.com needs 10 people, and Mobai and Weimi only need two employees.

But the problem is that maintenance work is very busy when there is a problem, and very free when there is no problem.

The outside world boycotted 996, and the industry also boycotted 996. However, there is a difference in this boycott. The outside world boycotts all overtime work, while the industry boycotts invalid overtime work.

For example, maintenance personnel work for 4 hours in their free time, and the day's work is completed. In the rest of the time, I can only do foreign work, work hard, and wait all day to get off work.

This not only caused a huge waste of manpower, but also dealt a blow to the enthusiasm of employees, resulting in unfulfilling work and lack of opportunities for advancement.

Why can't the maintenance department be extracted from each website to form a maintenance headquarters like the finance department and the personnel department? Let this headquarters do all the maintenance? This headquarters may only need 30 people, which can greatly save manpower.

The underlying functions of the website can be extracted, developed and packaged by the "big R\u0026D department" of the headquarters, and the websites can call them.

Can the maintenance department do the same thing?

The maintenance department has done it, so can the website architecture department, advertising department, sales department, membership department, customer service department, production supervision department and other common departments be transferred out?

Can it be managed by the headquarters?

Improve management efficiency through mergers and reorganizations.

Friends.com now has 500 people, and Xiaonei has more than 80 full-time employees. If this is true, then Friends.com may only need a team of 100 people, and Xiaonei may only need 20 people.

The smaller the team, the more flexible the management, and the wrong direction can be easily changed.

That is to say, let only a small team be responsible for the "skin" work on the front end of the website, and do something that belongs to the characteristics, characteristics and uniqueness of this website.

All the common departments behind the website are all integrated.

Let the front end of the website be like a start-up company, only responsible for creativity and innovation, and use young people's whimsy to catch young people's attention. The complex things behind are all completed by the professional team at the headquarters.

Many entrepreneurs are stunned. They may not understand anything, but they have good ideas and can understand users' preferences. It is really difficult for such people to lead a large team to do complex research and development, sales and management work. Therefore, many start-up companies did well when they were first established, which made people's eyes shine, but the company became bigger and the number of employees increased, so they couldn't continue to do so.

This organizational model can effectively avoid the professional defects of "inspiration geniuses", allowing them to focus on product design and the front-end work of the webpage.

This is the deeper meaning of the strategy of "small skin, big research and development".

It is also something that He Yang and others are very worried about.

This will cause huge adjustments to the organizational structure, even turmoil, and there are huge management risks. Use this method of "extracting common factors" to extract the common departments of all websites to form a headquarters operation department... It is certain to reduce costs, but new resource allocation problems will arise.

If Friends.com and Mobai put forward demands at the same time, the headquarters must give priority to serving Friends. The team of Mobai will be dissatisfied, which will damage the interests of small businesses.

After the meeting, He Yang went to Zhou Buqi's office, with a solemn face, and analyzed the matter in depth.

He Yang said in a deep voice: "This matter is too big, and it might cause huge turmoil. I think Xu Liangjie wants to prove himself and show his ability, and he came up with such a big plan. It's too scary."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "I still have some ideas, it's amazing."

"It's amazing, but the big taboo of management is to increase unpredictable risks. The purpose of management is for stability and orderly development, not to create chaos. From a theoretical point of view, this is feasible. But we must be steady and steady, and we must avoid one size fits all .”

"You don't have to worry, I'm not a stunned young man. I don't always listen to you when it comes to management? I will only push things that I have enough confidence in."

"That's fine."

He Yang breathed a sigh of relief, his face looked much better.

I'm afraid that Boss Zhou, who is young and energetic, made a decision on impulse and made a shocking move. This is not as simple as betting on a micro-dot browser. Gamble heavily on browsers, and if you fail, you will lose a browser at most.

If such a large-scale organizational reform fails, the entire company may be over.

It has been 30 years since the reform and opening up, and it has been reforming and reforming.

However, in many core areas, the speed of reform is very slow. In addition to the obstruction of vested interests, part of the reason is that it is very good now, after the change...what if it becomes bad? What if it gets out of control? I'm afraid that a single hair will move the whole body and shake the foundation.

Zhou Buqi said: "I know this is a big matter, so let's start with small projects and do experiments and demonstrations slowly. There is no need to worry. Ziweixing is still far from a big company."

He Yang was stunned for a moment, "It's far behind? The scale of Ziwei Star can already rank high in the domestic Internet circle."

"Compared to Microsoft?"

"Well……"

He Yang couldn't laugh or cry.

The ambition is really big.

Zhou Buqi waved his hands, and said with a serious face: "This matter is settled like this. I think Xu Liangjie is quite interested, so let him argue it. Don't obstruct it on your side. Reform is difficult. If you don't change, you will die." .We should not be afraid of difficulties and choose a dead end. The road of reform must have the power to promote exploration and encourage it.”

He Yang nodded, then changed the subject, and said with a smile: "Good news, I communicated with Sina this morning and basically reached an agreement."

Zhou Buqi's eyes lit up, "50 million?"

"Yes, 50 million."

"Your expression... there are additional conditions?"

"Well, it's similar to Ali. Sina is very interested in open platforms, but they don't have much confidence in their own technical conditions. If we take our code over, they will have to do some fine-tuning. If we start from scratch, it will be too late."

"So let's send someone there?"

He Yang looked very embarrassed, "Yes, they want us to provide at least 20 technicians to help them complete the project and successfully connect with Sina Blog."

Zhou Buqi pondered for a while, his eyes flickering.

He Yangdao: "Actually, this is also normal. The sale of such technical products must provide technical support. Oracle sells databases, shouldn't it also be responsible for helping us build the environment?"

Zhou Buqi nodded approvingly, "It makes sense! It makes sense! It's our wrong thinking. How can we sell products without after-sales service?"

He Yang was slightly taken aback, "Do you agree?"

"Customers have requirements, how can they not be satisfied?" Zhou Buqi glanced at him, and he had built up an idea of ​​coordinating internal and external, yin and yang balance in his mind, "After-sales service is not enough, far from enough! We need to serve more! "

"What's the meaning?"

He Yang didn't quite understand.

Zhou Buqi said: "The open platform can be regarded as a high-end project. Of course, it is no problem for us to send a technical team to help them build it. But what about the follow-up maintenance, operation and further expanded research and development? Sina Blog must send its own team Responsible, the technical department still has to understand the underlying code of the open platform from scratch, wasting time."

He Yang shook his head, disapproving, "Then it has nothing to do with us. We helped them build it, but they couldn't manage it themselves well, and their technical level is too poor."

Zhou Buqi's expression was serious, "Where is this going? In sales, it should be a one-stop service. We want to let the industry peers feel the sincerity and generosity of Ziweixing! Help people to the end! In this way, Sina doesn't want 20 technicians Help them build a platform? Let's choose elite soldiers and strong generals, don't second them, give them directly!"

"ah?"

"In this way, it can be done once and for all, and completely help Sina solve the follow-up problems of the open platform."

"this……"

He Yang was stunned and couldn't believe it.

Zhou Buqi snorted: "Not only Sina will give away, but also Ali! I feel sorry for the pitiful look of the old horse that day. Isn't it just a lack of technicians? I will send him 50 people! There are also Sohu, Baidu and Penguin, As long as you buy our products, we will send supporting technical talents to solve a series of follow-up problems after they purchase the open platform. Help people to the end, I am not born with justice! Tell colleagues that Ziweixing is willing to provide 100-150 people To help them solve the technical problems of the open platform. The industry needs development and the country needs progress, and Ziweixing is willing to give everything!"

He Yang blinked his eyes a few times, his eyes suspicious.

He knew this young boss quite well, so he couldn't believe that he would be so generous. Especially technical talents, they are all big treasures, and they are all jewels in the palm of their hands.

Just give it away?

How can it be?

There are tricks!

He Yang immediately expanded his thinking and jumped out of the open platform project... The next moment, he thought of a project submitted by the Human Resources Department - the "Zhengyuan" plan.

Wang Haiyang wants to adjust the salary structure of Friends.com, and plans to lay off 100-150 people at one time!

I rely on!

The numbers match up!

He Yang twitched the corner of his mouth, his expression was a little distorted, "Boss, you are really...really..."

"how?"

"Too bad!"

"Um?"

"No, what I mean is that you really have fantastic ideas and out-of-the-box thinking. You are amazing! You can connect these two things together. It really turns passive into active, and ruthless into sentient. You are a genius!"

He Yang was convinced, completely convinced.

Laying off old employees is obviously a ruthless and capitalist thing, but this wave of manipulation by him has turned into a great feeling of friendship and mutual assistance for the country and the people.

You are a fool king.