Recently, Lenovo this enterprise has been pushed to the cusp of public opinion, with the former Lenovo academician Ni Guangnan released two sets of data, Lenovo once again fell into the dilemma of public opinion, what data did Academician Ni Guangnan give?
The reason why Lenovo can develop to today's point is greatly related to Ni Guangnan's technology research and development, lenovo laptops, Hanka and other products are from the team led by Ni Guangnan.
Therefore, although Ni Guangnan left Lenovo, but for the problem of Lenovo, he is still very vocal, the first data he released this time is the comparison of the industry, Huawei, which was founded 3 years later than Lenovo, its founder Ren Zhengfei held shares from 80% at the beginning, has been sharply reduced to 1.4% today.
Bill Gates, who also came from a software system background, has reduced his shareholding in Microsoft from 64% to 1% today.
The two data released by Ni Guangnan are undoubtedly to show that the control of the top management of the competitive enterprises over the group's equity is declining, so where have these shares gone?
There is no doubt that the answer can be found from Huawei's R & D personnel, who almost all hold a certain amount of equity in Huawei, although the proportion may not be high, but this is enough to prove that Huawei attaches great importance to technical personnel.
Another data released by Ni Guangnan is Lenovo's shareholding information, the company was originally funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, so Liu Chuanzhi and others did not hold shares, that is, the initial high-level shareholding ratio was 0%.
However, now their share has exceeded 50%, of which Yang Yuanqing even bought 16% of the company's equity from bank loans of more than 3 billion yuan.
Lenovo's researchers do not hold any shares at all.
Through these two data, Ni Guangnan intends to illustrate the gap between Lenovo Group and technology companies such as Huawei and Microsoft, not that Lenovo cannot develop technology, but that Lenovo's emphasis on technology is far from being comparable to huawei and other enterprises.
On December 6 this year, the people's daily and the people's network two major official media simultaneously spoke out, the people's daily said that as entrepreneurs in the field of science and technology, we must have the awareness of innovation and patriotic dedication, and have a sense of social responsibility and industry.
The People's Daily has publicly stated that the private economy must deal with the integrity problem within the company.
Although the two major official media did not directly name which company it was, we are not good at speculating, but from the perspective of the problems mentioned by the two parties, Lenovo needs to pay attention to adjustment.
In the face of the side knocks of the state media, Lenovo also took action, and on December 10 this year, Lenovo made a public response to the question of whether the equity that people have been questioning is legal and compliant.
Lenovo said that as early as 2009, the company reasonably and legally took 29% of the equity of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in accordance with the provisions of state-owned assets and commercial transactions.
Moreover, Lenovo also highlighted that the company's practice is to preserve the appreciation of the company's assets, and there is no doubt or pickiness.
Interestingly, Lenovo's response this time is mainly to explain the legal information of equity, and it does not mention the issues of innovation, patriotism and integrity mentioned by the two major official media.
Although in Lenovo's view, it has made a reasonable explanation for public opinion, and there should be no problem, but Lenovo's image has collapsed irreversibly.
The first is product sales, once the brand advantage has been affected, then the future revenue and profit will be affected to a certain extent.
The second is Lenovo's technological innovation, now Lenovo's situation is quite a bit difficult to ride the tiger, if the company's executives give up part of the equity, to engage in research and development, it proves that they chose to admit their mistakes in the face of the pressure of public opinion, but also confirmed the fact that the company lacks technical support.
If Lenovo does not pay attention to research and development for a long time, it will lose its advantageous position in the competitive market in the future.
Although the company won the championship of global sales in the third quarter of this year, companies such as HP, Dell and Apple in the United States are still chasing after each other, which is very much pressure on Lenovo.
Although Lenovo's current strength is still not to be underestimated, but the potential hidden dangers are still indispensable, will Lenovo Group pick up research and development again in the future? For the advice of the People's Daily and the People's Network, will Lenovo listen to the change? What do you think?