HPE: The longevity of the business is inseparable from social responsibility

"From the initial Mainframe mainframe to commercial servers, to the popularity of personal computers and mobile phones, until the advent of the current era of cloud computing, HPE, which has experienced many major technological changes, has deeply felt that an enterprise must remain evergreen, on the one hand, it must keep pace with the times, and in the wave of continuous technological change and changing market demand, it is brave to stand at the head of the tide, take the initiative to seek change, and accelerate innovation." Zhu Haixiang, HPE's global vice president and managing director in China, said this not long ago when talking about corporate social responsibility.

On the other hand, Zhu Haixiang believes that it is to establish and adhere to the value of responsible corporate responsibility.

Within HPE, ESG (Environmen, Social, Governance, Environmental, Social, Corporate Governance) is the measure of day-to-day decision-making. Guided by the ESG strategy, HPE continues to create sustainable IT solutions that meet the technology needs of the future, with innovative service models to help customers achieve transformational needs, reduce their carbon footprint, and fully implement the commitment to equality and inclusion to employees and communities.

Zhu Haixiang said that how to practice corporate responsibility values, for HPE, is to empower the four major responsibility bodies most closely related to enterprises with an inclusive and symbiotic mentality - customers, ecological partners, employees and society.

Taking customers as an example, HPE's customer-centric corporate culture is reflected in three dimensions, one is to proactively adjust the strategy according to customer needs; the other is to accelerate innovation through a combination of R&D investment and strategic acquisition; and the third is to pursue the most local global company to better serve local customers.

In terms of localization, as the first high-tech multinational company to enter the Chinese market, HPE has been rooted in China for more than 30 years and has always practiced the unchanged commitment of "in China, for China", and continues to invest in R&D and operation in China. At present, HPE has 5 global delivery centers, 1 global R&D center and thousands of employees in China, providing business support for Chinese customers and supporting business operations in dozens of countries and regions around the world.

Around the ecological partners, HPE has advocated cooperation from the beginning of its establishment and attached great importance to the development of ecology.

Zhu Haixiang said that HPE pursues the value sharing of upstream and downstream partners in the entire supply chain, sharing risks, sharing opportunities, and achieving the goal of long-term health and common development. At the same time, HPE actively establishes alliances with a large number of technology partners to provide customers with more complete solutions. This also includes partnering with cutting-edge technology startups to rapidly integrate emerging technologies into their own technology platforms to better serve customers.

Taking the Chinese market as an example, HPE has created a unique joint venture cooperation model in China, and jointly invested with Tsinghua Unigroup to establish the New H3C Group, combining the world's leading technology and localization solutions with service delivery to promote the digital transformation of China's entire industry. This operating model has proven to be successful and effective, with New H3C Doubling its operating income and ranking among the top three in China's server and storage product market share in more than five years.

The pursuit of employeeism is a major feature of HPE culture. To this end, HPE actively pursues a culture of inclusion and diversity to create equal opportunities for employees. At the beginning of HPE's creation, there was a great emphasis on gender equality. Regardless of ethnicity, gender, age, educational background, etc., because innovation can be better promoted in a pluralistic and inclusive environment.

The rapid development of science and technology requires employees to constantly update and absorb new knowledge. HPE pays special attention to employee growth and continues to invest in employee development. Over the past year, HPE has invested more than $7.7 million in training resources for employees, who have completed more than 600,000 classes and attended an average of 23 hours per person.

In the wake of the pandemic, HPE also innovatively launched the edgetooffice (flexible hybrid office) program, which supports nearly 50% of the more than 60,000 employees worldwide to work remotely for a long time. HPE's innovative technology is heavily used in this program to facilitate long-term remote work and ensure business continuity.

At the same time, HPE also actively practices social responsibility and actively promotes the sustainable development of the whole society.

As an example, HPE has a special "Global Service Day" on a working day every September, and The Chinese team members have also actively participated in it, and in recent years, they have successively carried out a series of volunteer activities such as garbage sorting, local traditional culture protection, education assistance, and caring for special groups. HPE Worldwide has provided nearly $26 million in equipment to 1,600 institutions free of charge through the STEM program to improve the network environment and stimulate their interest in technology and information technology.

HPE's community investment program, HPEGives, for example, helps 60,000 employees around the world accelerate their reach in the digital age and support their communities. The HPE Accelerated Impact Program has improved the lives of 360 million people by supporting the growth of nonprofits around the world.

In terms of sustainable development, in the past 30 years, HPE has accumulated a large number of low-carbon patented technologies, and a few months ago, it also signed a low-carbon patent declaration with a number of partners around the world, providing hundreds of patented technologies for innovative enterprises engaged in low-carbon technology research and development free of charge to jointly promote the research and development of low-carbon solutions. In addition, HPE is the first IT company to set scientific carbon targets for its operations and supply chain, promising to zero its carbon footprint across the value chain by 2050 or sooner.

The practice of social responsibility by enterprises is composed of details, and only by being down-to-earth can we see the small things. HPE strives to help customers achieve transformational needs, business goals and sustainability, while also improving HPE's own market competitiveness. Zhu Haixiang said that more inclusive and broader corporate responsibility values are an important factor in the evergreen of enterprises, which requires the integration of customers, ecological partners, employees and society to achieve sustainable and high-quality development of enterprises.