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Chapter 3058 Stability is more important than innovation

Since Zhou Buqi is so frank, people will naturally not be stingy.

In corporate management, it is all about learning from each other, asking for advice from each other, growing together, and making progress together.

Boss Li mainly proposed to solve similar hidden dangers from five aspects.

First, raise awareness of prevention.

In the process of service outsourcing, enterprises themselves need to strengthen the management of confidential information and improve the awareness of intellectual property protection and risk prevention of IT department employees. Strengthen access control and identity authentication: adopt multi-factor authentication, access control strategies and permission management measures to ensure that only authorized personnel can access sensitive data and systems.

It can even monitor and control abnormal security status: use security tools and security information and event management systems to monitor and control abnormal security status of the intranet in real time, which helps to detect potential intrusions early and respond and deal with them in a timely manner.

Second, reduce outsourcing of core businesses.

Before deciding to outsource IT, companies must ensure that the outsourced part does not involve the company's core secrets.

Choose to outsource content that is labor-intensive, low-tech, and low in information.

Third, jointly sign a confidentiality agreement.

When formulating an IT outsourcing contract, a confidentiality agreement must be signed, relevant provisions on intellectual property rights must be formulated, and the legal consequences of information disclosure by the IT outsourcing company must be clarified.

Fourth, determine the authority of the outsourcing company.

In IT outsourcing construction, the authority of the outsourcing company should be clarified and outsourcing work specifications should be established.

IT outsourced personnel are prohibited from entering or bringing storage devices into specific locations of the enterprise.

Fifth, provide good training for regular employees.

Let them understand the risks of outsourcing, let them have an understanding of the difference between "us" and "them", and supervise and examine the dynamics of outsourced personnel.

Zhou Buqi listened to his analysis.

It feels like the meaning is basically the same as what He Yang said before.

There are various benefits for companies using outsourcing.

  But what about the disadvantages of outsourcing?

Restrict them by treating them differently!

From the perspective of corporate management, treating this group differently can be in the interests of all parties. To a certain extent, many outsourced employees who lack ambition also like this.

Most people’s work is actually to make money, and they can make money easily and comfortably.

  How can I feel relaxed and comfortable?

That is always working in your "comfort zone".

Let them keep doing repetitive work that they are good at, which is their comfort zone. If they encounter some challenging projects that require them to shoulder high performance, bear huge mental pressure, or even require the use of many new technologies and you need to spend a lot of time learning while doing them, this is jumping out of the comfort zone.

Most people are unwilling to do this kind of "dirty and tiring work".

Of course, this kind of thing should be handed over to regular employees who have higher salaries, better benefits, and company stocks. At the same time, only by constantly jumping out of your comfort zone and constantly doing things you are not good at can you continue to grow and improve yourself.

Many people would think that it is a challenge for their leaders to arrange them to do this kind of work. They think that it is enough for them to make money peacefully, so why should they do such complicated and stressful things?

  Some people would think that the leader giving them such an important task is an opportunity for growth and a form of training. Even if the project is successful, but they are not promoted or even get a bonus in the end, so what?

The biggest gain is actually the new skills I learned and the valuable experience I accumulated while doing this project. It is the ability to take on important projects, which is the most important reference factor for future career advancement or job hopping.

Most outsourced employees think in the former way. The significance of corporate values ​​is to encourage regular employees to become the latter kind of people, with stronger ambition and motivation for self-growth.

Li Yanhong said solemnly: "Now I feel more and more the importance of academic qualifications. Many entrepreneurs say that academic qualifications are not considered in recruitment, and that ability is the key in the workplace. I think this is wrong."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Many old-school entrepreneurs don't have much education. If they say that education is important, isn't that a slap in their own face? It's just like Jack Ma, who keeps saying that Alibaba doesn't look at education when recruiting and welcomes everyone to apply. But the reality is that if you don't have a bachelor's degree from a 985 university, you won't even pass the resume screening round."

Li Yanhong laughed, "It's not good to mention names, isn't it?"

Zhou Buqi said: "It's okay, I'm not saying bad things about people behind their backs, I would say the same thing to their faces."

Li Yanhong said: "It's different now. The young generation of entrepreneurs have better academic qualifications than each other. Many of them have obtained doctorates from Ivy League universities. This is actually the biggest asset. In the past, the experience of running a business was that ability was more important than academic qualifications, which was actually correct. Because at that stage, there were too few people with high academic qualifications, and the demand was not high. The market gap was large enough, and the possibility of business success was higher."

Zhou Buqi immediately thought of his former family business. "Just like the mountain product trading company my family used to have, as long as you dare to fight and charge, you can basically succeed. The so-called ability is nothing more than the ability to communicate with officials, the ability to transport, and the ability to communicate with fellow villagers... These are actually extensive abilities. It's different now. There are no gaps in the market. If you want to succeed in starting a business, the extensive type will definitely not work. You must be thrifty and careful."

"This is especially true for Internet companies, especially large Internet companies." Li Yanhong and he are not really friends, and their personal relationship is average, but this does not prevent him from enjoying the joy of communicating with outstanding people. "Whether it is Baidu or Ziweixing, we can hire the best people. Now that the market gap is getting smaller and smaller, the capabilities in the market are becoming more and more saturated. In the past, everyone had no business experience, and there were few capable people, so capabilities were more important; now, there are capable people everywhere, and what is really lacking is people with top capabilities."

Obviously, he was referring to outsourcing.

When discussing the topic of outsourcing, Li Yanhong also noticed Boss Zhou's confusion and doubts about this concept.

He also wanted to express some opinions.

Different people have different perspectives. What He Yang and Meng Houkun said before were both correct.

The perspective provided by Boss Li at the moment is obviously higher.

In the past, the domestic market had a small supply side and a large demand side, so it was easier to start a business. You could find some capable people and easily get things done. But now it is different. The supply side has overflowed, and the various goods and services have exceeded the needs of the demand side.

This poses new challenges to enterprises, and we need people with top capabilities to win in market competition and ensure that the products needed on the demand side are exactly what we provide.

This has created a fork in the road for companies in terms of employment.

Zhou Buqi naturally understood what he meant. "So there is a difference between outsourced employees and regular employees. Outsourced employees use their current abilities, while regular employees focus on long-term development. We need to train them to become the top-notch people that the company needs most."

Li Yanhong smiled and said, "Yes, this distinction still depends on academic qualifications. In the past few years of recruitment, employment, promotion and management, I have gradually summed up some rules. The best people must have been the best at a very early age, from junior high school to high school, from high school to college, they are often the best among their peers. When companies hire people, the cost of judging an employee's ability and potential is too high, so we must attach importance to the screening of social machines."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "In fact, there is human nature and social circles. The classmates of Tsinghua students are all Tsinghua students. Everyone has a desire to compete, and a reasonable desire to compete can be transformed into a desire to make progress. My classmates are all presidents of listed companies, so why am I still a middle manager in a company? This can become the biggest internal driving force for self-struggle. In contrast, those with poor academic qualifications are in poor social circles, so it is difficult for them to have this kind of inner spur from the external environment."

Li Yanhong said, "Another point is that it is fairer. If there are two people with good abilities and similar performance, but there is only one promotion quota, who should be chosen? If the one with lower education is promoted, the one with higher education will definitely leave! I have experienced this several times. However, if the one with higher education is promoted, the one with lower education will easily accept it, and there will be no loss of excellent talents. In everyone's mind, there has long been an internal logic of judging superiority based on education. This objective factor will be fairer than the boss's subjective judgment."

"Isn't this too stable?" Zhou Buqi disagreed. "This is almost the same as ranking by seniority!"

Li Yanhong said seriously: "The concepts of large companies and small companies are definitely different. The stability of the organizational structure is crucial to large companies, even more important than innovation. Everyone knows that large companies have large company diseases, but no one can avoid it. Any company that becomes large will have large company diseases. Because compared to large company diseases, the stability of the organizational structure is more important. And once you seek stability, you will inevitably have large company diseases."

"Ah."

Zhou Buqi nodded.

The core purpose of a small company is to make the company bigger. If they want to stand out, they must innovate, even at the risk of losing everything. The main purpose of a large company is to hold on to its current territory, so it requires stability, maintaining the stability of its business and organizational structure, and innovating to expand the market while maintaining its basic foundation.

Li Yanhong said: "However, it cannot be too stable, which will lead to rigidity and redundancy, and lead to idlers everywhere, which will lead to serious big company disease. This is the more important point of the outsourcing model that domestic large technology companies like now. At least that's what I think."