Crossover: 2014

Chapter 266 Distributed Collaboration

Lin Hui smiled faintly: "How could it be, let's not talk about this, let's continue to talk about your friend's online office software."

Huang Jing said: "If you think it's not economical to buy the online office software he made as a whole, I have an idea."

Lin Hui said, "Tell me about it."

Huang Jing said: "You mentioned it just now, it's just for emergency, and the time won't be too long, so I think you might as well rent this software."

Lin Hui asked suspiciously, "You mean software rental?"

Huang Jingdao: "To be more precise, it is a rental service. Although software leasing is not very common in China, it is almost the most common way of operating software abroad.

By renting software, there is no need to purchase software, and there is no need to pay for the remaining functions of the software for temporary needs.

When renting, you can also make certain customization requirements for the software and carry out adaptive transformation.

Like the current online office system, when you lease, you can choose a cloud deployment solution according to your needs.

Even if it is in-depth customization, even the UI style can be requested separately.

besides……"

Lin Hui said: "The idea you mentioned is really good, but are you sure your friend will rent it?"

Huang Jing said: "Of course I am sure, the general start-up team has deep feelings for their own achievements.

If it is not because of unsustainable business or greater commercial dividends, there are generally few start-up teams that transfer their achievements as a whole.

My friend and his team were initially and more interested in renting out software than selling it.

It's just that there is no suitable customer, so I have to seek a transfer as a last resort.

I'm sure they would be more than happy to negotiate with you if they heard that you were looking for software rentals. "

Although there are many systematic ideas about online office in my mind.

But after thinking about it carefully, Lin Hui felt that there was no rush when it came to online office.

To a large extent, online office can only be a work of accumulation.

It is easy to get stuck in the quagmire if you rush into it without foundation.

And the last thing Lin Hui wants to encounter now is to spend a huge amount of time because of some wrong strategic directions.

That's easy to lose out on.

All in all, leasing is indeed a good choice.

Moreover, Huang Jing's description of this software start-up team is miserable, so it seems that leasing will not cost too much.

So Lin Hui nodded and said: "That's good, then Sister Huang has to trouble you to contact me in Juzhong."

Huang Jing smiled and said, "No trouble, it's a trivial matter."

Huang Jing then asked: "By the way, how long will it take to rent?"

Lin Hui pondered for a while, then pondered: "Let's rent it for half a year, and if there is still demand after half a year, let's talk about it."

Huang Jing said, "Okay."

Huang Jing's relieved tone made Lin Hui curious.

Lin Hui asked puzzledly: "What's the matter, why do you listen to me renting for half a year, it seems like a heavy burden has been relieved?"

Huang Jing said: "It's really a sigh of relief, it's okay for short-term emergencies like online telecommuting.

If you use this thing for a long time, it is prone to various problems.

It is easy to expose some disadvantages if the long-term online remote office system is used for online office work.

As the scale of the enterprise grows and the business increases, the cost of remote office communication will increase exponentially.

In addition, online telecommuting can easily reduce employees' sense of participation.

Don't underestimate the loss of employee engagement.

Although domestic companies don't pay much attention to employee participation.

European and American companies regard the participation of employees as a very important thing.

Just take the technology companies in Silicon Valley as an example, in order to cultivate employees' sense of participation and brand recognition, they spend no less than one billion dollars on this every year.

However, online remote office is something that runs counter to the sense of participation, which is why all the software that focuses on online office is not doing well.

In short, there are many such and such problems, and such problems are easy to break out after long-term use. "

Lin Hui knew that what Huang Jing said was already very reserved. The fact is that if such problems involved in online telecommuting erupt in a concentrated manner, it would be fatal.

What Huang Jing said is also the biggest disadvantage of traditional online office.

However, these problems are not unsolvable.

The application of distributed collaborative office can effectively solve many disadvantages of traditional remote office.

Although distributed collaboration still has disadvantages, it is still superior to traditional remote office distributed collaboration.

Although starting from actual application scenarios, online remote office and distributed collaboration both refer to working in different office spaces.

But there are still many differences between the two.

Telecommuting gives people the feeling of distance, whether it is people or things, they are out of reach.

Telecommuting is often like accessing and controlling one or a bunch of invisible machines through the network.

This kind of communication is one-way, boring and inefficient.

Telecommuting emphasizes the geographic location of workers.

And in terms of how to collaborate as a team and how to get the job done better, remote work doesn't provide a good solution.

But distributed collaboration is different.

Members of distributed teams are also not in one place, but it focuses more on collaboration between teams.

Communication among members is two-way, even multi-directional, they have common goals and work together to achieve them.

An organization that has adopted a telecommuting model will have some problems.

For example, employees working on-site may feel unfair.

Because someone with telecommuting permissions may be lying on the sofa at home at this time, enjoying a delicious meal in front of the computer.

Of course, the flip side is that telecommuting employees may feel that they have lost their strong connection to the organization.

Although they can work through the Internet, the communication with team members is reduced, which is not conducive to the construction of team atmosphere.

Compared with telecommuting, the distributed collaboration model does not have to worry about this.

Distributed collaboration greatly simplifies the communication process of traditional teams.

Not only can people who work remotely be able to participate more closely in their work, but it can also greatly reduce the workload of employees working on site.

In this way a strong connection can be established between team members.

People who work in distributed collaboration have far less difficulty communicating with their peers than in traditional telecommuting.

Objectively speaking, distributed collaboration is a passive working mode compared to telecommuting.

Distributed collaboration, on the other hand, is much more proactive.

Although distributed collaboration has various advantages, it really burns money to build it.

And this stuff requires some training for employees.

The most important thing is that after this thing is built, it can certainly solve many pain points of traditional telecommuting.

But in reality, it is still difficult to truly achieve the same level of convenience as field office.

Despite all the difficulties.

In the future, when Lin Huixing has spare capacity, it will definitely come up with this thing or something higher than distributed collaboration.

Maybe others don't understand Lin Hui.

But think about what Zi once said: "A gentleman is in the world, there is nothing suitable, there is nothing, and righteousness is comparable."

Regarding the affairs of the world, the gentleman does not stipulate what must be done, nor what must not be done, but only considers what is appropriate and appropriate, and that is enough.

But in many cases, as long as you feel appropriate to do things, it seems to be an extravagant hope to expect everything to be understood by others.

After all, people today simply don't realize what might happen in a few years.

It is also impossible to understand the necessity of telecommuting or further distributed office.

As for why Lin Hui didn't just try to avoid things after a few years?

Is there really a way to avoid it?

Unless there is a way to eliminate it from the root cause.

Otherwise, it cannot be said that it is impossible to avoid it in a real sense, but I am afraid it will be difficult.

No matter how well you do it, there is no good way to meet someone who likes to raise Gu.

Society is an increasingly open society, and it is impossible to be completely closed.

And taking a step back, a completely closed society may not be able to enjoy its success forever.

Even if it is performed at a higher level, I am afraid that it can only be based on prevention.

And even if the original situation can be avoided.

In the case of malicious manipulation by people with evil intentions behind the scenes.

Who can guarantee that there will be no other situations?
After all, there seems to be more than one species in some labs. . .

……

……

Lin Hui said: "Thank you for your advice. In fact, I think it may not take six months. It is very likely that we will not need to continue to use this software in two or three months."

Huang Jing: "By the way, do you have any customization requirements for the software?"

Lin Hui remembered that Huang Jing just said that when leasing, the software can also be customized and adapted.

Like the current online office system, when you lease, you can choose a cloud deployment solution according to your needs.

Even if it is in-depth customization, even the UI style can be requested separately.

In addition, certain requirements can even be placed on individual subsystems.

Having said that, Lin Hui couldn't think of too specific customization requirements for a while.

Customize a set of UI?Seems unnecessary.

Lin Hui said: "I don't have any requirements for the application at the moment, let's talk about the specifics when the time comes."

Huang Jing nodded, and she also knew that the construction of online office should be combined with the company's own business model and actual needs to formulate corresponding plans and implementation strategies.

These things can only be a detailed plan after consultation.

It is impossible to have any good ideas by relying on quick wit.

Huang Jing then asked: "Then what is there to add to the application?"

Lin Hui thought for a while and said: "By the way, let them change the name of the product. The previous name was too awkward. At least the Chinese name must be changed."

Huang Jing:? ? ?
Is it okay to change the name?
But it doesn't seem impossible.

So Huang Jing asked: "What name should I change?
Although Lin Hui has a lot of good naming schemes for online office software deep in his heart.

But the online telecommuting software F.FSG that is currently rented is destined to be only a temporary emergency.

Such a makeshift thing is still relatively high in the echelon even if it is compared with the same period.

But from the perspective of the next few years, let alone 80 points, it is worrying to score 60 points. In short, it is a failing product.

Not to mention how well in-depth collaboration can be done, even the most basic information noise reduction has yet to be perfected.

In this case, Lin Hui actually didn't pay too much attention to this thing.

Too formal naming seems unnecessary.

The reason for mentioning the issue of naming is only because the software named "F.FSG" is indeed a bit nondescript in Lin Hui's opinion.

Anyway, Lin Hui didn't understand what the name means now.

It's better to change the name, but let's leave it to Huang Jing to change the specific name.

Lin Hui said to Huang Jing: "Let their development team consider this matter, or you can arrange it at all."

Huang Jing nodded, and would definitely convey Lin Hui's thoughts according to Lin Hui's explanation.

As for Lin Hui, what do you think?
Although Lin Hui didn't seem to say anything, it didn't stop Huang Jing from speculating.

Generally speaking, when it comes to adapting applications to customers, it often needs to be substituted into the real usage scenarios of customers, so as to further analyze customer needs.

Although the specific customers are ever-changing, they are nothing more than divided into expert customers, mainstream customers and casual customers.

Expert customers often refer to those who are willing to explore your products and services and are willing to spend time researching new products.

Such customers usually have strong software development capabilities.

In many cases, such users do not need the original team of the software to adapt them individually.

Even the omissions and deficiencies of the original software and bugs will stimulate the DIY fun of such customers. .

Casual customers refer to those who like to use some novel functions. For this kind of customers, it is often just a simple adaptation.

The mainstream customers of the backbone line will not be attracted by the technology of your product, and the purpose of using the product is to complete a certain task.

For such customers, deep adaptation is often required.

Generally speaking, customers will not repeatedly jump between these tabs.

The current situation like Lin Hui is obviously a backbone customer, and it is impossible not to carry out in-depth adaptation for such customers.

Anyway, Huang Jing felt that the reason why Lin Hui mentioned the Chinese naming was not just about thinking about a name.

After all, an impromptu application seems to have no need to waste energy on the name.

Huang Jing felt that Lin Hui was implicitly conveying to Huang Jing to ask the overseas original team to make more designs in line with the habits of Chinese users.

At the same time, we should try our best to take care of Chinese users in the design.

Why didn't Lin Hui make it clear in the customized task earlier?
Huang Jing felt that Lin Hui just missed her acquaintance with the original team of F.FSG, an online office software.

So Lin Hui didn't put forward too many proposals for revision in front of Huang Jing.

(End of this chapter)