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Chapter 163 The Boss Who Can't Be Persuaded (600 subscriptions plus updates)
January 1, Saturday, the fourteenth day of the twelfth lunar month.

At 9:[-] in the morning, the year-end board meeting of CPI Group officially started.

In past life and present life, Gao Yang participated in the board of directors of the group for the first time. Today, he is a non-voting attendee in name.

Besides Gao Yang, the others are the CEO and vice president, as well as the CFO and CTO.

Gao Yang and Wan Hong arrived at the meeting room 10 minutes earlier. The senior executives of the group who entered the meeting room earlier, including CEO Yang Limin, warmly greeted Gao Yang, congratulated him, and praised him.

Gao Yang handed out a cigarette to all the bongs, expressing his thanks for everyone's congratulations.

Gao Yang already knew last night that these leaders almost all stood up and spoke out for his year-end bonus.

Today's meeting agenda is to discuss some key issues at the group level in 2002.

CEO Yang Limin said: "The first item on the agenda of today's meeting is to establish a new project, CPI Map Company, to provide telecom value-added services. Next, let's ask CTO Gong Jian to introduce the project background, market prospects, etc...."

Hearing Yang Limin's words, Gao Yang was a little confused for a moment.

I quickly remembered that CPI had suffered a lot from this new project. In my memory, it seemed that this project had been done for about four years, and eventually lost tens of millions and had to stop.

However, Gao Yang in his previous life had never participated in the board of directors and had little contact with this project. Instead, like all the employees of the group, he did free volunteers for this project.

That is to sweep the streets and accumulate map data, similar to the street view map application of later generations.

Then, CTO Gong Jian began to talk about the PPT, and blah blah blah introduced the bright future of this project.

Gao Yang also understood roughly that CPI took advantage of its human resource advantages in its national structure, and has more than 600 employees distributed in various provinces and cities across the country. It signed an agreement of intent with the mobile company to provide value-added development services for its MMS business.

In this era, telecom operators have just started to promote MMS, and they are ambitious, because the SMS service is super profitable. If the application of MMS can also be popularized, it will be a huge profit.

This is the so-called mobile multimedia application.

However, although Gao Yang doesn't understand these techniques, he also knows that they are too advanced.

Multimedia applications such as maps have only been successfully popularized in the era of mobile Internet.

For CPI, this is a big pit.

What CPI sees is that it has more than 20 branches in major provincial capital cities across the country, and more than 600 employees across the country. It arranges for everyone to use their spare time and just sweep the streets.

The labor cost is very low.

Then, the development department collects these data, develops MMS maps, and cooperates with telecom operators to obtain MMS revenue share.

Unfortunately, the ideal is very full, the reality is very skinny.

After the establishment of the project itself, in addition to technical research and development personnel, 30 new people will be recruited, and they will be stationed in branches across the country to organize and execute data collection tasks.

From the perspective of human resources, this is actually a large project that requires a team of at least 50 people.

Then, everyone started to discuss enthusiastically, and everyone was very optimistic about the prospects of this project.

The SMS service of telecom operators is terrible. If the multimedia MMS service is popularized and the street view map service of CPI can be successfully promoted, it will be a lie and enjoy the share.

The initial street view map data collection was really troublesome, but we have a large number of people and strong strength, which is also the advantage of CPI.

In addition, the initial product development requires a relatively large investment, but as long as it is successful, the annual cost will be very low in the future, mainly due to the regular update of map data.

In good conscience, Gao Yang also made a statement, reminding to pay attention to the risk that the MMS business will not develop and the economies of scale will not meet expectations.

Because MMS is too expensive, although mobile phones have begun to spread, they are mainly in big cities.In small and medium-sized cities, many people still cannot afford mobile phones.

Unfortunately, Gao Yang's voice was drowned out by everyone's enthusiasm.

Gao Yang doesn't understand these technical issues, and his predictions are not convincing.

Boss Feng's determination is also great, which is what he is used to, thinking of doing big things with small money and doing projects at low cost.

Gao Yang can't persuade now, because this project has already been approved, and today more discussion is about how to implement it.

The second agenda is to split the SMB special issue from the national version project, establish a new project, operate completely independently, and set up the project general manager, editor-in-chief, editorial department and advertising department.

This is a cut from the national version of the project, Gao Yang wanted to dissuade it, but finally let it go.

After the Spring Festival, I will definitely be promoted to vice president of the group.

From the perspective of the group, it is obvious that the SMB special issue is set up as an independent project, and its development is more favorable.

Gao Yang could only express his support, and suggested to promote Song Liangqiu as the general manager and editor-in-chief of the project, which was also the idea of ​​the boss and CEO.

Song Liangqiu led three reporters and two full-time advertising salesmen last year. They did a good job and made nearly 3 million sales, although it is not entirely due to him.

Song Liangqiu is the most suitable candidate.

For other matters, that is, the replacement or dismissal of general managers of some branches and individual project general managers, Gao Yang only attended today and did not make any further comments.

Today's board meeting was only open for half a day. We had lunch together at noon. After 4 pm, Gao Yang, Wan Hong, and Feng Maonan were about to return to Beijing.

After the meal, Boss Feng summoned Gao Yang alone in his office.

"The National Edition did very well last year. The pressure produced momentum and miracles. The board of directors recognized your performance.

Feng Maonan has applied to be transferred back to the headquarters for two consecutive years. He and his family have been separated for several years, and the board of directors has approved it.

The board of directors decided after research that the heavy burden of the capital branch will be handed over to you and Wan Hong.

The SMB project began to operate independently in 2002. This project was planned by you, and you were in charge of the three projects of the National Edition, SMB and CPI Research.

Wan Hong is in charge of other projects and after-work work. "

What else could Gao Yang say, so he could only say: "Thanks to Mr. Feng and the board of directors for their trust in me."

Boss Feng asked again: "In 2002, what do you think of these three projects?"

Gao Yang thought about it: "After SMB operates independently, if the team works together, it should be able to achieve more than 1000 million.

In 2001, excluding SMBs, the national edition made a performance of 4800 million. Although it was possible to replicate the touring regional channel forum in 2002, no matter how planned, it was difficult to achieve the revenue in 2001.

In 2002, the national version could reach 4000 million, which required the entire project team to work hard. "

Boss Feng nodded: "Your analysis of the national edition in 2002 is similar to the judgment of the board of directors. The board of directors decided to appoint Fang Jian as the general manager and editor-in-chief of the national edition, and Zhang Yue as the executive editor-in-chief. What do you think?"

Gao Yang nodded: "The two of them are indeed the most suitable candidates. Fang Jian has this ability, and Zhang Yue still has room for growth. He is very hardworking."

Boss Feng nodded: "Then arrange it like this."

In the memory of Gao Yang's previous life, in 2002, Fang Jian did serve as the general manager of the project, and he himself continued to be the executive editor.

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