Video Game Empire

The wave of globalization in the computer industry has made the software industry that relies on it flourish. More and more companies begin to adopt computerized office, which naturally creates a huge demand market for professional software.

For example, the small company founded by his friend Gu Jinhong mentioned earlier is engaged in the import and export of fabrics. In recent years, more and more Hong Kong bosses have moved their factories to the mainland, where labor costs are lower. Gu Jinhong's friend was also forced to follow suit and moved his company's stocking warehouse to the mainland in order to better serve customers.

The company had previously built an inventory warehouse in the Deep Sea Special Zone, and recently it was planning to go to Guangdong to build a new warehouse. In order to reduce logistics costs, many products will be sent directly to mainland China after placing orders with upstream manufacturers, instead of being re-exported through Hong Kong.

But as a result, the company's inventory account management has also become more complex and cumbersome. So Gu Jinhong's friend came to the door, hoping that he could help make a special inventory management software.

As far as Gu Jinhong knew, Dongfang Software Company had already started to develop various enterprise management software before it was split into two. After the completion of the split of Oriental Software, the three major parts of desktop office software, database software and enterprise management software have been classified under the banner of Oriental Business Software.

Although Gu Jinhong Gu was assigned to work at the application software company at the beginning, he knew that there was an invoicing software at Dongfang Business Soft, which could actually solve his friend's problem perfectly.

That software is so powerful that it has been chosen by several large companies, including General Motors and Westinghouse, to help improve their inventory management. But it is precisely because the products of Dongfang Shangsoft are too powerful that ordinary small and medium-sized companies cannot afford them. There is no need for such high-end software at all.

In fact, it took Gu Jinhong a week or two to come up with a software that met the requirements of his friends. The price tag of 10,000 yuan offered by his friend. It's easy to get it, and this is equivalent to one month's salary of Gu Jinhong when he worked in Dongfang Yingsoft Company.

If he is just a person who is content with little wealth and peace. The current income is enough to satisfy him. However, Gu Jinhong is reluctant to accept such small orders, because for such small customers, selling software is only part of the entire business, and more troublesome is the problem of after-sales maintenance.

Because the users of the software are rarely computer technical experts, most of them are company clerks who can only operate computers simply. If you encounter a little problem, they will call to let you go. For Dongfang Soft Company, they have dedicated after-sales engineers to solve problems for customers, and this part of the cost has actually been pre-calculated into the sales price.

And if Gu Jinhong has to come to the door to solve various entry-level problems for customers every three or five times, then his future work will not be able to start. But if Gu Jinhong can be favored by customers like Dongfang Game Company. The situation is completely different.

If Dongfang Game Company casually gave him a small amount of work, it was enough for Gu Jinhong to go out to pick up dozens of small orders. More importantly, a large company like Dongfang Games has high management standards and clear requirements, and the responsibilities and obligations of each step are very detailed and clear. Gu Jinhong only needs to complete his tasks step by step according to the contract requirements.

In the past, Gu Jinhong was like this when he worked in Dongfang Yingsoft Company. Every new project will formulate a detailed development plan. The whole project is broken down into many small parts, and everyone knows exactly what they are responsible for and the time limit for completion.

If you're slowing down, the architects responsible for orchestrating the decision will come to analyze why. If it is because of some unexpected problems. The project team will mobilize additional capable forces to tackle key problems.

Therefore, if Gu Jinhong can cooperate with a major client like Dongfang Game Company, unless the tasks he takes over exceed his ability, he will actually be very relieved. But his biggest problem now is that he is not qualified to talk about cooperation at all.

In fact, Gu Jinhong himself worked for the Oriental Application Software Company before. It also meets the basic conditions that he believes are necessary to adopt programming outsourcing. For example, the new-generation graphics operating system being developed by Dongfang Yingsoft Co., Ltd. may have more than 5 million lines of code in total, which is an extremely complex system engineering.

It's just that Gu Jinhong is a former employee of Dongfang Yingsoft Company. I am very aware of the degree of secrecy of my company's operating system development, which has reached a perverted level. I don't want to let outsiders interfere at all. So he gave up at the beginning and planned to take orders from his original company.

certainly. In fact, this also has a lot to do with the small self-esteem in his heart. Although he finally resigned in name, he was actually swept out of the company by the company. As the saying goes, good horses don't eat back, so he would rather contact his friend Wen Zichao and ask him to help see if there is any chance of cooperation from Dongfang Game Company.

"What's the situation in your company now?" Wen Zichao asked curiously while drinking coffee. He knew that Gu Jinhong had started a company by himself, but it was not clear how far it had progressed.

"I just rented the venue last week, it's on the sixth floor of An Hua Building across the road! I just hired a front desk operator yesterday, and I've been interviewing software engineers for the past few days, and I already have two candidates with good skills.

I'm also going to dig Di Tuolun and Lucky Kun, who were in the same class with us at the beginning, and if I add up to five people myself, I can basically build the company's technical framework! "Gu Jinhong said about his company, his eyes brightened a lot, and he began to introduce enthusiastically.

"I've really convinced you. You've hired so many people as soon as you come up. Your family can't stand your splurge. I think you can pay a few months' wages?" Wen Zichao interrupted rudely. Gu Jinhong's words.

"Hey, running a company is really a waste of money, and you need money in all aspects! The funds I have left now are only enough to pay three months' salary at most. If I can't get on the right track within three months, I can only close down!" Gu Jinhong sighed and said helplessly.

"Di Tuolun and Lucky Kun's skills are still good, but you have to play with their classmates, but don't cheat your classmates!" Wen Zichao said with a smile.

The two names "Di Tuolun" and "Lucky Kun". It was the flower name of the two classmates when they were in class at the Oriental Academy. "Floor mop" is another name for Rolex watches in Hong Kong. At the beginning, Di Tuolun especially liked to show off the watch on his wrist, so he was given this nickname by others.

The origin of Lucky Kun is even simpler. This guy once went to Happy Valley to watch a horse race, bought three consecutive wins, and even won all of them, his luck was unbelievable. It's just that when they graduated from the software programming intensive class of Dongfang College, they were not selected by Dongfang Group.

"If you don't curse me, I will die!" Gu Jinhong said angrily.

"I'm sorry, I overheard some conversations between the two of you just now, and I'm very curious about the concept of programming outsourcing proposed by this gentleman!" Li Xuan did not know when he had come to the two of them and said with a smile.

Gu Jinhong is not hesitant about others eavesdropping on his conversation, in these entrepreneurial cafes in the Fotan Industrial Zone. It is normal for strangers to suddenly join in to discuss topics of common interest.

As the saying goes, once you are born twice, many friendships are established in this kind of open-air chat. And Li Xuan may be the first person Gu Jinhong has met who is interested in his ideas these days.

So he waved his hand very enthusiastically and asked Li Xuan to sit down, and then began to introduce: "I'm Gu Jinhong, this is my old friend Wen Zichao, what's your name sir?"

"My friends call me nn!" Li Xuan reported his English name.

Gu Jinhong didn't take it seriously. There are many returnees in the Hong Kong circle, and many people are more accustomed to introducing their English names. In fact, many primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong adopt bilingual teaching. Like Gu Jinhong himself, he has been using English names since elementary school.

It's just that although the Oriental Group has high requirements for employees' English ability when recruiting, it is to facilitate smooth communication between colleagues from different countries. And in Hong Kong headquarters. Li Xuan, the ****, seldom uses English names to address other colleagues.

And everyone has naturally noticed the preference of hitting the boss, so under the effect of upstream and downstream, Oriental Group is not as popular as other companies in Hong Kong with English names. On the contrary, many foreign colleagues came to Hong Kong. Following the local customs, he chose a Chinese name for himself.

Gu Jinhui's nervousness does not mean that Wen Zichao, who is next to him, is also unaware. Li Xuan just dressed himself up a little younger today. I didn't put on makeup before going out.

And the recognition rate of his face in Hong Kong is actually not low, but even if some people think that he looks a lot like "God of Fortune Li". He wouldn't really think that the person he accidentally bumped into on the street was Li Xuan himself.

Li Xuan's English name is "nn". Although this news is not widely spread, it does not mean that no one knows about it. Wen Zichao was just one of those who knew, because a colleague who worked in the same office as him originally had an English name of nn, but he soon changed it.

For many Hong Kongers, changing their English name is by no means a decision taken lightly. Because this name is not only called by friends and classmates from childhood to adulthood, but may even be directly entered into personal official identity information. Because Hong Kong is a British colony, English is the real official language, so every Hong Konger must have an official English name.

However, Wen Zichao's colleague said that he would change it, because his boss accidentally called his English name once. As a result, President Du Wenqiang, who was standing by the side, subconsciously changed to a solemn attitude, thinking that it was Li Xuan.

Although it was just a misunderstanding, everyone laughed at it at the time. But Wen Zichao's colleagues quickly changed his English name, because to some extent, this may affect his future development.

The current position of this colleague is not high, but if he becomes able to meet Du Wenqiang, the boss of the company, after being promoted in the future, it may be embarrassing for him to have the same English name as the big boss.

Everyone knows that Du Wenqiang, the president of Dongfang Game Company, is Li Sheng's top confidant and a veteran of the founding dynasty. He must have called Li Xuan's English name a lot before, but now suddenly there is a new "nn" in front of him, wouldn't it feel awkward?

And which leader is really willing to promote, a subordinate who makes him feel very awkward! These are office politics that can only be understood and unspoken! From this little anecdote that happened to a colleague, Wen Zichao firmly remembered that the English name of his big boss "God of Fortune Li" was nn.

Now he looked at the man in front of him, who had a similar appearance to Li, whose English name was also called nn, and couldn't help but have some doubts. It's a pity that Wen Zichao didn't have the chance to get close to Li Xuan before, so he didn't dare to really confirm Li Xuan's identity, but just quietly began to observe Li Xuanlai.

"nn, do you also agree with my programming outsourcing model?" Gu Jinhong said excitedly, "The programmers recruited by Dongfang Group in Hong Kong are only paid one-third of the salary of those American colleagues in the Silicon Valley branch, so Dongfang The group is more willing to recruit people on a large scale in Hong Kong!

The salary and benefits provided by the Oriental Group in Hong Kong are actually twice that of other similar companies in Hong Kong! Recruiting the best talents with the best treatment is a basic policy that Oriental Group has always implemented in Hong Kong, and it will not be shaken easily!

However, this approach has also greatly pushed up the operating costs of the Oriental Group~www.readwn.com~ In the long run, it is actually not conducive to the development of the company! Therefore, how to effectively reduce operating expenses without changing the treatment of employees is bound to be a problem that the executives of Oriental Group have to consider in the future!

And I think that for technology-oriented companies such as Dongfang Game Company, Dongfang Application Software Company, and Dongfang Research Institute, it is completely possible to reasonably control the scale of self-employed employees, use good steel on the edge, and use less important ones. Outsource the work to other companies to help with it!

Before, Oriental Group believed that in the entire production cycle of a product, the R&D and distribution links were the most critical, and manufacturing was not important. Therefore, from the beginning of the arcade industry, Dongfang Group has firmly outsourced all the manufacturing links!

And if this idea continues to deepen, in fact, not all links in the entire R&D process are so important. Can those unimportant links be outsourced?

For complex software like an operating system, the structure and algorithms are undoubtedly very important! As long as the structure of the software is good and the algorithm is good, even if the code is longer and the efficiency is lower, the actual operating efficiency may not be unacceptable! And after the requirements for code simplification are reduced, those engineers who are not so sharp can also participate in the development qualifications! To be continued..)