Chairman Chen Feng has only returned to the company for more than half a year, so he naturally has to hold a plenary meeting of the company's middle and senior management.
At the meeting, Chen Feng affirmed the efforts of the company over the past six months and comprehensively improved the salary level of the entire company.
In the past time, the Shengtang smartphones produced by Shengtang Technology have been selling well all over the world. Because its experience is not inferior to that of the iPhone, as well as its better cost performance and performance, it soon formed a fierce competition with the iPhone. In just a few months
Time, it takes up half of the smartphone market.
Now in the smartphone market, Shengtang mobile phones have a larger share than the iPhone. After all, in comparison, the iPhone is too expensive and the price/performance ratio is not high.
In some developing countries, mobile phones are the first choice of popular smartphones.
And it is foreseeable that with the passage of time and the continuous updates and improvements of the Android system, the market share of Shengtang mobile phones will continue to increase.
For this reason, the iPhone had to launch a second-generation version with better performance and more functions in advance, but the price is still very impressive. Buying one in European and American countries is a bit distressing, let alone developing countries.
And in fact, in the prosperous Tang Dynasty mobile phones in this time and space, because Chen Feng was proficient in computers and had the help of permanent memory of previous lives, the Android system has been greatly improved from the beginning, and the hardware configuration is even higher than that of the iPhone.
In terms of quality, appearance and performance, it is not necessarily better looking or better than the iPhone, but at least it is not worse.
Therefore, except for some real Apple fans, or people who have a lot of money and like to show off, rational consumers will basically buy Shengtang phones.
After all, there are more people in the world without much money, and rich people are only a minority.
Therefore, the current market value of Shengtang Technology was suddenly valued at US$120 billion, while Apple, in this time and space, has been valued at US$500 billion due to the success of the iPhone.
Of course, in addition to the iPhone, Apple's other products, such as computers and iPads, are also relatively profitable projects, but together they don't make as much money for Apple as the iPhone.
And Shengtang Technology has certainly made a lot of money in the past year with the help of the Detective Android mobile phone. Its net profit is now more than 6 billion US dollars, which can really only be described as violent.
The profitability of the high-tech industry is already high, making money faster than robbing a bank. This is what Chen Feng originally wanted. After all, Apple in the original time and space was a globally recognized profit-making company at that time. And Apple made a lot of money in their country.
After that, he rarely did charity in their country.
For this reason, many media in their country reported and criticized it at the beginning, and then Apple pretended to carry out some charity activities in their country, but it was obviously not very sincere, and the amount of money spent was only the size of their company.
To put it bluntly, it's not even a drop in the bucket.
In fact, Apple is not only like this in their country, but also in other countries including the United States. It is recognized as one of the companies that does the least charity.
To put it simply, Apple is a little unkind for its wealth. To put it more seriously, it is that such a large enterprise with one of the top global market capitalizations lacks a sense of social responsibility.
For such a company, even if the products they produce are indeed very useful and excellent, Chen Feng doesn't have much favorable impressions. He has no shame in stealing their business.
As soon as Chen Feng came back, he raised the salaries of all employees in the company, which of course greatly boosted the morale of the entire company.
In addition, Chen Feng has also made some personnel adjustments. The biggest adjustment is to let his assistant Miranda be in charge of the financial department and perform vertical management. In other words, in principle, the management of the financial department will be taken over by her as the assistant to the chairman.
Well, not even President Charlson has the power to interfere with the finance department.
Regarding the adjustment in this area, Chen Feng had communicated with Charlson in advance. What else could Charlson say about this? Originally, the finance department was not under the control of him, the president. The director of the finance department was not even a Sheng.
The real employees of Tang Technology are people who belong to a third party of the accounting firm.
The two deputy directors, Jie Lina, was originally the confidant of the chairman, Chen Feng, and Sophia was the chairman's sister-in-law. As the president, he had no involvement in the finance department.
Therefore, of course, Charson could only agree to this, and he agreed very happily, without any hesitation or displeasure.
In addition, Chen Feng fired the original director of the human resources department because according to the scoring mechanism of the personnel management system, his score was negative. The main point was that he had received hundreds of complaints in the past year, and they were all serious complaints.
The main problem complained against him by internal employees of Tang Technology Company was that new employees were hired in violation of regulations and those who had just been hired were placed in positions that were not suitable for their work abilities.
There have been more than a dozen confirmed cases. Whether bribes were accepted or not is difficult to investigate. After all, there is no corresponding disciplinary department within the company, and the company is not a police station. It does not have the rights and capabilities in this regard, and there is actually no need.
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As long as it is handled according to the personnel management system, there will basically be nothing wrong. According to Chen Feng's original design of the personnel management system, as long as an employee's score appears negative, the dismissal evaluation process will be entered. After the evaluation and review by the company's senior management, this kind of score will
Employees with negative numbers will basically be fired.
There is no compensation for employees who are fired by the company. At most, they will pay you less than a full month's salary based on a full month's salary.
After the director of the human resources department was sadly asked out of the conference room by two security guards, everyone in the conference room was silent. This can be regarded as killing the chicken and shocking the monkey.
In the past, it was a kindness for Chen Feng to take the initiative to raise salaries for his employees, but now he directly fired a senior executive of the company, which is a sign of authority.
The position of human resources director, and it is still a large company with a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars like Shengtang Technology, is a high-ranking position. The leaders above him are only the president and chairman in name, and even the assistant to the chairman does not manage them in name.
right.
As a result, Chen Feng, the chairman of the board, opened the door as soon as he asked. It can be said that he was decisive in killing.
With the combination of kindness and power, Chen Feng, the chairman who originally had little presence in the company, suddenly established strong authority in the company.
Let everyone begin to truly realize that the boss is the boss, and he has the power of life and death over their employees.
Afterwards, Chen Feng and Miranda temporarily lived in Fremont.
Considering that he would come here often in the future, Chen Feng spent more than 10 million US dollars to buy an independent manor villa here.
This independent manor covers an area of more than 20 acres, with gardens, lawns, and a two-story duplex building with a usable area of almost 3,000 square meters.
In addition, there is a lake more than 100 meters away from this small manor. It is very convenient to go boating on the lake when the weather is fine.
In addition, and more importantly, this manor is only about ten minutes' drive from Shengtang Technology Company, which is very close.
Although it has been built for more than ten years, both the exterior and interior structural decoration are relatively well maintained.
After seeing it, Chen Feng and Miranda were both quite satisfied. They called the lawyers of both parties the next day and completed the deal. At the same time, Chen Feng named the manor Round Lake Manor.
Because the lake more than a hundred meters behind the manor is a round lake.
In addition, Chen Feng, Miranda, Catherine, and Zhao Wenxiu brainstormed together and named the hilltop villa in Beverly Hills Rose Manor.
Because roses have the most flowers at the villa on the top of the mountain, Chen Feng was a little uncomfortable with the name, but the three women all thought it was very good, so Chen Feng had no choice but to agree. Rose will be the rose.
A total of US$14 million was spent to buy and renovate Round Lake Manor, and almost US$3 million was spent on design and decoration. The main payment was overtime pay for the decoration workers because Chen Feng and Miranda wanted to move in early.
The construction period that originally took one month was shortened to two weeks. The effect after the decoration is very good. It was decorated completely according to the renderings given by the design company. It is basically consistent with the renderings, slightly biased towards Tang Guo's.
style, but also takes into account European and American styles.
The sewerage system, heating, power supply, and water supply systems inside have all undergone state-of-the-art renovations.
When Chen Feng brought Miranda, Catherine, Zhao Wenxiu and Emily over for inspection, they all fell in love with this place immediately. Especially Emily, who immediately said rudely that a room would be reserved for her here.
And she said she liked it here more than Rose Hills in Beverly.
One of the main reasons is that standing on the rooftop of the villa here, you can clearly see the turquoise lake not far away, with rippling waves, which is very refreshing.
Moreover, there is an entire glass wall on the second floor, so you can see the lake not far away, and it is sunny. In the winter afternoon, you can sit by the glass wall, drink afternoon tea, chat and look at the scenery while basking in the sun. Don't be too impressed.
Emily's evaluation was unanimously agreed by several other women.
Chen Feng was also very satisfied with the decoration effect here, and they moved in that day.
After that, Chen Feng continued to stay here and took full control of the operations of Shengtang Technology. Of course, as the chairman, he did not directly intervene in the specific work within the company, but exercised control in some general directions.
For example, Chen Feng must strictly control the quality of the company's raw material procurement. Every time the spare parts come in, Chen Feng must personally check and strictly inspect them.
There is also the company's sales policy and strategy. Chen Feng also formulated the overall direction, rather than letting those in the marketing department work independently. Of course, the specific sales strategies and methods must be flexible according to different regions and countries.
Change.
Generally speaking, the sales strategy formulated by Chen Feng is to first establish his own local companies in various countries and regions around the world, and then choose general agent, franchise or self-operated methods to develop and establish sales channels according to the different political and economic environments of each country.
In short, the goal is to capture more of the smartphone market as quickly as possible.
Due to political pressure, the Android company can only persist for one more year at most, and the authorization of the Android system will be opened after one year. By then, Android phones will not only be Shengtang phones. Many Android smartphones will
will be developed.
Therefore, before that, we must capture as much of the smartphone market share as possible. At the same time, Shengtang Technology will also start to develop its own system based on Android, just like the mobile phone systems of certain Hua mobile phones and certain Mi mobile phones in the past.
They are all based on the Android system and then optimized and improved.
It is one of the few Android systems recognized as easy to use.
In this regard, developers must be recruited. Talents in this area are still easy to find here in Silicon Valley. Chen Feng himself is now a senior programmer and software engineer. In addition, the Android company belongs to him, and he can start from the Android company.
Seconded some developers.
In this way, plus recruiting some software developers, it doesn't need to be many, just a dozen or so people.
To this end, Chen Feng set up a research and development department, which for the time being only conducts research and development on system software. Chen Feng personally leads it. Noah, a bald Jewish engineer dispatched by the Android company, is the leader of the Android system optimization team, and he is personally responsible for it.
Specific system optimization architecture.
Chen Feng put forward some suggestions for improvement and optimization, and Noah took the lead in implementing them.
After the research and development on system optimization and upgrading was implemented, Chen Feng began to recruit more people to start hardware research and development. To this end, he also hired engineers from several hardware manufacturers with high salaries, and they took the lead, plus ten recruited people.
Several top science students from Ivy League universities serve as members of the research and development team.
For a moment, Chen Feng felt like he had a strong army.
At the same time, Shengtang Technology has also begun preparing to launch its second upgraded version of its smartphone, which is scheduled for New Year's Day next year.
At this time, it has begun to be publicized in major media around the world. Without spending any money from Shengtang Technology, countless media have spontaneously published news about Shengtang Technology's second generation mobile phone.
In mid-November, Shengtang Technology released the concept drawings and performance parameters of the Shengtang second-generation mobile phone. It immediately became the most popular technology news and real-time news of the day.
It’s not much better than the iPhone 2 launch conference.
The second generation mobile phone of Tang Dynasty had actually been finalized and had technical parameters before the first generation was released. Now when it is announced, production has actually started.
Of course I learned this trick from the iPhone, but I have to say it’s very easy to use.
After Chen Feng worked in Fremont for more than a month, he returned to Los Angeles. Apart from him, Miranda, Catherine, and Zhao Wenxiu all stayed in Fremont.
Although Fremont is not as prosperous as Los Angeles, the three women all like Round Lake Manor very much, and they all have things to do at Shengtang Technology.
Miranda has been working hard to learn financial knowledge since she took over the finance department. For this reason, she also hired a professional in this field and a senior accountant to be her tutor, one-on-one teaching, and it is all practical knowledge. The tuition fee is one per hour.
Thousand US dollars, two days each weekend, it will take at least 10 class hours, which is ten thousand US dollars.
However, this senior accountant is indeed very capable. After more than a month, Miranda became proficient in handling the company's financial statements.