Talking about the new changes in the future office, Lenovo joins hands with ecological partners to create a new way of smart office

July 16, 2020, Beijing - Today, the cloud dialogue on "New Office Changes in the Post-epidemic Era" was officially held. This dialogue was co-hosted by Lenovo Commercial and Caixin Cloud Venue. It focused on new digital technologies and the new future office pattern, and discussed how enterprises can take the initiative to change in the post-epidemic era, implement both "soft and hard", and use digital transformation to generate future office methods. , enabling long-term development. During the event, Wang Liping, General Manager of Lenovo China's Commercial Key Account Division, Li Gang, General Manager of Microsoft's China Cloud Service Channel Business, Kang Yanrong, General Manager of Alibaba's Dingding Special Channel Cooperation Department, and Wu Shanshan, Managing Director of Accenture's Greater China Strategic Business , Chen Hualiang, Vice President of Daily Fresh Data Intelligence, and Evernote Senior Vice President, Housewarming, attended and discussed hot topics such as smart office, remote collaboration, and digital management.

"New Office Changes in the Post-epidemic Era" Cloud Dialogue Officially Held

The epidemic has stimulated digital transformation, and enterprises can be reborn with dynamic response

"The epidemic has stimulated the digital transformation of enterprises, which is an indisputable fact." Talking about the trend of industry changes in the post-epidemic period, Wang Liping, general manager of Lenovo China's Commercial Key Account Division, said, "Specifically, digital transformation will bring Several changes—improving business efficiency, improving user experience, and deepening marketing outreach—are all tangible benefits of digital technology.”

Wang Liping, General Manager of Lenovo China's Commercial Key Account Division, shared the industry change trend during the post-epidemic period

In 2020, in the face of "black swan" events such as the new crown epidemic, more and more enterprises have begun to actively seek changes and accelerate digital transformation. According to relevant research, digital technology can effectively support growing enterprises to resume production and operation. The sooner digital countermeasures are taken, the faster the integration of online and offline can be accelerated, and the management reform and operation optimization can be realized.

Thanks to digital technology, Lenovo factories resumed 100% work in April and increased factory production capacity by 40%; Microsoft joined hands with Lenovo during the epidemic to serve fast-growing companies and help them start offline offices; Accenture DingTalk has digitized and digitized products, and flexibly realized remote consultation and delivery; DingTalk has served 300 million users and more than 15 million growing enterprises and organizations during the epidemic, helping them work from home and stop classes without stopping; Evernote records and manages information through information recording and management. , to better form the connection between people and information; based on the analysis and prediction of data, Daily Youxian realizes the efficient operation of the chain of mining, distribution and sales.

Digital drive, unbounded collaboration, the general trend of smart office

Behind the achievements of digital transformation is the flexible adjustment of the company's internal "muscles". As Wu Shanshan, managing director of Accenture Greater China Strategy Business, said, "The success of digital transformation requires five 'living elements' - living strategy, living customer insights, living ecology, living data, and living Organization." Among them, as the key to supporting "living organization", the new smart office model is increasingly becoming the core driving force of enterprise innovation.

Different from the traditional offline office mode, under the smart office form, employees are no longer in the same physical space, and their collaboration methods are constantly changing to network and virtualization. This "discrete" office method not only requires enterprises to build a collaborative method in different places and time, to effectively organize productivity across time and space, but also needs to upgrade a flexible and personalized management structure, with intelligent and flexible organization. Management, create a humanized office experience, and release the productivity and innovation capabilities of enterprises.

With the normalization of the epidemic, the development process of smart office is also accelerating. Through online productivity tools, Microsoft has broken down the barriers to collaboration between global teams and met the flexible needs of cross-border office; Online organization, online communication, online collaboration, online business, and online ecology” to improve the overall efficiency of digital office; Evernote breaks department boundaries in remote collaboration and realizes cross-departmental information sharing and efficient collaboration; more importantly, , As Lenovo recently released the RISE intelligent service ecological strategy, Lenovo expressed its hope to use its own advantages to build a smart office scene with ecological partners to help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency, bring better employee experience, and improve efficiency. .

Integration of software and hardware, Lenovo joins hands with partners to build a smart office ecosystem

The new smart office requires not only the efforts of an enterprise, but also the co-creation of an ecosystem. By introducing upstream and downstream partners in the industry chain to jointly establish a "living ecosystem", the form of smart office can be iteratively upgraded in the collision, thereby meeting the needs of the industry and users.

Specifically, "It is thanks to the development of China's infrastructure, cloud, and collaborative application software that we have the strength of 'soft and hard' in collaborative office, remote office, and smart office. Only smart office can truly help enterprises Facing new challenges flexibly, freeing employees from repetitive and cumbersome processes to focus on creative work, stimulates great synergy and innovation,” shared Wang Liping, general manager of Lenovo China’s Commercial Key Account Division.

However, the implementation and upgrading of smart office is not achieved overnight, but a complex and time-consuming process. In the process of building a new form of smart office, enterprises may face pain points such as complex terminal product models, complex management of multi-brand and multi-type equipment, low software collaboration and compatibility, and untimely response to follow-up services, which affects the procurement of office terminals. , adaptation, and operation and maintenance put forward higher requirements.

Lenovo launches Easy Office solution to help enterprises open up a new form of smart office

In order to help enterprises better cope with the pain points and needs of smart office, Lenovo has launched a package of easy office solutions, providing digital services including product customization, rapid delivery, IT consulting, DaaS, etc., to facilitate corporate customers to be more flexible and easy. Build your own smart office scene.

In the future, Lenovo will also make an all-out effort to smart office, join hands with more ecological partners to promote the smart office ecosystem, help enterprises break through the existing productivity shackles, reduce costs and increase efficiency, and bring better employee experience.