In Taiwan this concept, most recently in the domestic hot. Ali, Tencent, Baidu, Jingdong, the US group, and pieces such as a public Internet giant, from last year to this year, began a series of organizational changes architecture, construction intentions in Taiwan. A lot of people think that the station is not the magic solution to all problems, small companies do not need the table, only to a certain size of company to require in Taiwan. It is not to have the station? In Taiwan for what stage / size of the company? It may be worth a discussion.
1. What is in Taiwan, in the end to solve the problem?
The first extends from the "medium and large units, small reception" strategy proposed by Ali in 2015 out of the concept, inspired by a small company in Finland Supercell-- company with only 300 employees, has launched a series of explosive games, is the world's most profitable star game company. This seemingly small companies, setting up a robust technology platform to support a large number of small game development team. In this way, they can focus on innovation, do not worry about technical support issues basic but essential. It is precisely small company, creating a middle-of "play" and apply it to the extreme.
Supercell how to be successful?
- The best team to create the best game , a game company, according to a professional sports team approach to management. In this mode, the founder and only mission is to obtain the best management talent to create the best environment for them, give them the freedom and confidence to help them out of trouble, making the company one of the best talent can produce where the greatest impact
- A complete reversal of the management structure , the 300-person team is divided into several small groups, 5-7 game developers form a small team to develop their own games, the fastest launch of a public beta, testing by the users of the game . The small team is also known as "cells" (cell), Supercell is a collection of these cells, which is the origin Supercell company name.
- Small but excellent team, a core "cell" is usually only 5 people, most no more than seven people. Staff small but fine, there is full freedom. A small team of trial and error means that the cost is not too high, even though the time and direction can be adjusted and change to meet the rapidly changing needs of the market, grasp of the more agile fighter, once found the right target, we can devote to build on . They will give everyone within the company to share all information. Every morning, everyone will receive mail, including detailed data of each game, the working environment is very transparent. Good game performance, everyone can see, if not the performance, everyone also knows that. As a result, the formation of relatively large pressure work environment, but for the right person, this is also the driving force of their efforts.
- Stifle unsuccessful projects , R & D team to decide creativity and ideas, but they also set goals for their projects . For example, a new project before the test, the team will set an indicator, such as the player retention, engagement, and then this goal to tell the whole company. After the game into the test, if not reach the targets, it will be canceled, no matter how much I love the team members can not stop. In Supercell, failure is never shameful record, but rather a progressive and dynamic. Unique "celebrate failure" rooted in its corporate culture, Panna Ning said: "We are built on the lessons learned from the failure of this company fail faster, the faster we learn, will become. the better. "
The so-called "Middle Office" was in fact born a platform for the reception, the sole purpose of its existence is to better serve the foreground large-scale innovation, and thus better serve customers, to enable enterprises to truly continue to butt their capabilities and user needs
2. The advantages and disadvantages?
Taiwan is to some extent in the foreground born! For business agility, innovation! There are the following three features:
- Agile business needs change quickly, change calculated in days or even less frequency, a single large-scale applications, large development teams to change a single application is becoming increasingly difficult. The large application into a number of small applications portfolio, in order to adapt to rapid changes in the external, to achieve agile business.
- Decoupling With the interaction between business development, business systems often become more complex. A modification function may affect many aspects. Only you need a lot of interaction function independently from the dismantling of the application, which can make a substantial decline in the degree of coupling between applications.
- Reuse some public capacity by multiplexing greatly improve development efficiency and avoid duplication. At the same time such that data and processes can be centralized management and optimization.
So Taiwan should be included in what things? In station generally be divided into three levels: service level, the data level and the underlying technology.
- Business desk business services will be combined into a public demand business services, such as electricity supplier companies, customers, trade, logistics, payment is the public needs, such as car manufacturers, users, vehicles, orders, deliveries are public demand. The combination of these public services into a unified business services for the business units to use.
- Data in the table Data Services data era, businesses are increasingly dependent on data, include: governance data collection, data processing, algorithms and data analysis, reporting, and data.
- Art station based services are often the underlying service, oriented technology. The underlying technologies include: security authentication, rights management, workflow engine, portal, news, announcements, etc. These components are usually not associated with a business degree, belonging to the function of each application needs to use.
At this stage, most of the proposed strategy in Taiwan or Taiwan and medium-sized construction companies, most of them have a similar predicament. The rapid development of business for many years, many die-hard problems or solve problems in a large number of "repeat-create the wheel," the concept in Taiwan, in many cases because of the large developments fit the company's business, we have been widely recognized. For many small companies, when they get out the plight of survival, into a stage of rapid development, we will encounter many problems, but the probability of a large problem encountered is that the past business model, product capability is likely not fully undertake live pressure brought massive subscriber growth.
3 How to build in Taiwan?
Construction of the station is not so easy task. First, to establish "in Taiwan" supporting relevant management mechanism, followed by the establishment of application architecture, starting from the base relatively easy sharing services, customized to fit with the business of business units. In the process of establishing the station, supporting the need for back-end infrastructure of running. Construction stage can be summarized as five steps.
- Establish a rational management system established in Taiwan, should not make the project system, the station needs to use product management approach to treatment. This is because the service station to provide both need to keep iterations, adapt to the needs of business, or over time, because the reception desk offers services in curing, and had no choice but to create a new service to meet business needs, do not use in Taiwan gradually provided public services. For products in Taiwan, the question must be thinking that this feature now or in the future the number of business scenarios to meet? If the future emergence of new business, is not able to reuse? Or, how much adjustment needs to be done before they can reuse? Even, this function may have no external output, providing SaaS services.
- Build infrastructure for enterprise applications business and different Alibaba, Alibaba is basically a C-terminal applications, electricity providers, entertainment and consumption. They are their own business systems development. Enterprises are heavy historical burden, self-development capacity is not strong, both to buy commercial software, there are self-developed systems. For example, manufacturers of both back-end SAP ERP, PLM, MES, WMS and other systems, over the years has generated externally facing electricity supplier, customer service, marketing, service and other front-end system. As the front-end system changes quickly to market needs, the system requires an iterative calculation speed in weeks or even days, while the traditional application background, changes and iterations are usually calculated in months or even years.
- Provide the basis for a shared services basis shared services is the basis for the technical aspects of the common shared services, because most services is the integration of functions, it can also be referred to as "integration stage." Roughly follows the shared public services:
4. data sets into the data era (DT), more and more awareness of the importance of data enterprises. Collection of data, analysis and calculation, the depth of learning, and the transfer of the core competitiveness of enterprises.
The business units in service in Taiwan every business is different, it is highly personalized, can not be obtained through direct purchase, because it is closely related to the business. Taiwan business requires long-term precipitation, abstract and generalize. Taiwan to build a business is not an overnight thing.
