Think tank is a popular saying at present. There have been many names in history, such as men and women, military strategist, counselor, consultant and so on. Think tanks played a very important role in ancient military and other political activities. For example, it is recorded in history books and art books that Sun Wu contributed to He Lv, Wu Qi contributed to Wei Wenhou and Sun Bin contributed to Qi Weiwang. Here, Sun Wu, Wuqi and Sun Bin are all counselors.
In modern management, with the rapid development of science and technology and the great challenge of globalization, the worldwide competition intensifies, people pay more attention to think tanks, forming think tank organizations and think tank systems, serving enterprises and society as a group organization, which is the so-called think tank problem.
"Two heads are better than one", which shows that the power of "think tank" cannot be ignored. In modern society, "think tank", also known as think tank, think tank, think tank organization and consultant team, is an organization that produces specialized knowledge and ideas.
Leading geese and think tanks
Carnegie, the founder of American steel company, once said, "Take all my factories, equipment, markets and funds. As long as I keep my members, I will still be the king of steel in four years. " Carnegie, who likes to create wealth and share it with others, can be said to be an advocate of the principle of think tanks.
Look at those migratory birds migrating south. They fly in a "V" shape in order to use the strength of the group and reduce the resistance caused by the airflow during flight. The leading geese suffered the most resistance, so they took turns to lead. According to the research of physicists, the distance of collective flight is more than 72% farther than that of solo flight. An enterprise, like a strict array, is led by its elite, and the elite is the think tank in the enterprise.
A think tank is a group of two or more people who work for the same goal with a harmonious attitude and positive spirit.
Carnegie, the founder of American steel company, is an excellent "leading goose". The great wealth he has is the crystallization of collective wisdom. He is not an arbitrary chaebol, he likes to create wealth and share it with others. It can be said that he is an advocate of the principle of think tanks.
Carnegie was originally a little-known coolie who knew little about steel. The secret of his success lies in making good use of the advantages of talents and technology and concentrating them under his command. So, he recruited talents everywhere and formed a think tank composed of more than 50 experts. They advised him to solve some difficult problems in production and operation. It is this combination of powerful forces that has produced iron-like trust in American history.
Paying attention to talents, knowing people and being good at their duties are the first keys to Carnegie's success. Carnegie said, "My job is to inspire their confidence and desire and provide the best service." He regards talents as the most precious wealth of the enterprise: "Take away all my factories, equipment, markets and funds, and as long as I keep my members, I will still be the king of steel in four years."
In Carnegie's think tank, experts from all sides have become a reasonable and intelligent organization, which can provide practical solutions to any major problems in time, thus promoting the sustainable development of the cause.
Carnegie inspires every member with his charm, perseverance and clear goals. He knows every member of the think tank, and frankly meets with them, trusts each other, treats others fairly, and gives them due benefits and entertainment, thus generating great centripetal force and cohesion. His company continues to expand and has become the largest and most powerful super steel enterprise in the United States, with 250,000 employees.
After Carnegie's death, people wrote on his tombstone: There is a person buried here, and his greatest ability is to organize people who are better than himself into the institutions he manages.
This is not only a pertinent evaluation and admiration for Carnegie's life, but also a far-reaching influence and enlightenment to the world. Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia, Haier Group ... All the outstanding industrial giants, without exception, have think tanks to strategize for them, thus winning thousands of miles.
Analyze the function of think tank with examples.
From 65438 to 0982, Bill Gates appeared on the cover of American Money magazine. The magazine commented: "You can like him or hate him, but you can't ignore him." Indeed, this symbolic figure symbolizing the high-tech elite has dominated and continues to dominate a brand-new era.
Nowadays, no one can deny the success of Gates and Microsoft. Excellent talents are undoubtedly the magic weapon for Gates to quickly dominate the software market. In the reporter's question, Bill Gates replied: It is the depth of Microsoft think tank and Microsoft's talent advantage that prop up an era.
Gates' answer illustrates a truth. He will always fall in love with think tank engineers rather than marketing managers or other presidents, and think tanks are the experts who really help him design company countermeasures and products. From the initial development stage of Microsoft, Gates realized one thing. At that time, he took the advice of Xerox computer expert Charles Simonyi and helped him develop a word processing system. And this expert has now become a member of the think tank. After 198 1 left Xerox, Simone spent the next 10 years developing Microsoft application software. Multi-plane, Word, Excel, etc. All of them were successfully developed under his guidance, and he was known as "Microsoft Chief Programmer".
At present, Microsoft's think tank is a mixed group of old and new. Members include the company's top leaders, senior developers and project managers, and the core consists of about 10 people. They manage key product areas, take charge of the company's new initiatives, and organize informal supervision teams to evaluate everyone's work.
In addition, there are many senior technicians working in various projects, forming the periphery of the think tank; Some people are veterans of the company and have been working here since Microsoft was founded. However, more and more members come from competitors or new technology experts outside the field of personal computers. These experts who lead Microsoft's operating system and Internet development strategy helped Gates push Microsoft's career to the peak. Although some of them have left Microsoft at present.
When steve ballmer, the current president, was unable to complete the WINDOWS project in the mid-1980s, he stepped forward to take the responsibility of development and successfully put it on the market. Nathan Melward, the vice president who studied under Nobel Prize winner Stephen Hawking, is a doctor of physics at Princeton University. Faced with the rapidly changing technology market and confusing future trends, Microsoft has provided a strategic think tank. He is the helmsman who leads Microsoft to the future. After entering Microsoft, in order to help Gates get rid of the heavy bureaucratic burden of organization and management, he introduced the four basic principles of IBM into Microsoft, which made a strategic turning point for Microsoft and played a key role in the supporting reform of competitive Internet in management.
Before 1994 joined the company, Paul Fresner controlled a computer association and was the most dissatisfied Microsoft customer. Since joining Microsoft, he has successfully changed the company culture and focused on quality first. He promoted the development of the company. Net network services and launched the database software business for the first time. Since Fresner took over, Microsoft's database business has increased by 10 billion dollars at the cost of 50 million dollars per year, and he has become a key figure in the company's leadership.
In addition, on the periphery of the think tank, some people stand out because of their amazing contributions and bold mutations. They are better than others. Knowing that the development process is crucial, Chris Peters joined Microsoft on +0. He has worked for MS-DOS 2.0, Microsoft Mouse 1.0, PC Word 1.0 and. After that, I worked as a development manager in Excel for about five years. Thanks to the new development process technology, he successfully brought Excel 3.0 to the market, only 1 1 day later than the scheduled time. Later, he became the general manager of Word product department, which created hundreds of millions of dollars for Microsoft.
In February, 2003, the Academic Advisory Committee of Microsoft Highly Trusted Computer Processing was formally established, which means that the marriage between Microsoft and academia has taken a new step. Top experts in the field of computer security and software development from world-renowned universities and five independent legal experts have become consultants of Microsoft's product security and global development strategy. In return, Microsoft will provide some research grants to the universities where the members of the academic Committee are located.
The preferred consultant will have to face and deal with some frank and powerful arguments, but these are mainly through the company's email system, rather than face-to-face meetings.
These consultants listened to the progress made by Microsoft in strengthening the security of Windows products and related products such as IE and Office software. Microsoft hopes to hear feedback from academic experts on these developments, so as to avoid making "directional mistakes". Microsoft said that although all the suggestions put forward by the advisory committee will not be adopted by Microsoft in the future, every suggestion will be seriously considered by Microsoft, so these suggestions will play an important role in promoting Microsoft to find the right development direction.
It can be seen that the brain-borrowing behavior initiated by Gates still plays a huge role in Microsoft. At present, Microsoft has United a large number of senior people in the high-tech field in today's information technology era, which can be said to be full of talents. Undeniably, it is these outstanding figures who have played a decisive role in the process of constantly promoting the unprecedented upgrading speed of the computer software industry and formulating a series of latest standards in the industry field, which triggered this global century-old new technological revolution, and it is also the behind-the-scenes operation of these think tanks that made Microsoft stand out in the development process.