The IT circle set off a wave of legion fever. Following Huawei and China Mobile, China Unicom has also established nine major armies recently.
The nine major industry corps, including the equipment manufacturing corps, the smart mining corps, and the smart steel corps, were established by branches of China Unicom in Shanghai, Shanxi, Shandong, and other regions.
As soon as China Unicom's nine major armies were established, they quickly began to promote the layout and actions of their respective fields.
Yesterday, China Unicom Smart Transportation Corps started large-scale recruitment. Last week, the first batch of 86 employees of China Unicom's Smart Legal Corps were hired and trained. This month, China Unicom Smart Medical Corps also brought its self-developed products such as the cloud top cabin digital platform, 5G digital ward, and medical cloud to the 14th China Bio-Industry Conference.
Simply speaking, this so-called legion organization can be understood as a “synthetic army” that China Unicom has entered into certain specific industries and provided overall industrial digital solutions including communications and cloud computing. Therefore, it is an operator of B industry services. A way of playing, Huawei's army strategy is also the idea.
With the digital transformation and upgrading of industries and the vigorous development of the digital economy, more and more intelligent enterprises have joined the ranks of helping the digital transformation of traditional industries. Huawei started to adopt the legion model to accelerate the deep cultivation of the toB business as early as February 2021, and then China Mobile also established an industry legion and a special team in April this year.
Although China Unicom's industry corps is also oriented toward vertical industries, it is a separate subsidiary that is responsible for its own business.
What exactly does China Unicom's Industry Corps do? Why did China Unicom choose these nine traditional industry tracks? What other companies have also adopted the industry legion model? We did a deep dive into this.
1. Hebei Steel Tube, Chongqing Attack Automobile, China Unicom Corps should adapt to local conditions
On May 17, China Unicom established nine major industry groups, which were the first group formed by China Unicom. At the flag-giving ceremony, Chairman Liu Liehong presented the flags to the nine regiments one by one. The mission of the first batch of China Unicom Industry Corps is to expand the innovative application of industrial Internet integration, and will also provide users with digital, networked, and intelligent comprehensive solutions based on China Unicom's independent capabilities such as 5G and cloud-based IoT.
The Equipment Manufacturing Corps, Smart Steel Corps, Garment Manufacturing Corps, Automobile Manufacturing Corps, Smart Medical Corps, and Smart Legal Corps are composed of China Unicom Shanghai Branch, Hebei Branch, Zhejiang Branch, Chongqing Branch, Guangdong Branch, and Sichuan Branch. responsible for the formation. The Smart Mine Corps is jointly established by China Unicom Shandong Branch and Shanxi Branch. The Smart Emergency Corps was formed by China Unicom Digital Technology Co., Ltd. The Smart Transportation Corps was formed by China Unicom Smart Network Technology Co., Ltd. Each subsidiary responsible for the formation of the Corps has rich digital empowerment practices in the vertical industries it is responsible for.
China Unicom's Smart Legal Corps will also develop functions such as digital twins, online court trials, and one-click case filing.
In terms of smart legal affairs, China Unicom has released products such as Tianfu Central Legal Cloud and Tianfu Central Legal Chain.
8. Smart Emergency Corps
China Unicom Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as Unicom Digital) is responsible for setting up a smart emergency response team. China Unicom's Smart Emergency Corps focuses on five key directions: production safety, command and rescue, smart firefighting, natural disasters, and urban safety risk monitoring and early warning, and strives to build China Unicom's smart emergency products and capability system.
Unicom Digital is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Unicom. It was established in February 2021 and was formed by the merger of six companies under the original China Unicom.
In terms of smart emergency response, China Unicom has signed strategic cooperation agreements with provincial emergency management departments in Sichuan, Guangdong, and other places, providing comprehensive services for many customers.
9. Smart Transportation Corps
Unicom Zhiwang Technology Co., Ltd. is responsible for the formation of the Smart Transportation Corps. China Unicom Smart Transportation Corps applies 5G, Beidou, and other technologies to build a new integrated transportation infrastructure network, and then builds a vehicle-road cloud-integrated intelligent transportation system, and takes vehicle-road coordination as a breakthrough for business development.
In terms of "big connections", China Unicom's focus is on connection services such as 5G premium networks, gigabit broadband premium networks, government-enterprise premium networks, and the Internet of Things. According to the latest data from China Unicom, as of May 2022, its "big link" users have accumulated to 795 million.
China Unicom's "big computing" layout mainly includes the construction of Unicom Cloud and the construction of China Unicom's multi-level computing power facility system.
As one of the three major telecom operators in China, China Unicom has massive data and rich experience in the big data processing. How to improve the data product system and accelerate the building of key industry data platforms has become one of the goals of its "big data" business planning.
"Large application" means that China Unicom will focus on expanding industrial Internet integration and innovative applications, deepen the layout of key vertical industries, and build digital customized service capabilities. This is consistent with the purpose of China Unicom's preparation of nine major armies.
Security issues are the guarantee for all operations and development. China Unicom regards "big security" as one of its main businesses. By increasing the protection of users' personal information and improving the defense system of information service capabilities, it can enhance its cloud-network security integrated product service capabilities.
3. Deeply cultivate vertical industries, many companies choose the army model
Before China Unicom established the Industry Corps, Huawei, China Mobile, etc. also chose the Corps model to concentrate on going deep into various vertical industries.
In February 2021, Huawei established the Coal Mine Corps. This is the first time that Huawei has defined the combat mode of the Corps in terms of organizational structure. In October 2021, Huawei took the lead in establishing the Customs and Port Corps, the Smart Highway Corps, the Data Center Energy Corps, and the Smart Photovoltaic Corps to enter the digital transformation track of the industry.
Huawei's implementation of the Legion model was inspired by Google. Ren Zhengfei, the founder of Huawei, once said: "The Google Corps has a small organization and is extremely powerful." He also mentioned the purpose of establishing the Corps: to fight through the Corps, break the existing organizational boundaries, quickly gather resources, intersperse operations, improve efficiency, go deep into a field, be responsible for business success, and produce more "food" for the company.
In March 2022, Huawei held the inauguration meeting of Huawei's second group of legions. The second batch of corps includes Electric Power Digital Corps, Government Affairs One Netcom Corps, Airport and Rail Corps, Interactive Media Corps, Sports Health Corps, Display New Nuclear Corps, Campus Corps, Wide Area Network Corps, Data Center Base Corps, and Digital Site Corps. On May 31, Huawei held the inaugural meeting of the third batch of legions. This time, Huawei has added five new corps/system departments: Digital Finance Corps, Machine Vision Corps, Site Energy Corps, Manufacturing Industry Digital Systems Department, and Public Utilities Systems Department.
In fact, it can be seen from the legion established by Huawei that the vertical industry track that Huawei wants to focus on is not only the industrial digital track, but also terminal-related businesses such as sports health, new display core, and interactive media. Special breakthrough.
Another company that also adopts the legion model for vertical industry layout is China Mobile. In April 2022, China Mobile released the "Lianjun Special (Industry Chain, Legion, Special Forces)" strategy to form the army and special forces. China Mobile's nine major industries include smart hospitals, smart mines, smart party building, and smart finance. China Mobile's army is also led by its subsidiaries. For example, the mine army is led by the Shanghai Industrial Research Institute, and the smart hospital army is led by the China Mobile Chengdu Research Institute.
Before the release of the "Lian Junte" strategy, China Mobile adopted the "management and construction war" model, that is, the headquarters supervisor, the professional organization main construction, and the traditional operating unit main battle. "Lianjun Special" is a more specific deep-cultivation combat method formed on the basis of "Management and Construction Warfare".
The digital transformation and upgrading of different industries have their own characteristics. In fact, China Mobile, Huawei, and China Unicom already have a lot of successful experience in helping other industries to digitally transform. As for how to better output these digital transformation experiences and capabilities, these companies have chosen the army model to gather digital transformation practical experience and technology from different industries and other industries to better understand each vertical competition road.
Deeply cultivating industries and regions, the legion has become a popular organizational form
From Huawei to China Mobile to China Unicom, these companies have chosen the legion model to specialize in the digitalization of traditional industries that they have already deployed or practiced. Different companies have different focuses. For example, China Unicom has laid out light industry tracks such as clothing manufacturing; Huawei's legion not only includes industrial digitalization but also involves terminal-related businesses; China Mobile's legion model has more industry chain layouts and plans for the direction of smart party building.
With the widespread implementation of technologies such as AI and 5G, the tide of industrial digital transformation has emerged. Huawei, China Mobile, China Unicom, and other companies with rich accumulation in the traditional ICT and telecommunications industries are also constantly striving for the intelligent industry, researching and developing cutting-edge technologies, and seeking new growth.
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