Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Tokyo, Nishiba Electric Headquarters.

The main directors of Xizhi Electric are gathered together, and a small-scale board meeting is being held here.

The theme of the board of directors is to outsource Xizhi Electric's small home appliance production business to countries with lower production costs.

On this point, the board of directors has reached a consensus. After all, Xizhi Electric will move towards a high value-added technology industry in the future. The low-tech work of assembling small household appliances is no longer suitable for Xizhi Electric today.

However, which country's factory will hand over the small home appliance production business is a matter that needs to be carefully considered, because it is related to the future development layout of Xizhi Electric.

In the conference room, the directors expressed their opinions, and President Tanaka answered them one by one.

I saw one of the directors ask: "President Tanaka, I have a question. Our Nishiki Group has invested in a factory in Thailand, and our Japanese companies have a history of investing in Thailand for many years. Why don't we choose Thailand this time?"

But should we choose between Malaysia and China?”

Several other directors looked at President Tanaka, obviously this was also an issue they were concerned about.

President Tanaka smiled slightly and replied: "There is a saying that don't put all your eggs in the same basket, so what I did was based on the consideration of risk diversification. But this is not the most important reason. The most important thing is

, I am very dissatisfied with the production efficiency of the Thai factory.

Most of the directors have been to Thailand, right? I think you also have some understanding of the work efficiency of the Thai people. To be honest, the Thai people are too lazy and their work efficiency is too low! The working hours of Thai workers are

There are much fewer workers than our Japanese workers, and they are not willing to work overtime. They don’t like working and prefer to enjoy life!

In comparison, workers in China and Malaysia are much more hard-working. In fact, the Malays in Malaysia are not much better than the Thais, but the Chinese in Malaysia are still very hard-working. This time I want to represent us

The Malaysian factory where workers work is also a factory dominated by Chinese.

The profits of small home appliances are not high to begin with, and we also have to face competition from other brands. Currently, Xizhi's focus is no longer on home appliances. If we cannot reduce costs and improve efficiency, it may be difficult for us to maintain our position in small home appliances in the future.

business. That’s why I chose factories in China and Malaysia to OEM our small home appliances.”

"President Tanaka, I have a question, why don't we directly invest in building a factory, but instead cooperate with local factories?" Another director asked.

"Because if we directly invest in building a factory, we will have to pay additional management costs!" President Tanaka continued: "The production of small household appliances requires more manpower, and naturally requires more management personnel.

If we directly invest in building a factory, we have to spend time on management, just for small household appliances, it is not worth it! What’s more, the foundry model has also had successful precedents. Many of our labor-intensive low-end industries in Japan are not worth it.

Has it been transferred out?"

The directors asked several more questions, and President Tanaka answered them all clearly.

In fact, these directors can only raise some questions, but it is not their turn to actually make decisions.

Nishiba Electric was founded by the Tanaka family. The Tanaka family must have the most important say within Nishiba Electric. As long as the members of the Tanaka family reach an agreement, basically no one can stop it.

In addition to the Tanaka family, the most influential person is the representative of the Mitsui Foundation.

The Mitsui Foundation is composed of twenty-five large enterprises, including Nishiba. Therefore, the Nishiba Group is affiliated to the Mitsui Foundation, so President Tanaka still has to listen to the opinions of the Mitsui Foundation.

At today's board meeting, the representative of the Mitsui Foundation obviously had no objections. He had reached a consensus with President Tanaka.

Seeing that the directors had no questions, President Tanaka cleared his throat and continued: "Since everyone has no questions, let's discuss whether we should choose a factory in China or a factory in Malaysia.

Both have their own advantages. Malaysia's comprehensive business environment is better, but Malaysia's production costs are also higher. Although China's production costs are low, its comprehensive environment is not as good as Malaysia's.

The information we currently have is not enough for us to make a choice, so I plan to send people to factories in China and Malaysia to conduct on-site inspections. After the inspection results are available, we will meet again to discuss which one to choose.

"

President Tanaka turned to the secretary behind him and said, "Please come in, Mr. Watanabe!"

After a while, a middle-aged man walked in. President Tanaka pointed at the man and introduced: "This is Yu Watanabe, who used to be the person in charge of our factory in Thailand. All the directors should have heard of him.

Mr. Watanabe has outstanding abilities and rich experience. This time I plan to send Mr. Watanabe to inspect factories in China and Malaysia."

"Dear directors, please give me your advice!" Watanabe Xiong immediately bowed to everyone.

President Tanaka said: "Watanabe-kun, please introduce your inspection plan to the directors!"

"Yes!" Watanabe Yuo bowed to President Tanaka, and then walked to the conference table.

Watanabe Yuo said slowly: "Dear directors, I have inspected dozens of factories, including highly developed industrialized countries such as the United States and Europe, as well as moderately developed countries such as Brazil and South Korea. Of course, there are also some poor countries.

backward developing countries.

During all the inspections, I faced the same problem, that is, what I saw and heard was what the factory wanted me to see and hear. In layman's terms, what I saw and heard was what the factory wanted me to see and hear.

Everything that can be inspected has been arranged by the manufacturer in advance!

They will arrange all the steps, processes, contents, and even the walking route of the inspection in advance! Some attentive factories will even prepare several sets of work plans as emergency preparations.

Of course, this can reflect the manufacturer's intentions and the importance it attaches to the inspection. However, despite this careful preparation, I was unable to get real information. What I saw and heard was all prepared in advance.

And these are probably fake!

I believe that no one will expose their shortcomings to others. When the factory knows that someone will inspect it, they cover up all the shortcomings as much as possible and then show their best side.

This is a kind of fraud, and this kind of falsehood will inevitably affect our judgment and make us make wrong choices. This inspection of the foundry factory is related to our future strategic layout of Xizhi Electric, so we must get the truth

Effective information so that directors can make accurate judgments."

"Watanabe-kun, it seems you already have a strategy to deal with it!" a director asked.

"Yes." Mr. Watanabe nodded, and then said: "As you all know, when Michelin evaluates a restaurant's grade, it will not send out a large number of inspection groups to taste the food in the restaurant, but will send many

A so-called 'food spy' visits the restaurant several times over the course of a year before rating the restaurant accordingly.

The restaurant does not know when the food secret agents will arrive, nor does it know who among the guests is the food secret agents, so what they show are the most normal daily reactions, and therefore the results obtained by this method are the most realistic.

of!"

Another director immediately asked: "Watanabe-kun, are you planning to send people to make secret visits to factories in China and Malaysia?"

Watanabe Xiong bowed slightly towards the director, and then said: "Not only covert visits, but also overt inspections, I plan to do both!

On the one hand, I will lead the inspection team and conduct the inspection with great fanfare. I will also inform the factories in advance of what I want to inspect, so that they can prepare in advance, just like taking an open-book exam.

At the same time, I will look for suitable candidates to enter the factory as a worker and work on the spot for a period of time. The front-line workers will understand all aspects of factory operations, and there is no way to cheat in daily work.

The purpose of my grand inspection was to attract the attention of the factory. After I completed the inspection and left, they would never have imagined that our real inspectors had just started working! In this way, I could clearly understand

To see the actual operation of the factory."

Another director asked: "This plan sounds very good, but how do you plan to arrange the candidates who enter the factory? Are you going to hire local people?"

"No, I can't trust the locals!" Watanabe shook his head without hesitation, and then said: "In this regard, my plan to use Japanese people is related to the future strategic layout of Nishizhi Electric. Only I can trust it!"

"Do you already have a suitable candidate?" a director next to him asked.

"Yes, I did find two suitable candidates. They have already started to make preparations. After a while, when they are fully prepared, they can take action!" Watanabe said.

At this time, President Tanaka asked: "Everyone, what do you think of Watanabe-kun's plan?"

"I think it's feasible."

"I think it's pretty good."

Everyone expressed their support for this plan.

President Tanaka smiled slightly: "Watanabe-kun, the directors all support your plan. Next, I will work hard on you. I look forward to your inspection results!"

…

Li Weidong looked at the document in his hand and seemed a little surprised.

"Weidong, what does it say? When will the Xizhi Electric inspection team come?" Ma Zhongyi asked next to him.

"It doesn't matter when you come, the key is that Xizhi Electric has made a list of the inspection contents and written them clearly on it!" Li Weidong said with a pout.

Ma Zhongyi laughed honestly: "It seems that the Japanese are serious about what they do, and they told us in advance what they were going to inspect!"

Li Weidong frowned: "I always feel that something is wrong. The Japanese are very smart, but they are not stupid! How could they conduct an open-book exam? Tell us all the content to be tested, and let us prepare in advance.

, then what’s the point of this kind of investigation?”

Wang Kaiping next to him said: "Weidong, do you think the Japanese will try to trick us into attacking the west? Tell us the content of the inspection first, and let us only prepare what is within the scope of the content. When the on-site inspection comes, they will suddenly find out those who have not.

Prepared to catch us off guard!"

"That makes sense!" Li Weidong nodded: "So let's just pretend we haven't seen this list of inspection contents. We still have to prepare everything that needs to be prepared as before! Just in case it's an inspection by Xizhi Electric

If the group really comes to attack the east and west, we can handle it!"

…

Li Weidong had made some preparations, and the Nisshiba Electrical Inspection Group led by Watanabe Ou also arrived as scheduled.

After all, Nishiba Electric is a well-known brand, so the city leaders not only received it personally, but also sent a deputy mayor to accompany Watanabe Ou throughout the inspection.

So the first day Watanabe arrived in Qinghe was completely filled with all kinds of warm hospitality.

Leaders at all levels took turns to give welcome speeches, and then introduced the situation of Qinghe City to Watanabe Xiong. After that, there was a reception banquet. After taking turns to toast, Watanabe Xiong lay directly on the bed in the hotel and had no chance to inspect the electric furnace factory.

The inspection officially started on the second day.

After a period of training, militarized management has begun to bear fruit. All workers are uniformly dressed and sitting in front of the assembly line, which looks quite like a modern factory.

Watanabe looked at the uniformly dressed employees on the assembly line and said, "Mr. Li, your workers are very well dressed!"

"Mr. Watanabe, our factory adopts militarized management, and uniform dress is part of it." Li Weidong answered.

"Military management? I have never seen it in companies from other countries! Can you explain it to me?" Watanabe said.

"Okay, enterprise militarized management means that an enterprise uses the military's management methods, management models and management experience as a reference..." Li Weidong immediately explained to Watanabe Ou what militarized management is.

The militarized management of enterprises is not unfamiliar to the Chinese, but in fact only Chinese companies adopt militarized management.

Among industrial countries, only Chinese companies can adapt to this kind of militarized management.

Many people may think that foreign military industrial enterprises must also be managed in a militarized manner, right?

This is confusing the nature of the enterprise with its management methods. Foreign military industrial enterprises are only responsible for producing weapons and do not bring militarized management into the enterprise.

Some of the methods used in the militarized management process conflict with Western values, and the West promotes its own values ​​​​to the world, so militarized management simply does not work in other countries.

There are many examples of Chinese factories going abroad, investing in companies in other countries, and trying to adopt militarized management. Without exception, they all encountered Waterloo. Even in Vietnam, which has been the most hyped in recent years, their workers

I can't stand militarized management.

After listening to Li Weidong's introduction to militarized management, Watanabe's expression was slightly uncertain. As a senior manager of an enterprise, he never thought that he could manage an enterprise in such a harsh way, but he also realized that

Really, if this kind of militarized management can be successfully implemented, how terrible the efficiency will be!

For Watanabe, this is definitely a highlight.

After most of the day's inspection, Watanabe was following Li Weidong's arrangements. The contents of the inspection were all on the previous list, and there were no over-the-top questions.

Li Weidong didn't know what medicine Watanabe was selling in his gourd. He always remained vigilant, waiting for Watanabe to make a move.

Finally, Watanabe asked the first over-the-top question: "Mr. Li, I heard that workers in Chinese factories are allocated by the state. Is this the same in your factory?"

In fact, Watanabe was asking the question knowingly, he just wanted to lead to the next topic.

Li Weidong immediately replied: "The state allocated workers many years ago. Today's workers all enter the factory through recruitment. Of course, there are also some more professional workers who come from specialized schools.

They are selected from the factory. And our kind of OEM factory does not have high technical requirements, so we recruit workers directly from nearby villages!"

"Is the recruitment of workers open to the public?" Yui Watanabe asked immediately.

"It's an open recruitment!" Li Weidong replied while wondering what Watanabe Ou's intentions were.

Watanabe Xiong immediately said: "Mr. Li, I want to take a look at your open recruitment process of workers!"

"Look at the recruitment process? Is this just making a fuss in the east and attacking in the west? But what's there to see in the recruitment process?" Li Weidong couldn't understand Watanabe's intention.

"Mr. Li, in the next few years, we, Xizhi Electric, plan to completely transfer the production business of small household appliances. With your current scale, I am afraid that you cannot bear so many production tasks. If you want to do OEM work for us, Xizhi Electric, you must

Expand production capacity!”

Watanabe then explained: "So I want to see how you recruit workers and how you train them, so that I can be sure that you have the ability to expand subsequent production capacity."

"This excuse is so far-fetched! It's just about worker training, not recruitment. Doesn't he know that the most indispensable thing in China is labor force? Just put up a recruitment notice, and a lot of people will come!" Li Weidong thought in his heart

Secret passage.

Li Weidong didn't know what kind of medicine Watanabe was selling in his gourd. He had no way of guessing that Watanabe followed the excuse of recruiting workers and placed undercover agents in the electric furnace factory.

But one thing is certain, Li Weidong cannot refuse Watanabe Xiong's request.

So Li Weidong nodded and said, "Since Mr. Watanabe wants to see it, I will temporarily recruit a group of workers!"

…

"Ding dong", the doorbell of the room rang. Watanabe Xiong walked to the door and saw a familiar face through the peephole.

Watanabe Xiong immediately opened the door and invited the man in.

"Noda-kun, thank you for your hard work!" Watanabe said.

This man's name is Chuichiro Noda, and he is exactly the person Yusei Watanabe carefully selected and plans to send to the electric furnace factory.

Noda Chuichiro's father was a Japanese orphan, and he took a Chinese wife and gave birth to Noda Chuichiro. Therefore, Noda Chuichiro grew up in China during his childhood and spoke Chinese very fluently.

Later, Chuichiro Noda's father took his family back to live in Japan, and Chuichiro Noda began to integrate into Japanese life and became a Japanese.

After Noda Chuichiro grew up, he entered the work of Nishiba Electric Co., Ltd. and has now worked for Nishiba Electric Co., Ltd. for many years.

This time, Watanabe needed someone to pretend to be a Chinese worker and enter Li Weidong's electric furnace factory for inspection, so he chose Chuichiro Noda.

Chuichiro Noda is half-Chinese and has lived in China. He knows everything about China very well. If he is asked to pretend to be Chinese, he will definitely not cheat.

After the two sat down, Watanabe Oo asked: "Noda-kun, how are you preparing?"

"Everything is ready." Chuichiro Noda took out a first-generation ID card from his arms and said, "This is my cousin's ID card. Next, I will try to enter as my cousin Li Fugui.

factory!"

Watanabe Xiong looked at the photo on his ID card and said, "You and your cousin look somewhat alike!"

Noda Chuichiro's mother is Chinese, so Noda Chuichiro made a special trip back to his mother's hometown, found his parents' family, and borrowed an ID card from his cousin.

This cousin of Noda Chuichiro is the son of his uncle. He is a few years younger than him, but he is not as well-maintained as Noda Chuichiro, so the two of them look about the same age.

As the saying goes, a nephew is like an uncle. Noda Chuichiro and his cousin look exactly like each other. In addition, the photo on the ID card was not clear, so Noda Chuichiro took this ID card and said that he was a cousin.

My younger brother, Li Fugui, can really muddle through.

For this "undercover investigation" mission, Chuichiro Noda also worked hard. This was equivalent to getting a real identity for himself. Since the household registration was not connected to the Internet at that time, the police station had to spend a lot of effort to verify the authenticity.

Next, the two began to exchange information, and Watanabe told Chuichiro Noda what he knew.

I saw Watanabe Ou say: "During today's inspection, I have already asked the factory to watch their worker recruitment process. The factory has promised me that a special recruitment fair will be arranged. You can sign up then.

I will also secretly help you successfully join the company."

"After successfully joining the company, is there anything else I should pay attention to?" Chuichiro Noda asked.

"When I inspected the factory today, Mr. Li introduced to me that his factory adopts military management. According to my observation, it is just a very strict management method, and some methods are even very harsh. But I did not

I don’t know if this was staged for me on purpose or if it’s just like this every day.” Watanabe said.

Noda Chuichiro nodded: "Don't worry, Minister Watanabe, the truth about this matter will be revealed after I enter the factory!"

Watanabe shook his head: "Noda-kun, what I mean is that if militarized management is true, then after you enter the factory, you need to obey the orders of the Chinese and be subject to very strict management. I hope you will not have any

Rebellious emotions.”

"Minister, I understand what you mean. I will adopt the same attitude as when I first joined Nishiba Electric, and absolutely obey the orders of my superiors," Chuichiro Noda said immediately.

"By the way, there is one more thing!" Watanabe Oo continued; "The factory director, Mr. Li, said today that their factory often works overtime! This may be more difficult."

"Working overtime?" Noda Chuichiro curled his lips disdainfully, and then said: "Minister, when I was in Japan, my colleagues called me an 'overtime maniac'!"