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This time, classmate Yiming found it accurately.

All problems, human problems are just symptoms.

If you want to really solve the problem, you must dig into it from the institutional level. Otherwise, you will just be swatting flies with a shit basin, and the flies will become more and more numerous.

As long as you identify the crux of the problem and take the shit basin away, all problems will be solved.

What embarrasses Zhang Yiming, He Yang, and Guo Pengfei the most now is that this shit basin was brought over by Boss Zhou, and it was he who constructed the "big, medium and small platform" strategy.

And judging from the cost control effect, it is indeed very good.

It has even led to the development of the industry.

The advantages are great, but the disadvantages cannot be ignored.

The turnover rate of the Central and Taiwan Business Department has always been so high. There must be a problem with the organizational structure and system design, and we must find ways to make certain corrections and reforms.

But once it is changed, it will affect the interests of many people and create resistance.

What's the biggest resistance?

Of course it's Boss Zhou's face.

Zhou Buqi is not a stubborn person, let alone face and so on. He asked: "Is there a solution? Dismantle China and Taiwan? Go back to the previous way?"

"Dismantle it?" Zhang Yiming was startled, "Of course it cannot be dismantled. The structure of the middle office can indeed promote the management and cost control of the enterprise more effectively."

"What should we do?"

"Downgrade."

"ah?"

Zhou Buqi was slightly startled.

Zhang Yiming said: "Lowering the level of the central government and dismantling the monopoly of power by the central government can appropriately decentralize power for different business groups."

Guo Pengfei came here today actually to support Zhang Yiming.

Wanting to dismantle China and Taiwan is a bit of a slap in the face to Zhou Buqi.

Zhang Yiming is a bit weak.

Guo Pengfei came over specifically to help him. If Boss Zhou objects, then we will fight against him together.

Guo Pengfei said: "The current China Business Department is equivalent to half a BU and is at the M6 ​​level. This is indeed high enough. Within the company, it is second only to the four major BUs. The higher the level, the higher the number of matching talents. The better. And such outstanding people are very concerned about their career development prospects, and they are more likely to attract the attention of headhunters and domestic peers. "

Currently, Ziweixing has five major BU business groups.

The WeChat business group is headed by Guo Pengfei, and its main product is WeChat.

The Weidian Business Group is headed by Wang Xiaochuan. Its main products are Weidian Search, Weidian Security Guard, Weidian Browser, Weidian Antivirus, Weidian Music and other products.

The cloud business group, headed by Zhou Feng, is mainly Ziwei Cloud, but also includes SaaS cloud software such as Weishu.

The new media business group is headed by Liang Rubo. Its three core products are Weibo, Toutiao and Xiaonei.com.

The enterprise development business group is headed by Ji Zian, which includes the Central and Taiwan Business Department, the International Department, the Investment Department, the Planning Department, the Big Marketing Department, etc. The most eye-catching one is of course the Central and Taiwan Department.

The center stage is so shining.

Because this department holds the core resources of Ziweixing, the other four major BUs that need some algorithms, engineering or commercial product solutions, etc., have to ask for them from the middle office.

This makes the China-Taiwan Business Department a department with "monopoly power".

An M3 middle-level manager in the middle office department can reject the M6-level vice president of another large BU. He can just say that he is busy cooperating with other business units recently, so you can just wait!

This will greatly reduce efficiency.

It will also cause the "villain" in the Central and Taiwan Business Department to use the power given by the company to show off his power. In order to get the corresponding resources as quickly as possible, people in other departments will pay certain bribes, treat him to a meal, and give him a gift. Small gifts and so on; and the ambitious people in this department have chosen to leave because of the lack of promotion space.

Over time, there will be only a bunch of weak soldiers and generals left in this department.

Especially in the past half month, 16 middle- and high-level managers from the Central and Taiwan Business Department have left. What are the remaining ones? This is simply reverse elimination!

Zhang Yiming couldn't bear it anymore, and it was time to take action. "The existence of the Central Station is very meaningful, but it cannot exist in the current model. This has caused collective dissatisfaction among the four BUs. My opinion is to cancel the Central Station." The Taiwan Business Department, a department downgraded to M4, is under the Technology Department and is mainly composed of two parts, one is the algorithm center and the other is the engineering center."

Guo Pengfei said with a smile: "The functions have been reduced, and the work tasks have also been reduced. We only do some technical work. Return the middle office to a purely technical route, and no longer involve growth hacking and commercial middle office services. In this way, For employees working in the middle office, the promotion path can be reopened, and they can be promoted along the technical route."

Zhang Yiming said: "In this way, the work will be much easier, and we don't need people with strong abilities to lead. We will just do some purely technical work as required. In this way, even if we are poached by our peers, we can still There will be no loss of senior management talents. There are no senior management talents, just technical engineers. Even if they are poached by peers, it is impossible to build an excellent middle-end architecture for them by relying on these technical engineers."

Guo Pengfei said: "Yes, in this way, it can not only open up the promotion space of the middle office, but also effectively prevent peers from robbing people."

Zhou Buqi nodded, but also hesitated, "If this is the case, will the downgraded middle office be too thin? Can such a small department support the entire large group?"

Zhang Yiming said with a smile: "So we need to decentralize power."

"Um?"

"In addition to the middle office affiliated to the technology department, each major BU has its own middle office."

"Multiple China-Taiwan systems?"

Only then did Zhou Buqi understand his idea of ​​adjusting the middle platform structure.

Guo Pengfei said: "As for my WeChat business group, many of the needs are personalized. In the past, the things I got from the Central Taiwan Business Department were universal. The same information flow algorithm, Weibo and Toutiao are different. It will be the same, and the friends network and school network will not be the same. The middle office business department provides a common information flow algorithm. This requires the major BUs to get the common algorithm back and implement it appropriately by the middle office within the BU. Adjustments to make an algorithm that meets its own BU needs."

Zhang Yiming said: "So, we need to change the structure of 'big middle office, small front office' and further split the big middle office into a large middle office that serves the group and a small middle office that serves BU."

Guo Pengfei then added: "If any business group has needs, it can first make a request from the large and medium-sized bureau under the technology department. After getting the resources back, the small and medium-sized bureaus within the business group can make adjustments. In this way, it can be greatly improved. It can greatly save efficiency and reduce friction between many different departments.”

In the past, if a business went to the Central and Taiwan Business Department to ask for algorithms, the Central and Taiwan Business Department might push the envelope... Even if they didn't push the envelope, they wouldn't be too concerned about their work.

Anyway, it has nothing to do with them whether the front desk's business is good or fast.

You will do it slowly and leisurely, adjust the general algorithm appropriately according to the needs, and then hand it over, which will be very inefficient.

Once you meet a guy who likes to exert power, it will be even more troublesome. You have to find various connections to get the resources you want.

After the structure is restructured into a "big middle game" and a "small middle game", it won't be the case.

The Central Bureau only does general algorithm and engineering research.

No personalization involved.

If other departments have needs, they can directly ask for them. There is no need for the central bureau to make further adjustments and adaptability improvements. They can just hand over general-purpose resources.

BU has obtained general-purpose resources, and then returns to the small and medium-sized bureaus within BU to make improvements that suit the BU, and then distributes them to various businesses within BU.

Because the small and medium-sized bureaus are also within BU and are also linked to BU's performance, their efficiency will be very high.

And because the level of the small bureau is relatively low, the business within a large BU is complex and large enough to provide many development opportunities.

It’s not like the China and Taiwan Business Department of the past.

The president of a middle office business unit is at the M5 level. With such a high rank, he cannot be transferred to other positions even if he wants to.

The higher the rank, the heavier the management tasks, and there is no chance for mistakes.

If you have a lower rank, you won't have to worry about it.

The transfer of a middle- and lower-level manager of M3, even if the transfer is wrong and he messes up his job, it will not cause much harm to the company.

This leaves more room for trial and error.

Zhang Yiming said: "Such a structure can be more flexible. The roles played by the front-end, small middle office, and large middle office are not completely fixed, but flow with the development stage of the business. The business and the middle office will interact with each other at different stages. Conversion. Certain line-of-business functions can evolve into roles in small and mid-sized offices and even in large and medium-sized offices.”

After a pause, Zhang Yiming continued: "The middle platform is very practical, but it is not advanced enough and adaptable enough. As the business increases, the middle platform will become more complex, and as the business stage changes, the efficiency of the middle platform will also decrease." It will also decline, and it will not be able to provide corresponding support for businesses...especially new businesses that require rapid response. If the intermediate platform that cannot be abstracted into general capabilities is split into each BU, the intermediate platform that can become general capabilities will be input centrally to B. Business export to the outside world..."

Zhou Buqi felt a little dizzy after hearing this.

However, he generally understood.

After five or six years of implementing the Dazhongtai strategy, the shortcomings gradually emerged within Ziweixing. Zhang Yiming has proposed a complete set of solutions.

It is hoped that we can not only enjoy the low-cost advantage of the middle platform structure, but also improve the low efficiency disadvantages of the middle platform structure.

"Okay, let's do it!"

Zhou Buqi actually didn't understand the other party's thinking in too much detail, but since both Zhang Yiming and Guo Pengfei were making intentional recommendations, they couldn't be wrong.

Human nature is the last thing that can be tested.

It is true that China and Taiwan have too much power. It is imperative to decentralize power between China and Taiwan.