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\nA sense of crisis should be encouraged and intensified to help drive digital transformation, Huawei\u2019s Rotating Chairman Guo Ping has told a gathering of management professionals at the 13th Global Peter Drucker Forum. Motivated employees \u201con a mission\u201d and strategic planning aligned to the company\u2019s goals were key to creating the climate for successful change, Guo Ping said.
\nHe predicted all companies would \u201cgo digital\u201d in future, but feared some currently at the early stages lacked clear strategic goals and were \u201cjust following the pack\u201d. Guo Ping told delegates at the annual Global Peter Drucker Forum in Vienna on Wednesday that there was \u201cno real alternative\u201d to change, but that companies had to answer a key question before successfully embarking on digital transformation:
\n\u201cBy going digital, how can they improve their organizational competitiveness and achieve their strategic goals?\u201d Guo Ping said high-quality planning was the starting point for successful digitalization. A fundamental transformation of Huawei\u2019s product development in R&D and sustainable supply chains began twenty years earlier with IT Strategy & Planning.
\n\u201cLooking back, we feel quite lucky, interlocking the goal of digitalization with the company\u2019s overall strategic goals was certainly the right move. As a result, our organizational capabilities greatly improved. These transformation programmes made us a world class company\u201d.
\nGuo Ping said changing employees\u2019 mindset was \u201cthe biggest challenge\u201d but key to successful transformation, with urgency generating \u201ca sense of mission\u201d and momentum for change. \u201cThe sense of a crisis is important. Make it visible to intensify (it) to make employees truly understand the need for a change,\u201d he advised, adding that the current situation had \u201cbeen the perfect opportunity to create a climate for change\u201d at the company.
\nHe said Huawei had ensured employees had understood the need for change, fostered a culture of eagerness for transformation and ensured affected workers had felt protected.
\nGuo Ping said Huawei\u2019s own culture of innovation begins with a tolerance for failure, with its researchers encouraged to adopt a varied, trial-and-error approach.
\nCiting the multiple 5G technologies Huawei had developed before one given technology was selected to be part of the industry standard, he recalled the words of the company founder Ren Zhengfei:\u201cYou take a path to find it only leads to a dead end. You share it with others so that they don\u2019t repeat it and try another path: that\u2019s also a success\u201d.
\nGuo Ping highlighted the importance of transformation management and that at Huawei \u201cthe one thing that never changes is change\u201d.
\n\u201cTo advance with times, we review our transformation planning every year, to ensure it aligns with our business strategy. I believe continued transformation management will enable companies to constantly improve their capabilities in the digital era,\u201d he said. \u201cI hope all companies will boldly embrace change. After all, there\u2019s no real alternative.\u201d
\nThe Peter Drucker Forum is held every year in the management guru\u2019s hometown of Vienna, Austria. The annual event, the 13th since 2009, brings together professionals of modern management from around the world. The theme of this year\u2019s conference was the human imperative of navigating uncertainty in the digital age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan A sense of crisis should be encouraged and intensified to help drive digital transformation, Huawei\u2019s Rotating Chairman Guo Ping has told a gathering of management professionals at the 13th Global Peter Drucker Forum. Motivated employees \u201con a mission\u201d and strategic planning aligned to the company\u2019s goals were key to creating the climate for successful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[316,315,20,317],"class_list":{"0":"post-228208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business","7":"tag-guo-ping","8":"tag-huawei","9":"tag-pakistan","10":"tag-sense"},"yoast_head":"\n