2017 is the year of change for Lenovo.

All along, Lenovo is selling computers in everyone's impression, so it is not too much, because this is Lenovo's way to make a fortune.

However, since the beginning of this year, Lenovo's internal presidential executives have been turbulent, and Lenovo's revolutionary reports have been continuously and continuously, and the focus and results of Lenovo's transformation have always been the focus of the industry.

Why is Lenovo changing?

It is better to say that this is in line with Lenovo's genes and styles. Because Lenovo's development process is a history of constant change, with direction, strategy, and confidence.

Twenty years ago, in the early days of the Internet era, Lenovo was not satisfied with the distribution of other people's products. At the time of considerable profits, Liu Chuanzhi, the founder of Lenovo Group, still risked many investments to make his own products, which would be developed, manufactured and sold. End-to-end integration, handed over to Yang Yuanqing management. Because of the change, Lenovo has established its market position today.

Ten years ago, in the early days of mobile Internet, after expanding the enterprise-level market, Lenovo acquired IBM's PC business and officially opened the road to internationalization. Through several years of integration, Lenovo has a 30% market share in China. Under the advantage of staying ahead, Lenovo continued to break through the overseas market, continued to promote the ThinkPad business, and actively explored emerging markets, and won the first place in the global market share.

Nowadays, with the advent of the Internet of Things era, with the development of emerging technologies such as cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence, data is becoming the core driving force for value creation in various fields at an unprecedented speed. Subversive changes have taken place in various industries. Of course, the PC market is no exception. In May of this year, Yang Yuanqing, chairman and president of Lenovo Group, announced that it would reorganize Lenovo China into PC and Smart Device Group (PCSD) and Data Center Business Group (DCG). Liu Jun, former executive vice president of Lenovo, returned to serve as executive vice president and president of China, leading the China platform and PCSD business in China. At the same time, Lenovo began to actively deploy strategic transformation. Lenovo Group Senior Vice President Jia Zhaohui led the PCSD R&D team to open a new work focus layout of “Device + User + Service”, and a series of new changes became the focus of the industry.

Lenovo's transformation strategy: user + device + cloud service 3D business model

We have seen that before the AI ​​vent, we experienced three eras of PC, Internet and mobile Internet. Looking back, the innovations that any technology and industry face can be said to come from the drive of users' own needs.

The business is changing, and the IT systems, architectures, and models that naturally drive the business are undergoing new changes. Being able to meet the changes in the user's business, the innovative solution will naturally stand out.

From the perspective of the overall development trend of the industry, this is a gradual process. From the practical application of each user, this is another urgent matter. Therefore, Lenovo’s road to change is firm and sensible.

In July of this year, at the Lenovo Science and Technology Conference in 2017, Lenovo officially announced the strategic layout and some achievements around the AI ​​field. Yang Yuanqing also revealed that "Lenovo's mission is to become the promoter and enabler of this round of intelligent change driven by AI, and to provide users with smarter services through equipment + cloud, infrastructure + cloud."

In the end, Lenovo is to be user-centric, service-oriented, and realize the transformation of smart association. In my opinion, the user-centered consideration will be the key to Lenovo's drive to transform. It is not difficult to understand that Lenovo has to do a leap from a single product to a diversified service, from a commercial company to a technology-based service company. Among them, digitalization is the only way, and on this road, Lenovo has sufficient capital and ability.

At the algorithm level, Lenovo can provide general artificial intelligence algorithms based on AI platform and application scenario algorithms for different industries; at the big data level, Lenovo has nine data centers around the world, with more than 12PB of the largest domestic manufacturing enterprise data cluster; At the level of computing power, Lenovo fully leverages its capabilities as a device vendor in hardware and software integration, and is fully capable of providing a global optimization of device + cloud.

Based on the UDS cloud platform, do intelligent association of users

“Smart Building” is not a flat, not only a digital solution, but also an intelligent infrastructure, which requires end-to-end support. In order to provide users with better smart products, Lenovo has set up a corresponding team. Its released Smart Lenovo APP, an application based on the Internet of Things ecosystem, is a window that interacts with users in real time and provides intelligent device management and cloud services. It is the first interface of Lenovo Smart Home based on cloud + end architecture.

According to Jia Zhaohui, senior vice president of Lenovo Group, smart Lenovo is essentially building a cloud-based user, device and service management platform, namely the UDS cloud platform. The Smart Lenovo UDS Cloud Platform is based on a hybrid cloud that combines a speech engine, an IOT engine, an aggregation service engine, a user portrait engine, and an environment-aware engine to invoke big data, security, and payment protocols, and connect devices and devices through user and content management systems. service.

Specifically, what kind of service can this application bring to users?

In terms of intelligent interaction, such as watching TV in the living room, Lenovo Smart TV can communicate with the TV through natural voice interaction, and control other smart devices in the home through the smart Lenovo application voice installed in the TV.

In addition, Smart Lenovo can realize intelligent control of all smart home services such as smart door locks, intelligent lighting, curtains, TVs, smart speakers, air conditioner adjustments, etc. through face or fingerprint recognition.

Undoubtedly, in this user-centered transformation, Lenovo is not only committed to providing users with better products, but also to provide better services and experiences for users based on artificial intelligence and big data. And smart association is not just an application. On the one hand, it constantly empowers its equipment, and on the other hand, it creates innovative equipment and services to continuously improve the user experience and meet user needs. Behind the user interface, it is also the Lenovo user operation center, which is the embodiment of the user + device + service three-dimensional business model, or the future of Lenovo's nirvana on the road of change, in the era of intelligent transformation driven by artificial intelligence Take the lead.

This manuscript comes from IT168 julie

Editor in charge: Zhou Lingling