Redesigning WPS
After receiving Li Xianshan’s assurance, the employees present were very happy.
“Mr. Li, are our company headquarters moving to Longshan City?”
At this time, some employees raised the question they were most concerned about. Many people have already settled in the imperial capital. If the company moves, they will not be able to follow it.
“No need.”
Li Shanshan shook his head, and then continued: “As long as Jinshan’s headquarters stays in the imperial capital, Kirin Technology develops chips and Jinshan develops computer software. It doesn’t make much sense to work together. You don’t have to worry.” The most important thing is
. , software companies do not need a lot of labor and space, and there is no need to move the company headquarters.
Jinshan Company’s current headquarters is in Zhongguancun, the imperial capital, which is China’s first high-tech industrial development zone and is known as China’s Silicon Valley.
Development here can be oriented to the whole country and has a broad market.
After hearing Li Shanshan say that the company does not need to move, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and became even more satisfied with the arrival of the new boss.
“I asked you to come to the meeting this time, mainly because I want to talk to you about WPS issues.”
After Li Shanshan glanced at everyone, he continued: “I looked at the company’s previous reports. We invested more than 2 million in research and development. Sales of the WPS Pangu version were dismal, not even 1,000 units were sold.”
Qiu Bojun and Lei Jun frowned when they mentioned the WPS Pangu version.
This version is actually a set of products similar to the Office suite created to cope with Microsoft’s WORD, which includes WPS, spreadsheets and dictionaries.
However, the response after the listing was mediocre, and it was this failure that made many people lose hope.
In the original world, the entire company was panicked and two-thirds of the employees in the development department were gone.
At this time, Microsoft took the initiative to extend an olive branch to Qiu Bojun. Many people advised him to go to Microsoft or just develop a few other systems. Making more money is the way to go.
However, how could Qiu Bojun watch the child he raised die at a young age? He decisively rejected the annual salary of 750,000 US dollars offered by Microsoft, and then sold his family’s house to collect more than 2 million, preparing to concentrate on developing new products. A generation of WPS.
Now that Li Shanshan is here, Qiu Bojun doesn’t have to sell his house.
But the lessons from previous failures must be summed up. Li Shanshan is worried that now that Qiu Bojun has not been forced to do that, whether he can successfully develop a new WPS in the end, should he put some pressure on him?
“Mr. Li, the failure of WPS Pangu is due to our lack of understanding of the market. We have also done a deep reflection on this.”
Qiu Bojun took the initiative to take responsibility, and then continued: “I think there are two main reasons for this failure. The reasons are, firstly, that the operation of the Pangu version is relatively cumbersome, which makes the user experience very poor; secondly, this version itself has no innovation, and it was just a hard-fought thing to compete with Microsoft.” “I also want to add something.” At this time,
Lei
Jun He also said: “With the development of the times, publicity and sales work are too important. First of all, our publicity is not in place. Many users don’t even know the existence of Pangu version, let alone WPS in Pangu. In addition, the company is not professional. We have a sales team with products in hand, but if we don’t have good words, we won’t be able to sell them!”
After hearing Lei Jun’s words, Li Shanshan wondered if his sales ability was developed at this time, how big does it have to be? The pressure turns an excellent programmer into a salesperson!
“You don’t have to worry about publicity and sales in the future. You just need to concentrate on research and development of technology.” Li Shanshan said confidently.
There is no way, he is so confident in sales, relying on various classic marketing cases in his memory, selling WPS office software is not easy!
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Qiu Bojun and Lei Jun also agree with this. After all, the boss in front of them has made more than one billion by selling water. They no longer have to worry about future sales problems.
“Mr. Li, don’t worry, we can do what Word can do!”
Although he no longer worries about sales, Qiu Bojun understands that the prerequisite for a product to sell well is that the product itself must stand the test. , and he is very confident in himself technically.
“I believe in your strength, but I have a few ideas about the new version of WPS.”
Li Shanshan recalled the future development direction of office software, and then said slowly:
“First, our competitor is Microsoft’s WORD. So you need to have a comprehensive understanding of your opponents. We all have the functions that WORD has.” ”
Second, the new version of WPS can integrate text office, spreadsheet, multimedia presentation and image processing, and the installation must be convenient and try not to take up too much. Memory.”
“Third, the layout must be compact, and try to make every function key on the computer play its maximum role. For example, Ctrl+C means copying, and Ctrl+V means pasting. This can greatly facilitate operations, and you can do it without a mouse. .”
After listening to these suggestions from Li Shanshan, the entire conference room was silent, and everyone was lost in thought.
Especially Qiu Bojun, these words touched him greatly.
Originally he thought his thinking was divergent enough, but he didn’t expect to meet someone more powerful today.
Especially the setting of shortcut keys mentioned by the other party will greatly improve people’s office efficiency. He believes that this setting will be very popular once it is released.
“Mr. Li, I didn’t expect you to be an expert in software development. I will redesign the new version of WPS based on the points you mentioned!”
Qiu Bojun used to be very lonely. He didn’t know who to ask if he had a problem, and there was no one to solve it. can understand.
But now he is very excited, it feels like he has met a soulmate.
“I’m just giving you a suggestion. How to do it depends on you.”
Li Shanshan smiled slightly. He knew that he was half-assed. Although he had learned programming language when he was in school, he had long forgotten it after so many years. The back of my head.
It’s okay to make suggestions, but if it’s up to you to do it yourself, forget it.
At this time, Li Shanshan suddenly recalled how he was sitting in front of the computer working. After coding several thousand words, the computer suddenly went black and the screen crashed. All the words he had finally coded were gone… Damn it, what could be better than
this? Something even more maddening?
It would be great if there was an automatic saving function at that time…
“By the way, I have an idea. Can I develop a function that automatically saves documents?
Li Xianshan went crazy when he thought of this picture. If he could Having a function that automatically saves documents would avoid many tragedies.
“What a great idea! ”
Qiu Bojun and Lei Jun said in unison. Obviously they have also had this sad experience.
Once when Qiu Bojun was typing code, he encountered a Windows 95 system crash that caused the computer to blue screen and freeze. He finally typed out a few Thousands of codes were all gone.
He was so angry that he smashed the computer on the spot. Lei Jun laughed at him for a long time after seeing this.
If the new version of WPS can automatically save documents, I believe it will be very popular. After all, now Word None have this function.
