Chapter 163 The boss who can’t be persuaded (additional update for 600 orders)

January 26, Saturday, the fourteenth day of the twelfth lunar month.

At 9:30 in the morning, the CPI Group's year-end board meeting officially began.

This is the first time in his past life and this life that Gao Yang has participated in the group's board of directors. Today, he is nominally attending.

In addition to Gao Yang, the others are the CEO and vice president, as well as the CFO and CTO.

Gao Yang and Wan Hong arrived at the conference room 10 minutes early. The senior executives of the group, including CEO Yang Limin, who entered the conference room early, greeted Gao Yang enthusiastically, congratulated him, and praised him.

Gao Yang handed each of the smokers a cigarette and thanked everyone for their congratulations.

Gao Yang already knew last night that almost all of these leaders had spoken out for his year-end dividend.

The agenda of today's meeting is to discuss some key issues at the group level in 2002.

CEO Yang Limin said: "The first item on the agenda of today's meeting is to establish a new project called CPI Map Company to engage in telecommunications value-added services. Next, we will first ask CTO Gong Jian to introduce the project background, market prospects, etc...."

Listening to Yang Limin's words, Gao Yang was confused for a moment.

I quickly remembered that CPI suffered a big loss on this new project. In my memory, this project seemed to have been carried out for about four years. In the end, it suffered a loss of tens of millions and had to stop it.

However, in his previous life, Gao Yang had never participated in the board of directors and had little contact with this project. Instead, like all employees of the group, he volunteered for this project for free.

That is to say, sweep the streets and accumulate map data, similar to the street view map applications of later generations.

Then, CTO Gong Jian started to talk about PPT, and Bala Bala introduced the bright prospects of this project.

Gao Yang also roughly understood that CPI took advantage of its national human resources structure, with more than 600 employees distributed in various provinces and cities across the country, and signed an agreement of intent with the mobile company to provide value-added development services for its MMS business.

In this era, telecom operators have just begun to promote MMS, and they are very ambitious, because the SMS business is extremely profitable. If the application of MMS can also be popularized, it will be a huge profit among huge profits.

This is the so-called mobile multimedia application.

However, although Gao Yang did not understand these technologies, he also knew that they were too advanced.

Multimedia applications such as maps were only successfully popularized in the era of mobile Internet.

For CPI, this is a big hole.

What CPI sees is that it has more than 20 branches in major provincial capital cities across the country and has more than 600 employees across the country. It just arranges for everyone to use their free time to sweep the streets.

Labor costs are very low.

Then, the development department aggregates these data, develops MMS maps, and cooperates with telecom operators to obtain MMS revenue shares.

Unfortunately, the ideal is very full and the reality is very skinny.

After the establishment of this project itself, in addition to technical R&D personnel, 30 new people will be recruited and stationed in branches across the country to organize and execute data collection tasks.

From a human resources perspective, this is actually a large project that requires a team of at least 50 people.

Afterwards, everyone began to discuss it enthusiastically, and everyone was very optimistic about the prospects of this project.

The SMS service of telecom operators is terrible. If the multimedia MMS service becomes popular and the street view map service of CPI can be successfully promoted, then you can just sit back and enjoy the share.

It is indeed troublesome to collect street view map data in the early stage, but we have more people and more strength, which is also the advantage of CPI.

In addition, the initial investment in product research and development is relatively large, but as long as it is successful, the annual cost will be very low in the future, mainly due to the regular update of map data.

Out of conscience, Gao Yang also made a speech, reminding people to pay attention to the risk that the MMS business will not develop and the scale benefits will not meet expectations.

Because MMS is too expensive, although mobile phones are now becoming more popular, they are mainly used in big cities. In small and medium-sized cities, many people still cannot afford mobile phones.

Unfortunately, Gao Yang's voice was drowned out by everyone's enthusiasm.

Gao Yang did not understand these technical issues, and his predictions were not convincing.

Boss Feng is also very determined. This is what he is accustomed to, spending small money to do big things and low-cost projects.

Gao Yang can't dissuade him now, because this project has been approved, and today we will discuss more about how to implement it.

The second agenda item is to split the SMB special issue from the national edition project, establish a new project, operate completely independently, and set up a project general manager and editor-in-chief, editorial department and advertising department.

This was a cut from the national version of the project. Gao Yang originally wanted to dissuade it, but finally decided against it.

After the Spring Festival, I will definitely be promoted to the vice president of the group.

From the perspective of the group, it is obvious that the SMB special issue is established as an independent project and will be more beneficial to development.

Gao Yang could only express his support and suggested promoting Song Liangqiu to the position of project general manager and editor-in-chief, which was also the idea of ​​the boss and CEO.

Last year, Song Liangqiu led three reporters and two full-time advertising salesmen. He did a good job and made nearly 7 million yuan in sales, although it was not entirely his fault.

Song Liangqiu is the most suitable candidate.

Other matters include the replacement or dismissal of some division general managers and individual project general managers. Gao Yang only attended today and did not participate in the discussion.

Today's board meeting only lasted half a day. We had dinner together at noon. After 4 pm, Gao Yang, Wan Hong, and Feng Maonan were about to return to Beijing.

After the meal, Boss Feng summoned Gao Yang alone in the office.

"The national version did very well last year. Pressure created motivation and miracles happened. The board of directors recognizes your performance very much.

Feng Maonan has applied for transfer back to the headquarters for two consecutive years. He and his family have been separated for several years, and the board of directors has approved it.

The board of directors has studied and decided that the important responsibility of the Beijing branch will be handed over to you and Wan Hong.

The SMB project began to operate independently in 2002. This project was planned by you, and you are in charge of the national version, SMB and CPI Research projects.

Wan Hong is in charge of other projects and post-trip work.”

What else could Gao Yang say, he could only say: "Thank you Mr. Feng and the board of directors for trusting me."

Boss Feng asked again: "What do you think of these three projects in 2002?"

Gao Yang thought about it and said: "After SMB operates independently, if the team works together, it should be able to achieve more than 10 million.

In 2001, excluding SMB, the national version made a revenue of 48 million. Although the traveling regional channel forum can be replicated in 2002, it will be difficult to achieve the revenue of 2001 no matter how planned it is.

In 2002, if the national version could reach 40 million, it required the whole project team to work hard."

Boss Feng nodded: "Your analysis of the national edition in 2002 is similar to the judgment of the board of directors. The board of directors decided to appoint Fang Jian as the general manager and editor-in-chief of the national edition, and Zhang Yue as the executive editor. What do you think?"

Gao Yang nodded: "The two of them are indeed the most suitable candidates. Fang Jian has this ability, and Zhang Yue still has room for growth. He is very diligent."

Boss Feng nodded: "Then let's arrange it this way."

In the memory of Gao Yang's previous life, Fang Jian did become the general manager of the project in 2002, while he himself continued to be the executive editor.

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