Business from a Confucious Stand Point: Chou’s Business Platform

Through the "people-centered" business approach of Xinyi Real Estate Innovation, founder Zhou Chunchi built a stable business environment and emphasized that employees and customers are the backbone of the company's structure. Zhou's business platform focuses on how to create value to customers by training employees to treat customers with highest respect. Review Ethical Culture Building Report issued by Ethics Resource Center. "The ability of leaders to continue to promote ethical behavior within an organization is essential to understanding how employees place" right things "as top priority. )

Building a platform from the organizational, technical and business point of view is a very challenging task. It is a difficult task to make sure that everything we build is scalable and to be able to lead the business without creating fragmented customer experiences while maintaining fragmented flexibility is. !

We live in the platform economy, but old news. William Barnett, a businessman at Stanford University, defines the platform business as "a medium that allows others to connect to it." Uber, Lyft, AirBnB are platforms, which account for 70% of "unicorns" and billions of dollars at startup companies all over the world. According to a research conducted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review, as Brad Stone noted, Amazon is clearly a platform business, rapidly expanding to new categories and businesses as "all stores" as half of the world's top 20 companies doing. .

As Barry Libert, Megan Beck, Jerry Wind pointed out in the Harvard Business Review article, today many companies are using large platforms based on "digital, knowledge, relational assets" rather than physical assets. We believe we can achieve results. Scale evaluation "With the power of the network" they are not the only ones. Some makers including network makers and recent writers, including the platform revolution, insist that low asset platform business is superior to traditional "pipeline" business. But the platform is not a panacea, there are many flaws that are not necessarily obvious in our company.

Your CMS platform is your business investment and assets. Many companies believe that the CMS platform has a lifecycle and therefore depreciate assets. As the SaaS platform grows up, the exchange will be a thing of the past. Your website "develops" according to your business needs. Retraining and reorganization will be in the past. Ask the supplier how the product is up to date and how new features will be added to your website. Understand how the upgrade works and the cost of maintaining and maintaining the CMS platform. Present a phased approach to developing web sites and ask when you want to change, new features, applications, and pricing for those features.