Zhou Bowen: Endogenous Energy, Outside The Line, The Internal Energy To The Critical Point, And Start To Give Away.

In December 6, 2019, Jingdong group announced the establishment of the Jingdong cloud and AI division, integrating the architecture and responsibilities of the three major divisions of the former Jingdong cloud, AI and IoT. Zhou Bowen, vice president of the Jingdong group, was the head of the group, reporting directly to Chairman and CEO Liu Qiangdong of the chairman of the group.

A few days later, in December 10th, Jingdong announced the establishment of the group technical committee. Zhou Bowen served as chairman of the technical committee.

The technical committee consists of a decision-making committee and an executive committee. Zhou Bo Wen as chairman, executive vice chairman of Yan Weipeng and Cao Pengren, as executive member of Jian Qiang and Li Dehao, constituted a technical decision Committee and had the right to vote; the Executive Committee was composed of the group system and BGBU technology VP and T12 (or above) technical experts or senior technical business leaders.

Jingdong said that the group's technical committee will focus on building Jingdong technology brand, co-ordinate and build Jingdong group's technology culture, enhance the professionalism and diversity of the technology team of Jingdong, promote the technology transformation and technology service strategy of the group, and at the same time, enhance the technical cooperation of the whole industry by leading the group's external technical cooperation and communication. Loud force.

What changes are taking place in Jingdong? What does technology mean for Jingdong?

CTO out of sight

What does it mean to integrate cloud, AI and IoT into an important carrier of technology? Recently, in an interview with media coverage including the twenty-first Century economic report, Zhou Bowen explained with a simple and vivid analogy.

In Zhou Bo Wen's view, if the whole technology is a person, AI is the brain, IoT is responsible for the perception and acquisition function of the nerve end and the execution of the signal. The cloud is the trunk, muscle and blood vessels of the body, and it runs data, and the big data is oxygen. Jingdong combines AI, cloud, IoT and big data together to form stronger, more vigorous and competitive entities.

The establishment of Jingdong Technical Committee means that Jingdong has a more systematic organizational structure, and technological transformation has entered a new stage.

Zhou Bo Wen summed up the new stage of technological transformation of Jingdong in a sentence: endogenous energy, external output, internal energy to the critical point, and beginning to give away.

Why do we set up a technical committee at this time? Zhou Bo Wen said: "Jingdong hopes that when faced with various technical problems, there is a unified policy-making body to make decisions. The core of the committee is to accomplish the construction of technology, talent, organization, strategy, brand and culture in terms of technology."

In contrast, the Jingdong group's CTO position has been diluted.

In March 15, 2019, Jingdong group announced the post of CTO, a group of consultants from June 30th. At that time, the reasons for leaving the Jingdong were family reasons. Since then, the position of Jingdong CTO has been vacant.

The establishment of the technical committee seems to be a response from Jingdong to the vacancy of CTO.

Zhou Bowen told the media including the twenty-first Century economic report: "CTO is an endogenous position, and the technical committee is an open and export-oriented technology organization emphasizing internal and external synergy."

In his view, many traditional enterprises have such a loophole, from outside to inside, outside what technology to use, take me as the center, from the outside help to provide decision-making; Technical Committee is more from inside to outside.

The setting of the Technical Committee shows the core idea of Jingdong strategy, not only to provide technical services, but also to provide production for business, more of the concept of ecology and synergy.

In fact, Internet Co set up a technical committee, and Jingdong is not a precedent.

The layout of Alibaba and Baidu in the technical committee is relatively early. Wang Jian, chairman of the Alibaba group technical committee, was elected academician of the 2019 Chinese Academy of Engineering in November last year and became the first Chinese private enterprise academician. Wu Hua, chairman of Baidu Technical Committee, won the "outstanding engineer Award" at the beginning of last year.

At the beginning of 2019, Tencent announced the establishment of a technical committee. Tang Daosheng, senior executive vice president of Tencent, chief executive officer of technology and engineering group, senior executive vice president of Tencent, President of cloud and intelligent industry group, is responsible for taking the lead.

In February 2019, Xiaomi set up a technical committee, and Cui Baoqiu, vice president of Xiaomi group, served as chairman of the technical committee.

In March, a lot of co-founder and CEO Huang Zheng said at the conference call conference that many technical committees will be set up. The former Microsoft global executive vice president, now YC founder of China, many independent directors, Baidu group's former president and chief operating officer, Lu Qi leadership Technical Committee will work.

In the era of industrial Internet transformation, Internet Co has attached more and more importance to technology.

"Technology! Technology! Technology! "

In an interview, Zhou Bowen introduced the Jingdong's current ABCDE strategy, A refers to Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence), B refers to Big Data (big data), C is Cloud (Cloud Computing), D refers to Devices, and Cloud is the frontier (frontier exploration).

ABCDE strategy indicates that Jingdong's technological system has been exploring the frontier, and the frontier technology has transformed new productivity through ABCD.

As a matter of fact, since 2017, Jingdong has been trying to get rid of the hat of simple retail business and keep up with the technology companies.

At the Jingdong annual meeting in 2017, Liu Qiangdong said that there were only three things in the future Jingdong technology, technology and technology, which formally announced that Jingdong should fully transform to technology.

In the same year, Shen Yuanqing joined Jingdong after leaving from Microsoft. AI Daniel Zhou Bowen and Amazon chief scientist Li lie Feng were also formally recruited into Jingdong.

At the Jingdong global technology Explorer Conference (JDDiscovery-2019) in November 19th last year, Jingdong announced the establishment of an intelligent supply chain "national team" expert advisory committee to create the "new think tank" of the new generation of intelligent supply chain artificial intelligence open innovation platform.

At the meeting, Jingdong retail group CEO Xu Lei said Jingdong retail has become a typical technology driven retail companies.

According to Jingdong's data, Jingdong has more than 18 thousand R & D personnel, and the proportion of talents with master's degree or above is over 80%. In 2019, the number of patent applications reached 3651, and entered the first camp of domestic Internet companies.

Jingdong's continuous technological investment returns are also increasingly prominent. Jingdong has made many achievements in retail, logistics, digital technology, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and Internet of things.

Taking the construction of technology platform as an example, Jingdong began to build technology platform since 2017, and began to make data stations in December of the same year. In January last year, it clearly set out the goal of the construction of Greater China and Taiwan, and helped more emerging businesses and technicians break sector boundaries, share systems, and increase the depth of technology and the sense of community.

The Jingdong group's comprehensive promotion of the technology system in the middle stage and component-based initiatives not only enhanced the efficiency of R & D within the Jingdong, expanded the innovation space, but also provided the foundation for the external technology service window such as Jingdong cloud, so that the technology services revenue of Jingdong continued to grow rapidly, and the scope of service industry continued to expand.

Jingdong reported in the third quarter of 2019 that the proportion of Jingdong's technology and service revenue to net income of the company increased to 11.9%. In the first three quarters of last year, Jingdong's listed and unlisted enterprises had invested more than 13 billion yuan in research and development, and jumped to become one of the largest technology investment companies in domestic enterprises.

Last year, the Jingdong officially launched a sinking strategy.

In the sinking market, as of the end of last year, Jingdong cloud and Jingdong AI combined with the industrial Internet, established nearly 40 industrial bases in three or four line cities, endowed local governments and enterprises with industrial Internet transformation, and helped the local industry government to improve efficiency through digitalization and digitalization of industries.

In addition, in August last year, at the 2019 WAIC World Conference on artificial intelligence held in Shanghai, Jingdong group was selected by the Ministry of science and technology to list the latest batch of open innovation platform of national AI, and to participate in the construction of the new generation of intelligent supply chain artificial intelligence open innovation platform.