Li Yang, a scientific and technological innovator and CIO of the world's top 500 group: the success of digital transformation depends on people. Decision makers should always focus on "firewood"

Li Yang Guangdong province, CIO The president of the Alliance , China Software Industry Association CIO Vice chairman of the branch , Member of yuancosmos Expert Committee of Beijing Information Industry Association , A world 500 Strong group CIO.
He graduated from the Chinese Academy of Sciences , Now I am in a certain world 500 Strong group CIO/CDO. Engaged in online communication for a long time , Served China Mobile 、 China international capital corporation 、 Haier Group 、 Alibaba 、 Ping An Group and many other companies in the world 500 Strong groups and top famous enterprises , As CIO、CDO、CSO And other technology executives . Close to 20 Leading large group companies and finance in 、 manufacture 、 Internet and other industries to carry out information construction 、 Digital transformation 、 Technology innovation and management experience of technology company . Creatively put forward the idea of facing industrial development “ Science and technology security Ecology ” Scientific and technological innovation and development concept , Lead the team to practice the concept of scientific and technological innovation 、 Ecological construction and achievement incubation , And to put forward “ Li Yang's 12 points for industrial digital transformation ”、“ Financial technology security 3.0”、“ Artificial intelligence is inherently safe ” Wait for the theory .
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Tsinghua University in the army has learned
Keep fit + Steel belief
Li Yang's career life , Has been proud of the network information 、 The tide of digital spring tide . He was in “ Tsinghua in the military ” During the master's degree of National University of Defense Science and technology , In the National Natural Science Foundation of China 、 Country 863 As the leading and backbone force in national special projects such as high-tech plan , During his doctorate at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he studied under the guidance of academician fangbinxing, a leading Chinese cyber security figure , At the forefront of scientific theoretical research 、 Great achievements in engineering design and implementation , He wrote the computer network communication 、 Papers on information security were published in ACM SigCOMM、ACM WWW、ACM AsiaCCS、IEEE DSN、RAID Wait for the world's top academic conferences 、 And Chinese first-class academic journals , It presides over and participates in the research and development of many national science and technology 、 Safety related projects have also been applied in the country . Li Yang attributed his academic achievements to the professional basic courses of the National Defense Department ,“ The operating system theory we used back then 、 Compilation theory 、 Textbook of database theory , It is the accumulation of genuine talents and practical knowledge from generation to generation of domestic experts in related fields , Looking at the simple cover , The content is very solid ”.
Academic achievements 、 The experience accumulated in practice is certainly valuable , What's more valuable , The experience of studying at the National University of Defense Science and technology in his youth , Helped Li Yang build two core elements in the bottom system of his life ： Faith in winning , A strong body . There are too many unknowns in the field of science and technology , Many achievements come from firm belief ; Most technology practitioners neglect to exercise their bodies , And this is an extreme drain on energy 、 A career that requires physical support , At the National University of Defense Science and technology 、 Under the training of time and again , Li Yang has gained good health that has benefited him so far , Up to now, he can still recall the playground of National Defense University of science and technology at night ,“ The playground is a place for dating , Our playground is really for exercise ”.
From Chinese Academy of Sciences to China Mobile Research Institute , Li Yang has accumulated great achievements in the academic field , Like many researchers , The young and vigorous Li Yang is eager to confirm his research results under specific landing scenarios .
2010 year , An invitation with full weight was placed in front of Li Yang ,“ If network information technology is a weapon , The business environment is the real battlefield , Only in the battlefield can you determine how well you are doing ”, Plus “ Finance is the dream of our agent ”, He decided to join CICC .
 
Join CICC , High starting point corresponds to high cognition
The technical team must learn to establish authority
China international capital corporation （ China International Finance Co., Ltd ）, The first Sino foreign joint venture investment bank in mainland China , It has been established since its inception “ New （ about ） Lun （ London ） new （ Slope adding ）（ sweet ） harbor ” The global layout of . A diverse culture 、 Profound professional accumulation 、 The vision pattern of globalization , It helped Li Yang quickly realize the transformation from scientific research thinking to business thinking . He is still grateful to the CICC executives who helped him in those years ,“ He is the top person in terms of life experience and professional ability , But their affinity 、 A low profile , Patient help to team members , It inspired me a lot , It also directly helped me to successfully complete the first time in my life ‘ airborne ’”.
Li Yang's job requirements , It is to use technology and soft skills to solve business pain points . In his past experience , Or solve the tasks assigned by the state , Or it can play arbitrarily under the situation of insufficient competition , Lack of practical experience in the high-pressure competitive environment . In CICC , He had to face direct pressure from the business side , We should also devote some energy to adapting to the complexity of CICC's diversified challenges .
For personal growth , The greatest significance of a high starting point is not high salary 、 Superior human vein , It's high awareness . Under the guidance of your predecessors , Li Yang realized early , Establish equal cooperative relations with business parties , Not only to learn business thinking 、 Master the method of transposition thinking , More importantly, it is necessary to effectively establish authority .
Tips· Some ways for technology decision makers to establish authority
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Take the initiative to create a sense of ceremony in the details . Under the guidance of the boss , We have developed a policy that includes “ Binding angle 、 Document Fonts 、 Text punctuation ” Strict specifications including , Technical people don't stick to details , However, the technical personnel do not care about the small sections , It is often the business side 、 Information that partners can understand , This is the best battlefield for both sides to establish recognition , Not only can not give up , We should also make good use of 、 Quickly output an authority 、 A reliable impression ”.
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Respect each other's cognition 、 Use the other person's mind . The higher you stand , The bigger the cognitive pattern , Your professional information must be part of his cognitive range , What's more, some information is simply within his professional scope , This makes it easier for both sides to establish mutual recognition .
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Establish industry influence . In the age of the Internet , The influence of public domain information can also have a direct impact on the enterprise , Your popularity in the industry 、 Authority can effectively dispel some unnecessary doubts and noises . The so-called foreign monks like to chant scriptures , The essence is that the authority of internal functional posts is easily diluted by the ownership of resources , Therefore, we should be good at using public domain information to establish a wider range of authority .
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Leading Haier data to the cloud
Be the vanguard , Be a publicity team
2013 year , In order to access more diversified business scenarios , Li Yang was invited to join Haier Group, which is in the stage of Internet transformation , Mainly responsible for the network security and information construction of Haier Group .
After joining Haier , The first thing Li Yang did was to promote the implementation of Haier cloud strategy , The difficulty of this work is self-evident ： Haier Group has tens of thousands of terminals connected to the cloud , How to manage cloud data ？ How to distribute cloud keys ？ How to ensure the privacy of cloud tenants ？
At the time , Cloud computing is a new concept 、 The theory of mature 、 The awkward stage of lacking mature practical experience , Li Yang realized the special project of data cloud in only one year ： By connecting the terminal to the cloud of the distributed architecture , Centralized data storage and sharing , And provide full life cycle data access audit support , Haier has thus become a milestone benchmark for the implementation of the manufacturing cloud strategy .
The so-called pass of digital transformation , Not in technology but in people's hearts ,10 Years ago, Li Yang realized this personally . Within one year , The ditch where Li Yang walked 、 The mountain gate I visited 、 Countless words have been consumed . The significance of cloud on data is significant , In today's words, it is the realization of data assets 、 The first step in data lifecycle management , But in those days, there was great opposition , How to cut off the network ？ What to do on business trip ？ Why change user behavior ？…… Rational questioning , There are also deliberate difficulties .
The key points for the smooth progress of the resumption of trading , From a military academy 、 Li Yang, whose roots are red, looks like , The most important thing is to use Chairman Mao's words flexibly ： The long march is a propaganda team , The long march is a seeder ,“ To complete a difficult overall improvement , Two things must be done well ： propaganda , Launch a pilot project ”. Li yangzai IT The team shouted out “ Be the vanguard , Be a publicity team ” The slogan of the , Take the lead in IT Promote the change of cloud strategy within the system , At the same time, use all propaganda positions to carry out “ Data on the cloud ” Ideological enlightenment work ,“ For example, we developed APP、 Home page of the enterprise , There will be some lively pictures , Chief publicity Officer （ Zhang Ruimin's internal title in Haier ） Our strategic approach 、 Key decisions , Help everyone in the group realize the importance of this work ”.
Besides , User experience is also enterprise informatization 、 Digital revolution , A point that is often overlooked ,“ CICC's user experience must be different from that of Haier , Trying not to change user behavior is something worth thinking about , For example, people in the manufacturing industry are used to using drive letters , We just cater to this habit , Design a safety disk , The user experience has hardly changed ”.
Li Yang helped Haier realize the implementation of cloud strategy , Not only has it received unanimous praise from the whole group 、 Won the excellent project award , It also helps Haier's computer product line to provide a series of value-added services of cloud services , It has become a value-added element for products to gain customers .
“ The first half of the year was mainly spent on communication , I have talked with the heads of all departments in the group , Several times I want to give up , But I stuck with it , This experience let me know the complexity and difficulty of enterprise transformation , But it also strengthened the belief that the right is to win .”

Ping An Group launched financial technology 3.0
to be resourceful , Multiple techniques for consensus building
Before joining Ping An Group , Li Yang went to Alibaba for a short time to experience the atmosphere of an Internet enterprise .
Success in Haier , Let Li Yang become famous in the industry , Huawei 、 Ali 、 Ping An Group and other leading enterprises have thrown olive branches , Out of curiosity about the Internet industry , Ali became his priority . Originally open to Internet enterprises 、 A free atmosphere with expectations , But the actual gap is not small . meanwhile , The sincere invitation of Ping An Group has never been interrupted .
Final , Li Yang has made great achievements in Ping An group ： He from 0 To 1 Build the group's information security and financial technology innovation team , It has improved the business security guarantee capability of Ping An group , It has promoted the promotion and external expansion of the technology and safety brand of Ping An group , Opens the “ zheng 、 production 、 learn 、 study 、 gold 、 Medium 、 use ” New ideas ; Through group security 、 The group focuses on scientific and technological innovation , It has changed the loose management and service mode of the group technology for various industrial companies in the past , Established diversity 500 Strengthen the strategic control and operation control mode of the group's technology for the industrial companies of the group , And achieved good control effect ; He unites the country 、 industry 、 association 、 Colleges and universities / The first domestic financial security and scientific and technological innovation institution led by scientific research institutes and other resources —— Ping An Financial Security Research Institute （PAAFS） Through joint research and development 、 The output of achievements and other methods have effectively integrated and promoted the work of the Lujin Institute 、 Business development and external technology brand empowerment effect of industrial companies including oneconnect , For example, one account link was successfully listed , The successful transformation of lufax .
“ Business oriented , It is the fundamental foothold of digital transformation ”, stay 2022 year , This sentence is already politically correct , But the real landing process , How to be business oriented 、 How to gain the trust of the business party 、 How to build a common position with the business side , But there are still many difficulties .
Tips. Five magic weapons for consensus building in the process of digital transformation
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Knock on the door ： Li Yang's first battle in Ping'an group was to successfully build Ping'an cloud , He accurately established the comparison between Ping An cloud and Alibaba cloud 、 Differentiation advantages of Baidu cloud ： Regulatory compliance 、 Financial attributes of high safety benchmarks . In order to quickly establish differentiation advantages , Li Yang led the team to obtain more than ten certifications within half a year , These certifications have become the recognition of Ping An cloud's rapid establishment of features 、 A stepping stone to form differentiation advantages .
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Gripper ： Before Li Yang joined us , Ping An's safety work focuses on compliance 、 regulatory , Lack of operational thinking and ability , Li Yang hopes that the security team will be on the front line with the operation , Therefore, the group's security operation team and digital expert service team were established in due time ,“ Take the strategic development of the group as the goal , Dare to take risks ”, This team not only helps the group to solve the potential obstacles to development , It also generates direct revenue through external empowerment .
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Abacus ： Facing the links with large internal resistance , Account accurately ,“ There is something wrong with the policy , Millions of losses at every turn ; There is something wrong with the brand , Market reputation damaged , If it's light, it will hurt your muscles and bones , The most important thing is to bury it on the spot …… Through accurate and reasonable risk assessment , Help the other person understand change , Reach a consensus .”
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It doesn't matter whether it's a chicken feather or a Lingjian , The other person's KPI above all ： Internal communication , One of Li Yang's most common words is “ Don't hold a chicken feather as an arrow ”, He suffered for it , But in the end he found , It doesn't matter whether it's a chicken feather or an arrow , The other person's KPI Is what the other party cares about most , By articulating change to each other KPI The revenue mechanism , Can dispel each other's concerns as soon as possible .
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Honor ： We carry the risk , Honor goes to business , Don't worry that your boss won't see you until you show up , The boss who can support the change must know your credit .
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Future ideal
Technology system based on business perspective enables enterprise innovation  
Science and technology makers ： Could you please share the principles and methodology for selecting the entry point of digital transformation in an abstract way ？
Li Yang ： In the long history of human society , Anything we do 、 Any improvement 、 Any change is based on the reality of the past and the present , To have tomorrow , The same is true for digital transformation . For the survival and development of enterprises , Need to be in the digital transformation phase , Look at and analyze the corporate culture carefully 、 organization 、 personnel 、 Legacy system 、 remaining problems / risk 、 Compliance factors 、 Long term plan 、 The remaining problems and countermeasures 、 strategic 、 tactical 、 alliance / Ecological problems, etc , From the perspective of business operation and digital technology, we can judge whether these historical survival problems need to be solved , What is the priority of the solution , What are the costs and expected benefits of the solution and so on , We can find many entry points from these aspects .
for instance , For the financial industry , Bank 、 insurance 、 securities business 、 Consumer finance and so on are facing difficulties in obtaining customers through traditional channels 、 The quality of sinking customers is low 、 Digital marketing channel development 、 The intelligent risk control system needs to be upgraded 、 Personal privacy and data security are high risks , These problems can be used as a starting point for transformation .
Science and technology makers ： In the information revolution 、 You have made a lot of achievements in the field of digital transformation , What is your ultimate ideal ？
Li Yang ： It's not complicated , Is to continuously create value , How to combine technology with business requirements , Create more value .
It is said that sharpening a knife does not make a mistake for cutting firewood , Most friends with technical background prefer to focus on the knife , And I always care about where Chai is . Firewood is different in every era , Now is another time of great changes , I will also think more about the changes in the pattern , Continue to optimize your development view .