Böcker av Xiaoying Dong

This book picks Cisco as an example to propose a framework of ambidextrous integration of innovation and operation, which is the key to the success of global companies along their evolutions, especially for those technology companies. The authors try to find how the company combines active innovation and efficient operation for its sustainable development. On the basis of comprehensive analysis of the strategic leadership, change management, innovation system, M&As, IT-enabled value chains, collaboration, etc., in Cisco, as well as the interviews with Cisco staff, this book shows that management practices shape the balance of internal-external resources for explorative-exploitative innovations. IT strategies and implementation enable efficient operations when innovations are identified and justified in the leading company. Managerial insights for sustainable competitiveness can be gained from Cisco practices in this book. The companion of the book, Huawei: From Catching up to Lead, telling another growth path of technology company in China by similar framework.

Through in-depth case studies, this book seeks to reveal the secret of Huawei's rapid growth. The content of this book is rich and detailed. The authors combine first-hand interview data, including Huawei managers of many functional departments such as research and development, marketing, supply chain management, and human resources, as well as Huawei¿s suppliers partners and competitors. This book analyzes the articles and speeches published by Huawei¿s leader Ren Zhengfei since 1994 both in the public and internally and reference to various materials about Huawei including employee¿s postings in the social media, news reports, research papers, books, etc. The book systematically describes the key elements of Huawei's strategy, corporate culture, organizational capabilities, and R&D innovation system and so on. The book also compared the differences between Huawei and Cisco in many subjects  as leadership, culture, organization transformation and management capabilities. For whoever tries to understand Huawei, this book is an excellent reference book. In the companion book Cisco: Integration of Innovation and Operation, the author tells another growth path of technology company in America.

This book presents for the first time a detailed and comprehensive interpretation of Zhongguancun, China's first national self-dependent innovation demonstration zone. It is mainly divided into three parts: History of Zhongguancun, Data of Zhongguancun, Cases of Zhongguancun and Policies of Zhongguancun.