There is a huge gap between the soft and hard strength of Lenovo and Huawei. In terms of sales revenue, Huawei's operating income in 20 18 reached 7.21200 million yuan and its net profit was 59.3 billion yuan, while Lenovo's annual operating income was 358.9 billion yuan and its net profit was 4.362 billion yuan. In other words, Huawei's revenue is twice that of Lenovo, and its profit is 13 times that of Lenovo. Lenovo is definitely not as good as Huawei.
In terms of hard power, Lenovo PC ranks first in the world, but Huawei Communications ranks first in the world and its terminals rank among the top three in the world. More importantly, Huawei's products have strong independent intellectual property rights, and the core chips of communication products have long been self-developed. Huawei's patents have remained in the top three in the world for a long time, and Hisilicon is the first IC manufacturer in China. Lenovo's products are all assembled products, and the technical content is incomparable with Huawei.
Moreover, this time the United States sanctioned Huawei, and Huawei resolutely resisted. If it was Lenovo, it would have surrendered. In terms of soft power, Huawei is definitely more worthy of respect and admiration than Lenovo.
Huawei focuses on technology, Lenovo focuses on sales, and strategic direction determines the strength gap. Huawei is now the world's number one communications company, and Lenovo is the world's number one PC manufacturer. But now Lenovo and Huawei are not in the same order of magnitude, which has a lot to do with the different strategic directions of Huawei and Lenovo. At the beginning of the enterprise, Huawei and Lenovo didn't have much money, so it was impossible to walk on two legs in technology and sales, and they could only choose one.
Huawei is a technology-based company, which attaches importance to core technologies. One of the characteristics of companies that value technology is that they will sit on the bench for many years in the early days of the company. When it is mature, either the technology has made a major breakthrough and gained the status of a big shot in the Jianghu, or the technology has failed to make a breakthrough and has to accept the result of failure.
So Huawei is much more difficult than Lenovo. Liu Chuanzhi said before that the research of core technology belongs to a narrow escape, yes. Even within Huawei, many projects eventually failed, and a lot of real money was invested, and nothing happened.
Lenovo takes the route of sales and trade. Focus on sales, it will be simpler and smoother at first. General sales companies will adopt mature scheme integration and their own design, and invest a lot of resources in sales expansion and business strategy. In the early days of China's reform and opening up, a large number of companies took this road.
Trading companies have great advantages in the initial stage, while technology companies will lose certain advantages once they break out. Trading companies will not have leading technology. The technology they adopted is a mature scheme. The mature scheme has been tested by commercial practice, and its maturity and price are relatively low. Therefore, trading companies will pay attention to cost performance.
However, at present, the era we live in is an era of technological explosion, and consumers pay more attention to the advanced nature of technology and are more willing to pay for it. At this time, the development of trading companies will encounter great bottlenecks and can only attract customers by cost performance. Moreover, the products of companies that use integrated solutions are not irreplaceable. You have what I have, and fierce competition leads to price wars.
Therefore, Huawei's strategy was much more difficult than Lenovo's in the early days, but Huawei finally stood out and encountered this era of technological explosion. Lenovo has no core technology, and its growth is weak now. For example, Lenovo's notebook has been challenged by Huawei and Lenovo at the same time.
The road is unified, Lenovo missed the opportunity of transformation, and Huawei seized the opportunity. Although Huawei and Lenovo chose different roads in the early days, there are 3,000 roads, and all roads lead to the same goal. Whether it is a road with trade as the main line or a road with technology as the main line, if you want to survive in the end, it is the same road, that is, trade and technology go together, and one leg cannot be lame.
Huawei has done a very good job in this regard. Huawei has the core technology, but the "wolf nature" of Huawei's first-line sales is also well known. After maintaining the leading position in technology, Huawei did not despise sales. Huawei's senior leaders must have sales experience. At the same time, Huawei also has a large number of R&D to the sales front line every year. Huawei's slogan is "customer-centric", and sales are now a very important part of Huawei.
On the other hand, Lenovo has deviated from the essence of "trade technology" after tasting the benefits brought by sales. "Trade technology" means trade before technology, and ultimately "technology" should be developed. However, Lenovo's sales road is gone forever. Even when Lenovo was at its best, it didn't expect to exert its strength on the core technology, but was fascinated by the sweetness brought by the trade route.
So Lenovo is lame now. Trade and sales are certainly doing well, but the products have almost no core competitiveness. This makes Lenovo's products too easy to be copied, lacking competitiveness in this technological era, and unable to go further. Of course, not paying attention to technology does not mean that you can't survive. At least you can survive by taking the trade route, playing low prices and playing cost-effective.
So, are there any two-legged companies in China that finally succeed in "trade and technology"? Yes, Alibaba is such a company that has successfully transformed its "trade technology". Alibaba was originally modeled after ebay Taobao, with little technical content and mainly trade. But at the beginning of 20 10, Alibaba began to transform itself into a technology company with Alibaba Cloud as the core.
Up to now, although Alibaba is still boasting everywhere, it has to be admitted that Alibaba Cloud's core competitiveness is very strong, and Ali has his own database and OS. Alibaba Cloud ranks among the top three in the world, which has brought great benefits to Ali. Therefore, whether it is "trade technology" or "technology industry and trade", it always leads to "trade technology parallelism" in the end. Unfortunately, Lenovo missed this opportunity.
Fate is not unfair to Lenovo, but Lenovo didn't seize the opportunity. There is nothing wrong with any enterprise taking the technical or trade route in the early stage. As long as we can survive in the early stage, there is hope for further development. However, enterprises need to be prepared for danger in times of peace. Lenovo was content with the status quo and satisfied with the pleasure brought by the growth of sales profits, so it did not transform in time. This is Lenovo's big problem.
Moreover, Lenovo is also lacking in the education of corporate culture. A China company adopted westernized management, which made Lenovo offend consumers again and again in China. Lenovo's embarrassing situation is really a bit self-inflicted.
Lenovo; As an old intelligent enterprise in China, it monopolized the leader before 2 1 century. After entering the 2 1 century, the competition in the intelligent industry is fierce. The emergence of smart phones, the old-school association, the pace is slow, and it has not really been done well. There is also Huawei; As a private enterprise, it is ambitious and has the spirit of being a socialist doer who dares to think, do and act, and will certainly make great achievements and make a name for itself. On strength; Lenovo has abundant technical reserves, solid foundation and rich experience. However, in the mobile phone war, we can't always do something, always do something wrong and lose the war. Now Lenovo, its mobile phone is not only behind Huawei, but also not as good as Xiaomi. Said thoroughly; It is inseparable from the name of the enterprise, the address of the headquarters, the top management of the enterprise, and especially the pace of the times. It can also be said; Get the right time, place and people.
Which is stronger, Lenovo or Huawei? Lenovo's turnover last year was 350 billion, and CEO Yang's annual salary exceeded 200 million. Lenovo was once the pride of China people. My classmate went to study in England and said that he felt a sense of pride when he saw an Indian using Lenovo computer in his dormitory.
Since Lenovo went public, many shares of the company have been controlled by American consortia. Within Lenovo, R&D personnel do not have any shares. Most of Lenovo's shares are in the hands of Lenovo's board of directors and the American consortium.
Mainly engaged in computer assembly, and then OEM sales, the biggest technical advantage of products is to design computer shells.
Lenovo's advantages: Relying on the optimized design and assembly of American parts, and relying on American consortia to support the development of overseas markets, Lenovo's product shape design is still excellent. By opposing the domestic development of independent operating systems, it was recognized by the United States and developed. Lenovo owns Motorola, and its core patent also comes from Motorola.
Lenovo's disadvantage: lack of core technology patents
Huawei's 20 18 turnover exceeded 720 billion, of which R&D funds reached 108 billion. It is estimated that Huawei's turnover will exceed 830 billion this year.
Huawei homepage products:
Mobile phone, computer motherboard, communication base station, switch, smart home, photovoltaic inverter, submarine optical cable, server, video control chip, mobile phone chip, computer chip (Kunpeng 920 chip) and so on.
Huawei's advantage: the proportion of independent technology is relatively high, and the latest Huawei Mate30 has no American parts. Pit risk ability is relatively high. Apple also has to pay patent fees to Huawei.
Huawei's disadvantage: 1 is often discredited by American media on the Internet and suppressed by king of thailand on the other side of the ocean. 3, often labeled online.
Summary: Lenovo and Huawei have different routes. An enterprise representing two ideas. Lenovo acted as an assembly agent, optimized the shell design and acquired patents. Huawei represents independent research and development, and constantly improves the proportion of self-developed technologies to achieve development. In terms of annual turnover, Huawei is twice that of Lenovo. The two sides are equal in strength and equal, and each has its own advantages. Lenovo's computer sales volume ranks first in the world, PC production ranks first in the world, and Forbes ranks 89 in the global digital economy 100. In 20 19, Lenovo's revenue exceeded 350 billion, with fruitful results. Huawei Kirin 9905G has been ahead of six major industries in the world. Huawei shipped 240 million smartphones and 6.9 million 5G mobile phones, which was eye-catching. These two companies are the symbols of China's economic and technological strength and the leaders of private enterprises. They are all outstanding in their respective fields and deserve our admiration!
To sum up, Lenovo Group and Huawei are both indispensable economic and technological forces in China and two monuments of private economy in China. May these two companies get better and better and eventually become global weather vanes! Finally, I use a sentence from Ai En Stein to sum up: As long as you don't give up trying, you will never fail.
Thank you for your question. Strength is a very broad concept. Let me choose a few points to talk about my feelings about Lenovo and Huawei.
In the field of consumer goods, Lenovo's computer sales rank first in the world, but Huawei's mobile phones and computers are not the first. Huawei computers are like a newborn child. Even supercomputers that represent the level of science and technology have six in the top ten Lenovo. The bad thing is that Lenovo is headquartered in the United States, but Lenovo's mobile phone is cheap and affordable for China people. However, Huawei took the lead in raising prices to kill people in China, which pushed up the price level of the mobile phone industry and increased the economic burden of consumers in China. Moreover, Huawei falsified its memory, deliberately cut corners and deliberately dredged the oil layer. You ask who has more water troops, and you brag and kill China people. Everyone knows that.
Sun Hongbin said that Lenovo is just a porter with no technical content. What do you compare with Huawei?
Comparing Huawei with Lenovo is an insult to Huawei. The two companies are not in the same class, so there is no comparability.
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Lenovo and Huawei should be the two brands that consumers in China are most willing to talk about at present. One is the dark history of Lenovo's "5G Voting Gate", and the other is that these two companies should be the two China brands with the best development in the global market at present. So who is the stronger of these two brands? Let's synthesize what is necessary.
Status comparison: Huawei is in a leading position in revenue. According to the annual data released by Lenovo, in 20 18-20 19, Lenovo's annual turnover was 342.2 billion yuan, and the largest business still came from three sectors, namely, personal computer and smart equipment business, mobile business and data center business, among which the main income came from personal computer business.
According to the report of Top 500 Private Enterprises in China released by the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce in Xining, Qinghai on August 22nd, 20 19. According to the list, Huawei Investment Holding Co., Ltd. ranks among the top 500 private enterprises in China with an operating income of 7.2120.2 billion yuan. In other words, in terms of operating income alone, Huawei's operating income is about twice that of Lenovo, which basically shows the trend of crushing. Therefore, at present, Huawei's revenue base is more solid.
Future comparison: Huawei is still in an absolute leading position in scientific research investment. A company's investment in scientific research, like students' investment in learning, represents the future development trend of an enterprise. Since neither company disclosed its R&D investment accurately to the outside world in 20 18, we adopted the data of 20 17. According to the data of 20 17, Huawei's investment in R&D is about 103 billion euros (about 89.7 billion yuan), while Lenovo only has 65,438. So it can be seen that Huawei's investment in the future is far better than Lenovo's.
Market value comparison: Lenovo is particularly pitiful. Because Huawei has not been listed, it can only be in the form of valuation, and Lenovo has been listed in Hong Kong. At present, Lenovo's market value has reached 67 billion Hong Kong dollars, about 60.2 billion yuan. For an established enterprise like Lenovo, this market value is really not high, because the market value of Xiaomi has reached HK$ 201700 million, which is still based on the share price of Xiaomi. In other words, in terms of market value alone, Lenovo is only equivalent to one-third of Xiaomi.
Huawei is not listed at present, and it can only take the form of valuation. According to the "20 19 Lexus Hurun Report" recently released by Hurun Research Institute, we give the relevant companies a valuation reference and give Huawei a valuation of 1.2 trillion yuan. This is the conclusion reached by Hurun in combination with the price-earnings ratio of hardware enterprises. As for the valuation of $654.38 +0.3 trillion mentioned by Mr. Ni Guangnan, I personally feel that it is somewhat exaggerated. Even if Huawei goes public, its market value is still difficult to surpass that of Apple. However, the valuation of 1.2 trillion RMB is nearly 20 times stronger than Lenovo, yes, it is 20 times.
To sum up, from the perspective of comparing the current situation and investment future, Huawei and Lenovo are not rivals at all. Lenovo, which was founded with Huawei at about the same time, is now in the opposite direction. Of course, the author is more optimistic about Huawei's development path.
Lenovo was founded in 1 984165438+10/0, and it has been 35 years since then. Lenovo's business scope is relatively wide, and its main business is of course personal computers, notebook computers, servers, mobile phones and so on. It is the largest supplier of personal computers in the world. Lenovo's revenue exceeded 350 billion this year. It can be said that this transcript is not bad anywhere.
And Huawei? Founded in September 1987, 15, slightly younger than Lenovo. Huawei's main business is communication business, and it is the largest supplier of communication equipment in the world. This year, under the pressure of the United States, Huawei is expected to achieve an operating income of 830 billion yuan. If we only look at the numbers, Huawei's strength is obviously higher than Lenovo's.
In July, Fortune magazine published the ranking of the world's top 500 companies in 20 19 years. Last year, Huawei scored 72, and this year it rose by 1 1, ranking 6 1. Although Huawei is not a listed company, its ability is obvious to all, ranking 6 1 in the world, which can be said to give a high evaluation to a communication company.
And Lenovo? Of course, it is also one of the top 500 companies in the world, but its performance is naturally not as good as Huawei's, ranking 2 12. Of course, it has made great progress compared with last year's 240.
In the global ranking, Lenovo is not as good as Huawei, and the gap is still not small. Let's look at other aspects.
As a technology company, Lenovo has more than 50,000 employees, which is quite a lot for a technology company, but what about Huawei? The total number of employees in the world exceeds 6.5438+0.8 million, including nearly 30,000 overseas employees.
It can be said that from the perspective of the number and structure of employees, Huawei is a well-deserved international company far beyond Lenovo. Moreover, Lenovo is a listed company, and its employees actually don't have many shares in the company. Most employees actually don't have the high passion of Huawei. As we all know, Huawei is a fully-owned enterprise. Although it works overtime and works hard, the rewards it pays are also rich.
So in terms of employees, Huawei also defeated Lenovo.
Finally, let's compare the technical details and see if Lenovo can compete with Niu Yibo.
Invention patent is actually a good standard to measure the technical strength of an enterprise. In 20 18, Huawei * * * applied for 3369 invention patents, ranking first among domestic enterprises. Lenovo fully applied for 1807 invention patents, ranking seventh. Although Lenovo has many patents, there is still a big gap compared with Huawei. If you count the number of patents accumulated by enterprises, I believe the gap between Lenovo and Huawei will be even greater.
Therefore, Lenovo failed to surpass Huawei in technical strength. Based on these general factors, I think Huawei or Lenovo need not say more.