After work, I read carefully and felt a lot. This book mainly combs the technological innovation and business ups and downs of the "50 smartest companies in the world" selected by MIT Science and Technology Review in recent years, so that readers can understand that it is a difficult and subtle process from a breakthrough technology to truly enjoying, absorbing, applying and re-innovating technology. As for the definition of "smart", the editors of MIT Science and Technology Review are even more unconventional. They don't count the patents owned by the company or the doctors hired by the company, nor do they examine the size and reputation of the company. Instead, they will ask whether the company has made any major innovations in the past year and will redefine its field. Generally speaking, the demand for computing technology, energy materials and biomedicine has always existed, but the specific technical prosperity will fluctuate. Bioenergy and many battery technologies have suffered setbacks because they cannot be well marketed, while artificial intelligence has exploded rapidly because it has found a good application scenario.
Combining my four months' work experience and specific examples in reference books, this paper expounds my feelings from three aspects: individual, company and country:
First, stick to your dreams and walk with AI.
As we all know, General Electric is a world-famous manufacturing enterprise. Facing the wave of artificial intelligence, GE embraces change, and the company hopes to inject artificial intelligence into its machines and industrial processes. The change of company strategy brings opportunities and challenges to employees. Zhan Jason Nichols, Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, was transferred to the company's machine learning laboratory after four years of manufacturing and material research and development at General Electric. However, due to insufficient knowledge reserves, some employees were not competent.
Reminiscent of my past (nine years' experience in oil development at home and abroad and two years' experience in oil drilling site), I now switch to artificial intelligence, feeling that I can no longer use my previous professional knowledge, so I have never continued to learn oil knowledge since I joined the company, but the example of General Electric has sounded the alarm for myself. While embracing change, we should also stick to our dreams, maintain our existing knowledge system and think about how to create more value for the company with compound professional knowledge.
Second, science is supreme and the industry is leading.
Intel has been a leader in the computer chip market for a long time, leading the industry to change by being ahead of customers' needs, but recently it has missed one opportunity after another. In the field of mobile chips, Intel has been left far behind by Qualcomm due to decision mistakes. At the same time, in the field of developing artificial intelligence chips for deep learning, Intel is also very slow. I was not optimistic about the development of this field in the early stage. Recently, in hindsight, it found some gaps through acquisitions and increased investment, but it has also been left behind by NVIDIA. Time and again, the decision-making mistakes made the former giants miss two market segments one after another.
I am proud that Sinochem has always been at the forefront of central enterprises in respect of technology and innovation. Recently, some enterprises have begun to pay attention to new technologies. For example, Huayang, chairman of CNOOC, put forward in an internal letter that "digital technology and artificial intelligence may become a bright light in the field of oil and gas exploitation", and Dr. Song Bode, vice president of R&D strategy and data of Total Group, also pointed out the importance of artificial intelligence in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Ning has pointed out in a long article with the theme of "science first" that "the world around us has changed beyond recognition, and it is time for Sinochem Group to deeply reflect on its strategy and development concept. In the future, Sinochem will be built into a technology-driven innovation platform company. " This strategic idea will inevitably lead the company to complete the transformation and achieve the goal of leading the industry and being respected as a world-class enterprise.
Third, policy orientation, benefiting the people and the people.
In this list, China enterprises appear more and more times, involving a wide range of industries. However, in some industries, such as biology and medicine, the list has always been occupied by developed countries, while in aerospace, AI, drones, driverless and other seemingly high-tech fields, we can do it. As an ordinary citizen, if we choose between drugs that can cure more diseases, better driving experience, drone technology and so on, we will undoubtedly choose drugs. As described in the recent movie Dying, the high cost of imported medicine makes many people who can't afford it starve to death.
The progress and innovation of science and technology cannot be separated from the encouragement and support of the government and the joint efforts of the whole society. The rapid development of drones, AI and new retail industries is the result of policy orientation and the pursuit of financial capital. First, the state attaches importance to this field, and second, it can recover the cost relatively quickly and get a lot of income. However, due to some reasons, biopharmaceuticals not only have a large investment and a long payback period, but also are easy to give up all previous efforts and lose everything, so few companies are willing to invest deeply in these fields. I hope that the state will introduce policies to make high technology more beneficial to the people. In the future, China enterprises will not only appear more, but also cover a wider range of industries.
Although understanding the past history will be of great help to the trend of technological innovation, it may not be a good way to predict the future. Many companies that have received huge financing in books are not in the past (especially in the field of new energy). As abraham lincoln, the 6th president of the United States, said, "The best way to predict the future is to create it." Recently, the trade war between China and the United States has been fierce, and domestic public opinion has been in an uproar. How to win this victory, I think, is essentially a contest of scientific and technological strength.
In the global trend of scientific and technological innovation, China has become a strong participant and competitor. I believe that in the near future, China will lead the scientific and technological civilization and return to the peak of the world. I sincerely hope that energy science and technology companies can create the future of petrochemical industry, Sinochem Group can create the future of China enterprises, and China can create the future of the world!