Friday, March 30, 2012

Fu Pan, Chess and Lenovo: Protect And Attack: Lenovo's New Strategy | Fast Company


At Fast Company, Chuck Salter writes inter alia at Protect And Attack: Lenovo's New Strategy:

"The emphasis on speed at Lenovo is particularly compelling because it's twinned with a deliberate effort to slow other things down. Upon his return as chairman, Liu emphasized a concept called fu pan. It means "replaying the chess board." The idea is to examine your every move to improve the next time. Lenovo trains its managers in fu pan, which can entail short reviews of an incident from that workday or a far more in-depth process." [emphasis added by Magnifichess]