Innovation:Innovation is our soul which propels progress
Time:2016-01-03 11:13:28 From:
“Innovation is our soul which propels progress” is an important concept for our survival and development. We take innovation as the first driving force for our development. It drives development and sails us far to the future!
Innovation is the soul of a nation’s progress and the inexhaustible driving force for a country’s prosperity. It is also a key to the rapid growth of Hiking Group and the sustainable development of its businesses.
●Innovation is the origin power for coping with changes, development and progress.
The dedication to innovation stems from our perception of the ever-changing world. The political philosopher Mill said, “Everything that is perfect at this moment is the result of innovation.” Times are changing and society is evolving, so what is perfect at this moment will become no longer perfect with these changes. Only with continuous innovation can we change old practices and create new ideas. It is the motive power behind the constant development and progress of human civilization.
Without innovation, there won’t be vitality or energy. A person without an innovative spirit will be mediocre, while an enterprise without an innovative spirit won’t be able to succeed in the market.
●The development trajectory of Hiking Group is an interpretation and inheritance of the concept that “innovation is our soul which propels progress”.
With the current shift of driving force from the production factors to innovation and market demand, innovating proactively has become a key factor for enterprises to cope with changes and develop sustainably. Innovation in line with the enterprise development strategy can not only “make a breakthrough from one point” but also “activate the overall situation”. If an enterprise wants to survive or even to have a long-lasting business foundation, it shouldn’t “keep the status quo”. Ignoring innovation is always one of the biggest risks for an enterprise.
If we go with the flow in the market and change passively under the influence of external forces, it will be difficult for us to be competitive and we will be eliminated. However, if we take the initiative to innovate and change, think in a reverse and transpositional manner, constantly re-examine the existing development model and business practice, improve the sensitivity to the ever-changing external environment, follow the market development and the trend of the times, and form irreplaceable and up-to-date competitive advantages, we will be constantly renewed and achieve sustainable development.
Since its establishment, Hiking Group has taken “innovation is our soul which propels progress” as an important concept for its survival and development. We regard innovation as the only approach to cope with changes and also the major driving force for our development. Hiking Group is the first state-owned international trading company that was privatized and went public in Shandong Province. It created the first comprehensive foreign trade service platform in Northern China and explored the digital development of foreign trade. It is among the first companies to have been involved in health care and eldercare, as well as the advanced material industry in China. Hiking Group has been constantly innovating and seeking changes, because we are convinced that innovation drives development and sails us far to the future!
●Innovation requires a mentality of “starting anew”.
Innovation is an exploration of the future. It means proactively challenging the natural world, the things and the conservative habits such as being content with the status quo and sticking to conventions. It requires adequate courage and cost as well as a mentality of “starting anew”.
“Starting anew” requires us to dare to deny ourselves and step out of our comfort zone.
It is always difficult for people to put their past successes behind them and to deny themselves. The same is true for an enterprise. This is the enemy of business and personal development.
Hiking Group was jointly established by a number of province-owned foreign trade companies, each having a lot of good practices in the past. Since its establishment, the group has developed from a simple foreign trade company into an industrialized multinational group and has accumulated a lot of valuable experience of success. But for enterprises in an era of subversion and reconstruction, to keep up with the changes of the times, what’s crucial is to dare to deny themselves and surpass themselves. From the bottom of our hearts, we should have the courage to give up the inherent and habitual mindset in the past with a mentality of “starting anew”, forget the past experience and successes and constantly deny ourselves, surpass ourselves and challenge ourselves to achieve self-improvement.
“Starting anew” requires us to bravely go through “try and go” and keep the entrepreneurial passion forever.
Innovation means exploring and experimenting. If you take a road that no one has traveled before, you will inevitably encounter bottlenecks. The road explored in the beginning may be wrong, so sometimes you have to start anew. Innovation is achieved at a cost, so we should have the courage to make a fresh start and always maintain the entrepreneurial passion and a high spirit.
Such courage of “try and go” and a determination of “starting anew” will continuously improve our ability to plan, promote and implement the innovation and will guide us to establish a way of thinking and a sense of responsibility that are compatible with the innovation. We encourage innovation, praise good performers and allow trials and accept failures, to encourage enthusiasm, passion and creativity of all employees to the greatest extent and create a good atmosphere of “desiring innovation, daring innovation and excelling in innovation”.
●Innovation is a long-term systematic project.
Innovation is a perpetual systematic project that runs through all stages of the development of an enterprise.
In terms of mechanism innovation, the group not only inherits the excellent genes of state-owned enterprises, but also enjoys the system and mechanism foundation of private enterprises, which is a unique advantage of the group. With the development of the enterprise, we should cherish the hard-won advantages of its system and mechanism. We should continuously deepen the mechanism construction and improve the structure of the organization and management as well as the human resource system, so as to maximize the enthusiasm and creativity of all employees to persistently build a development model with our characteristics.
In terms of cultural innovation, we have formed a corporate culture best described in the “twelve insights into business startup and development”. However, with the development of the group, it is necessary to further enrich the connotation of the corporate culture, integrate the actual operation of the enterprise with the political, economic and cultural environment, integrating while inheriting and innovating while integrating, so that our culture will be upgraded and can keep its vitality forever.
In addition, there are strategic innovation, product innovation, marketing innovation, management innovation and so on. In the course of development, we should consolidate all favorable factors and resources to create a good environment for innovation that respect the law of innovation, promote the spirit of innovation, establish a mechanism of innovation, cultivate a culture of innovation and constantly enhance the “systematic and integrated innovation capability”.
●Innovation requires engagement from everyone.
Innovation is not unattainable. Innovation comes from everywhere.
In our daily work, each of the following practices can be categorized as innovation:
Start from small things, question everything, discover the improvement direction in details, and create new and better solutions;
Start with our everyday routine, discover new areas for improvement and enhance our insights;
Improve the way and the method of working, think about the motivation for action, regard the end as a new start, be result-oriented, and find problems and propose solutions;
Encourage a variety of approaches and accept different opinions, and understand the problems from the perspective of counterparts. This will give us a more holistic view of the whole situation;
Think reversely. When facing bottlenecks or difficulties, learn to think reversely, and we will see a lot of new perspectives and find different answers.
Innovate through collaboration. Collaborate with people, use brainstorming and other forums to exchange ideas, and identify the best solution.
In short, in this era teeming with opportunities and challenges, we need more creative ways of thinking and systematic ways to cope with the increasingly complex and uncertain external environment. As General Secretary Xi Jinping says, “Only innovators advance, only innovators prosper, only innovators win.”
