In addition to the Smart Longgang project,
Huawei has engaged in many joint innovation
projects with leading companies of various
industries around the world and has accumulated
extensive experience in best practices over
the past few years. All these have inspired
us to develop three core concepts for digital
transformation.
1: Digital transformation is an ‘Iron
Triangle’ project
The first premise is that digital transformation
is an ‘Iron Triangle’ project and must be led
by top leadership. Digital transformation is
fundamentally about using digital technologies to
reshape services, processes, and organisational
structures. For this reason, the participation of
the customer’s senior leadership forms the first
corner of the triangle because they are most
familiar with their own business. ICT vendors such
as Huawei must also engage to facilitate digital
transformation, and they constitute the second
corner of the triangle. The third corner of the
triangle is also significant, referring to industrial
application developers. This is because digital
transformation must depend on agile and iterative
innovation for industrial scenarios; if there are no
industrial applications, every digital transformation
effort is useless. This Iron Triangle concept is a
joint innovation model advocated by Huawei for
digital transformation of industries.
2: Digital transformation requires a
platform to converge the physical and
digital worlds
The second premise is that digital transformation
needs an ICT platform that can connect the
physical and digital worlds. We often say that a
world where everything can sense, everything is
connected, and everything is intelligent, is the
foundation for digital transformation; however, no
single technology can support the transformation
by itself. Instead, the collaboration between cloud
computing,