The crux of the challenge in digital transformation across industries lies in its complexity.

Rapid iterations in technologies like cloud computing and AI, the disconnect between business scenario demands and technical solution preparedness, the clash between corporate culture and digital logic, and the mismatch between industry-specific needs and general capabilities all contribute to this complexity.

The best solution to address this complexity is to find templates for comparison and learning to avoid detours.

Qiu Heng, CMO of Huawei China Enterprise Business Group

Qiu Heng, CMO of Huawei China Enterprise Business Group, said, "For enterprises of a certain scale, the key to accelerating their digital transformation is to replicate benchmark scenarios."

This is about 'borrowing the wisdom of others to forge one's own sword.'

However, for Huawei, the goal is not just to digitize one or two enterprises but to drive digital transformation across all industries. This requires an effective system to simplify the transfer of experience.

01 'At Your Fingertips'

Is the Transfer and Replication of Successful Experiences

At the end of last year, Huawei China Enterprise Business Group launched a new slogan: 'Digital Intelligence World at Your Fingertips.'

'At Your Fingertips' represents Huawei's aspiration: regardless of any digital challenges faced by enterprises, they can easily find the right direction and method through simple and convenient means, thereby effortlessly achieving digital transformation.

For Huawei, this is not just an aspiration but also a proven practical methodology.

'Whether it's large government and enterprise customers, governments, or small, medium, and micro-enterprises, once they choose the “Partner + Huawei” system, they can acquire a full suite of digital capabilities, thereby achieving the goal of immediate access to the digital world,' said Qiu Heng.

So, what capabilities does 'At Your Fingertips' encompass?

Firstly, it includes independently innovative technologies, scenario-specific solutions, and marketable and user-friendly products. Secondly, the 'Partner + Huawei' system provides customers with attentive service and a readily available team. Thirdly, it leverages Huawei's rich experience, both from its own digital transformation journey and from benchmark customers in the industry, facilitating widespread replication.

Qiu Heng noted that since Huawei introduced the 'Partner + Huawei' system, it has been continuously evolving. Currently, the growth of the entire 'Partner + Huawei' system is very healthy, including the growing business scale of partners. This also indirectly proves that Huawei China Enterprise Business, which focuses on both the NA market and commercial and distribution markets, has sufficient confidence in the digital transformation of large, medium, and small customers across various industries, including manufacturing.

This confidence also stems from the growth of the entire 'Partner + Huawei' system.

Currently, Huawei adheres to a partner-centric approach, providing comprehensive support to partners throughout the project opportunity discovery, proposal, and bidding stages. It has released hundreds of competitive products and dozens of optimized, scenario-based, and intelligent solutions. At the same time, it provides partners with comprehensive support in research, marketing, sales, supply, and service. Huawei not only empowers partners comprehensively before product launches but also helps them upgrade their capabilities and rapidly and widely replicate and promote industry benchmarks to the entire industry through model sites like Chang'an, exhibition halls across the country, and nationwide roadshows, driving the acceleration of digital transformation across the industry.

'The “Partner + Huawei” system already has over 40,000 partners, with capabilities covering key aspects of the entire digital lifecycle, including consulting, solution development, and operation and maintenance. With the support of these key capabilities, enterprises of any size can easily achieve digitization,' said Qiu Heng.

02 Cross-Industry Digital Innovation

Different Industries, Similar Logic

Does digital transformation across industries necessarily require thousands of solutions and the transfer of thousands of experiences?

The answer is obviously no; otherwise, there would be no simplification, and the problem would remain unsolved in a simple and effortless manner.

Qiu Heng proposed that 'although different industries may seem vastly different, the logic of digital services is actually similar when applied to different industries.'

This shares some similarities with cross-boundary thinking. Crossing boundaries between different fields, industries, or disciplines to organically integrate seemingly unrelated knowledge, skills, and experiences to create new value or solutions.

The logic of cross-boundary thinking is not about truly crossing industries because different industries may share some similarities in technological scenarios. For example, if manufacturing requires AI for quality inspection, can the textile industry leverage mature AI solutions or algorithms? At the very least, they don't need to start from scratch.

Therefore, Qiu Heng also suggests that 'for enterprises that are not that large in scale, before embarking on digital transformation, they can first look for similar benchmark cases. Even if they are not in the same industry or scenario, there is still an opportunity to solve problems through adaptation.'

'Although Huawei is a manufacturing enterprise, our manufacturing philosophy may not be completely the same as that of steel, textile, and other enterprises. However, during our interactions with these enterprises, we often find strong resonances. Therefore, Huawei shares a set of practical transformation methods with customers, including architecture-first, platform-first, scenario innovation, and iterative progress,' said Qiu Heng.

03 Using Lighthouse Cases

To Guide the Digital Future of More Enterprises

Changan Automobile is a 'lighthouse' industry benchmark created by Huawei in the automotive manufacturing industry and is also Huawei's first global model site for its smart factory solution.

Changan Automobile adopts Huawei's new architecture for smart factories, 'One Cloud, One Network, One Platform,' building a solid digital foundation for its smart factory.

Yang Ping, General Manager of Huawei China Enterprise Business Group's Intelligent Manufacturing System Department

Yang Ping, General Manager of Huawei China Enterprise Business Group's Intelligent Manufacturing System Department, said, 'For serving the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, Huawei has two keywords: mission and responsibility. Huawei shares our experience and digital capabilities with the industry, contributing to the country's transition from a manufacturing powerhouse to a manufacturing superpower.' To this end, Huawei has also clearly articulated its value proposition for deepening intelligent manufacturing.

Firstly, it delves into technology, leveraging Huawei's 30 years of sustained high-intensity investment in R&D to cultivate foundational technologies and build globally advanced hardware and software infrastructure capabilities. This ensures that manufacturing customers will not be constrained by others at the foundational technology level during their digital transformation journey.

Secondly, it deepens experience. With 30 years of transformation exploration, Huawei has accumulated rich experience in processes and management philosophies, enabling it to provide powerful planning and consulting capabilities for manufacturing enterprises. A complete top-level design ensures that subsequent transformation measures can be successfully implemented, reducing trial and error, and lowering transformation risks and costs.

Finally, it deepens the ecosystem. 'As we all know, Huawei's proposition is to focus on what we excel at: complex hardware and software infrastructure. For the manufacturing industries, we work with partners to build comprehensive solutions from the bottom layer to application development,' said Yang Ping.

Undoubtedly, Huawei will continue to deepen the 'Partner + Huawei' system and focus on its strengths in products and technologies. Together with partners, it will deeply understand industry scenarios, accurately grasp customer needs, effectively integrate technology with business scenarios, engage in scenario innovation and iterative progress, thereby serving customers throughout the entire lifecycle of their digital transformation and supporting high-quality development across all industries.