This is a romantic love story about beauty blogger Su Yue and tech company CEO Lu Yi.
They met unexpectedly at a fashion and beauty event, then reunited for a collaboration, gradually falling...
As strategic alliances continue to expand, family businesses realize that optimizing internal governance and improving decision-making mechanisms are the cornerstones for ensuring stable development of the business.
The company's senior management conducted an in-depth analysis of the existing internal governance structure and found problems such as excessive concentration of power, lengthy decision-making processes, and inadequate supervisory mechanisms.
First, to address the issue of centralized power, the company decided to redistribute the responsibilities and authority of each department to establish a more balanced and mutually reinforcing power structure. However, during implementation, some department heads resisted the new power distribution, believing that their own authority was being weakened.
"This redistribution of power is aimed at improving the overall operational efficiency of the company and promoting fair competition. Everyone should proceed from the long-term interests of the company and actively cooperate with the adjustments." The company's top management eliminated the concerns of department heads through multiple communication meetings.
At the same time, to address the issue of lengthy decision-making processes, the company set out to streamline and optimize them. A dedicated decision-making committee, comprised of core members from various departments, was established to rapidly discuss and make decisions on major issues. However, in the committee's early stages, significant disagreements among members led to low decision-making efficiency.
"In the decision-making process, we must fully respect everyone's opinions, but we must also have clear decision-making principles and standards to avoid endless arguments." The company's top management has established clear working rules for the decision-making committee.
In terms of supervisory mechanisms, companies have strengthened the functions of internal audit departments, granting them greater authority and independence. However, when carrying out their work, internal audit departments have encountered situations where other departments are unwilling to cooperate in providing data and information.
"All departments must recognize the importance of internal audits and actively cooperate with the audit work. Any obstruction or concealment is irresponsible to the company." The company's top management severely criticized the departments that did not cooperate.
To improve the transparency of internal governance, the company established a regular information disclosure system to announce major decisions and financial status to all employees. However, during the disclosure process, due to inaccurate and unclear information organization and communication, it caused misunderstandings among employees.
"Information disclosure must be accurate, timely and comprehensive. Relevant departments must strictly review the disclosed content to ensure that employees can clearly understand the company's situation." Corporate senior management has put forward higher requirements for information disclosure.
The company also focused on fostering employee awareness and participation in governance, carrying out a series of training and publicity activities on internal governance. However, some employees did not take these activities seriously and were not very enthusiastic about participating.
"Internal governance is related to the vital interests of every employee. Everyone should study it carefully, actively participate, and offer suggestions for the development of the company." Companies use incentives and role models to increase employees' enthusiasm for participation.
To improve decision-making mechanisms, companies have introduced advanced data analysis and risk assessment tools to provide a more scientific basis for decision-making. However, in the process of using these tools, they have discovered problems such as low data quality and inaccurate analysis models.
"The technical department should strengthen data management, improve data quality, and continuously optimize the analysis model to make it more in line with the actual situation of the enterprise." The company has increased its investment in technical support.
After a period of hard work, the company's internal governance has been significantly optimized, and its decision-making mechanism has become more efficient, scientific, and transparent. However, the company also understands that internal governance is a process of continuous improvement and cannot be relaxed in the slightest.
"We must constantly sum up our experiences and lessons, and adjust our internal governance strategies in a timely manner according to the company's development and changes to provide solid guarantees for the company's sustainable development." The company's senior management emphasized this at the internal governance summary meeting.
In the future, family businesses will continue to deepen internal governance optimization and continuously improve decision-making mechanisms to cope with the increasingly complex market environment and fierce competition challenges, ensuring that the company moves forward steadily on the right track.
During this process, companies also face new challenges. For example, with the diversification of their businesses, coordination between different business segments becomes more difficult, and decision-making committees need to consider more factors and variables when making decisions.
"All business units should strengthen communication and collaboration, establish an effective coordination mechanism, and ensure that decisions take into account the interests of all parties." The company's senior management actively promotes the integration between business units.
At the same time, changes in the external environment have also placed higher demands on the speed and flexibility of corporate decision-making. When responding to unexpected market situations, the existing decision-making mechanism sometimes seems insufficiently agile.
"We need to establish an emergency decision-making mechanism so that we can respond quickly in special circumstances, seize market opportunities and avoid risks." Enterprises are constantly adjusting and innovating decision-making models.
Furthermore, as companies expand, the flow and renewal of talent also has a certain impact on internal governance and decision-making mechanisms. New employees need time to adapt and integrate into the company's governance culture and decision-making processes.
"Strengthen the induction training of new employees so that they can understand and identify with the company's internal governance concepts and decision-making methods as soon as possible. At the same time, old employees should play a role in mentoring and helping new employees grow." The company focuses on the integration of talent training and internal governance.
Through continuous problem solving and optimization and improvement, the internal governance and decision-making mechanisms of family businesses have gradually matured and improved, providing strong support and guarantee for the sustainable development of the enterprises.