Only the innovator into, only the innovator strong, only the innovator wins.
Innovation is the primary driving force for development and the inexhaustible driving force for the development of a country and a nation. The progress of science and technology lies in innovation, only on the premise of continuous innovation, the society will continue to develop.
Many companies are good at imitation, imitation will not make mistakes, a time to bring a lot of considerable benefits at the lowest cost. The imitator can never surpass the innovator, the technological trend is led by innovation, blindly imitate can only lag behind forever, until one day suddenly fall behind.
There is no such thing as quiet time. If you do not advance, you will retreat. If you do not innovate, you will die.
Innovation requires letting go of bigotry and prejudice
Someone drew a black dot on a piece of paper and asked, “What do you see?”
There are at least a hundred answers: black dot, sesame seed, fly, thumbtack, sunspot, smudge…… These are all normal associations. Some people think more active some, he may answer: I see the shortcomings…… I see regret…… I see the damage……
But why haven’t we thought of others? Why do you fix your eyes only on that black dot? Instead of seeing the big white paper next to the black dot? And it is this black spot that fetters and imprisons our thinking, so that we cannot see the other more, better and richer things.
Many times, we will be frustrated because of a thing did not do well. “I am useless; I am so weak; I am the stupidest man in the world; It’s a hard thing to do.” Instead, we need to think and focus on the broader question of whether the solution itself has any value, and whether changing this piece of logic will bring additional risks to the system, rather than just focusing on that black spot.
We go through all kinds of things every day. Things change so fast, and we can’t know everything. In a moment, our bigotry is triggered by prejudice, and our bigotry is deepened by bigotry, both of which tightly constrain our innovative thinking.
It is not easy to find our own prejudices, because in the absence of external forces, we always think that what we think is right, and stubbornly insist, but we do not know that we have gone on the road of prejudice. In fact, the best thing to do is to keep quiet. Learn more, think more, listen more than I think.
Once upon a time, when you bought a new phone, you had to charge and discharge it completely for the first three times. It was, as we all know, the age of nickel-metal hydride batteries, and it should have been, to get the most out of them. But wait until the popularization of lithium batteries, technology has been updated, but there are people stubborn thinking, do not go to do homework research, continue the first three times of complete charge and discharge. It’s not necessary.
Once upon a time, most people had the impression that rockets were disposable, just a successful launch. If anyone had mentioned rocket recovery at the time, people would have thought you were joking.
To this day, there are still many people who believe that mobile phones charge fast, which is bad for the battery and unsafe. In the age of 5W, 20W is not safe, while in the age of 20W, 65W and 100W are not safe. In fact, I used the 50W nearly charge a year ago, very convenient, very safe.
Until today, there are still many people who believe that mobile payment is not safe and bank cards are more secure. As everyone knows, the magnetic stripe is the most easy to steal and copy, but electronic payment is quite secure.
This is a sign of stubbornness and prejudice, just like in the Qing Dynasty when people sat in a carriage and talked about how cars were too fast and unsafe. It is time for us to make up our minds to change ourselves. We should learn to look at problems from the perspective of development and put aside our own valuation and prejudice. With the development of The Times, we should learn from each other all our lives.
Innovation requires solid work in basic technologies
Innovation is not an idle imagination. Technology accumulation is the most important internal basis of enterprise innovation and the core internal cause of innovation success. The premise of innovation is to do a solid job in basic technology. Without a solid foundation, innovation is nothing but a castle in the air. The obstacle of innovation of many enterprises in our country is caused by the weak accumulation of technology to a considerable extent.
A small chip has now become a big knot in Chinese society. The cost of importing chips has exceeded that of oil for ten years in a row. The slogan of “self-sufficiency” is often sounded, but the process of localization is faltering. One netizen cried out, “Why can’t China make chips when China has made two bombs and one satellite?”
What’s the problem? It is important to understand that the western chip industry has spent decades building up the basic technology. Simply say lithography machine, need extremely stable workbench and measuring table, need extremely high precision lens, need extremely stable light source…… Each of these technologies is extremely complex. Subsequent silicon purification of chip materials, light-sensitive materials, chip design, chip design software and so on, all of which require very high basic technical requirements, rather than the result of one or two years of research and development, need a long time of accumulation of basic technology. This is also the objective law of development of things.
With every smooth landing and recovery of a Falcon 9 rocket from sea to land, SpaceX and Elon Musk are once again in the world’s spotlight. Without good attitude control, without an engine that can start multiple times with adjustable thrust, without reliable heat insulation, all of these basic technologies, even if there is an idea, the rocket can’t be recovered.
The technical principle of aeroengine is not complicated, but behind its research and development, it needs metal materials and composite materials that are resistant to high temperature, high pressure and fatigue. Without the technical support of basic material science, research and development can only be armchair.
The basic mechanical principle of Swiss watches is not complicated, and the gear is easy to copy, but why other watch manufacturers can’t copy their accurate time (mechanical watch category). The gossamer, the core component of its accurate travel time, is firmly in the hands of the Swiss, and behind it is the support of cutting-edge basic material technology.
We must be soberly aware that innovation needs to do a solid job in basic technology, withstand loneliness, and seriously accumulate, otherwise it will only turn over.
Innovation requires the courage to approach it in a new way
There was a time when cars, airplanes, and spaceships were covered with buttons. But now, whether it’s cars, airliners, fighter jets or SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, there are technological innovations in the form of large LCD touch screens.
Now Apple mobile phone, Android mobile phone, have cancelled in addition to the volume, power button functional buttons, are touch virtual navigation keys.
Large LCD touch screen appears in the car, which reduces the cost, facilitates wiring, and is more beautiful. Compared with the keys, the service life is longer. The follow-up upgrade is also very convenient, and there is no need to disassemble the control panel and buttons.
In the field of civil aircraft and fighter aircraft, the abandonment of traditional buttons, large screen and glass is an important feature of the development of the cockpit.
Where the Soyuz used to be all buttons, the Dragon now uses a large LCD screen, which is more intuitive. The convenience of the button lies in the strong operability and convenient operation in the environment of violent vibration, but these are old thinking and methods. The new Dragon spacecraft does not need to be manually operated at all. The computer tells the astronauts: “You don’t need to operate it, you are too slow and not accurate, you just watch.”
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off at 23:00 Beijing time on January 24, 2021, carrying 143 satellites, a record-breaking feat in space. The launch was SpaceX’s first dedicated “piece-together” mission. SpaceX has more than 40 customers on this mission. The goal of the “single bill” program is, of course, to reduce costs. In 2019, SpaceX announced that it would launch Falcon 9 satellites at certain times throughout the year in the form of carpool launches, with reservations being welcomed through a dedicated website. If you have a lot of customers at the same time, willing to launch a rocket into space at the same time, the cost will be much lower.
In China, Didi Chuxing has done a good job in innovation. Its ride-sharing service is based on the express train. The system matches passengers with similar routes and shares every seat on the bus, thus sharing the fare and reducing the travel cost. Ride sharing can effectively reduce the empty rate of vehicles, improve traffic efficiency, and maximize the use of the limited supply of ride-hailing and urban road resources. This was unimaginable in the old days of traditional taxis.
Innovation is about simplifying complex problems
Simplicity is innovation. To paraphrase Jobs himself, he has been thinking about how to subtract from his products since the day he founded Apple. Apple’s pursuit of simplicity has actually become a process of constant innovation.
In fact, simplicity and complexity reflect different states of things, and all things in the world can be described by simplicity or complexity. Simplicity and complexity are also a contradiction, known in philosophy as both opposition and unity, and they can be transformed into each other. The fundamental purpose of scientific innovation and exploration is to transform the world’s complex problems into simple ones. Einstein once said: the principle of science is the principle of the most simple.
The digital construction of the financial industry is a complex system engineering, which needs to develop in an all-round way from design idea, hardware and software to talent training and operation mode, etc. It can be said that it is a myriad of threads. Therefore, also make many of us became more complex, time complex concept “complex theory” “complex systems” “complex model” full paper is “complex mechanisms”, does not seem “complex” enough to reflect the construction of digital financial difficult and profound, not on a pile of fashionable noun is not enough to reflect the advanced technology. If we use this concept to guide our work, we will naturally make things more and more complicated, to the point that ideas are hard to grasp, concepts are hard to understand, and systems are hard to grasp.
Simplicity constitutes complexity, and simplicity is the foundation of complexity. Complexity begins with simplicity and will return to simplicity.
In the process of innovation, we should be good at turning complexity into simplicity, using more subtraction and less or no addition, and then simplifying ideas, steps and schemes, focusing on energy and going straight to the theme.
In my opinion, the direction of financial digitalization innovation can be summarized as follows: business can be complex, but the expression must be simple; The system can be complex, but the operation must be simple.
Innovation should be daring to think and do without fear of failure
Ambition is not easy to become, things do not enter asylum seekers. The road of innovation is not always smooth sailing, there will be such and such problems, innovation must dare to take risks, carry forward the pioneering spirit and hard work. All innovation, the probability of failure is always higher than the success, but for the twists and turns on the innovation road, the winner will always sum up experience and lessons, to find ways to solve the problem; The loser will always blame everyone and make reasons for problems.
The latest high-altitude test flight of the Starship SN9, a prototype spacecraft, blew up on landing, just like the SN8. But failure will not stop mankind from marching into the stars. In the near future, mankind will surely be able to land on Mars and sail to the sea of stars.
As SpaceX aerospace engineer David Giger said, “We’re not going to sit there and analyze and argue for years. SpaceX needs to test, test, test.”
The above is a personal view on innovation based on the current development of science and technology and a case close to life. It is hoped that all fields will adhere to innovation-led development, ignite the engine of enterprise development, and promote independent innovation capacity to a new level.
Author: Chen Wei
Agricultural bank of China r&d center | system support department senior engineer
With more than 10 years of experience in software project development and management, he has participated in the design, construction, operation and maintenance of major projects such as credit product system and new generation core bank. At present, he focuses on the core system software configuration management and configuration management automation research of Agricultural Bank of China.
The main technical achievements are:
- Design and Implementation of Parallel Processing of Loan System Accounting
- Design and Development of Credit Asset Securitization System
- Boeing Configuration Management Practices (EndeVor)
- Boeing configuration management practices (MRE)
- Analysis and Optimization of MRE Version Management Mechanism
- Research and Practice of MRE Full Compilation
- Research and Practice of Host Configuration Management Automation
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