On April 17, 2023, in order to promote MBA teaching practice, improve the school-enterprise collaborative education model, build a high-quality and diversified career development activity platform for MBA students, enhance the vitality and motivation of academic research, and realize the integration of knowledge and practice and the linkage of academic work, the visiting to Lenovo's global headquarters organized by MBA Education Center of BNUBS and hosted by MBA Association of Beijing Normal University was held. Dean Qi Yudong, Director Jiao Hao of Department of Digital Economy and Management, Director Zhou Jianghua of MBA Education Center, Associate professors Gong Shiyang and Tang Honghong of BNUBS, and Teacher Meng Jia, director of student affairs of MBA Education Center, led MBA students to Lenovo to visit and study.

This visit began with the guidance of Qu Suxi, a 22-year MBA student and director of Market Ecology at Lenovo Venture Capital. She led us to visit the first to second floor of Lenovo Future Center, from the welcome hall to the multicultural wall, and then watched a video to review the history of computing and data. In the exhibition hall on the first floor, we visited the smart home area, home office learning area, smart travel area, smart office area, game area and product experience area. In the second floor exhibition hall, the staff introduced about the 3S strategy to “End Edge Cloud Net Wisdom", introduced the end edge cloud net wisdom structure, Qingdao special steel case, etc. In the aspect of intelligent infrastructure, the end, side, network, cloud, technology center are introduced respectively. In terms of industry intelligence, they introduced intelligent transportation, intelligent city, intelligent manufacturing, industrial maintenance, intelligent education and other aspects, and introduced Lenovo's three-level innovation system.

The second part of the visit is the topic exchange. Qi Yudong first delivered a speech, explaining the importance of digital economy and introducing the history of Beijing Normal University. Then, the first theme of the themed exchange activity was "Sharing Lenovo's Digital Transformation Practice and Digital Transformation Maturity Model", which was shared by Song Tao, general manager of Lenovo China Manufacturing Industry Department. Aiming at the theme of sharing, Qi had an interactive exchange with Song Tao on topics such as "intelligent transformation consciousness" and "transformation resistance". The second theme of the event was "Lenovo's Future-oriented Technology Investment Layout and theRoad to Comprehensive Ecological Construction", which was shared by Suzu Qu, market Ecology Director of Lenovo Venture Capital. Afterwards, Zhou Jianghua discussed with the speaker on the topic of "How digitization enables high-quality development of specialized and specialized new enterprises". At the end of the theme exchange activity, Qi gave a concluding speech, thanking Lenovo for its warm reception and fully affirming the visit activity.

Digital economy has become a new driving force and a new growth point for the global economy. Through this visit, the students all said that they gained a lot. The visit activity combined theoretical learning with practice, deepened their understanding of enterprise cases and enhanced their enthusiasm for learning.

Provided by MBA Education Center

Photo by Xie Ruoqian

Edited by Qi Xianzi and Meng Jia

Reviewed by Cui Xuegang