Huawei Technologies Research Articles

Innovation vs. Tradition: A SWOT Analysis of 360 and Huawei Investment in R&D and Its Financial Outcomes

In the fast-evolving technology sector, the dynamic relationships between innovation and tradition form a critical pivot for companies that make their efforts to achieve sustained growth. This study conducts a comprehensive SWOT analysis to explore how two leading Chinese technology giants, 360 Security Technology Inc. (360) and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei), face the challenge through their strategic investments in Research and Development (R&D). Utilizing qualitative and quantitative approaches, this research examines secondary data sources, including annual reports, financial statements, and industry publications, to analyze the impact of R&D investments on the companies' financial outcomes and market positioning. The findings reveal distinct strategies, with Huawei aggressively pursuing innovation, particularly in telecommunications and consumer electronics, while 360 adopts a balanced approach between innovative internet security solutions and traditional business models. The study highlights the double-edged nature of innovation - as a driver of growth and a source of vulnerability - and underscores the stabilizing role of tradition in the volatile technology market. By comparing and contrasting these approaches, the research sheds light on the strategic decisions technology firms face in allocating resources to R&D. The implications of this study extend to practitioners and policymakers, offering insights into fostering environments that support both innovation and tradition. This research contributes to the strategic management literature by providing a nuanced understanding of how technology companies can leverage R&D investments to navigate the complexities of innovation and tradition, ensuring a competitive edge and financial success.

A Quantitative Analysis of Recruitment Strategies and Their Impact on Employee Engagement

Recruiting and selecting talent is crucial for building a high-performing workforce, directly impacting employee engagement and organizational performance. This study examines the relationship between recruitment strategies and employee engagement in Shenzhen-based companies, focusing on Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Limited. Through a quantitative analysis involving 200 staff members, the study explores patterns, trends, and correlations to uncover the dynamics between recruitment strategies and employee engagement. The findings reveal strengths and areas for improvement in recruitment practices, emphasizing the need for alignment with organizational goals, transparency, and innovation. Furthermore, the study highlights the critical role of employee engagement in driving productivity, job satisfaction, and organizational success. Recommendations are provided to enhance transparency in recruitment processes, invest in comprehensive onboarding programs, foster diversity and inclusion, strengthen cross-departmental collaboration, prioritize employee well-being, and solicit feedback for continuous improvement.

Analysis of Huawei's Financial Risk Management from the Perspective of Financial Indicators

With the continuous development of China's socio-economy, overall enterprise growth faces certain limitations; deeper economic reforms and market opening create a more challenging external environment for businesses. This implies that companies will encounter more challenges. To ensure that enterprises can operate normally and successfully achieve their business objectives, it is necessary to correctly understand financial risks and adopt rational risk management methods to avoid or reduce potential losses. This paper takes Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Huawei") as an example and analyzes its financial indicators. Through financial data, it identifies the issues and causes of the company's financial risk management, and discusses how to prevent financial risks in enterprises, aiming to assist companies in achieving sustainable development in a fiercely competitive environment.

Give us ideas! Creating innovativeness through strategic direction of reverse technology transfers

AbstractThis paper addresses the research gap in understanding the role of intra-firm reverse technology transfers for building output versus innovation capabilities. While we understand that some firms use external sources to create new technology before they are able to build internal innovation capability, the role of bridging lack of innovation capability through internal reverse technology transfers has not been explored in this context. We analyze the technology transfer strategy in the case of Huawei Technologies through a mixed methods design combining quantitative survival analysis of patents and qualitative interviews to understand and contextualize its mechanisms. The results show that the company strategically transferred ideas for new and complex technologies from centers of state-of-the-art technology towards its domestic Chinese locations. Tapping into offshore innovation capability is done by hiring experienced personnel that transfers innovative ideas to China instead of developing new products abroad. We find that this systematic transfer of complex ideas enabled Huawei to build output capability by bridging its lack of domestic innovation capability. This might be a way for growing firms to become competitive on the world market before having to build innovation capability at home first.

Computing Bipath Multicommodity Flows with Constraint Programming–Based Branch-and-Price-and-Cut

We propose a constraint programming (CP)–based branch-and-price-and-cut framework to exactly solve bipath multicommodity flow (MCF): an MCF problem with two paths for each demand. The goal is to route demands in a capacitated network under the minimum cost. The two paths must have disjoint arcs, and the delays accumulated along the two paths must be within a small deviation of each other. CP is used at multiple points in this framework: for solving pricing problems, for cut generation, and for primal and branching node heuristics. These modules use a CP solver designed for network routing problems and can be adapted to other combinatorial optimization problems. We also develop a novel, complete, two-level branching scheme. On a set of diverse bipath MCF instances, experimental results show that our algorithm significantly outperforms monolithic CP and mixed integer linear programming models and demonstrate the efficiency and flexibility brought by the tailored integration of linear programming and CP methodologies. History: Accepted by Pascal Van Hentenryck, Area Editor for Computational Modeling: Methods & Analysis. Funding: This work was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Huawei Technologies. Supplemental Material: The software that supports the findings of this study is available within the paper and its Supplemental Information ( https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/suppl/10.1287/ijoc.2023.0128 ) as well as from the IJOC GitHub software repository ( https://github.com/INFORMSJoC/2023.0128 ). The complete IJOC Software and Data Repository is available at https://informsjoc.github.io/ .

The United States–China ‘tech war’: Decoupling and the case of Huawei

AbstractThis paper offers an analysis of US strategy in the unfolding United States–China ‘tech war’ and its consequences. We argue that a tech war is now underway, and that Washington is the driving force behind it. Here, we focus on the most impactful policy so far: the placement of Huawei and over 150 of its affiliates on the sanctioned Entity List. As a result, a decoupling between high‐end US tech and Huawei Technologies is well underway, if not already complete. However, the consequences of the sanctions have not been what Washington intended or expected. The company appears to have maintained its position as one of the world's leading innovators in 5G technology and remains a leading supplier of 5G base stations. The United States risks undermining co‐operation with China in other critical policy areas because the tech war is viewed as aggressive in Beijing. It has also exposed the limits of US influence over allies and third countries, many of whom are opting for Huawei's cheaper 5G infrastructure. Nevertheless, the expansion of this approach by the Biden administration suggests that, in future, Washington may prioritise security interests over commercial ones as it seeks to preserve as much US primacy as possible.

Shifting Sands: US Gulf Policy Recalibrates As China's Regional Ambitions Grow

AbstractSince Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in the 1990s, the United States has played the role of security guarantor in the Gulf, and despite prevailing concerns of American retrenchment, it retains a strong military footprint across the region. But China's emergence as a major player in the Gulf—with its geopolitical ambitions, thirst for foreign oil, and attractive offer of business and investment with a “look the other way” policy on human rights—has stoked fears about the eclipse of American power. While the Gulf remains of strategic importance to the US global strategy, Washington's readjustment of its regional goals suggests that it is recalibrating. Drawing on the literature of foreign policy change, this analysis uses three case studies to examine Washington's recalibration toward the Gulf under the Biden presidency: US engagement with the Iran nuclear deal, US defense agreements with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and US‐GCC tech relations, specifically tensions with China over the use of Huawei technology. This article is part of a special issue on the responses of Gulf countries to rising Sino‐American competition, edited by Andrea Ghiselli, Anoushiravan Ehteshami, and Enrico Fardella.

The Challenges Behind Huawei’s Mergers and Acquisitions Failure in The International Semiconductor Industry

Semiconductor industries, which involve the design and manufacturing processes that drive modern technology advancement in computing, communication, and electronics, are seeking greater profitability and market power through mergers and acquisitions. As one of the strongest global telecommunication suppliers, however, Huawei Technology finds it difficult to exercise M&A in semiconductor companies internationally, specifically in the United States. In this literature review research paper, the author identifies and explains four main challenges behind Huawei’s failure: (1) understanding the vertical integration and horizontal expansion, (2) discovering the acquired companies’ inherent hesitations, (3) exploring the impact of U.S. restrictions on foreign investment, and (4) navigating global dynamics under the hegemony of semiconductors market power. With an extended focus on challenges encompassing not only the examination of acquired companies but also the evaluation of international conflicts, this paper seeks to provide valuable insights and enlighten researchers and investors keen on gaining a deeper understanding of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) within the high-tech sector, particularly in areas such as semiconductor manufacturing.

Cardiovascular risk progression into atrial fibrillation tracked with wearables: a report from mAFA II extension cohort

Abstract Background Cardiovascular risk, e.g. obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), hypertension, frequent ectopic, are susceptible to atrial fibrillation (AF). Smartwearable-based detection for OSA, ectopics, AF and blood pressure have been tested in mobile health technology supported screening and integrated care for atrial fibrillation (mAFA II programme). Objective The present study aimed to investigate the AF occurrence after the cardiovascular risk identified with wearables. Method The risk factors which were monitored by wearables are as follows: i) OSA: more than 80% monitoring measures with 15 < apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) < 30 during sleep (intermediate risk）or with AHI ≥ 30 (high risk); ii) ectopics: the proportion of the premature beats among total monitored heart beats: 0.5%-10% among over heart beats (intermediate risk) or >10% premature beat (high risk); iii) High-risk blood pressure (BP): average 24-hour BP >130/80 mm Hg, reverse-dippers of BP, and pulse pressure over 60mmHg. Subjects aged over 18 years old, who used smart watch/wristband (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China) across China were enrolled into present study analysis between October 26, 2018 to Dec 14, 2022. The first detection AF episode were analyzed since the subjects were identified with high risk for AF, that was, intermediate- or high risk-OSA, high risk-blood pressure, intermediate- or high risk-ectopic by the wearables. Results There were 4.37 million subjects (78.6% male, mean age, SD, 37 ± 13 years) involving in the screening programme of mAFA II extension cohort. Among these, 611495 intermediate-risk ectopic, 5037 high-risk ectopic, 43777 intermediate-risk OSA, 22886 high-risk OSA, and 25892 high-risk blood pressure were identified (Figure 1). The rates of progressed into AF from identified cardiovascular risk were as follows: 0.97% (5936/611495) of 611495 intermediate-risk ectopic, 4.80% (242/5037) of high-risk ectopic, 1.09% (478/43777) of intermediate-risk OSA, 1.51% (345/22886) of high-risk OSA, and 1.74% (450/25892) of high-risk blood pressure, respectively. Subjects identified with high-risk blood pressure were much likely to be early monitored with AF episode than other risk, with time to first AF (median, interquartile) of 10 (3-56) days (p<0.05). However, the above cardiovascular risk was possibly progressed into AF episode during five months. Conclusion Smartwearables facilitated the detection of risk factors, OSA, hypertension, frequent ectopic, which might progressed into AF during five months, calling for the effective proactive management on cardiovascular risk to reduce AF burden.Subjects involving in risk screening pro

The discursive legitimation of corporate ecological identity in Chinese sustainability discourse

Abstract Ecological identity involves all aspects of how individuals or collectives identify themselves with nature. This paper aims to examine the discursive construction of corporate ecological identities in corporate sustainability reports in China and evaluate how these identities are legitimated through the lens of ecolinguistic discourse analysis. Our data was drawn from a collection of English-language sustainability reports of Huawei Technologies Corporation (2016–2020). The findings suggest a mix of ecological identities across all texts, among which stewarding nature dominates and it relates to the belief that humans are obligated to steward nature for the sake of sustainability. These ecological identities are discursively legitimized in terms of defining characteristics, social roles, and community memberships. Innovativeness, leadership and ethicalness are legitimated as the corporation’s dominant characteristics which serve as moral identity standards, allowing further legitimation of the social roles and community memberships that the corporation claims. In the case of social roles, green manufacturing depends on green technologies, and both of them point to the instrumentality and rightness of technology in advancing sustainability. These construals uncover the ecological sustainability in the Chinese cultural context, that is, achieving the harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. In legitimizing community memberships, hierarchical relationships between the corporation and other participants are revealed.

Artificial Intelligence for Media Ecological Integration and Knowledge Management

Information Technology’s development increases day by day, making life easier in terms of work and progress. In these developments, knowledge management is becoming mandatory in all the developing sectors. However, the conventional model for growth analysis in organizations is tedious as data are maintained in ledgers, making the process time consuming. Media Ecology, a new trending technology, overcomes this drawback by being integrated with artificial intelligence. Various sectors implement this integrated technology. The marketing strategy of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is analyzed in this research to examine the advantages of Media Ecology Technology in integration with artificial intelligence and a Knowledge Management Model. This combined model supports sensor technology by considering each medium, the data processing zone, and user location as nodes. A Q-R hybrid simulation methodology is implemented to analyze the data collected through Media Ecology. The proposed method is compared with the inventory model, and the results show that the proposed system provides increased profit to the organization. Paying complete attention to Artificial intelligence without the help of lightweight deep learning models is impossible. Thus, lightweight deep models have been introduced in most situations, such as healthcare management, maintenance systems, and controlling a few IoT devices. With the support of high-power consumption as computational energy, it adapts to lightweight devices such as mobile phones. One common expectation from the deep learning concept is to develop an optimal structure in case time management.

How China's High-Tech Industry Breaks through under Sino-US Trade Friction: The Case of Huawei

The various measures of the United States under the Sino-US trade friction are a precise blow to China's high-tech industry, so it is vitally important to study how to break through of the high-tech industry under the Sino-US trade friction. This paper takes Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd (hereinafter referred to as Huawei) as an example. It proposes countermeasures at the enterprise level by studying Huawei's countermeasures. The results of the study conclude that the most important thing is to increase R&D (research and development) expenses and introduce talents to enhance the enterprise's R&D capability to avoid being constrained by others, in addition to which when the R&D capability has apparent advantages in the global scope, there will be no lack of sales channels and partners. Moreover, enterprises also need to have a forward-looking, prepare for the worst, and adequate stock to ensure that the short-term can continue operating the industry. Furthermore, suppose Chinese companies cannot work with U.S. high-tech companies or sell in the U.S. because of sanctions. In that case, they should actively seek other partners and expand sales in their significant markets to mitigate the impact of reduced U.S. consumption.

Diagnostic validation of smart wearable device embedded with single-lead electrocardiogram for arrhythmia detection.

To validate a single-lead electrocardiogram algorithm for identifying atrial fibrillation, atrial premature beats, ventricular premature beats, and sinus rhythm. A total of 656 subjects aged 19 to 94 years were enrolled. Participants were simultaneously tested with a wristwatch (Huawei Watch GT2 Pro, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, Shenzhen, China) and a 12-lead electrocardiogram for 3 minutes. A total of 1926 electrocardiogram signals from 628 subjects (282 men and 346 women) aged 19 to 94 years (median 64 years) were analyzed using an algorithm. The numbers of subjects with atrial fibrillation, atrial premature beats, ventricular premature beats, and sinus rhythm were 129, 141, 107, and 251, respectively, and together they had a total of 1926 electrocardiogram signals. For the three-class classification system, the recall, precision, and F1 score were 97.6%, 96.5%, 97.0% for sinus rhythm; 96.7%, 96.9%, 96.8% for atrial fibrillation; and 92.8%, 94.2%, 93.5% for ectopic beats, respectively. The macro-F1 score of the three-class classification system was 95.8%. For the four-class classification system, the recall, precision, and F1 score were 97.6%, 96.5%, 97.0% for sinus rhythm; 96.7%, 96.9%, 96.8% for atrial fibrillation; 90.5%, 89.4%, 89.9% for atrial premature beats; and 86.1%, 89.6%, 87.8% for ventricular premature beats, respectively. The macro-F1 score of the four-class classification system was 92.9%. The single-lead electrocardiogram algorithm embedded into smart wearables demonstrated good performance in detecting atrial fibrillation, atrial/ventricular premature beats, and sinus rhythm, and thus would facilitate atrial fibrillation screening and management.

Research and Solution of Management Problems in Huawei's "Internationalization" Business Development

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., as the representative of the successful internationalization of China's communication equipment manufacturing enterprises, its internationalization strategy and implementation experience are of great significance for Chinese enterprises to go global and realize the worldwide layout and development. This paper expounds and analyses Huawei's internationalization strategy from the perspectives of market internationalization, brand internationalization, R&D internationalization, and talent internationalization. Taking Huawei's entry into the global market as an example, it analyses the background, process, and problems of Huawei's internationalization development path and summarizes the experience and lessons. This paper will also help Huawei solve the existing issues from four aspects: strengthening international cooperation, combining with the national foreign policy, breaking through the research and development of core technologies independently or cooperatively, and applying the equity incentive system. This paper can provide a reference for the internationalization development path of Chinese enterprises and avoid similar problems and difficulties.

Consumer-Led Screening for AtrialFibrillation: A Report From the mAFA-II Trial Long-Term Extension Cohort.

There are limited data on mobile health detection of prevalent atrial fibrillation (AF) and its related risk factors over time. This study aimed to report the trends on prevalent AF detection over time and risk factors, with a consumer-led photoplethysmography screening approach. 3,499,461 subjects aged over 18 years, who use smart devices (Huawei Technologies Co.) were enrolled between October 26, 2018, and December 1,2021. Among 2,852,217 subjects for AF screening, 12,244 subjects (0.43%; 83.2% male, mean age 57 ± 15 years) detected AF episodes. When compared with 2018, the risk (adjusted HRs, 95%CI) for monitored prevalent AF increased significantly for subjects when monitoring started in 2020 (adjusted HR: 1.34; 95%CI: 1.27-1.40; P< .001) or in 2021 (adjusted HR: 1.67; 95%CI: 1.59-1.76; P< 0.001). Of the 961,931 subjects who screening for both AF and OSA, 18,032 (1.9%, 97.8% male, mean age 44 ±17 years) were identified as high risk for OSA, which resulted in a 1.5-fold increase (95%CI: 1.30-fold to 1.75-fold) in the prevalent AF. A total of 5,227 (53.3%, 5,227/9,797) subjects were effectively followed up, from which 4,903 (93.8%, 4,903/5,227) subjects were confirmed with the diagnosis of AF, by the mAFA Telecare Team health providers. Photoplethysmography-based smart devices can facilitate screening for AF with >93% confirmation of detected AF episodes even for the low-risk general population, highlighting the increased risk for detecting prevalent AF and the need for modification of OSA that increase AF susceptibility. (Mobile Health [mHealth] Technology for Improved Screening, Patient Involvement and Optimizing Integrated Care in Atrial Fibrillation [mAFA (mAF-App) II study]; ChiCTR-OOC-17014138).

Social algorithms of the Chinese company Huawei Technologies management model

The article deals with the problem of the conditionality of Huawei Technologies successful development by its social policy. Among the effective algorithms of the management model, the following are presented: the formation of a team of like-minded people from a conglomerate of thousands of employees of different nationalities using the principles of forced mobility, continuous education based on the company’s training centers, stratified material incentives and an official career elevator. The basis of the ideology of a stable society of workers is the teaching of Confucius, based on the formula: “Let the father be the father, the son be the son, the official be the official, and the sovereign be the sovereign” and the idea of a classless society in the theory of socialism. The concept of shared ownership, which was implemented by Huawei founder and President Ren Zhengfei, encourages team members to work intensively for the individual and common good. Social algorithms, which form the core of the management model, solve the global problem of ensuring the strength and stability, viability and longevity of a successful brand.

Is emotional intelligence one of the key factor for leader’s success

The success of any organization depends on its leaders and the success of leaders depends upon how he/she is Emotionally Intelligent. Emotions are involved in everything people do: every action, decision and judgement. All those who are emotionally intelligent can understand emotions of others and they use such knowledge for managing themselves and others. From the past two decades, Emotional Intelligence (EI) concept is gaining significance and attention and it is use by many as an indicator of a person‘s ability to understand themselves and from others point of view. EI plays a significant role at work place especially where the person is working with many subordinates. Emotional intelligence will help leaders to empathically deal with the issues of their followers, thus contributing for healthy leader–follower relations. It also helps in strengthening followers’ trust on the leader. The present paper explores the how far emotional intelligence show impact on leadership success. The present study was conducted in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. with a sample size of 119 employees working in various cadres at different levels.

PO-639-01 ENHANCED P WAVE RECOGNITION THROUGH RA-XIPHOIDAL LEAD BY HUAWEI WATCH ECG RECORDING

ECG recording through the Huawei watch’s (GT2 pro ECG edition, Huawei Technology Co., Ltd, Shenzhen, PR China) back electrode on the left wrist and the right index finger on the crown simulates the Einthoven’s bipolar ECG lead I (Huawei Watch Lead I ECG, HWIG), which is not a good trace for arrhythmia diagnosis due to its indistinct P wave in some cases. Therefore, additional smartwatch leads such as right arm-left leg lead, right arm-precordial leads are required to get more accurate ECG information.

PO-661-02 INCREASED DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA BY HUAWEI WATCH’ S ADDITIONAL BIPOLAR LEAD ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH

The Huawei watch GT2 pro ECG edition (Huawei Technology Co., Ltd, Shenzhen, PR China) is a smartwatch that can record the voltage difference between the right index finger on the crown and the Huawei watch’s back electrode on the left wrist to simulate the Einthoven’s bipolar electrocardiograph (ECG) lead I (HWIG). However, the information of myocardial ischemia is insufficient and additional leads are necessary to increase the detection of ischemia by Huawei watch.

The Impact of the Trade War Between the United States and China on ASEAN and Huawei Technologies as Reviewed by Trade, Investment, and Competition Law

&lt;p&gt;The Trade War between the United States and China is impacting the worldwide economy, especially ASEAN part nations. The aim of this paper is to look at the effect of the US-China exchange battle on ASEAN and Huawei Technologies. It is separated into four sections: the initial segment will clarify the idea of worldwide exchange as it is analyzed by profession, speculation, and rivalry law, the subsequent part will clarify the exchange battle between the US and China as it influences ASEAN and Huawei Technologies, and the third part will clarify the job of RCEP as a guide to ASEAN and Huawei Technologies. The result of the analysis shows that the exchange battle between the US and China can be settled by building up an unbiased association as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and that substantial advances can be taken to lessen dependence on the US and China by diminishing commodities and imports, just as expanding and working on the quality of domestic items. &lt;/p&gt;