Chapter 500 - Boss Pei’s Mind Map (1/2)

Chapter 500 Boss Pei’s Mind Map

April 26th, Tuesday…

Pei Qian was trying to create a simple mind map on his computer in the office. The content of the mind map was simple. It was all the departments of Tengda that could generate profits so far, as well as some auxiliary and transactional departments. The relationship between these departments was complex and different in nature.

Some made a lot of profits, some made some, and some made none at all.

Some departments have obvious superior and subordinate or horizontal relationships while some departments are not so close.

The relationships between profitable departments and administrative departments seemed to be different as well.

The mind map, in general terms, was to write all kinds of key information in small boxes and use the various lines to connect this key information and mark the relationship between them.

Pei Qian decided to use different colors and different lines to show the status of each department and the relationship between the departments.

The departments in the red box represented profitable departments.

The departments in the blue box indicated those departments that were not profitable and whose situations were relatively optimistic.

The black lines indicated that the two departments were connected. For example, Fish-Catching Take-Out was now providing fitness meals to the gym. Another example would be that ROF Computer-Installation and Upwind Logistics were basically twins joined at the hip.

There was yet another kind of red line which represented an association between the two departments that was likely to occur.

Pei Qian’s thoughts were simple. He wants to use this mind map to straighten out his thoughts and then predict possible departmental linkages in advance.

However, Pei Qian seemed to quickly discover in no time that things did not look too optimistic after the preliminary sorting.

It seemed red everywhere on the mind map. Only a few departments like Fish-Catching Take-Out, Upwind Logistics, and TPDb website remained unprofitable in blue.

Moreover, the workload was much larger than he thought! The various blue lines were intricate, and after sorting out, they were more complicated than he thought previously.

What was more, there was a bug called OTTO Technologies which was connected to almost all existing departments…

The dense black lines represented the unsalvageable relationship between the various departments. The entire mind map had become a spiderweb with various explanations and small prints. It seemed to be rather troublesome.

Pei Qian tried to draw a red line between the two unrelated departments to predict special relationships that could exist between them. He nearly went crazy after drawing a few lines.

There seemed to be theoretical possibilities of linkages between all departments!

Pei Qian was only trying to imagine the worst-case scenario after the two departments were linked. He marked them with a red line.

They would not be marked out if they were some ambiguous and specious connections. There were too many lines, and adding on would only mix up his point of view.

Pei Qian looked at the relationship diagram between the two departments that he had spent two hours adjusting. He could not help but lean back on the chair with a hand to his forehead.

“How did things become like this…?

“My company has reached such a bad state without me knowing?

“Even I cannot fully understand the intricate relationship between these departments.”

If there were only three or five departments, their relationships would be simple and could be straightened out.

However, there were more than a dozen departments now. Who knew which of these departments would develop some inexplicable linkage?

It was impossible for Boss Pei’s employees to report everything to him for his decision. Boss Pei would not be able to have his own time and rest if he were to patronize these trivial matters every day.

In the current situation, he could only focus on the key departments and let the rest go.

“If I were to look at it optimistically, the situation is actually still alright. I’ve lost money in the last cycle and slowly figured out how to lose money. It should be easier in the future.

“The Manage Loss Trainees should have already infiltrated the various departments. I’ll gather them next Saturday to have a thorough understanding of the situation in all the departments.

“I’ll use the intelligence gathered by the Manage Loss Trainees to perfect this mind map. I would at least be able to have a preliminary understanding of the departments and be able to obtain early warnings. The risk is better controlled as compared to before…

“There is too much information in this mind map and no use being urgent about it. I’ll take my time to perfect it.”

Pei Qian carefully saved and backed up this mind map so that he could check it at any time and reflect on it to prevent any possible dangers that might happen.

He could not help but sigh. Creating a loss seemed to be becoming more technical.

He was about to rest and watch a show when a knock came from the door. Lin Canrong entered carefully after obtaining permission to ‘enter’.

Pei Qian was a little surprised. Why was Chef Lin here?

Lin Canrong was the manager of Ming Yun Private Kitchen. He had worked hard at his post in Fish-Catching Internet Cafe and later at Ming Yun Private Kitchen. He had never been to Tengda’s headquarters.

He would only report to Boss Pei by phone or wait until Boss Pei went to Ming Yun Private Kitchen for dinner before reporting. What was wrong today? Why come to the office?

“Is there anything with Ming Yun Private Kitchen?” Pei Qian asked with slight anticipation.

Pei Qian disliked those who came to report from a profitable department. Most of these departments came to ask Boss Pei on how to spend money, which was very annoying. However, Ming Yun Private Kitchen was different.

That was because Ming Yun Private Kitchen had no more room for improvement!

They were full every day, and the seats had been reserved until next month. They might be making money, but there were only so many seats. Its income had stabilized long ago and had no other room to increase.

That was why Pei Qian felt that there might be something wrong with Ming Yun Private Kitchen for Branch Manager Lin to come all the way here. Could it be losing money?

How exciting!

Lin Canrong seemed to be in a bind and struggled internally before he started. “Boss Pei, you seemed to have made Fish-Catching Take-Out independent and encouraged them to open new branches. A special Gourmet Laboratory seemed to have been set up to research new menus?”

The matter with Fish-Catching Take-Out was arranged two weeks ago. Pei Qian’s consideration was for Fish-Catching Take-Out to open more branches and generate more losses. He, therefore, encouraged them to expand.