Huawei’s Digital Transformation Strategy: Re‑engineering Experience, Process, and Operations Toward a Digital Twin and Digital Metagenesis

Huawei board member Tao Jingwen shares the company’s digital transformation practice, stressing that digital transformation must support core business success and be driven by strategic, business‑oriented goals rather than technology for its own sake.

He identifies three key re‑construction pillars—experience, process, and operations—aimed at achieving object‑oriented lean collaboration, where applications appear instantly when needed, eliminating wait times and inventory.

The transformation proceeds on three levels: (1) object‑oriented lean collaboration focused on user experience, (2) building a digital platform (a digital operating system) in partnership with vendors like Kingdee, and (3) advancing foundational infrastructure, including cloud and intelligent scheduling.

He stresses the importance of data value, unified data platforms, and data governance, as well as establishing a real‑time feedback system that leverages advanced computing and algorithms for predictive, analytical, and intervention capabilities.

Huawei’s roadmap includes a three‑step approach to domestic substitution—stability, decoupling, and renewal—applied to ERP reconstruction, moving from legacy monolithic systems to a metadata‑driven, multi‑tenant architecture supporting rapid replication.

Looking ahead, he introduces the concept of “digital metagenesis,” evolving from digital twins by first creating concepts in the digital realm, engineering and commercializing them there, and then replicating them into the physical world, representing a new form of production capability.

Finally, he calls for collective intelligence and effort to build a Chinese digital transformation solution, advocating open‑source, co‑creation, and service‑oriented approaches to establish shared digital building blocks for enterprises.