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| 2006/04/04 01:51:52瀏覽245｜回應1｜推薦8 | |
| Hi, Thanks for sharing your experience and thoughts with me. I agree with you pretty much on everything. You seem to be the smart one. Hope I can hear more from you. I have been trying to help the high-tech in Taiwan, but the progress has been very limited. I was involved with Si-Soft in the very early stage, but left because it went out of control, too much bureaucracy, and our company did not see value of working with those government officials closely. In my point of view, Taiwan wasted about five years in competing with China, Iseral and other Eastern European countries or even African countries like Egypt and Morocco. In my observation, one of the major problems, though, is the system, especially more on financially/economically, other then in the aspect of product direction, etc. Employees are not compensated well enough for their good works, and hence, the innovation part is limited. Too many people thought the problem is talent, etc, but it is actually in the workign environment. People is supposed to feel happy about their jobs in order to be innovated. You can motivated people with good management skills, which are lacking in Taiwan, and good financial compensation, which is also lacking. The Taiwanese people always think about future, how much money they can save, how can they be recognized with title, etc, instead of making themselves happy in the daily life, especially at work. That was why I wrote the "Last day" article last night. I was shocked how many of those top people work for money, exclusively. Too many people feel the employers are slave drivers. Generation speaking, I feel in the Taiwanese system, the companies are not spending enough money on personnel. In US, for similar talents, we are able to correct the system in order to make sure employers are invest enough on us, in order to generate the so-called long term business, also we need to understand that after the product is successfully introduced, a lot of money needs to go to sales/marketing, or even operation cost. For example, in some high tech companies in Silicon Valley, spending 15% in R&D, 15% in product marketing, 15% in operation cost, and 55% sales cost. Those numbers are served as a guideline. Wall Street reviews our financial numbers very carefully, and study the trend of individual industry, and HELP us, not just to take profit from the stock market. We have generated a pretty good culture, among certain companies. Some still like to take quick profit, and that is also why the political opinions are diversed, to two camps. It takes a long time to make the system right, and that is why the "philosophical" people should stay in philosophical. In that kind of arrangement, the policies would be more balanced. Also, keep in mind, innovation does not generate all the business. Some companies need to focus on the production, some companies need to be in trading business. Taiwan has been making money mainly from production, in the past 30, 40 years or so. Even a few trading companies are making profit, by lowering the cost, or even by taking advantage of the immature laws, mainly from the ex-government officials. With globalization, those edges would more quickly disappear for those people. That is why so many people are trying to work closely with China in order to survive. Even that, would not be a lone term solution. For the international business, Taiwan is especially weak since we are just starting to find our own identity. It would take lots of learning, lots of education, and exposures to the global situation. Overall, I feel our knowledge in economy is so limited that people fail to recognize what would be good for us, and what would be bad for us. I hope things are moving to the better direction. Best regards, Gemini |
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