Tuesday, October 24, 2006
[.mobile] way
Visit in APAC area is eyes opening experience, if eyes really are open. Compared to European way of working, I admire Asian style of working. From the individual way of working, there are not so much differences, so no matter if you are European, American or Asian person, you are probably capable to do long days, invent new things and boost up development, business finance or what ever you are doing.... but when you put lots of these individuals together, there are lots of changes after that:
Mostly European corporation are slow moving and decision making mechanisms are slow to react. On the otherhand, everyone understands and agrees, that more risk taking should be taken in place, when testing new mobile services and consepts, but but.... who is actually the organization or the person who could take that to concrete level. That is the difference in APAC and Europe.... in APAC, top management gives financial and schedule based framework easily than in Europe, then lower level management will execute. That is the thing how to learn from the success stories as well as mistakes. It seems that both seems to be taken as granted in APAC, but in Europe, is seems that old way of working is good enough, so why bother and why we should be the first ones, so let some competitor do it first and lets benefit from that. Then... eventually more or less everyone are expecting somebody else doing something ... and it means, that speed is slow as during rush hours in Beijing downtown.
So, what we can learn from here? I dont know..... if you want to try something as young startup company, don't stick to Europe, go out and go APAC and found your partners and customers from there. You can reach larger amount of end-users and start making significant business while your collagues and competitors are banging their head against to wall.... maybe....
# posted by Hameen-Anttila, Tapio @ 11:42 PM 
