In many places, people have been trying to build their own “Silicon Valley”. But none of them were successful as long as I know. Look at the world from a different perspective, there should be better examples. It might be old but new style.
This slide shows my thoughts on how to launch and foster high-value start-ups outside the United States.
Japan’s first constitution is “Seventeen Article Constitution” issued in today’s Nara, Kansai area, in 7th century(before Samurai Era). Its Article 1 says:
“和をもって尊し(‘Wa’ wo motte toutoshi)”; means “First and foremost, ‘Wa(和)’ is to be valued.”
‘Wa’ is often translated in English as ‘Harmony’, but it also means ‘collaboration’, ‘keep peace’, ‘respect each other’, etc. It sounds beautiful and nice, but it is very vague concept, so you can interpret it as you like. Because of this, it often provides an excuse of corrupt or negligent act.
Many companies conduct product management without product planning.
They copy a product which is originally designed by other companies, and modify it.
They strive to survey technology/market trends and roadmaps from leading companies, giant research firms, and enhance the variety of functions and/or the numbers to make their spec table better. They love to swim in the ‘red ocean’.
Apple is one of the companies which is carrying out product planning as well as product management. It often enters the market very late, but re-creates the market itself.
Apple strives to understand what the user-experiences the customer looks for, values, and needs, and re-invents the product category to make customers’ lifestyle better.
Apple loves to make her heart sing with her product.
These days many people in Silicon Valley feel that we are now in ‘Bubble’ and it will burst sooner or later. Large drop in stock price, recession, layoff, bankrupt, and lots of pains.
But Tech Bubble also brings upside in the long term. During ‘dot.com Bubble’ period, extraordinary money and human resources had been spent not only for “pet.com” like cheat businesses but also for bold businesses / tech / infrastructure like Google, Amazon, eBay, fab-less style semiconductor businesses or infrastructures such as broad-band internet, intercontinental optical fiber, BPO, etc.
Imagine if we didn’t have ‘dot.com Bubble’. We might live in the different world where broadband was still expensive, no Facebook, no Wikipedia, no Amazon.com, no iPhone, no Skype, no Twitter, no NetFlix, no iPad, no LinkedIn, …
