Mr. Barry Lam is an industrial tycoon in IT field. His success is a legendary story, rising from ghetto kid to billionaire. He is an entrepreneur himself and made the fortune and reputation by the company he founded, Quanta Computer Inc., which has been the world’s biggest laptop computer manufacturer for a decade or even longer. When talking about entrepreneurship, his credit is really 2nd to none.

4 trends were summarized by Mr. Lam in the seminar of “2010 Young Entrepreneurs of the Future”, they were,

It is a pity that I could not find more details about Mr. Lam’s addressing on internet so far. I really wish to know better about how he elaborated these trends. In addition, few weeks ago, I read the newspapers about Quanta Computer Inc’s corporate convention (mainly attended by institutional investors and press), where he stated the development trend of the industry will be based on “human-centric” automation, and will subsequently be materialized in 6 categories of application, they are,


He also told at the same venue, the company (QCI) is rather a hardware company, which won’t be profited much from cloud-computing.  Since "cloud" is the trend, the company has been developing the equipment, system for cloud computing solution and will enhance its capability in software development.

Few days after QCI’s convention, hp acquired Palm. Apparently, hp had also been thinking about how to reinforce itself in software development, by which hp might even wish to reduce its dependence on Microsoft and consequently transforms to an integrated company owning both hardware and software (Palm OS could be employed in laptop, tablet PC and smart phone). Besides, Palm might also bring smart phone to hp, which would help hp compete with Apple Inc in the future.  HTC, a Taiwanese smart phone vendor, also announced to develop its own OS (software) after failed to strike a deal (acquistion) with Palm.  These facts simply show that hardware companies nowadays are looking for increasing its capability of software development.

未來消費者對於品牌忠誠度會降低，只對服務有忠誠度
This really worth paying attention to and thinking it over.  And this might be the reason those hardware companies tring so hard to build its own software capability.  Since "service" is mostly delivered by software, rather than the hardware product.  Apple's iTunes might be the best example of such mentality.

I always feel excited to learn or know the insight/vision of iconic people (industrial tycoon, management gurus, ...etc.) like Mr. Barry Lam.  Hopefully, I myself could learn something from them and materialize it in my life someday.



中國時報 　2010.05.09

林百里 預測10年後創業趨勢

　

▲廣達電腦董事長林百里昨日在國際青年創業聯誼會上指出，未來10年的創業，要抓住網路新時代的新價值。（張鎧乙攝）

記者陳秀蘭／台北報導

    　廣達電腦董事長林百里昨日在國際青年創業聯誼會上指出，未來10年的創業，要抓住網路新時代的4項新價值。「抓住人本自動化，從服務開始。」他也預測，10年後年輕人的創業偶像，是像大陸網路作家韓寒這類在網路具有影響力的創業家，而不是股神巴菲特或蘋果創辦人。

    　時代基金會昨日舉辦「2010年國際青年創業領袖計畫創業聯誼會」，同時也是時代基金會董事長的林百里應邀致詞。他認為未來10年後的創業趨勢，應抓住4項新時代的新價值，包括一、大的平等化正在進行，韓寒言論不輸總理或書記；二、網民力量崛起，將淩駕各政黨，甚至可以影響政府政策；三、成本是免費的；四、iPad崛起，一股新的網路科技革命正在產生，這種用手指取代滑鼠的新時代、新價值的形成，不容小覷。

    　對於網路革命來臨，林百里認為網路所引發的新時代、新價值正在產生中。他說，網路顛覆了知識交換模式。過去學生的知識交換，主要來自書本或課堂上的老師，但現在則是來自不同的網路世界。網路力量大，網路爆紅作家，在網路上的影響力，可能淩駕一個國家領袖。

http://news.chinatimes.com/CMoney/News/News-Page-content/0,4993,11050703+112010050900266,00.html

平板電腦 林百里吐槽

工商時報【記者黃智銘／台北報導】

廣達董事長林百里在法說上再次強調，雲端運算是未來廣達10年的發展重點。不過談到在雲端環境下催生的如iPad等平板電腦，林百里認為，對台灣硬體代工來說，由於價格、技術、規格都偏低，因此根本不算利多，他甚至認為平板電腦產品上接近電視，而不是運算工具。

廣達為了進軍雲端運算市場，今年初進行組織調整，除了3個NB事業群與垂直整合事業群外，廣達把過去的ES（企業解決方案事業群）改名為新3C事業群，發展林百里倡議的新3C產品。

林百里指出，新3C部門產品包含了掌上（手持）、膝上（NB）、醫療、辦公室、家庭與城市等各種應用產品，廣達現在都開始布局，其中醫療部分，則透過感測儀器結合雲端可以做到預防的作用，產品最快在明年就可以問世。

林百里說，雖然雲端最大商機是在「服務」這塊，廣達在雲端的架構還是傾向提供系統解決方案產品，偏重在硬體的製造。

林百里說，以國際企業來說，IBM是做企業的服務，蘋果是做消費者的服務，未來消費者對於品牌忠誠度會降低，只對服務有忠誠度，如蘋果iPod消費者忠誠的其實是iTune提供的服務，所以會一直購買蘋果產品。

而蘋果電腦最新產品iPad，林百里說，這類平板電腦也要跟服務結合，如果只是搭載Windows7這類作業系統，消費者很難購買，比較起來平板電腦可能不算是運算工具，比較類似是電視的進化，未來媒體、出版等從在牆邊的電視，直接貼近到消費者身邊，操作也從遙控器變成手指觸控，將對媒體帶來很大改變。

至於對於硬體製造商來說，林百里認為，平板電腦的規格、價格等都太低了，所以很多山寨機很快就可以登場，代工平板電腦可能也賺不到錢，所以廣達如果要做平板電腦，將鎖定特殊應用的高毛利平板電腦。

http://news.chinatimes.com/tech/0,5249,12050901x122010042700384,00.html