In this issue…

Editorial: Size Really Doesn't Matter • Bill Sullivan, Chief Strategist, LISA
Customizing Your Applications for China: General Considerations (premium) • Xiao Hui Zhu, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM China Development Lab
Global Business Intelligence for Asia (UPDATED)
The Chinese Challenge: A Localization Project Manager’s Guide (premium) • Yu Zhang, Co-Founder and Linguistic Director, Locobyte
Visionaries: Learning to Share Your Food (premium) • Victor Tan, Founder and CEO, Real Idea
Interviewed by Rebecca Ray, Managing Editor, LISA

Visionaries

Learning to Share Your Food

Victor Tan, Founder and CEO, Real Idea
Interviewed by Rebecca Ray, Managing Editor, LISA

While most of us were still trying to figure out how to raise European and Japanese revenues for our companies, Victor Tan (Founder and CEO of Real Idea) was already in China, laying the groundwork for the rest of us to follow. In the following article, he blows holes in the common perceptions (1) that Chinese-speaking expatriates have it made when it comes to running operations in China these days and (2) that there aren’t enough local Chinese managers to fill the demand. Along the way, he enables clearer perspectives for those of looking in from the outside and those of us looking out from the inside – especially when it comes to bribery.

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