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(4) Long Term Advantages, Disadvantages and Solutions of Company
A. Advantages
a. Continuously adopt the “3-One, 3-Multiple” strategy, enhance “One-company,
One-brand, One-Team” policy and “Multiple-Suppliers, Multiple-Products,
Multiple-Channels” business models, with the global competitive experiences,
possess empowering technology, speed, quality controls and have flexible supply
chain management, risk management, win-win strategy, and implement
corporate governance.
b. Fully leverage Chinese culture advantages, implement the workable “New
Channel Business Model” in Chinese market, also enhance the efficiency of
inventory and expense management, brand advertisement, and offer the
competitive prices of digital life services.
c. The worldwide PC market expects a 10.7% growth.
d. Fully leverage Taiwan advantages in research, design and innovation to ensure
the abundance of raw material resources and the competitiveness of product cost.
e. Invest IT management and security. Due to the improvement of world economy
and investment environments, enterprises will invest more and more on IT
related areas.
f. Continuously invest the projects conducted by Product Value Lab. Product Value
Lab has gained a prominent achievement in “Empowering Technology” and
other products and services innovation.
g. The more popularity and low cost of broadband and wireless helps the long
distance IT service. Company will make use of this opportunity to achieve the IT
service business.
h. The introduction of LCD TV will generate another growth of IA business
industry.
B. Disadvantages and Solutions of Company
According to the More Rule, consumers have no desires to purchase new PC
products because the speed of phasing out is too fast to catch up with.
Solution: The keys to sell H/W are to provide consumers S/W and total solution. To
enhance “Empowering Technology” created by Product Value Lab and
provide “easy” and “reliable” products, and integrate H/W, S/W and
services will be able to meet consumers’ need (one-stop service) and insert
the new elements to PC and IT industry.