The IBM WAY

Fifty years ago, Hong Kong was a small port on the southern tip of China, just embarking on its industrialization. Today, it has evolved into Asia’s world city, an international and regional business, financial and information hub, a gateway between East and West.

The road that has taken us to this special place is one that IBM has helped pave. Over the past 50 years, IBM has played a central role in driving business and technological change in Hong Kong and China. It all began with a worldclass typewriter as the core product of the fledgling IBM Hong Kong in 1957, which enhanced office productivity significantly. A decade later, we contributed to the rapid growth of the financial services and airline sectors through our powerful computing systems.

As manufacturing and distribution drove change in the 1970s and 1980s, IBM was at the heart of these businesses in ways never imagined before. In the public sector, we supported the Hong Kong Government in transforming into one of the most efficient governments in the world. We also enabled the widespread adoption of information technology among small and medium businesses from the 1980s onwards. Our talented employees then helped Hong Kong enterprises and government agencies capitalize on the internet revolution since the mid 1990s.

The decades of success in integrating IT and business have put Hong Kong people at the forefront of IT development in mainland China. Many Hong Kong traits of technical understanding, passion, business savviness and the desire to make businesses succeed combine to play a key role in propelling China’s, and also Hong Kong’s, growth.

I’m pleased to have participated in Hong Kong and China’s development in the past decades, and look forward to the continued contribution of betterment of society through technology.

Hong Kong plays a distinctive and vital role on the world’s stage.
Its strategic location, unique eastern / western business sense, and resilient, creative and passionate people have combined to act as a conduit for regional and world trade. Today, this trade is enabled through innovative global business strategies intersected with the latest technology.

For 50 years, IBM has been at the forefront of Hong Kong business and technology innovation, helping our clients to achieve their ambitious local, regional and global goals. Over the past decade in particular, IBM Hong Kong has helped connect many multi-national businesses to China through its well-established network.

In the years to come, Hong Kong will increasingly rely on the human and intellectual capital of its people as its true global differentiator. IBM’s unique capability as our clients’ innovation partner is helping to evolve this differentiator into a tangible business asset. It is through our core value of dedication to every client’s success that we are able to assist our clients and help their businesses grow.

I’m proud to be part of a company that has thrived on driving change and making connections for 50 years.