I always tell my R&D team to take care of business by focusing on fixing bugs, money, and dream in that order. I will explain what they mean.
The highest priority in developing and maintaining computer software and systems are to fix bugs when we find them. There are different levels of bugs we find. Of course, the highest priority is something that can bring down a system. Those bugs are call critical bugs. There are other less critical bugs. For instance, when buttons do not align, typos, and other bugs which have ways to work around. Never the less, we put a high priority on bug fixing.
The second priority is to bring revenue to the company. I hope I don’t have to explain why bringing revenue is important. Without revenue, the company will not function. So we put a high priority on the projects that bring revenue.
The third priority is what we call Dream. This is where we design and develop something new. We are always developing something new. We are currently developing a “Feedback System”, “Help Desk System” and “MP3 Audio Embed System” and “CRM + Collaboration + Task Tracking System” Called Pilot SBT (Small Business Tools). Those products are developed for our internal use and being refined as we spend more time. We are making them available to you as well in very limited bases.
We are not a reseller of products developed by others. We are the original manufacturer. That means we can modify, delete, and add any feature you want. We are always looking for business partners to push our products. If you have a product idea, please let us know. We will be happy to work with you develop and expand our dream.
It is not new, this was my first time I visited there. Friendly people with good selection of coffee and things to eat. It is refreshing to see someone other than Starbuck.
After the morning eeting, we had little time for sight seeing. This is one of the places I visited today. Hakata is an interesting city. I hope we we can Develop some business relationships so I can come back again.
This is my last destination of this trip.
I arrive at Hakata by air.
I took subways to get to my hotel.
It is already a midnight.
I am going to sleep now.
There are three major convenience stores chains in Japana and those are
- Seven Eleven (Seven and I Holdings)
- Family Mart
- Lawson
They all have very similar offerings and product line ups. They are trying to out do with other by offering something different. For instance, this is a picture of Lawson 100 ... Almost everything this store have is 100 yen. It is much like DAISO 100 yen store.
100 yen equal to about $0.92 ... With Japanese sales tax of 8%, everything with tax is 108 yen ... that is about $1.00.