Outsourcing is the name of the game for many new entrepreneurs these days and for Rose Ann “Bing” Tomagan-Cruz, it’s an exciting time to be smack in the middle of the growing sector.
It all began with a “need” – the best way to start a business. Bing’s former schoolmate and friend who works in Japan saw that the company she worked for needed a good payroll system. Surprisingly for a very IT-savvy country, Bing said many Japanese companies still use MS-DOS programs for their payroll system.
Since she has computer programming background, Bing agreed to set up the business here in the Philippines. That was only a little more than a year ago. It would have been cool to say ‘everything went well after that’, but that would be like hoping that the ZTE investigation will solve the country’s ills tomorrow. Entrepreneurship requires patience to travel the growth and learning curve with grace and humor.
Bing told Willy and the business mentoring group that she needed help with pooling manpower, improving product quality, overall management of the business and sales and marketing. If chosen for the one-year business mentoring exercise for INQUIRER.net, Bing said she wanted to share her experience as well as learn from the travails of the entire group.
If you want Bing to be part of Batch 2008, just type away a comment in this blog. You may want to read about the two other contestants here and here. My previous entries for the business mentoring activity can be read here. Watch out for the voice file on Bing to be uploaded soon!
March 27th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Bing is a very understanding, approachable and an intelligent woman. And she strikes balance with being humble and kind to others. And yet, she is very down to earth.
This mentoring program will not only improve her skills more, but will benefit others as well (companies and individuals). For Bing is unselfish of her knowledge and is always willing to help others.
Congrats Bing! Keep up the good work! Godbless!
March 24th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Congratulations!
All the best. Godbless!
March 24th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Bing is a goal-oriented and determined person.
She tends to know everything there is to know about the things she sets her mind into and also humble enough to seek mentoring from experts like Willy and the business mentoring group.
She believes in what she does and with your help I know Jyouhou Technology Inc. would turn into something big.
Congratulation and Good luck!
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Bing’s background coming from a very successfull IT outsourcing company will make her business a competitive one. Knowing the ins and outs of a software life cycle ensures that the system they would be developing is a good one.
A mentoring program would be a great help in how to succeed in running a business. We really need to develop and help local companies be competitive in this kind of global business and I would recommend Jyouhou Technology Inc. as one of the winner of this competition.
March 19th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
go girl…
Goodluck… i know you can do it…