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tl;dr: Super conservative business culture, arguably not news but : >"Japanese companies generally lag foreign companies by roughly five-to-10 years in adoptio
by stevetrewick 11y ago
tl;dr: Super conservative business culture, arguably not news but :
>"Japanese companies generally lag foreign companies by roughly five-to-10 years in adoption of modern IT practices, particularly those specific to the software industry," says Patrick McKenzie, boss of Starfighter, a software company with operations in Tokyo and Chicago.
Didn't know it was quite that much lag.
- erispoe 11y agoHow much is that technology lag, and Japan's conservative take on things in general, responsible for the economic morass they've been in for more than a decade now?
- digi_owl 11y agoOr how about the other way round, given the economic morass they try to get as much bang out of each buck spent as they can? After all, the reason for said morass was the private debt accrued during the 80s.
- song 11y ago5-10 years is very optimistic... I'd have said 10-20 years in most companies I've seen (Sharp is way more than 10 years behind foreign companies for example).