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<br>Offer expires 15 Dec 2010.<br><br>------------ PBXL is BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS --------------<br><br><br>+++ WHAT'S NEW<br><br>On Friday, October 1st, long-time resident of Tokyo, Jim <br>Adams, died at his Orange Country, California home, of a <br>
heart attack. Jim was the beloved husband of Tomoko and <br>father of Ashely, and close friend of many of us still in <br>Japan. I received a call from Tomoko and Ashley who were <br>going through Jim's contact list, and trying to get the <br>
message out to his friends about what had happened. <br><br>Jim was a particularly good friend. I first met him while <br>he was working for Morgan Stanley back in early 1990, just <br>shortly after he'd been hired by the bank's Tokyo office <br>
as an IT manager, tasked with looking after delivery of <br>maintenance services to users. My company had just won a <br>breakthrough contract with Morgan Stanley, to supply a new <br>type of service which today is called Outsourcing. Back <br>
then it didn't have a name.<br><br>Jim was clearly different from many people that you met at <br>that time in banking. Given that the foreign banks were a <br>lot smaller then, and Japan was at the peak of the bubble, <br>
skills in managing people played a smaller role in the big <br>scheme of things than did strategy and raw money making. <br>Everyone was very hyper and testosterone flowed freely. I <br>found Jim to be one of the few people who had time for <br>
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<br>[...Article continues]<br><br>Indeed, Jim had a reputation for looking after both his own<br>people and those around him very well. I occasionally heard<br>snippets of how he would sometimes cross swords with others <br>
in the bank, to ensure that the right thing was done and <br>that expediency wasn't the only yardstick. He was <br>particularly good at nurturing people, and instituted many <br>training programs that helped people both career-wise and <br>
emotionally.<br><br>Jim also played fair with his vendors, and typical of his <br>friendship was one particular incident that I will never <br>forget. At the time we'd been supplying engineers to Morgan <br>for about six months and things were going well, but back <br>
at our own office the pressure was on. We were growing far <br>too quickly, although there were only 10 of us then, and we<br>were having a hard time carrying the expanding cash flow <br>needed to employ all the extra engineers that we needed. <br>
People got paid, but there certainly wasn't anything left <br>over.<br><br>A certain competitor, who was completely caught off guard <br>by our new outsourcing service, and who couldn't get the <br>engineers (ours came from a completely new source -- India <br>
and no one else could compete), decided to start a rumor <br>that we were in financial straits and were about to go out <br>of business. It wasn't true, but mere whispers of financial<br>difficulties can kill an emerging business relationship <br>
dead. Jim kindly warned me that these rumors were <br>circulating and counseled me that I should try to figure <br>out a way to address them before Morgan Stanley was forced <br>to do something about it. This was my first taste of <br>
business warfare Japanese style.<br><br>As it turns out I was able to enlist the help of another <br>local foreigner who has since departed us, Roger Boisvert, <br>and he was able to confirm that we could use a new <br>technical service he'd started using, called e-mail. <br>
Between him and Jim, we were able to identify dozens of <br>email users in Tokyo, who not unnaturally were almost all <br>IT managers -- few others had access or interest at that <br>time, and who were the exact people we needed to reach. <br>
<br>Roger helped draft the email and sent it out on my behalf, <br>stating that the rumor was unfounded, whereupon it quickly <br>faded. My company went on to become a leader in the <br>outsourcing field in Tokyo and was eventually sold to EDS <br>
in 1995. Interestingly, that email may have been one of<br>the first unsolicited emails sent in Tokyo...<br><br>Another event that highlights Jim's humanity was when in <br>1993 or so, I had noticed that the bank kept all its <br>
obsolete PCs down in the basement of the building until <br>they came off lease -- there were hundreds of them in <br>perfectly good but old condition. I asked Jim if we could <br>take those machines that had reached their lease-expiry <br>
date and donate them to villages in India. He checked and <br>was told it was too much bother, for both security reasons <br>and paperwork. <br><br>However, Jim became quite passionate about the project and <br>went in to bat for us, offering management that he would <br>
give up valuable personal time to help with the tedious <br>weekends of cleansing of hard disks and loading machines on<br>to waiting trucks. We eventually got the nod, and together <br>in the Morgan Stanley garage we loaded and shipped several <br>
hundred PCs. <br><br>Somewhere in India, I'd like to think that hundreds if not<br>thousands of people in the computer field got their start <br>thanks to those machines and Jim's tireless generosity.<br><br>The 1990's were a productive time for Jim Adams. He <br>
gradually migrated from IT management to HR, and found his <br>true calling -- the nurturing and mentoring of others. He <br>was always working on some training program or helping <br>people out in trouble. He was particularly useful in the <br>
frenetic banking environment, and as a true gentleman could<br>arbitrate flare-ups and soothe ruffled feathers. He was <br>also able to carry out the occasional firing or lay-off <br>with grace, and I don't think he ever made any enemies.<br>
<br>In 2003, as the icy grip of the dotcom bust was really taking<br>hold, once again I needed Jim's help. This time it was <br>because the rapid decompression of the dotcom sector<br>had severely impacted my IT business. Jim was getting to <br>
be an "old-timer" at Morgan Stanley and decided <br>to take advantage of an early retirement program. In <br>so-doing, he offered to come and help my team get <br>themselves straightened out. He took a huge cut in salary, <br>
and took a drastic lifestyle change -- we were a rather more <br>raw end of the IT industry. :-)<br><br>Within weeks he started working his magic and quickly had <br>won the trust of a team that was still smarting from our<br>
own lay-offs. Things continued to be difficult for another <br>18 months, until the economy started to turn upwards again <br>in mid-2004. During that period, though, I had the pleasure<br>of seeing Jim most days, smiling, encouraging those around <br>
him, and firefighting whatever problems came his way. He <br>was very much the ideal business partner, for which I am <br>eternally grateful.<br><br>Jim's passion outside of looking after his work team was <br>tennis and his lovely wife Tomoko and daughter Ashley. On <br>
Mondays I would always get an update of how Ashley was <br>doing at school and on the tennis court...! He was one very<br>proud Dad and put all of his emotional energies into giving<br>her the best upbringing that he could. In this sense he was<br>
an inspiration to those of us with families and a reminder <br>that families are a worthy focus. It's easy to forget that <br>when you're under the pressures of business.<br><br>The memorial service for Jim will be on Monday, October 11,<br>
2010, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, at the Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive <br>Memorial Park and Mortuary, 1625 Gisler Avenue, Costa Mesa,<br>CA 92626, +1-714-540-5554. You can go online and leave your<br>thoughts and wishes at the Chapel URL at:<br>
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<br>Rest in peace Jim. I am honored to have known you and worked <br>with you.<br><br><br>...The head janitor -- Terrie/<br><br>***------------------------****-------------------------***<br><br><br>+++ SHORT TAKES<br><br>
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<br><br>+++ NEWS<br><br>- Plants phone home<br>- Manufacturer to fire 25% of workforce in China<br>- Takefuji goes bankrupt<br>- Morgan Stanley gets loan reprieve<br>- DeNA to make US$400m acquisition? <br><br><br><br>-> Plants phone home<br>
<br>DoCoMo has announced that it will start selling next year <br>plant monitoring sticks that you insert into the plant pot <br>or garden plot and which then communicate soil moisture and<br>sunlight data back to a website. Experts available with the<br>
service will then email customers when they estimate, from <br>the data received, what the watering and harvesting times <br>should be. The sticks are expected to cost around JPY2,000 <br>- JPY3,000 each. ***Ed: They need one of these for busy<br>
mothers with babies...!** (Source: TT commentary from <br><a href="http://nikkei.com">nikkei.com</a>, Oct 8, 2010)<br><br><a href="http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20101007D07JSN03.htm">http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20101007D07JSN03.htm</a><br>
<br>-> Manufacturer to fire 25% of workforce in China<br><br>While the Chinese government doesn't seem to mind its <br>workers pushing foreign manufacturers for ever increasing <br>pay raises, they must surely realize that this situation <br>
cuts both ways. Already, many Japanese manufacturers are <br>looking elsewhere to base their factories. One such example<br>was highlighted this week, when Okaya Electric Industries, <br>an electrical and electronic parts maker, announced that it<br>
would lay off 25% of its Chinese factory workers by March <br>2012, due to rising salary costs. (Source: TT commentary <br>from <a href="http://nikkei.com">nikkei.com</a>, Oct 10, 2010)<br><br><a href="http://e.nikkei.com/e/ac/tnks/Nni20101009D09JFF05.htm">http://e.nikkei.com/e/ac/tnks/Nni20101009D09JFF05.htm</a><br>
<br>-> Takefuji goes bankrupt<br><br>A little late in noting this, but worth highlighting <br>anyway, is the bankruptcy the week before last of Japan's <br>largest consumer credit company, Takefuji. The company's <br>
liabilities are estimated at JPY433.6bn but could be much <br>more. Takefuji has been in the doghouse ever since it's <br>president was charged some years ago with ordering a wire <br>tap on a journalist doing an expose on them. More recently <br>
they have been on the receiving end of retroactive court <br>rulings that require finance firms to reimburse interest <br>charged to customers. ***Ed: The company is still trading <br>and somehow hoping to dig itself out of the mess. <br>
Unfortunately for them, they still have potential customer <br>claims which could generate additional liabilities of <br>JPY2trn (US$20bn) -- about 5 times the amount that sent <br>them bankrupt. So their survival is definitely not a sure <br>
thing.** (Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://google.com/Afp">google.com/Afp</a>, Sep 28, <br>2010)<br><br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/35rs2tj">http://tinyurl.com/35rs2tj</a><br><br>-> Morgan Stanley gets loan reprieve<br>
<br>Morgan Stanley's real estate team got some good news this <br>last week when it was informed that Shinsei bank will pick <br>up its loan portfolio of JPY225bn, which it used to buy 13 <br>hotels from ANA back in 2007. Apparently the properties <br>
have slumped as much as 50% in value, and existing funder, <br>Citibank, declined to renew the loans. (Source: TT <br>commentary from <a href="http://reuters.com">reuters.com</a>, Oct 8, 2010) <br><br><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE69704620101008">http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE69704620101008</a><br>
<br>-> DeNA to make US$400m acquisition? <br><br>Very much on a roll, social mobile gaming company DeNA is <br>rumored to be considering buying U.S. iPhone games company <br>Ngmoco for more than JPY40bn. Ngmoco has only been running <br>
for 2 years, and still has very modest revenues, however, <br>since Apple made it possible for developers to charge <br>in-game fees (for virtual world equipment, power levels, etc.), <br>the company's fortunes look decidedly better. Speculation <br>
is that the firm may wind up with sales of more than <br>JPY100bn in the U.S. alone in the next 2-3 years -- <br>matching DeNA's own revenue in Japan, and of course partly <br>explaining the high price. (Source: TT commentary from <br>
<a href="http://venturebeat.com">venturebeat.com</a>, Oct 7, 2010)<br><br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/28lwp8h">http://tinyurl.com/28lwp8h</a><br><br><br>NOTE: Broken links<br>Many online news sources remove their articles after just a<br>
few days of posting them, thus breaking our links -- we<br>apologize for the inconvenience.<br><br>***------------------------****-------------------------***<br><br>+++ CANDIDATE ROUND UP/VACANCIES<br><br>=> BiOS, a Division of the LINC Media group, is actively <br>
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-Tuesday, October 26, 2010<br>-7:00pm - 10:00pm<br>-Roti Roppongi<br>-5,000 Yen including tax and service<br>-14 great Francis Ford Coppola wines to enjoy<br>-Exciting, tasty dinner buffet by Chef Ian Tozer<br>-Door Prizes & Giveaways<br>
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