2009 IEEE International Conference on
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Unveiling Secrets of Successful Chinese Software Companies
Author(s): Yuanxun GuAbstract
There are secrets and business of success software companies demonstrated by Hoch et al in 2000 and Cusumano in 2004, but there existed none cases from China, the possible reasons maybe the software companies are in infancy and maybe the survey is challenge in China. And now, the software industry plays an important role in innovation and pushing the economic transformation. So, in this paper, we first archived and abstracted the success experiences from the international software companies, then setup a criteria to define the successful Chinese software companies (SCSCs) in China and got the materials and data through the telephone survey, interviewing, searching the professional magazines and reviewing the documents of some companies, next to pigeonholing the data and finding the characteristics that led to success and comparing the characteristics with the international ones. The results indicate that not only the international characteristics were verified by the success software company in China and also found some special characteristics that differentiated the SCSC in China with the international ones. The special characteristics listed as follows. First, the entrepreneurs own the capability to find the market space and could provide the high pertinence, compact function and high quality product. Second, SCSCs owned the intellectual property rights independently of product, product-type company not service-type company gradually developed into SCSCs. Third the SCSCs usually originated from the middle and low range market, this is representative road that produced SCSCs. Fourth, the founder acts as the leader of the company unremittingly up to now, and control the strategy that decided the fate on the crisis of transformation which make the company stride forward to the Ruritania of the founders. Fifth, make the business on the robust status that to avoid the big fluctuation. Sixth, the core business is prominent and professional.