Brand Building Through Product Innovation in Taiwan

By frog China - June 9, 2009

Last week I spoke at Computex 2009 in Taiwan at an event hosted by the TDC (Taiwan Design Center). A key challenge faced by many Taiwanese companies in any part of the computing space is brand building. Taiwan’s computing culture, to generalize broadly, is all about OEMs. A few have made the leap into consumer brands (e.g., Acer, Asus, HTC), but most are still OEMS, increasingly evolving into ODMs, and no more than flirting with the notion of becoming a consumer brand. Under this backdrop, I spoke about brand building strategies for Taiwanese companies from 2 perspectives.

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