NETWORKED(JARINGAN)
DATUK DR. ROZMEY CHE DIN
Among
the entrepreneurs who use the features of this network is a local entrepreneur,
Datuk Dr Rozmey Che Din. He was from Bukit Sireh in Kuala Krai Kelantan.He has
made his name as one of the successful entrepreneurs in Malaysia.He has a
medical degree (MD) from USM in 1993, followed by graduate in Bachelor Of
Medicine(M.MED O & G) in 1999 which also in USM.He also got a diploma of
Pharmacology in 2001.He has a wife who had died and three children. He is the
founder of company Herba Prima Marketing Sdn Bhd which is a medical products
based on herbs.
In
terms of personal networks, he has a strong personal network with family,
especially his late wife, Noor Abdullah Shukri Halawiah. His wife, who is also
an executive in the company Herba Prima Marketing Sdn Bhd gives lot of moral
support, labor, business advice and information to Datuk Dr Rozmey Che Din in
the development of the company.
Next,
Dr Rozmey also use a public network that is using newspapers and the Internet
as his primary medium to create a public network. The explosion hit his company
when print medium is used to plan the success of Dr Rozmey testimony got
unexpected feedback that forced him to improve its services, including
introduce online purchases.Here is the link http://www.herbaprima.com.my
He also
used the business network with established business networks together with
Jitra Medical Centre (JMC) at the start of his business. As a result of this
network, Dr.Rozmey got offices
facilities for him to start his business empire. He also established business
relationship with customers through customer testimonials and academic program
that advocate slim. Under such circumstances, the business network has a very
large impact on the performance of his company.
OPEN
RISK TAKER
TAN
SRI SYED MOKHTAR SHAH BIN SYED NOR AL-BUKHARY
According to Collins English Dictionary,
an open risk taker means an individual or business that tends to behave in a
way that can potentially cause physical harm or financial loss, but might also
present an opportunity for a rewarding outcome. Risk bearing and
entrepreneurship are inseparable from each other because any decision made by
an entrepreneur carries some degree of risk taking, whether big or small.
Example, when expanding business to a second store or another country carries
the risk of failure and loss profits. Willingness to take risks can give an
entrepreneur a competitive edge when business owners have enough information
and take risks by considering all possible alternatives to success.
An entrepreneur should have the courage
to take risks because if entrepreneur do not have this attitude, the risk
cannot be dealt with in the business operated. The higher the risk, the greater
the return they will get. For instance, the the successful entrepreneur that
willing to do something that will cause financial loss in order to achieve his
mission is Tan
Sri Syed Mokhtar Shah Bin Syed Nor Al-Bukhary. He was born in 1951 in Alor
Setar, Kedah into a middle class family. He cannot continue his education due
to poverty. So, he completed his secondary education without furthering it into
university level and start to help his father in business by managing the
account.
He is a businessman and the richest
Malay entrepreneur in Malaysia. He is a man who doesn’t know the meaning of
failure and always learn from mistake. He involved in diversified business
areas which include transportation and logistics, plantations, property
development defense and armory as well as engineering and power generation.
These show that he is a risk takers entrepreneur because he always found the
ways to explore and try something new in business that have risks. In 1970, his
father’s business declined due animal disease and he dare to take his father’s
business. In addition, he is willing to take risks to carry its business with
substantial financial capital when his company establish a contract with the
government to supply rice, tea, powdered chocolate, powdered milk and ghee.
Besides, he moved his business to the
transportation development business. He was willing to take risk to get involve
in a new field work. He received a permit for trucks of class A by taking risk
to apply loan from MARA to buy two lorries Mercedes for RM110 000 to start his
rice business in 1972. He establish transport company named as Sentosa
Transport Company after buying two lorries and the company still existing until
now and have 40 trucks.
He is also involved in shiping business.
He established Bukhari Shipping and acts as broker vessel under the CABOTAGE
policy. However, business is a loss that forced him to sell his ship named
Goose Mas at a price of USD600,000, namely loss of USD400,000. That ship was a German-made ship which was 28 years old
at the price of $1 milion. He bought it to transport rice from Thailand to
Sabah and Sarawak. He does not give up easily, he try to join venture in
Islamic banking by taking over Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad eventhough the
involvement in financial and banking are difficult.
As we can see that Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar
Al-Bukhary has courageous efforts in taking the risk of going into business
that has paid off so much that he can diversify his business selling without a
need to rely on a business revenues only.
OBSERVANT
DATUK
WIRA DOKTOR AMEER ALI MYDIN
In the Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries,
observant outline as good as noticing things around a person. Entrepreneur must
pay attention to precisely everything that happens around them, within or
outside the organization by collecting useful information about business
surroundings and make a note. In business perspective, an observant is the one
of the important key to success because the entrepreneur will predict what will
happen or be needed in the future by identifying the condition or environment
of business such as changes in customer taste and changes in technology, their
competitors and the risk that they will face before make any decision.
Therefore, to overcome these problems, successful entrepreneur will observe and
make a strategic planning whether in a short or a long time period.
For example, a clever entrepreneur in
Malaysia and apply for opportunities in the organization and get a good profit
is Datuk Wira Doctor Ameer Ali Mydin. He is a director of Mydin Mohamed
Holdings Berhad and is among the group’s retail and wholesale business in
Malaysia with total annual sales reached RM1.6 million.
Mydin Mohamed is the son of Mr Ghulam
Hussein has opened a small woodworking shop in Kota Bharu, Kelantan in 1957.
The store was named Mydin Mohamed Holdings by selling toys and general merchandise using
their own cash. He was able to expand its business widely because he was a
brilliant figure in taking the opportunities that exist within a business. He
did not give up easily and always learn to be a more open-minded to set up more
Mydins’ branches in Malaysia in order to meet user requirements.
He will look at the business environment
and the constraints faced by the economy before making any action. He saw
business potential from various angles, especially marketing angle to further
its business. For example, the depreciation of the currency and the imposition
of tax on goods and services, better known as the GST by the government has led
him to take the initiative to reduce the sales price to attract buyers because
he understands that some customers cannot afford the product at high prices
through observation. Therefore, he was offering goods at a low price and
affordable compared to other supermarkets to compete with existing competitors
in the market such as Tesco, Econsave and others.
In addition, he also pays attention to
the quality of goods sold to meet with customer satisfaction and loyalty mainly
shoppers who want to be thrifty when spending. He always made sure the products
he sells halal-based resources to maintain the quality and hygiene of products,
especially for wet perishable materials. He was sensitive to the current
economic climate. Mydin has diversified its sales of products to satisfy the needs
and tastes of customers. Besides selling daily necessities, he added new
product lines such as electrical equipment, clothes and others.
In conclusion, we can see that this
entrepreneur is an observer that is sensitive to the environment and strive to
advance the business to a higher level. He is always looking for ideas to
ensure that his business will continue to remain in the market that can compete
with products from other companies.
VISIONARY(BERWAWASAN)
DATO WAN MOHAMAD SANI SALLEH
Any success in life, you must begin with a vision. The
defination of visionary is someone or something that thinks about future or
advancements in a creative and imaginative way. He or she has a powerful plan
for change in the future. A visionary entrepreneur is one who is able to see
what others are not able.It means this kind of entrepreneurs have the right
kind of picture in their mind that lets them know what will be the outcome of
their business venture. A visionary entrepreneur work with a vision of how
their business is going to do in every detail connected with it and what
exactly the result they intend to produce. Two things that stop most
visionaries from creating a business that works is lack of business skills and
having ascarcity mindset, entrepreneurs have three main things that helps them
as a visionary entrepreneur, that are world changer, personal vision, innovative
and creative.
Dato
Wan Mohamad Sani Salleh was born on July 24, 1976 in Kuala Terengganu,
Terengganu.He holds a Diploma in Business Management from University Sunway
College.He is among entrepreneurs and also the most successful artists in the
business.He was conferred the Dato Indera Mahkota Pahang (DIMP), by Sultan
Ahmad Shah, who carries the title Dato in 2009 and he is currently the managing
director of SANI United Sdn Bhd (SUSB). Previously Dato Sani starting a
business with open repair workshops. In 2003 Dato Salleh set SUSB with two
other partners who withdrew shortly afterwards that causes Dato Sani had to
take a risk with an employee and only in 2006 did witness SANI Express on the
road with 6 buses. Now,after 7 years passed, SUSB has over 150 employees and
has its own 3-storey building Wisma Dato ‘Sani Located in Klang Sentral.
One of
the entrepreneurs that has the visionary characteristic is Dato Wan Mohamad
Sani Salleh.This figure shows that Dato Sani is a man that has a vision in his
life and foresighted.This can be proven when he reached the stage where he
began to wonder: how his life if he continued to be in the field of arts and
entertainment that really depends on the talent and fans. Thus, he has changed
the direction of his lives by starting the businesses of express bus service.
“At one
time,I just realized up until when I want to be in the entertainment industry
such as be a model, singer and
actress.At that time,the purpose i worked in the entertainment industry life
was just to find food and entertained myself. I am not saying the music
industry did not guarantee success, but it is usually difficult to excel in
that field”.Those are the words and great quoted from an article on the
interview with Dato Sani by
entertainment reporters at Wisma Dato Sani in Klang Central, Klang with his
close friend, the Managing Director of Federal Malay Holding Sdn Bhd, Datuk
Sharifuddin Moses.
Talked
about the services provided, 25 double-decker buses have been operating in complete safety technology from Sweden
worth 40 million that can detect early technical malfunction. Ticket counters
are also covered by CCTV which is connected with the headquarters to launch the
operation. Capital officials in central Klang also has its own training center.
The
three-storey house named Wisma Dato Sani in Klang Sentral is fully equipped. In
addition to the operations center, the three-storey house is equipped with dormitories, training centers
and prayer. Most interesting, all operating in Sani Express ticket counter in
each country monitored live via closed-circuit camera that transmits directly
to the center.
For
future plans,SANI Express aims to have 100 buses and explore all routes in the
country within three years. According to him, a total of RM100 million will be
invested for that purpose and he is aiming to have 500 employees in the period.
In addition, he is also engaged in the business of hospitality and real estate.
Failure Is an Option
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Failure
is a word that carries a negative connotation. Failure is the state or
condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective. It may be viewed as
the opposite of successs. Nobody wants or likes to fail when doing or achieve
something they want. Nevertheless, everyone had failed once or many times in
their life before they run into success. Without going through the failure, we
will never learn and always stay the same way. If an entrepreneur is afraid to
face the failure, then this particular person will not achieve the company’s
goal at all the time. Therefore, the more we fail, the better chance we have at
success in the future because failure is not a loss but it makes us to be a
better person in doing something or making a decision based on our experience
in the past.
Examples
of entrepreneur that we choose are Thomas Alva Edison. He was an American
entrepreneur and inventor who developed many devices that greatly influenced
life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera and
the long-lasting practical electric light bulb. Thomas Edison’s inventions have
made profound impacts on society and people considered him as one of the
greatest inventor all the time. Thomas is most well known for his invention of
the light bulb. He was really good at reducing the risk of innovation. His
serious incandescent light bulb research began in 1878.
At the
beginning of the creation of the light bulb, he failed to get the loan money
because people assume that creation is quite impossible to succeed. After
getting a loan, Thomas tried in developing a commercially viable light bulb. He
failed over a thousand times in trying to find the right filament for his light
bulb before getting it right. However, this situation is not deterred and does
not consider himself a failure. Even Thomas’s rate of success was significantly
low but he continued to test several types of material for metal filaments to
improve upon his original until he successfully invented the light bulb in
1880. Thomas Edison’s company, Edison Light Company began marketing its new
product company.
In
conclusion. It is clear that failure is not an excuse for not getting success
in business but used it for encouragement and motivation. The failure was a
mistake that should be repeated in order to gain result like Thomas. He does
not gives up and tried to invent the light bulb 1000 times. He learned from his
mistakes and refused to be discouraged by those 999 times failured.
OPEN CULTURE
DATUK STEVEN LIM
Open culture is
a knowledge that should be extended freely and growth must come from the
developing world, change or enrich the work of the existing on the basis of
partnership and cooperation, without being bound to the rules relating to the
protection of intellectual property laws. Creating a culture that attracts,
retain and inspires talents should always be a priority. An entrepreneur will
face challenges as its business culture into the international market.
The
successful entrepreneurship that have this trait is Datuk Steven Lim. He is the
founder of Secret Recipe that is know in all around the world. Village
atmosphere laden with flaws make him human creative. He aspired to become an
interior designer, and never thought to be a business man. He takes an
opportunity to creates a new product that can adapted to all society around the
world. He took action by setting up Secret Recipe in SS2 Petaling Jaya in 1997.
At first, he did not have enough capital to promote his outlet. In order to
promote his outlet, he do marketing by offering free coffee. The successful progress encourage him to open
new franchise. Datuk Steven Lim gave a trust to anyone like his partner,
manager and workers. He do that to makes his business better and get many
opinion.
Datuk
Steven Lim is someone who likes to work. His brain also did not stop working
even during sleep and cause he got the idea to franchise the brand. Now, he has
about 200 outlet including 50 overseas.
The market now expands to China, Australia, Philippines, Thailand,
Brunei, Indonesia and some other countries. He always make sure that Malaysia
outlet provide Halal Certificate anywhere because he want to make sure halal
food industry can be explore. Muslims anywhere can enjoy it.
Secret Recipe
not only offer a wide variety of cakes. The cafe concept is flexible. For
instance, the product Secret Recipe for Thai and Indonesian markets more spicy
than in Malaysia. As for the Chinese market, Secret Recipe makes a lot of
variety mee-based menu such as char kuey teow, mee Hokkien and mee Cantonese.
With this, Datuk
Steven Lim can be categorized as an entrepreneur who has an open culture as he
managed to detect a lack of something in the food business and are able to
create a new concept that is suitable to all walks of life around the world.
OUTCOME ORIENTED
TAN SRI NASIMUDDIN SM AMIN
Outcome oriented
sometime referred as result oriented. Result oriented is a term used to
describe an individual or organization that focused on outcome rather than
process used to produce a product or delivery a service. Outcome oriented is
the opposite of process oriented, which focused more on process. The
entrepreneur who has a clear sight of his/her goals is called outcome oriented entrepreneur.
Entrepreneur who are outcome oriented prefer to prove their competency gain
favourable judgement and avoid negative judgement. An entrepreneur will open a
business that can get lots of profit and make sure their business aboard.
The example of
entrepreneur that has outcome oriented characteristic is Tan Sri SM Nasimuddin
SM Amin. He is a managing director of the NAZA Group that established in 1979
as a motor trading company. The NAZA Group is a Malaysian business conglomerate
involve in many types of business ranging from motoring to education.
Tan Sri
Nasimuddin said that since youth he interested in car. So he started his
business with the sales of second hand or used cars from Japan. He started his
automobile business at Taman Maluri. He faced some challenges including
financing and how to convince customer to buy used car. He bought 20 units of used car from Japan to
Malaysia and sold it within three month.
Later, he opened
a branch in Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur to expand his business. He managed to
sell 40 to 60 used cars in a month. With his hard work, he manage to reach
RM1,000,000 in the first year of business. He always take the opportunity from
time to time.
Thus, it
apparent that Tan Sri Nasimuddin has an outcome oriented character. This competence provides an
important factor in the success and durability of his business and extending
the life of a long term business. Now, NAZA Group is known as Malaysia’s
largest privately-owned conglomerate business in the automotive, property, F&B
and telecommunications industries.
TEAM
ORIENTED
DATUK
YUSOF BIN MD HASLAM KHAN
Entrepreneur’s team oriented trait is collaborative skills in teamwork
to achieve the goal in business. Team oriented can be defined as a group of
individuals who carrying out the responsibilities and tasks together and work
together to achieve the goals. Entrepreneurs build teams to help each others to
expand their business and surround themselves with talented people to fill up
with gaps. Each member of the team can gain benefit through cooperation in the
team. Working in a team oriented environment can be tough, especially when each
person in group want to implement their best ideas and show their worth to the
cooperate using their individual skills and providing constructive feedback,
despite any personal conflict between individuals.
Datuk Yusof Haslam is an entrepreneur
who has experience of the most valuable and influential as he was involved
directing movie. Before he started the company, he would automatically has
tasted every character involved with the
company in which he was the actor side, the main actors and its crew. In
carrying out his tasks he also need to work with the existing crews. He was not successful alone even his
childrens, Mohd syamsul Bin Moha Yusof and Mohd Syafiq Bin Mohd Yusof were together involve in successful companies
and successful entrepreneurs by following Datuk Yusof movement. Datuk Yusof
also never failing raising the success of the film, although the film which his
published that was less welcome (poste. Young entrepreneurs should take his
journey as guidelines in a field where experience is extremely important before
going into the field. Lastly, maintaining
relations and cooperate in working groups is an important role for this film
focuses on the effectiveness of the results.
The
company :
a) Haslam Trading (restaurant)
b)
Haslam
Properties (property)
c)
Scope
publishing (novels and books)
d)
ME
Communication (post production and publication of drama and film)
Failure
:
Failure
experience by Datuk Yusof Haslam while engaging in acting is when he teamed
with Jins Shamsuddin .Scripts are less interesting story has received criticism
from the audience on the storyline and plot the fibers. The failure led to the
movie starring Datuk Yusof Haslam are not welcomed by the audience.
Glory:
Actually ,the first
film to open the curtains to success is “Bayangan Maut”. The film won success
and the proceeds of RM1.1 million. Mr Aimi Jarr have said that he would be ‘a
millionaire director’. He felt ashamed and thanks those words have come true. Incidentally
, “Pemburu Bayangan” got RM 2 million , “Sembilu” got RM 4 million , “Sembilu
2” earned RM6 million and “Maria Mariana” reach RM 4 million.
Awards
:
2001- Festival Filem Malaysia ke 15 –
Sutradara Terbaik
2001 –Festival Filem
Malaysia ke 15 – Cerita Terbaik
PROACTIVE
STEVEN
PAUL JOBS ( STEVE JOB)
Becoming
a successful entrepreneur requires many skills. They need to know their
business inside and outside because there are many aspects that entrepreneur
cannot control in the real world. However, they can maintain some control by
being proactive. In general, proactive means creating or controlling a
situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to it after it
has happened. Proactive is a vital trait in the entrepreneur world because it
gives various benefits in business world. As an example, proactive
entrepreneurs are likely to gain various accomplishment, they manage to control
various situations and have specific goals in mind to accomplish. Beside, as a
proactive entrepreneur, you need to think about solving problems when they arise
unexpectedly and then work out possible situation.
One of
the most proactive successful entrepreneur is Steven Paul Jobs, or know as
Steven Job. He was best known as the chairman, co-founder Apple, and chief
executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc. CEO and largest shareholder of Pixar
Animation Studios. Steven is a member of board directors of The Walt Disney
Company following its acquisition of Pixar and founder, chairman, and NeXT Inc.
CEO. Jobs is also known as a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the
1970s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
People described him as the creative and proactive entrepreneur whose
passion for ferocious and perfection drive revolutionized six industries,
personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and
digital publishing.
He is
very proactive in making his company run well. In 1976, when Jobs still be Co-
founded Apple, he sold Wozniak’s Apple I personal computer (A Coeur Ouvert, 4
Jan 2015).The duo gained fame and wealth a year later for the Apple II, which
is the first successful mass-produced personal computers. According to video The Online Cooperate
Culture (2015), after a tour of Xerox PARC in 1979, Jobs realised that
Xerox Alto have high commercial potential, which was mouse-driven and had a
graphical user interface (GUI). This caused the Apple Lisa failed in
development in 1983 followed by the brings to successful Macintosh in 1984,
according to Forbes 400 (2015).
Become
the first company that are mass-produced computer with a GUI, the Macintosh
instigated the rise of the desktop publishing industry in surprise in 1985 with
the addition of the Apple Laser Writer, the laser printer that be first created
to feature vector graphics. By following a long power struggle, Jobs was
forced out of Apple in 1985. After he leaving Apple, Jobs took a few of its
members with him to found NeXT, a computer platform development company
focusing in the local art of computers for higher-education and business
markets. Moreover, Jobs helped to initiate the visual effects industry
developed when Steve funded the spinout of the computer graphics division of
George Lucas’s company Lucas film in 1986. The new company, Pixar, would
eventually produce the first fully computer-animated film, Toy Story an event
be made successfully in part because of Jobs’ financial support.
According
to Stanford News (2009), Steve became the Apple CEO once again. He
decided to go back to the company, which was on the verge of bankruptcy to back
to profitability. Apple never get profit without job’s ability. It is because
he is so proactive find the solution for how to make his company making profit.
Otherwise, he is person who is very open minded and very positive even though
he dismissed from his own company. Steve Jobs, (in his speech at Stanford
University 2005) said that he dismissed from company was the best thing that
could have ever happened to him.
According
to Entrepreneur (2014), Steve Jobs has affected lots of computer
design. It is because of his idiosyncratic leadership style, hyperbolic
presentations, and straightly hands-on management be shown have inspired the
envy of executives and the fear of more than lots of employees and competitors.
Even though he steps down from the helm at the Apple company he founded, he
sets an example for those who would aspire to his level of leadership. He is
very proactive. Everything that he do, it always give his best for his company.
He also like to communicate with his costume, with that ways, he know what his
costume need better than they know. For example, above everything else, Steve
Jobs really understands his customer deeply. Although he as a CEO, Jobs
has bucked conventional wisdom in the industry and avoided the customers’
demands and expectations of the industries. Sometimes, the most critics’
consumers will bring the best end-user experience and Steve understood it at
the time to market.
Moreover,
Steve has announced that 99 percent music can be downloaded through Apple phone
without any payment. It made many consumers unbelievable with it. It was
because people were used to downloading music online for free. At that
moment, the music industry unwilling to accept it and conscious about the
rock-bottom price per song. Jobs’ apparent stubbornness appeared as an out crop
for his deep view about user experience. He realised that Apple’s users
actually did know their own demands. Hence, Steve Jobs just fulfilled the
customer’s demand .
As a conclusion, Steve Jobs run
Apple with empathetic, effective and creative . He was a leader of people.