A Year Review of Project Leadership in Malaysia

a 48 year review of
project leadership in Malaysia
PIKOM
Project Leadership Certificate
Jan 2012
... seriously
...age
...experience
...innovation
... seriously
...age
...experience
...innovation
...doing things v getting things done

... seriously
...age
...experience
...innovation
...doing good things v doing things good

... seriously
...age
...experience
...innovation
...doing good things v doing things good
...provoke and challenge

hypotheses
hypotheses
... great project leaders stifle Malaysian innovations

hypotheses
... too many big fat projects run by so many great project
leaders
hypotheses
... too many big fat projects run by so many great project
leaders
...lack of great innovators

a45 year review of
technopreneurs in Malaysia
in 30 minutes
Startup Camp KL
GEW Malaysia
November 2008
disclaimer
• The following presentation reflects the views
of the presenter and not his organization
• It has no clear thesis and is more a jumbled
collection of things to say
• It is a collection of anecdotes, ideas and
empirical observations with little rigour or
exhaustive analysis
• www.slideshare.net
Birth of the Internet?
• 1998 Founding of Google
• 1991 Gore Bill signed by George Bush I
• 1989 World Wide Web
• 1984 Arpanet to TCP/IP
• 1973 Ethernet, TCP/IP, Cellphone
• 1969 Arpanet
• 1957 Sputnik
• 1946 Transistor and Me (62)
{sourced from Bob Metcalfe Enernet presentation}
48 years
2008 BarCamp Malaysia Start Up Camp Plug & Play

2003 Cradle
2001 MavCap , TEAM
1996 MDC
1995 Mesdaq
1989 KLSE 2nd Board
1984 MVB
1970 NEP
1963 Malaysia, me
Subtle difference
• Metcalfe: innovation, private sector, risk
based
Subtle difference
based
• razlan: copy, government & institutions
Subtle difference
based
• Wired into our DNA

Subtle difference
based
• Wired into our DNA,

o flag
Subtle difference
based
• Wired into our DNA

o flag
o anthem
name 6 Malaysian innovations that we
are still world leaders
• Royal Selangor Pewter
• Felda
• Felda
• Tabung Haji
• Felda
• Tabung Haji
• Rotational monarchy system
• Felda
• Tabung Haji
• affirmative action for minority
• Felda
• Tabung Haji
• affirmative action for minority
• educational twinning programs
VC in Malaysia
80's low tech, services

90's bank backed
00's govt backed
10's social network
why don't world class VC firms come to
town?
town?
the same reason world class soccer firms don't come either
town?
...we are not a known producer {incubator} of what they want

their raw materials
great soccer players
town?
...we are not a known producer {incubator} of what they want

their raw materials
great soccer players
...start ups that grow big fast

why does Cyberjaya not produce
innovative young tech start ups that
grow big fast like Silicon Valley?
Silicon valley tech icons
bill hewlett & dave packard

bill gates & paul allen
steve jobs & steve wozniak
jerry yang & david filo
larry page & sergey brin
lee bosack & sandy lerner
herman hollerith
pierre omidyar
mark zuckerberg
bill von meister
Silicon valley tech icons
bill hewlett & dave packard hp

bill gates & paul allen microsoft
steve jobs & steve wozniak apple
jerry yang & david filo yahoo
larry page & sergey brin google
lee bosack & sandy lerner cisco
herman hollerith ibm
pierre omidyar ebay
mark zuckerberg facebook
bill von meister aol
its the weather!
World giants
• General Electric
• BP
• HSBC
• Toyota
• Gazprom
World tech giants
• sony
• nokia
• ibm
• microsoft
• google
• cisco
malaysian giants
Petronas
Sime Darby
MISC
Public Bank
Maybank
Tenaga
Telekom
Genting
IOI
malaysian tech giants
Our share
world malaysia share
Jan 08 mkt cap USD T 55.1 0.317 0.58%
Sept 08 mkt cap USD T 42.8 0.217 0.51%
Jan 12 mkt cap USD T 46.1 0.331 0.72% {RM104.16B}
population m 7B 28.4 0.41%
size m sq km 148 .329 0.22%
Listed companies 46,325 980 2.12%

Mkt Cap #2 USD B 392 20.6 5.3%
Mkt Cap #100 USD B 57.8 .231 .39%
zeitgeist malaysia web %
umno 2,340,000 4,810,000 48.65%
msc status 64,700 354,000 18.28%
bogel 296,000 1,670,000 17.72%
bank loan 59,600 6,760,000 0.88%
technology 6,250,000 1,030,000,000 0.61%
entrepreneur 206,000 39,100,000 0.53%
conman 10,500 2,200,000 0.48%
start up 525,000 161,000,000 0.33%
innovation 335,000 127,000,000 0.26%
Garage 566,000 232,000,000 0.24%
venture capital 41,800 17,400,000 0.24%
naked 252,000 134,000,000 0.19%
iphone 524,000 330,000,000 0.16%
hacker 207,000 248,000,000 0.08%
project leadership 390m 85.2k .0218%
project leader 344m 170k .0494%
project manager 1.12B 2.33m .0208%
project management 232m 1.75m .754%
project leadership certificate 4.01m 8,910 .222%
901 397m 1.31m .28%

malaysia / world
razlan rule: malaysia / malaysians will be more than 1%

google
start ups
railroads
electricity
telephone
internet
UK, US; innovation, driven by enterprising spirit

Malaysia; government driven, licensed regulation
Ecosystem
many players
supporting industries
joint ventures
venture funding
secondary markets
angel investors
failed projects
simple mathematics
experience
wealth creation
innovation
Marketing
Start ups
Innovation v regulation
oil palm: suitable climate, soil, ecosystem


property: suitable climate, soil, ecosystem

Politics: suitable climate, soil, ecosystem

Ipo: suitable climate, soil, ecosystem

Ipo: suitable climate, soil, ecosystem
projects:suitable climate, soil, ecosystem
sorry
• The Malaysian ecosystem is not conducive
to producing world class soccer players and
world class tech start ups that grow big fast
ecosystem
• Fit within the local ecosystem
• Change the ecosystem
• Change the weather
Social networking
what you know v who you know
who you know

who you meet
where you go
...therefore, golf courses, karaoke, politics, airport sendoffs...
…facebook, linkedIN, myspace, YM, MSN, icq, irc
Other intersections
• Solve a big problem
• Avoid politics, from any angle
• Low hanging fruits
• Kl traffic, Ah Long, Maids
• Car, House, Food, Education
razlan challenge
• Usd 10b revenues
• Usd 100m GAMEY
richard abas
razlanabas at gmail
+60 19 335 47 31

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a 48 year review of

project leadership in Malaysia

...doing things v getting things done

...doing things v getting things done

...doing good things v doing things good

...doing things v getting things done

...doing good things v doing things good

...provoke and challenge

... great project leaders stifle Malaysian innovations

... great project leaders stifle Malaysian innovations

... great project leaders stifle Malaysian innovations

...lack of great innovators

2008 BarCamp Malaysia Start Up Camp Plug & Play

• Wired into our DNA

• Wired into our DNA,

• Wired into our DNA

80's low tech, services

...we are not a known producer {incubator} of what they want

...we are not a known producer {incubator} of what they want

...start ups that grow big fast

bill hewlett & dave packard

bill hewlett & dave packard hp

Listed companies 46,325 980 2.12%

project leadership certificate 4.01m 8,910 .222%

901 397m 1.31m .28%

razlan rule: malaysia / malaysians will be more than 1%

UK, US; innovation, driven by enterprising spirit

oil palm: suitable climate, soil, ecosystem

oil palm: suitable climate, soil, ecosystem

oil palm: suitable climate, soil, ecosystem

oil palm: suitable climate, soil, ecosystem

oil palm: suitable climate, soil, ecosystem

what you know v who you know

who you know

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