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"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants". Isaac Newton
The tradition that we have been building on, through numerous years of close collaboration with IBM, is the successful marriage between the corporation world and the IT world. Thomas Watson, Senior, Thomas Watson Junior, and Louis Gerstner are illustrative of those giants who could marry the two in the most innovative ways, and from them we draw inspiration for the next stage of marriage between IT and Business. By standing on their shoulders, we envisioned a world marked by integrated delivery.
The Integrated Delivery Promise
The Integrated Circuit has produced a revolution in computer manufactory;
The Integrated Delivery Model will redefine how corporations could engage with IT.
The Integrated Delivery Model has three parts to it.
1) The sourcing of applications from multiple domains, and put all of them under one roof to expand your choice and reduce your searching cost. It is like a department store that would transform the typical boutique solution house.
2) The pooling together of business model development, applications development and solutions implementation resources and put them under one roof for you to have modular access to the full cycle capabilities. This means that we could co-construct those core systems that are unique and consequential to your competitive advantage. Because these systems are so mission critical, the benefits of a collaborative partner which could fuse the business and technology understanding throughout the cycle will be obvious.
3) The sourcing of all infrastructural building blocks and put them under one roof and let you draw out the right mix of technologies, skills and expertise for tailored use. An infrastructural build-up typically lasts a decade, and you need the continuity of service which could only come from a company that could outlast the system.
Collectively we aim for providing you with a single point of contact for all your IT investment needs, across the full cycle. This would result in a drastic reduction in transaction cost, so that your IT investment and expropriation experience could be benefited substantially in tangible and intangible terms.
The ICO Group
ICO Group is a regional powerhouse that focuses on serving corporate and institutional IT needs in the Pearl River Delta. It is originally founded and head-quartered in Hong Kong, and is now spreading its wings into the Delta.
For years we have kept this company in low profile, which we called this as the Victoria Harbor Secret. If one wants to source the best technological breakthroughs, one goes to the Silicon Valley. If one wants to source for the best IT manufacturing base, one goes to the South of China. If one wants to find the best place where business and IT are constantly being fused for application excellence, one has to come to Hong Kong.
For Hong Kong is the most business-intense city in the world. It is situated at the conference where global firms compete to get into the worlds biggest market, where regional firms leverage this springboard to reach the world market, where government has to be the most facilitative of global flows. It is situated at the cross-road of the multiplex of industries that only the worlds largest market could command and attract. It is here that IT needs to justify its existence by weaving into these dense tapestries of industries, so that all these businesses and institutions could be empowered to tick like clockwork.
Headquartered in the Victoria Harbor, ICO is therefore situated at a very distinctive part of the entire global IT value chain. We have the worlds most demanding customers clustered here, all expecting IT to deliver exceptional corporate value. Yet when we looked around the world for best practices, we found huge delivery shortfalls. Thus was born the realization of a unique role that befits this part of the value chain: delivery transformation.
ICOs vision is total delivery excellence. Towards this end, we have so far organized three companies and three delivery chains. The first one, ICO Limited, has for over fifteen years come to redefine what you can expect from a systems integrator. The second one, ICO Technology, is now on course to redefine what you could expect from an infrastructural builder and a sales platform provider.
The third one, ICO Technology (China) Limited, located in Shenzhen, is now our first China office for diffusing our global best practices and three lines of professional services into the Pearl River Delta.
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