Lessons learned

Some quotes from the executives:

Be cool, but not cocky. Be constructive, not merely complaining. Cooperate, don't compartmentalize.

Instead of meeting competition head-on right in that wide red ocean, seek the river and a blue ocean of our own.

The current trend in the Philippines is business process outsourcing. Hello, we've been doing that for ten years now -- we can claim to be the first global company to set up a full-blown IT shop in the country.

We won't outsource R&D and support -- our core competencies. Why would we move away from what we are strongest?

[Big-name IT company] suffers from a credibility problem in the security space. They're not likely to take away that edge from us anytime soon.

We are always open to changes, so long as they are consistent with our core values.

We thrive in our willingness to make mistakes, and of not being afraid in making them.