Respond to Change

Its not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, butthe ones most responsive to change
Varanusbitatawa, a new species of giant lizard found in the Philippines
Charles Darwin

Howmany of youhere have used…
or

…but how many of us haveknownabout Google or Skypein 1999?

Before the 1990s, LBC… was known as a courier and forwarding company

…in the late 1990s

…in the last 10 years

The one thing constant in the world is…

Change is not just in a few industries…
…its across all walks of life

News / Blogs
Facebook Classifieds
YouTube News / Videos
Media…
…from paper to ubiquitous web access
Over 20% of internet users download podcasts / vodcasts
Over 2 Billion images have been uploaded on Flickr, & 5 Billion on Facebook
62 million blogs worldwide, growing at approx. 100,000 a day

Music…
…from browsing to downloading
Over 50 million iTunes Store customers
More than 4 billion songs sold till date
20 million downloads on Christmas day alone

Travel…
At least 8 budget airlines operate out of, or in the Philippines
Air fares to neighboring ASEAN countries as low as Php1,400, before it use to cost more than 5X
Clark Airport has clocked in more than 500K of passengers in 2009 and still counting.
…from railways to
the airways
Interconnected MRT & LRT systems transport millions of Filipinos who travel daily in Metro Manila.
Very affordable fare from Php12-20
This rail way system decently puts Manila side by side with countries like Thailand and Malaysia

Prosper is an online marketplace linking lenders & borrowers directly
From Traditional …
Banking…
…moving to Peer-to-peer & social banking
KIVA connects lenders with entrepreneurs to foster economic development & growth in emerging markets.

According to former US Secretary of Education Richard Riley
…the top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004

There is an explosion…
In Information
1
Of the Digital World
2
Of Technology
3

There are 76 billion searches performed on Google each month
76
(up from 200 million in 2003)

1 week of information
from the Philippine Star isgreater than the entire history of information from the 19th century

More than 400 million active users
100 M active users using through mobile devices.
60 million status updates posted daily
5 billion pieces of content shared weekly

If Facebook was a country, it would be the 3rd largest in the world after China and India

In 2009, over 170 M laptops were sold surpassing the sale of desktops

The $100 laptop project is expecting to ship between 50 and 100 M laptops a yearto children in underdeveloped countries

…making the virtual world accessible to everyone

The world is at your fingertips

Josie Go
Karimadon
Derrick Chiongbian
Holy Kettle Corn
Kenneth Cobonpue
Interior Crafts of the Islands Inc.
Butch Albarracin
Center for Pop Music
New companies today are being created by Filipinos who dared to dream
Dina Salonga
SQL Wizard Inc.
Edmund Liu
Basic Graphics Inc.
Boots Alcantara
Casa San Pablo
Albert S. Yu
Asya Design Partners
Dr. Jose Miguel Geronimo
Gerry Geronimo Productions Inc.
Catherine Lopez-Uy
A Different Bookstore

…like the visionaries before them

Testimony to their vision are the brands now known around the globe

Our economy is driven by entrepreneurs…

…who employ more than 55% of the labor force.

We have a large and teeming consumer market…
40 shopping malls in Metro Manila alone…
Shopping malls in every major city.
Source :The Philippines: A Resilient Consumer Market in ASEAN

…sustained by US$ 17.1Billion of ever increasing remittances annually
Source: http://wwt.gmanews.tv/story/188680/ofw-remittances-grow-to-28-billion-in-first-2-months-of-2010

Are you ready to respond to change?

The Economy is growing
GDP in U.S. Dollars, Not adjusted for inflation
2008
167 billion
2005
100 billion
1990
50 billion
1975
15 billion

Literacy rates remain high
Simple Literacy Rate: 93.4%
Functional Literacy Rate: 84.1%
Source : NSO Quick Stat

A sizeable middle class
15 million people providing support for consumption of higher-quality imported, branded items

A growing knowledge-based economy
Source :The Philippines: A Resilient Consumer Market in ASEAN/ wwt.gmanews.tv/story/

The future is in your hands

You know more about the world now than all the past generations combined.

All you need to do is to startthinking...

…of what you want to be

Create a
personal vision

See and capture
opportunity

Create a willingness to
learn & develop

Learn to love ambiguity

Focus on what you can do…
…not what you can’t do

never
never
never
give
up
Winston Churchill.

As a boy, I sold peanuts from my backyard. Today, I sell snacks to the world. I want to see other Filipinos do the same.
- John Gokongwei,Jr. Ad Congress SpeechNov 21, 2007

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Thank you!

Congratulations
Class of 2010

My thanks to…
www.timesonline.co.ukfor the title photo - VaranusBitatawa, a new species of giant lizard found in the Philippines
viewsfromtherough.wordpress.com/2009/06/ for the cover photo on Change
http://www.lbcexpress.com/ for the images and information on LBC
http://www.kwintessential.co.uk for the photo on Sizable Middle Class
antipinoy.com - OFWs: Evolving the Beast of Burden into the Tip of the Spear
wwt.gmanews.tv- OFW remittances grow to 28 billion in first 2 months of 2010
Sources of images used in the presentation, who I have not been able to name for lack of time and space.
Lastly, to my friend Shankar Ramesh, who has been kind enough to help me out with the PPT presentation.
Norman Miranda
23 April 2010

Respond to Change

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