1. Writing samples Yen Hui Wu
Abstract
This article reviews project in leadership fields. After decade, such trends included
cultivating recognition of a leader’s capability with others. A growing recognition that
leadership led to a focus on the domain expert to stewardship, thoughtful consideration
about how to best judged competencies, and develop healthy relationship issues. Future
trends include promoting in strategy, technology, integration. The new ways of thinking
may refine the nature of leadership and career development. Based on my projects, the
collected templates address many business prospects, including career as project leader,
ERP IT consultant and leaderships to communities. All industrial practices will rely on
knowledge management and specific methodologies in building learning models.
Template sample 1 for owns IT project or outsources
Background:
This is about replacing legacy ERP project by SAP implemented. Some key factors can be
used for top management recommendations. This report will address what is the most
valuable lesson we can learn in IT project management with solicitations and
outsourcing tasks.
Constraints
Vendor required to make profits without concepts for rick management
Contractor required integrator in consolidating all aspects of business practices
Misleading role and responsibility adapted project transferring skills and people
Insurance for alternative backup fail-safe policy
SAP users required to follow procedure not to be integrated behavior
Conclusion
SAP is for integrating operational processes. For some industries indicated SOP and
ground rule to develop future marketplace, which leverages SAP as a tool to plan
customer demands. Certain project management methodology and unique strategy
reply healthy environment in breading successful elements, but no grant to outcome
suitable results. For those vendors, they worked very hard in supplying good solutions to
customer
adapted. During project processes, customers prefer to implement SAP project phase by
phase, and willing to focus on certain among of time and less risky efforts. Implemented
2. SAP project required huge amount resources and budgets. IT solicitation will generate
such field to new business. For those who willing to supply such area, the qualified
vendors are in the domains of System Integrations which cannot cover all area of IT fields.
This co-work business may result less implemented efforts and less profits. For
join-venture projects not only remained competitive fields, but reply profits and losses.
For best and worse scenarios, win customer contract must have accessed in what the
domains are and experienced to handle this win-win contracts. Otherwise, chaos and
disaster will not be the first project to enter outsourcing game; most of all, by project
based can be the worst nightmare for top managers had ever been through.
A lot of tasks will dry out options after day by day, such as lack of capacity to rely on,
short of technical support resources, and role and responsibility overlapped. For
competitors or entrepreneurs, they do come for peace maker or crazy dreamer. As a
consultant point of views, tell your boss acts behaved is difficult to reveal truth. As a
market value of survival guide, making money is not the first priority to determine the
capability of experiences. Therefore, plan step by step always drives the wisdom to align
customer needs and ready to move the next step. For new comers, please do some
damaged controls before apply such business developments. It is not to have empty
hand in any managers’ options, and turn out to be the surrender territory under
humiliating terms.
3. Dedication
To the memory of Chun-Wan Chung, 2010
Acknowledgment
A special thanks to Chun-Min Wu, who is Sr. Engineer at Industrial Technology
Research Institute of Mechanical technology, make this joint-venture project. His
expertise and focus made this project successful.
Writing samples 2
Summary
This article is an example to design local material supplier for certification. It served
ISO9001/14000/QS9000 as the guidance to structure the measurements to be the world
class manufacturing in the wafer plant. To measure such complexity of validations, the
priority from top manager to first line engineers may be time-consuming processes. The
capabilities demonstrate as the end user to align top manager’s strategic behaviors. This
article addresses the team work achievements and technology transferring steps. The
methodologies are involved to decision making in developing leaderships’ skills.
These key factors to this article can be contributed to all levels of top manager in
changing management styles. When it is difficult to stop the project, the role of
responsibilities made this project to redefine company’s policy. The successful elements
were dedicated to ownerships of each level of people gradually, including mutual
beneficial goals, reaching consensus, and strengthening competition era.
Roles and responsibilities
Company A was the wafer plant (end user) role requested a cost-reduction project from
its top management for a 2nd source survey. Supplier A provided mature material that
currently dominated the marketplace as the single source. Suppler B provided locally
trail materials and transformed to domestic supplier. Domestic supplier should be
audited by company A in order to achieve new material project.
About Industrial Technology Research Institute in mechanical technology
Suppler B for Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) [1] of Mechanical
technology, which was commissioned by the Ministry of economy starting in July, 1996,
engaged 8 inches wafers isolate technology for automatic retrieval system
4. research (Standard Mechanical Interface, known as SMIF). The role of supply B is to
invest research and development for supporting Taiwan manufacturing industries. When
project was ready to market, the joint-venture role will release the patterns to start-up
new company.
In the year of 2001, ITRI transferred successfully SMIF technology to domestic supplier
which can be the third supplier with 8 inches SMIF Pod in the world. The transactional
processes were deployed local supplier to be the leading status of qualified SMIF pod in
HsinChu Science Park, Taiwan. This joint-venture relationship united all possibilities
among ITRI, local supplier, and wafer plant.
Background for the precision semiconductor equipment industry:
In marketing aspects, the domestic suppliers needed a great deal of efforts to technical
supports. ITRI’s policy and regulation are of the objectives to develop domestic
semiconductor suppliers that can localize cheaper device and certify supplier.
While global communications and appliances were highly demanding, the next
generation of semiconductors manufacturing were required further improvements. The
investments of semiconductor device needed upgrades and only relied on single source.
For self-supply policy internally, wafer plant will gradually use domestic device if such
semi standard procedures and regulations can be fulfilled. This best practice not
established competitive SMIF products but technology breakthrough the playground in
semiconductor industries. For this innovation proved Taiwan’s government and the civil
industries, the precision machinery industry had reached the world class level for both
ITRI and local supplier.
While the two competitors ' products have the patent protection issues, the patent
bypass design is not easy, including cleanliness, machine interface compatibility and
reliability specifications. These entry barriers as demand into the technical products are
extremely high. Due to SMIF device has highly market potential, Taiwan required 8
inches fab SMIF Pod to capacity 4000 wafers currently to replace 5,000 SMIF Pods
monthly. For generation of 12 inches fab, it was urgent to activate promoting the
product technology of research and development. While counseling advance research
with local supplier to upgrade, the technology transferring was from traditional plastic
injection plant. These required transitions gradually help local supplier from SMIF
technology of research and development to first class manufacturing plant.
5. Introduction SMIF Pod
Standard Mechanical Interface (SMIF) pods’ purpose is to isolate the wafers from
contamination by providing a mini environment with controlled airflow, pressure and
particle count. SMIF environment consists mainly of 3 technologies: wafer box (SMIF
POD), SMIF I/O and mini clean environment.
SMIF interface equipment products are produced abroad, not only more expensive but
long delivery time. For SMIF technology, everyone was urgent to have 2nd source to
domestic equipment supply. After SMIF equipments throughout the world had a huge
market, ITRI mechanical technology developed with the support of the Ministry of
economy and has been successfully developed 8-inch SMIF Pod. The patents was won in
9 nations of Taiwan, the United States, Japan, mainland China, Germany, the United
Kingdom, and Singapore.
The concept was based upon the quantum mechanical principal of a particle in a box,
and if you could isolate a single particle in a specific air volume, then you could apply
physical principals to bias the particle to statistically not be located on the wafer. SMIF
Pods can be accessed by automated mechanical interfaces from production equipment.
The wafers therefore remain in a carefully controlled environment whether in the SMIF
pod or in a tool, without being exposed to the surrounding airflow.
Each SMIF pod contains a wafer cassette in which the wafers are stored horizontally. The
bottom surface of the pod is the opening door, and when a SMIF pod is placed on a load
port, the bottom door and cassette are lowered into the tool so that the wafers can be
removed.
Introduce Semiconductor fabrication plant
Inmicroelectronics industry,a semiconductor fabrication plant is a factory where devices
such as integrated circuits are manufactured. Fabs require many expensive devices to
functions. Estimates put the cost of building a new fab over one billion U.S. dollars with
values as high as $3–4 billion not being uncommon. The central part of a fab is the clean
room, an area where the environment is controlled to eliminate all dust, since even a
single particle can ruin a microcircuit, which has features much smaller than dust. The
clean room must also be dampened against vibration and kept within narrow bands of
temperature and humidity. Using SMIF technology controlling temperature and
humidity is critical for minimizing static electricity.
6. Project requirements and approach
Using SMIF required much maintained efforts and long shipped time. The
costing-reduction drives the wafer plant as policy. This great opportunity provides a
great platform to motivate both domestic and foreign suppliers to set business models
from competitions. . For both win-win advantages and viable mutual goals, wafer plant
leaded the certified environment to both suppliers either competition or cooperation
models. While the model was successful completion of commercialization, the
marketplace will cover the demanded to Asia pacific reign, including Taiwan, China,
Japan, and Korea. This breakthroughs delivered innovate business practices that can
dominate marketplace for 8 inches SMIF pod technology; therefore, how integration of
competitors, users, governors, officer, and Institute to make resources effective used
were crucial.
The impacts were transformed from organized policy to collect risk models as
management rules. The successful localized supplier determined the health
environments for good practices in combining both suppliers’ device advantages,
learning from weakness, and working together with wafer plant to complete results.
7. Template sample for new material development Finding Using two competitors to
secure SEMI standard E19-1105 , the practice instructed mature SMIF pod supplier A to
constitute SMIF pod local supplier B. This model explains how each prospective leader
can use the verified processes to pilot run effective and integrated service for their
business.
After the pilot run had successful driven the future investments in the wafer plant, the
milestone was actively expanding supplier’s capacity for new facility. When plants
completed, its outpouring of resources included patterns to mass production. This
technical success was establishing an independent SMIF technology, leading to the
creation of high-tech industries in both Taiwan and China also have significant
contributions.
Project outline Project scope: qualify 2nd source SMIF Pod into production line
Project period: 18 months on production
Project cost: 16m USD quarterly to payback period
Business purpose: use company resources to qualify 2nd source SMIF pod into QS9000
requirements. There are 4 business prospects:
Business prospects
Internal contact window strategy and deployment
Focus on knowledge driven not purchase policy and meet semiconductor standard
Willing to corporate with competitors
Allocate budget resource and schedule activities
Human resource prospects
Based on facts to release issues log
Highly standard engineering team members
Apply internal top manager support and visibility
Encourage to pursue Excellency
Technology prospects
Technology ownership to rule out defective projects
Involved technical expertise from internal and external stakeholders
Register Patten around United State of America and other 9 countries
Sharing information with stakeholders
8. Process prospects
Align top manager decision to 1st line engineers
Efficient communication and reporting
Standard operation procedure for ground rule in production
Focused people and fields
Production department: production planning, material planning, quality control,
Engineering department: failure analysis, yield enhancement, patent, equipment
Marketing department: product planning, sales forecast
End results Pilot run
Qualify DRAM 0.25μ 82% yield rates with 1st 10 testing run (no affect yields ratio).
Qualify production specifications with 40 categories of 300 processing equipment.
Qualify automated material handling system
Mass production Qualify 100 productions run to 1500 SMIF Pod in production run
monthly Replace current material within 3 months of safety stock from 1000 to 3000
SMIF Pods Released next generation 300 mm SMIF Pod
Conclusion:
Leaderships can be born by mission or project requested. The limited source of supply
and undirected purposes may drive project to failures. There are many factors
considered to launch such project for business requirements. The successful elements
included verified engineer requirements, process control sampling, and report-based
feedback.
It is very risky to run such project without further risk identifications that constrained for
local supply with lack of semiconductor regulations, ITRI budget distribution, the needed
trail volume for costing issues, and many clean room hardware compatibilities. When
the project remained unsolvable issues, the insurance policy will rely on 3rd independent
party outside Taiwan for new material of penetrated analysis and quality inspection. The
project delivered confidences by proving end-results data.
For daily wafer plant operations, many new pilot run, process receipts, and product
9. variations contained, there is no such control way to pinpoint defective SMIF pod in
reflecting trail run SMIF results and prevent contamination. For each level of people who
engaged this project, this project established new culture transformation as a teamwork.
When working environment was foster to growth, the character of leaderships and
passion helped to overcome any challenges.
Appendix
[1]Industrial Technology Research Institute
(ITRI)http://www.itri.org.tw/eng/econtent/about/about01.aspx
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is a nonprofit R&D organization engaging
in applied research and technical services. Founded in 1973, ITRI has played a vital role
in transforming Taiwan’s economy from a labor-intensive industry to a high-tech
industry. ITRI also holds Taiwan quality inspection regulations and policy.
Fostering Entrepreneurship and CEO Leadership
ITRI employs 5,728 personnel, including 1,163 who hold Ph.D.s and 3,152 with master’s
degrees, resulting in an average of five patents produced every day. By disseminating
both technology and talent, ITRI has led the technology industry into the 21st century
and has cultivated 70 CEOs in the local high-tech industry. In addition to its headquarters
in Taiwan, ITRI has branch offices in the California Silicon Valley, Tokyo, Berlin and
Moscow.
10. Template samples 3 for who has ownership?
In daily life tasks or project, we encounter the steps of project from start to finish. The
interested things are most of project can not be done by individuals. Most of project
require many of the great deal of efforts or rely on specialists to result.
Backgrounds: When project are set to 2 to 3 weeks or longer enough, they are difficult
to control by more than 3 people. The communications will increase for each project
phase. If 3 people and 4 phases tasks, the total communications are 24 times. This is not
including WBS communications. How you image to set a good role? Should follow
project schedule or play ahead? Here are my observations.
Key area:
Most of end users do not know until results be reveal
Most of requirements need to be refined many times until for both users and
responder agreements.
For gray area with role and responsibility, play ahead and push in the end are not
comfortable for project.
Focus on requirements to achieve for motivations instead of others, ex., blur for
project schedule, scope, budget. Project solutions will be the key to drive.
Pinpoint the symptom not diagnosis overall for right directions.
Project results will be the framework for tracking solutions.
If some puzzles missing, go for help in asking troubles in order to save time.
Request to share the acceptance report with all before go next project.
Solutions:
When you on project, you should know what criteria to results. If project is going to
unknown specification or wrong motivation, it is best to follow the methodology for
project management. If no such baseline to control and also the required obligation, try
to see as the positive impact for new career development. As a result, we may collect
some for better or worse experiences with good elements of project. From endless time,
efforts, budget, and passion, project will polish most of weak area. Most of defects will
end up with some luck and countless motion failures. Many wonders, why people love
to have this unpredictable to be handle? If results will value the career development, we
need more conquer spirits.
11. Template sample 4 for closing project steps.
My project was closed because for uncertain reasons. Good mindsets. We set the
project to overcome unexpected reasons and determine to make it work. As a result, all
possibilities have run out options that lead to terminate all efforts in vain. In other words,
when run the IT project, you realized you are not what you think of the voice of expert.
If much voice came out, you are no longer in the good shape. When requested close
project, you should be considering in the followings:
Validation what you include project scopes and must have skills
Listed what you have learned.
Background:
We know what we can deliver to customers. There always have the drawbacks for
customer to complaints your IT solutions not perfected enough, lack of communications,
short of supply to end users, and most of all, customers motivated business. How did
you deal with requirements did not define in the first phase?
Solutions:
You will see above are the charging issue not deliverable for example. Customers like to
deceive in reflecting your professional services. Make correct assumption and move
toward targets now. Some said if not value by customers, why implement? Collected the
achievable objectives, you can tell how many you have conquer and failed to respond to
get them right. Selected them you can fix in the future not inevitable guilty.
Did project as mechanism is the one of kind?
Remove barriers that discourage
Background:
There is not such one stop shopping for all in project. Project like human and put it
under control. The more control we became, the more shift schedule we felt.
Solutions:
For none specifications in project, see this as first contact with your first love. How did
you define such work breakdown structure without requirements? If we follow the
institution, aligned with courage, passion in overnight seekers, revise unnecessary
course of action, we may have true love of problem solving.
Breed the seeds to cultivate future capacity. To foresee the creativity, we collect the
required objective priority and discipline. Overcome project
12. procedure over any consequences. For business, it may survive. For people engagement,
it is shining.
Summary: To cultivate three main aspects of capacity advantages:
Entrepreneurial Advantage
Applied technology from humanity, human survival skills and livelihood for the purpose
and translate knowledge into commercial application. The benefit of educational
community populations’ health, as well as have a better quality of life, manufacturing
advantages of enterprises.
Knowledge Advantage
Applied significant development leadership, whether in the health, environmental, social,
and economic interests, stressed that strengthening research and development.
People Advantage
Provide collected templates can track highly professional, in order to have the ability to
develop a global to raise the talent you need as a good higher education. Determine
effectiveness of the work of the professional and technical fields, as well as flexible;
other focused on learning the cultivation and training of young scholars, in order to
create talent advantage.