Growth shifts to Asia: sunshine days for Eastern corporate icons are here

[mandy]

Brands like Coke, Disney and Benz developed on a century time line. Now, in Asia, a comparable impact can be achieved in a fraction of that time, for a fraction of the costs, and it will produce a bang many times bigger.

With the emergence of a technologically driven society, Asia has gone from a land of virtually no phones to one with 2 billion cell phones, and from Internet darkness to 24x7 e-commerce.

Once the sidekicks of the West, Asian countries are now the global economy's driving engines. This rapid-fire transition itself is a new force to be reckoned with -- an uncontrollable migration as people gravitate to innovative ideas and take bold risks to deliver on them...

Today's corporate society is characterized by compulsive innovation -- the drive to continuously create tinier things at higher prices for deeper pockets. This frenzied acceleration ultimately will trigger a revolution when a billion-plus entrepreneurial cyberwarriors hit the roads...

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