CAPITAL CEO, one of the top business magazines in Asia, invited Mr Toa Charm, the General Manager of Asia Pacific, Kingdee International Software Group, to contribute his management experience on their Information Technology column.

CAPITAL CEO is a Hong Kong-based publication with unique and characterized attributes combines business, lifestyle and leisure in one. It is custom made for young and professionals aged between 25-45, who are affluent, educated, stylish and fun loving. Business is still the key aspect in CEO but not the whole. Throughout the diversified contents in CEO interviews, brand stories and a variety of market news, a powerful and lively emphasis on lifestyle and leisure leads CEO becomes extraordinary. It offers premium leisure information for sports, high quality wine and dining, travel, Technology, on top of proficient contents on career, self-enhancement, wealth management, art and culture for the next generation CEOs.

Mr Charm's IT column focuses on helping executives see the strategic values of IT and become an even better and more effective leader in the highly competitive digital world. Being a successful business leader today, these executives probably have taken quite a few high-quality leadership training offered by the top MBA schools or well-known management consultants. These classes are consistently telling us that a leader needs to be able to plan, execute, communicate, manage relationship, delegate, and make decisions well. In the 21st century, their bosses, subordinates, peers and customers are demanding and expecting them as a leader to have all of these qualities. How do they live up with these expectations and how can they perform even better as an effective leader in the global competitive market? Knowing how to apply IT to their business and operation is the answer. In the past, most of the CEOs' background was sales or finance. In the 21st Century, more and more CIOs or CFOs with strong IT experience have been promoted to CEOs of large organizations, such as Paul Chow, the CEO of Hong Kong Exchange, because they are effective leaders. In Mr Charm's column, he would share with the readers on how IT can empower a leader by using real-life applications of enterprise solutions like ERP, CRM, KM, BPM, etc.

Mr Charm is currently the General Manager of Kingdee Asia Pacific. His mission is to extend Kingdee's success and leadership in the enterprise software market in China to the Asia Pacific region and the rest of the world. Kingdee is committed to becoming one of the Top Ten applications software vendors in the world by 2010. Charm is a veteran in the software industry with over 17 years of management experience in enterprise software market. Before Charm joined Kingdee, he was the Managing Director of Greater China of the NASDAQ-listed Hyperion Solutions and in charge of the business and operation for Hyperion in the Greater China region, including Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Macao. Mr Charm is a member of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council China Trade Advisory Board. Mr Charm is also an active member of many leading professional and business associations in Asia Pacific, such as Hong Kong Management Association, Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Chinese Manufacturers Association of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Computer Society, and Hong Kong Information and Software Industry Association.

Mr Charm is a popular speaker in Asia Pacific universities, such as Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, City Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, etc. and professional associations in Hong Kong, such as Hong Kong Computer Society, ACCA, etc., on IT, management and leadership related subjects. He is also an IT and management column writer for the monthly Hong Kong-based magazine "Capital CEO". Mr Charm often shares his experience on management and leadership, internationalization and IT applications on different industries with local and foreign media, such as, CNN, CNBC, SCMP, China Daily, Economic Daily, Ming Pao Daily, Sing Tao Daily, Hong Kong Computerworld. Mr. Charm gained his MBA and B. Sc. in Computer Science degrees from the University of Iowa and Minnesota State University in the United States respectively. He had also completed Outward Bound, Boy Scout and Life Saving training.

CAPITAL CEO newly published Charm's two articles on IT and management and there will be another four articles in the near future. Please enjoy the two published articles as follows and we will provide others in the near future:

Article one: Information Technology
Article two: ERP

Please enjoy!

About Kingdee International

Founded in 1993 and listed on the Hong Kong GEM board in 2001, Kingdee has grown into a major enterprise software vendor in Greater China and has been progressively expanding to Asia Pacific. Currently, Kingdee has more than 400,000 customers, 3,200 employees, 46 offices and 700 developers in Asia Pacific. Kingdee enterprise software suite includes ERP, CRM, KM and BPM. Kingdee has already conformed to CMM4 and ISO9001 international standards. The corporate vision of Kingdee is to become one of the top ten enterprise software providers in the world by 2010.For more information, please visit: www.kingdee.com.hk

About Capital Publications Limited

The principal business activity of Capital Publications Limited is the publication and marketing of a monthly Chinese financial and economic magazine, namely Capital magazine, which caters for businessmen and professional readers in Hong Kong. And CEO magazine is the most comprehensive lifestyle monthly for new generation of business. For more information, please visit: www.capitalceo.com.