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By Staff, ZDNet Asia
Friday, March 14, 2008 06:39 PM

David Miller, president, Lenovo Asia-Pacific

	David Miller, Lenovo
	I am always talking about my top three priorities in life--faith, family and work--and I have no qualms telling my team at Lenovo that those priorities are in that order.

Q. What do you remember as the biggest industry news for 2007?
Miller: Certainly one of the most anticipated technology releases of the year was Windows Vista. 2007 will probably be remembered as the year that the electronics industry, along with many others, went 'green'. Lenovo raised the bar for PC innovation with the introduction of some of the most environmentally conscious products in the PC industry.

Name three hot technologies to watch in 2008.
We'll continue to see user demands increase in terms of mobile computing and the features and functionalities offered in notebooks. Consequently, security will continue to be important, and particularly to notebook users. The quest for green products, more robust mobile computing solutions and enhanced security--these are some of the trends we see continuing into 2008.

While 2007 was a busy and exciting year for Lenovo, we plan to continue developing new innovations related to biometrics, wireless technology and design in the year ahead.

Work-life balance is...
... A critical factor in employee satisfaction, and this is an area where I firmly believe is important for management to lead by example. I am always talking about my top three priorities in life--faith, family and work--and I have no qualms telling my team at Lenovo that those priorities are in that order.

When they see me heading home, I hope that it inspires them to optimize the way they work so they can also head home and spend time with their families.

Achieving a healthy work-life balance is more within the control of individual employees than most realize. It's about translating the desire for a better balance into actions that help achieve that goal. To achieve this, managers and their staff need to work together.

The biggest challenge facing IT departments is...
... The ongoing challenge of achieving the objective of maintaining systems that operate on the most current technology while working with limited budgets. This is something we have worked hard to address; we built "mini IT teams" into our products with our award-winning ThinkVantage Technologies (TVTs).

This year, to help IT departments get the most out of their investment, we integrated our TVTs with Windows Vista. We've continued to evolve these technologies over the years to help ThinkPad users, whether individuals or organizations, lower the total cost of ownership of their PCs.

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