IDG Contributor Network: Why driving process excellence is key to sustainable business success

In 1976, Dr. Albert Yu and Dr. David Chung founded Umtech, a company that developed and manufactured the first personal computer to be sold in department stores — VideoBrain. However, for a variety of reasons, the consumer market wasn’t ready, and three years later, the company was assimilated into the structure of its biggest investor.In 1976, another computer company was also founded: Apple Computer Company, the brainchild of Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. Despite a c