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\nRole:<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0Senior Functional Consultant<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \u00a0Global Business Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \u00a0Tokyo, Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Microsoft Dynamics 365 FO<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \u00a05 years at SYSCOM<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \u00a0Travel, Reading novels to relax<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_mask_bg=”” row_arrow=”” el_class=”pb-30 padding-box padding-full-left display-mobile”][vc_column width=”1\/2″ el_class=”first-column”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=”mb-20″][vc_single_image image=”14705″ img_size=”syscom_image_rounded” vc_none_hover_effect=””][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Senior Functional Consultant<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Global Business Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Tokyo, Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Microsoft Dynamics 365 FO<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 5 years at SYSCOM<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Travel, Reading novels to relax<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”pb-80 padding-box padding-full-left”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Le Thi Thao Ly, a Senior Functional Consultant in SYSCOM GLOBAL SOLUTIONS\u2019 Tokyo office, likes to keep things simple. She eats when she\u2019s hungry, sleeps when she\u2019s tired, and travels when she wants to see something new. When she sees an opportunity, she seizes it. And when she\u2019s put on a project for a client, she doesn\u2019t stop until the client has what they need\u2014even if it wasn\u2019t what they thought they wanted in the first place.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Keep my responsibility until I\u2019m finished\u2019 is my motto,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd if the job\u2019s done, the job is still my responsibility.\u201d It can be a high standard to set for oneself, but it keeps things clear and straightforward for Lily. She might have done her part, but until everyone else has done theirs, she can\u2019t consider the job done. It keeps her, and the rest of her team in Tokyo, driving forward together.<\/p>\n Does the rest of her team feel the same way? They do, she says, because it works. \u201cWe\u2019re all from engineering backgrounds. It\u2019s easy for us to share our opinion and make a decision together.\u201d She can cut straight to the heart of the matter with her team, saying, \u201cour internal meetings are quite fast and productive. We get straight to the point, we don\u2019t go around and around.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”pb-80 padding-box padding-full-left”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”14710″ img_size=”syscom_image_center” vc_none_hover_effect=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”pb-120 padding-box padding-full-left”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Getting straight to the point helps with figuring out client needs, too. \u201cI\u2019ve learned how to communicate with clients to understand what they need, instead of what they want,\u201d she says. \u201cDifferent projects have different requirements from the customer. We can\u2019t provide the same solution to all of them, even if they do have the same requirements. There are different accounting rules, different cultures.\u201d She prioritizes finding the right solution for the customer, even if she has to tweak it to make it work for them.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t have one-size-fits-all solutions,\u201d she says, \u201cwe have the most suitable solution for the customer.\u201d<\/p>\n While she loves the directness of her team at SYSCOM, she also loves the team itself. \u201cIn our Tokyo office, we have consultants from different cultures. Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Romania.\u201d That diversity helps them adapt to new customers and start from a position of wanting to learn a new customer\u2019s culture. \u201cWe serve the customer, but we also try to adapt to them. It\u2019s good to have consultants that can understand another company\u2019s culture.\u201d<\/p>\n Lily\u2019s a traveler at heart, and still active in her school\u2019s alumni community. It was following a lead from an alumni networking event that got her career in ERP started. \u201cI travel every year, and one year I went to an alumni event in Vietnam and met one of my seniors. He was working for an embassy in Hanoi and told me the consolate in Ho Chi Minh was recruiting part time staff.\u201d She decided to keep things simple: there was an opportunity here, so she jumped at it. \u201cBack then, I wanted to just take a chance and see how far I could go. I got the job.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”pt-120 pb-120 padding-box padding-full-left gray-d0-bg”][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Senior Functional Consultant[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”pt-120 pb-80 padding-box padding-full-left”][vc_column][vc_column_text]The experiences from that job helped shape her into the leader she\u2019s become. \u201cI was a bit overconfident back then. I graduated with a good degree from a school that only graduates ten students every year. Many companies try to get students from my program.\u201d<\/p>\n She had real-world work skills to learn, like working in a new culture on a new team. \u201cI had to learn their system, how to cooperate with people older than me. It was a Japanese company and they had very strict rules. Everything had to be reported to my manager. I wasn\u2019t very familiar with that culture.\u201d<\/p>\n But she learned, and quickly. Since then, she switched to SYSCOM and appreciates the blending of Japanese and global working culture she experiences here. \u201cSYSCOM is half-Japanese, half-global. It brings the best of Japanese\u2014constant contact, looking to your superiors as fountains of knowledge\u2014and combines it with the directness, speed, and respect of global business culture.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”pb-80 padding-box padding-full-left”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”14712″ img_size=”syscom_image_center” vc_none_hover_effect=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”pb-120 padding-box padding-full-left”][vc_column][vc_column_text]And how does that kind of hybrid environment end up working out? \u201cIt\u2019s quite quick. We\u2019re less worried about egos and get straight to the point.\u201d<\/p>\n Lily appreciates an environment that encourages and supports that, while managing to keep things respectful and friendly. She\u2019s found that at SYSCOM. \u201cSYSCOM is where I feel the most comfortable. My colleagues respect and support me, and managers are always willing to listen to their staff. In internal meetings, decisions are clear and quick. We\u2019re friendly, and brainstorm together to get to the heart of the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n It seems Lily\u2019s approach works as well with business as it does with life: keep it simple.<\/p>\n And if possible, have some fun.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”pt-5per mt-120 padding-box padding-full-left gray-d0-bg”][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”pb-60″]<\/p>\n |