IBM Philippines Inc.’s new chief technologist

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IBM names point persons to encourage worldwide innovation

VERONICA C. SILVA, GMANews.TV

09/16/2008 | 06:12 PM

MANILA, Philippines - IBM has named 28 new innovation point persons in subsidiaries worldwide to support its global advocacy to encourage innovations.

IBM Philippines Inc.’s new chief technologist is Lope Doromal Jr, a 12-year veteran in the 75-year-old local subsidiary and an 18-year veteran in the local information technology industry.

Doromal is expected to collaborate closely with the other newly appointed chief technologists worldwide and one of his main tasks is to ensure that IBM’s advocacy is pursued in the Philippines.

IBM is one of the private sector partners of the Philippine government in advocating more innovation initiatives to spur economic growth. Last year, IBM and the Philippine government organized the National Innovation Summit to bring into the fore the need to do innovation, which includes research and development.

“Working with a multi-disciplinary advisory team, Lope will help IBMers, clients, government agencies, universities, business partners and other key stakeholders, understand the full scope of IBM Research and Innovation initiatives in the Philippines and across the globe," said a statement announcing Doromal’s new appointment.

IBM said the Philippines is a key growth market which is why it is focusing on helping the country undertake innovation initiatives.

“No one country has a monopoly on innovation today—it’s open, multi-disciplinary and can arise just about anywhere," said Nick Donofrio, Executive Vice President, Innovation and Technology.

Donofrio participated in the National Innovation Summit last year where the national innovation strategy dubbed as Filipinnovation was launched.

As part of IBM’s contribution to further the strategy, it helped organize a recent conference to introduce a new approach to the curriculum that will ensure that a services industry-led country like the Philippines can get its much needed manpower requirements. IBM dubs the new approach to the curriculum as Service Science Management and Engineering (SSME).

IBM Philippines worked with the government’s Commission Information and Communication Technology (CICT) and with the Business Process Association of the Philippines (BPA/P) to organize the conference.


The three also recently forged a agreement to promote SSME to boost the competitiveness of the Philippines’ offshoring and outsourcing industry through this new academic and research discipline that will prepare the next generation of workforce.

Doromal said part of his tasks as chief technologist is to ensure “that the experience and expertise of our research, development and innovation technologists in local markets gets shared across all of IBM—in all countries." - GMANews.TV