About Me
Name:Franky Lin
Title: Business Professional | Digital Transformation Specialist | MBI Student at ICL
Bridging Technology and Business for Over 20 Years.
I work as a business professional with more than twenty years of experience in areas relating to information systems and digital approaches to business development. My work includes founding enterprises that operate across borders in online sales and providing services for digital business development. The work focuses on connecting development of systems with operations that support business aims, and this involves particular focus on online sales, developing recognition for businesses, and changes relating to digital approaches.
Currently, I am expanding my academic horizons as a postgraduate student at ICL Graduate Business School in New Zealand. This program allows combining experience from work in business with frameworks that provide theoretical understanding, and this combination supports adaptation to conditions that affect business operations across different contexts.
My Purpose & Direction
My primary career aspiration is to become a strategic leader who connects New Zealand businesses with global digital markets, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.
I am working to obtain a Master of Business Informatics qualification that provides structure for experience that developed over multiple decades. The main aim involves developing understanding of concepts relating to professional approaches to business and theoretical approaches to understanding systems, and this understanding supports improvements in approaches to making decisions. Following completion of the program, I aim to use this qualification to obtain a position that involves managing operations or providing guidance to organizations, and this position would allow supporting small and medium enterprises in New Zealand as these organizations respond to changes relating to digital approaches and work to achieve growth that continues over time.
Self-Evaluation
Based on the frameworks of "Developing Self-Awareness" from Whetten and Cameron (Chapter 1), I have analyzed my professional character to identify my strengths and areas for growth.
Strengths
• Internal Locus of Control: According to Whetten and Cameron, individuals with an internal locus of control believe they are responsible for their own success. My experience founding enterprises demonstrates this orientation, as I approach problems in ways that involve direct action rather than attributing difficulties to factors that exist outside my influence. One example involves building a system for online sale independently for Yougounz when approaches that existed previously did not provide adequate support for the operations.
• Emotional Intelligence (Resilience): I possess a high capacity to manage stress and handle complex interpersonal relationships. This strength proved important in my role managing operations, as this role required leading teams that included individuals with different backgrounds and maintaining relationships with clients when deadlines for projects created significant pressure on operations.
Areas for Development
• Tolerance of Ambiguity: I make decisions effectively when structures provide clear frameworks, but I work to improve tolerance for ambiguity in contexts that involve different cultural conditions. Moving to the business environment in New Zealand requires developing comfort with outcomes that remain uncertain and with aspects of communication that reflect cultural patterns that differ from patterns I encountered previously.
• Disclosure and Feedback: As an individual in a leadership role, I focused historically on achieving results. I aim to improve approaches to sharing information about myself to develop trust with individuals I work with and to create conditions that support obtaining feedback that provides direct and open information. Whetten and Cameron identify these practices as important for expanding understanding of oneself and for reducing areas that remain outside one's awareness.