Information Seeker

Context of information need

Environment Social Role

Barriers

Information Seeking Behavior

Starting Chaining Browsing

Person physiological, affective an cognitive states

Differentiating Monitoring Extracting Verifying Ending Personal Environment

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hison Electronics Corp, this company came up with a product that led to the demise of the floppy disk. It was the worlds first USB (universal serial bus) flash removable disk. Most of us know it simply as a pen drive.

Phisons president and co-founder if Phua Khein Seng, an energetic 35 years old whose childhood memories include fishing trips and living in a place surrounded by paddy fields.

After Pua obtained his masters degree, a professor at the university offered him a salary of NT$5,000 per month to research and develop memory controllers. The professor set up a company with his friends, and Pua became an employee. As a key engineer in the company, he travelled to places like South Korea and Japan for meetings. It was a time to gain valuable experience and exposure. That ended when friction and office politics nudged Pua into a decision to leave. However, complications over his work permit blocked his exit and forced a long negotiation.
From the information given, its proved that Mr.Pua is an excellent information seeker. For example, he travelled to places like South Korea and Japan for meetings. It was a time to gain valuable experience and exposure. From this statement, we can conclude that willing to explore information and idea by borderless is also one of the important key of being a successful entrepreneur.