On the second day of the Hue field trip, 5th MBA students had a great opportunity to visit two companies in the IT industry with the name, that is Brycen Vietnam Co., Ltd. Brycen Vietnam started in 2009 as a branch, located in No. 25 Nguyen Van Cu, Hue City, Thua Thien Hue province. However, Brycen’s representatives had previously visited Vietnam many times through acquaintances and organized engineer training and volunteering activities aimed at street children in Hue from 1997. The mother company is located in Japan.
To welcome VJU students, the vice director of Brycen Vietnam – Mr. Le Hong Son made a presentation about the company, products and services, partnerships, and other activities in Vietnam. The aim of the corporation is to become a global company with some representative offices in Korea, China, Vietnam, and so on. Therefore, they focus on recruiting good talents from universities, training them in technology, the Japanese language, quality control, research, and development. Most of their partnerships are IT companies that have foreign elements with the purpose in order to cooperate to run many IT projects. Next, he shared several challenges when running an IT business in Vietnam, some difficulties during the period of covid 19, and solutions to these problems for further development in the future. To continue the meetings, the CEO of the company – Mr. Yokoyama Masayuki had a short conversation with us. After the presentation, we were invited to visit all the departments in the company. At the end of the visit, we took some photos and hope to have more opportunities to meet them again.