Annette Nijs, CEIBS Executive Director Global Initiative, was among the five presenters, was among five experts explaining president Xi Jinping at his visit at CEIBS how China can attract foreigners and innovation to the country.Read More →
Bestseller author Shaun Rein is publishing a new book, The End of Copycat China: The Rise of Creativity, Innovation, and Individualism in Asia. and focuses on watershed developments in China´s development. His earlier book The End of Cheap China was his first bestseller. The book will be available in NovemberRead More →
Business between China and Israel is brisk, and that is partly caused by the fact that both economies supplement each other. Where China needs innovation, Israel needs a sizable market to sell its innovations, a market it does not have among its hostile neighbors. Shanghai-based lawyer Mark Schaub just returned from his latest trip to Israel and made this overview.Read More →
Seamless transfer between video devices is key for the industry and its players, says Baidu´s director communications Kaiser Kuo. China´s second search engine Baidu offers this already for search, but the development will continue, he tells in Knowledge CKGSB. Read More →
Among the Chinese companies becoming fast household names among global players, Haier was one of the first to enter the word arena. Haier´s CEO Zhang Ruimin has put his bets early on quality, explains IMD professor Bill Fischer in The Corner, and that explains why he is winning now.Read More →
Innovation is no stranger in China, as CEO’s of Baidu, Tencent, Haier, Alibaba and Huawei show. But it is only a handful, argues IMD professor and leading author on innovation Bill Fischer in the Harvard Business Review. There is not a innovative culture, although Haier offers hope.Read More →
When Japanese ways to organize business like Just-In-Time hit the world, it changed how companies work profoundly. China has not yet produced such a disruptive model, but white-good producer Haier might just be on the way, says IMD-professor Bill Fischer in Business Week, by replacing middle management by internal competition.Read More →
Innovation and brand building are high on China’s official agenda. But without the necessary freedom, creativity might be an illusion, warns author Paul French in the Guardian.Read More →
Home appliances manufacturer Haier has become of of the leading forces in China’s drive for innovation, says IMD-professor Bill Fischer in the People’s Daily. “Reinventing Giants” is a recent book he co-authored focuses on Haier’s transformation process: the middle management is taken out.Read More →
China will remain a manufacturing base, but will have to move up the value chain, argues author Shaun Rein of The End of Cheap China,
in AsiaPacific in answering three questions. Where will we see most innovation in China?Read More →
Haier, China’s famous electronics firm who started already to go global in the 1990s, is “insanely curious”, tells IMD professor Bill Fischer in the Business Spectator. Fischer is the co-author of a new book on innovative strategies Reinventing Giants: How Chinese Global Competitor Haier Has Changed the Way Big Companies Transform.Read More →
China is moving away from cheap t-shirts to a higher value-added production of goods like medical equipment and automotive parts, tells Shaun Rein, the author of the book “The End of Cheap China” in Asia Today of WSJ.Read More →