China Business Blog and Podcast
China Business Blog And Podcast
Is China a threat or an opportunity for your company? Are there real growth opportunities for you in the world's fastest growing market? Expertise and insight from Technomic Asia China, a market strategy consulting firm with more than 20 years in China.
SOEs in China today – Not your Grandfather’s State Owned Enterprises any more!
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Length – 6:43
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Those who have been doing business in China for awhile are quite familiar with the differences between the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and the Privately-Owned ...
Interview with Bill Powell, Time and Fortune Magazines (pt. 2)
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Length – 21:17
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We are in the middle of a discussion with Bill Powell, senior writer for Time and Fortune magazines. In the first part, we talked about China and the rest ...
An Interview with Bill Powell of Time and Fortune Magazines
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Length – 17:29
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Over the past 4 years of the China Business Podcast we’ve done many interwith business people in China, typically leaders of companies or operations. ...
Safety in China (??)
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Length – 6:43
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I was in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago for a conference. I flew from Shanghai to LAX, landing there at about 11:00 in the morning. By noon I was on the ...
China M&A – An interview with Dr. Kim Woodard (part 3)
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Length – 16:50
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OK … we are on to Part 3 of our interview with the newest addition to the Technomic Asia team, Kim Woodard. In this section, we get down into the ...
China M&A – An interview with Dr. Kim Woodard (part 2)
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Length – 17:54
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We are in the middle of a Podcast interview with Dr. Kim Woodard, the newest addition to the Technomic Asia team here in Shanghai. Kim’s background includes ...
China M&A – An Interview with Dr. Kim Woodard (part 1)
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Length – 17:03
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Unless you have been living in a hole or the dark side of the moon for the past year, your life has somehow been impacted by the global economic slowdown. ...
Life in China IS Reality TV
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Length – 6:14
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I woke up this morning with two words running through my head: “Reality TV”. Kind of a scary thought, huh? But what got me thinking about Reality TV ...
Life in China IS Reality TV
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Length – 6:14
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I woke up this morning with two words running through my head: “Reality TV”. Kind of a scary thought, huh? But what got me thinking about Reality TV ...
Seeing China’s Potential – Part 2 of an Interview with Sayed Jafry of ThermoFisher Scientific
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Length – 15:22
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Last week I posted the first part of an interview with Sayed Jafry of ThermoFisher where we discussed their decision to located the global headquarters for their ...
Seeing China’s Potential – An interview with Syed Jafry of ThermoFisher Scientific (part 1)
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Length – 14:38
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Those of you who are long-time listeners to the China Business Podcast have heard us talk, endlessly, about ways that companies need to be looking at the ...
Don’t make me disobey my mother … China should be a top priority for 2010
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Length – 4:16
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My mother told me that its not polite to say “I told you so”, but I can’t help it. From the start of the global economic crisis last year, we’ve been ...
Health Care Insurance in China, Really?
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Length – 15:40
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In the past couple of Podcasts, we’ve been talking about healthcare in China and, specifically, about the potential opportunities that this might represent ...
In China A Name Means Something
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Length – 7:39
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The scholar Confucius was an interesting guy … he was also a bit of a worry-wart. Certainly, there was a lot to be worried about … Kingdoms were fighting Kingdoms, ...
China Health Care: The Land of Opportunity
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In a country this big there are plenty of sick people. Combine hundreds of millions of sick people, with less than 1,200 hospitals capable of providing comprehensive care, by that I ...
China Healthcare … and you think the U.S. has problems??
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I have been living and/or working in China for over 20 years and have been witness to one of the world’s most amazing phenomena … the aging of the population. Why is that so ...
China Has Gone Mainstream, But US Business Still Gets Excited
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Those of you who are regular consumers of this Podcast and associated blog may have noticed that I have been unusually quiet as of late. In fact, I’ve gotten email messages asking if I ...
Continuous Market Entry Never Ends in China
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Nearly 18 months ago, I wrote an article for the British Chamber of Commerce in Guangzhou called “Continuous Market Entry”. A client of ours found that article and called to talk ...
China’s M&A Market, Like a Ride on Disney’s Space Mountain
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I’m speaking this week at the Sixth Annual GIC Mergers and Acquisition Summit, the title of my presentation is Deal Cultivation – Keys to Success in Making Acquisitions in China. The ...