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.
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In China A Name Means Something
Download this podcast Length - 7:39 Download audio file (20090905_name.mp3) 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, people were starving, there was a general lack of education …
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China Health Care: The Land of Opportunity
Download this podcast Download audio file (20090830_healthcare2.mp3) 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 mean best physicians, technicians, and staffing, …
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China strategist and M & A specialist joins Technomic Asia team in Shanghai
Dr. Kim Woodard will extend Technomic Asia M A practice Shanghai – August 21, 2009 – Technomic Asia CEO, Steve Ganster, announced today that Dr. Kim Woodard will join the company as of September 1, 2009 and will help lead the company’s Asian M A practice, focusing on developing a comprehensive dea …
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China Healthcare … and you think the U.S. has problems??
Download this podcast Download audio file (20090807_china_healthcare1.mp3) 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 amazing in China? Well, just 50 years ago the lif …
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China Has Gone Mainstream, But US Business Still Gets Excited
Download this podcast Download audio file (20090703_nothing.mp3) 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 was alright. Was I sick? Did I break my fingers …
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Continuous Market Entry Never Ends in China
Download this podcast Download audio file (20090629_market_entry.mp3) 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 to me about it. It had been awhile since I looked …
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China’s M&A Market, Like a Ride on Disney’s Space Mountain
Download this podcast Download audio file (20090621_manda.mp3) 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 MA process in China is much different than in the Un …
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Mergers and Acquisitions in China: Not a Quick Wedding
Steve Ganster Keynotes Deal Cultivation at China M A Conference Shanghai, China, June 21, 2009 – Steve Ganster, Executive Director of Technomic Asia, will highlight the opportunities and challenges of mergers and acquisitions in China at the GIC sixth annual Mergers and Acquisitions Summit held in …
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The Dust Has Settled, What’s Out There?
The global mood today is similar to that of being in a huge storm. Its that time just after the wind has died down, the thunder is muted off in the distance, and the suns rays are streaking through the breaking clouds. Big trees are lying in the road, debris is in front yards, but the danger has pas …
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Geithner’s China Visit Adds Fuel to ‘Great Comeback’ of U.S. Economy
Supercharged supply chains to accelerate global recovery, note Tompkins and Ganster RALEIGH, NC and SHANGHAI, China, June 1, 2009 — Global business consultants Jim Tompkins and Steve Ganster view this week’s meetings between U.S. and Chinese economic policymakers as a key stepping stone to worldwid …
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Technomic Asia’s Kedl on Marketplace Radio - GM Producing Buick’s (Beike) in China
Technomic Asias Kent Kedl was interviewed on Marketplace Radio on Tuesday, May 26. The story focuses on GM producing cars in China, not only for the China market, but perhaps to export to the US. Its a story that illustrates the interdependence of global supply chains. The piece is reported by Ma …
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Remember the regulators
Download this podcast Download audio file (20090503_regulators.mp3) China’s rapid development in the past 15 years can leave one feeling a bit dizzy. My first time in Shanghai in the late 80s – in town for an escape from the small central China city where I was living and teaching – was heady enoug …
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China���s Economy is improving. My kids told me so
Every market prognosticator worth his/her/its salt is in constant search-mode for “leading indicators” – data points that show us which way the markets are shifting and where trends will be moving before they actually become trends. The easiest (and most used) are probably the ones everyone knows: …
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China’s Economy is improving. My kids told me so
Every market prognosticator worth his/her/its salt is in constant search-mode for “leading indicators” – data points that show us which way the markets are shifting and where trends will be moving before they actually become trends. The easiest (and most used) are probably the ones everyone knows: …
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When my way IS the highway…
This just in … Wal-Mart is making some big management changes in China (see story here). That, I guess, is not such big news – their business is down significantly and they may have grown beyond their own supply lines. Wal-Mart entered China through a JV years ago but waited until the law against …
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She’s tuning up
Is it over? And by “it” I mean the economic tsunami wreaking disaster to the very ends of the earth – when Iceland is the hardest hit, you KNOW it must be bad (maybe I can buy a few vowels from their names they seem to have a LOT of them and I sure need a few more!). Well, we are not sure if its …
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Deep Thoughts from the Beach
Sheesh … can’t a guy get away for holiday without the world falling apart?? I go for 10 days of sun, sand and minimal Internet and come back to find the world upside down. AIG needs more money (to fund bonuses? foreign banks? Liddy’s baseball card collection?) and President Obama is firing CEOs (n …
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A Stimulus Package that Stimulates?
Follow the Money, Most of it Will Stimulate Download this podcast Download audio file (20090331_stimulus.mp3) There has been a lot of press, not to mention moaning and groaning, about stimulus packages in the last few months. Many countries have put forth their genius to turn their economies around …
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If Cash is King today, then Cost Reductions are Queen and Jack
Around the world, buyers are looking to cut cost at every point in the supply-chain. I was interviewed recently by Jim Tompkins about my perspective of the economic situation in China and tactics companies can implement today that will improve their supply-chain efficiency and value. No question t …
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How solid is your ��buying” relationship?
Tompkins Associates newest podcast, The Buy Component of the Global Supply Chain, suggests that a buying relationship built only on commercial terms is like a personal relationship based only on sexual attraction. That is, there needs to be something more, such as commitment and communication, for b …
China Business Blog and Podcast
