Archive for the ‘China IT Outsourcing’ Category
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
November of last year the Financial Times reported the American private equity fund Chilton planned to set up an investment office in Chengdu. Chilton manages US$6.5 billion in assets from its Stamford, Connecticut headquarters. The fund manager currently manages US$450 million in investments in Asia. Though the company has a ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
A disclaimer for you francophones out there: the title is not mine. At least, the idea for the title is not mine. The allusion came from the lips of a Frenchman on the Hubei government’s website:
“Michel, general manager of Alstom, told reporter [sic] that he likes Wuhan and Hubei culture ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
While in Shanghai last week making my rounds of meetings I had a very pleasant conversation with John Huang, a Project Director over at GIC, Global Intelligence Communications. GIC hosts industry-specific conferences in Beijing and Shanghai. I had co-chaired their conference on "The China Summit for Business Development Leaders" ...
Posted in Xian, Nanjing, Services Outsourcing Trends, China IT Outsourcing, China R&D, China BPO, Hangzhou, Dalian, Chengdu, Chongqing, Tianjin, Suzhou, Qingdao, Wuhan, China Development Trends | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Last week ChinaTechNews (January 23, 2008) announced that “RedHat, one of the leading open source solution providers, has opened a R&D center in China, and Jim Whitehurst, RedHat's newly appointed president and CEO, has arrived in China to unveil the center and release the company's new program, the Open SystemC ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
I really like going out to Jiangning, in Jiangsu Province, a thirty-minute drive south of Nanjing. The half-dozen times I’ve been to Jiangning on site selection projects I always leave the township in a good mood. Must be the Feng Shui. Feng Shui literally means in Chinese language Wind Water: ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
This past Friday, 26 October I was in Shanghai to speak at a China conference on “Setting up and Expanding Manufacturing Operations in Tier 1 Cities”. More than a hundred representatives from manufacturing and real estate sectors attended the session. China Economic Review, Colliers International and Lingang Economic Development Zone ...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
I remember about three years ago in a Suzhou bar three American guys swaggered in off the the street. Clearly, they were out-of-towners. They warmed up the locals to their brand of braggadocio by buying and then sharing a bottle of mid-shelf Scotch. Drinks all round. It wasn’t long before ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
During the summer of 2007 I visited a couple of IT Outsourcing companies to get a feel for how and where in China the industry is developing and how China as a launch-pad is serving their purposes. Satyam, one of the Big 4 Indian Outsourcers, is based just outside Shanghai ...
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
I recently met with representatives of a business development team of a major lighting and consumer electronics manufacturer. The Board of Directors dispatched the Team to develop a projection of what would be the best Chinese cities for the company to invest in over the next five years. The Team ...
Posted in Services Outsourcing Trends, China IT Outsourcing, China BPO, Xian, Wuhan, Chongqing, Chengdu, China Development Trends | 1 Comment »
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
I recently had a charming visit from representatives of Ascendas, a commercial realestate developer. Ms. Ge and Mr. Fan are based out of Shanghai, and traveled into Suzhou to chat about developments of the company throughout Asia. I was already acquainted with Ms. Ge from the AMCHAM Shanghai Conference at ...
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