Archive for the ‘Services Outsourcing Trends’ Category
Monday, February 18th, 2008
Just before Spring Festival 2008 Andrew Hupert at China Solved and I had lunch together at Shanghai’s City Diner, across from the Kerry Center on Nanjing Xi Lu. Over steak sandwiches and fries we discussed the effects of China’s over-heated economic development. Many would agree that China has become a ...
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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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Monday, February 11th, 2008
A casual lunch with an old Chinese friend at a Cantonese restaurant in Shanghai started me to thinking more deeply about China and innovation. Susan (not her real name) works for a consultancy that is concentrating on developing infrastructure for companies focusing on IT-related fields, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and ...
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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 ...
Posted in China IT Outsourcing, China BPO, China R&D, Dalian, Qingdao, Chongqing, Chengdu, Wuhan, China Development Trends | 3 Comments »
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" ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
A group of Western engineers and I were sitting around Blue Marlin recently marveling at the low price of the new Indian car by Tata, a mere US$2,500. It’s called the Nano. "The Americans, the Japanese, they all said it couldn't be done, getting a car to the twenty-five hundred ...
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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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