Archive for the ‘China Development Trends’ Category
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
A couple weeks ago while in Hangzhou I had an enlightening conversation with the British manager of a business process outsourcing company based in Hangzhou. The company has been supporting the back office operations of Western financial services companies for the past five years. They were just now looking to ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Last week I chipped in two hundred RMB for a birthday gift for an expat in Suzhou, Jeff, a British fellow who’s lived in the city for about 10 years. The idea was for a bunch of us that live in Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) – to the east of ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
A few days ago I spoke in Hangzhou on the development of China’s IT- and Business Process Outsourcing industries. The day before the conference I decided to play tourist in Hangzhou: visit some friends at a hotel in the Hangzhou Economic Development Area – just south of the city center ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
I had the pleasure last week in Suzhou to speak to a group of undergraduate students from New York University Stern School of Business. I have to say it was a great pleasure. I had prepared myself for a group whose participants either fell asleep while I spoke or asked ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
The meltdown of the economy in the United States has been reflecting itself here in China in odd sorts of ways. The downward pressure on the value of the dollar; the housing loan crisis, even who will be the next President of the United States, has been compounded by rising ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai has released its annual Whitepaper, which provides policy makers in China and the United States perspectives, experience and recommendations for improving the regulatory and investment environment across a variety of industries in China.
Check out the section entitled, "Provincial Investment Environment," which is ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
The latest installment of my column "Challenging China" for Eurobiz Magazine came out in the May issue. The article is about dealing with safety issues in China operations. The column starts with this tragic tale and relates others that seem downright surreal:
"A friend building a factory in the deep interior ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
A recent visit to the Philippine island of Cebu and a small discovery there set me to thinking about the course China has set itself to become a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) powerhouse. I had gone on a company trip for team building and other activities to the small subtropical ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
As the warm winds of summer begin to roll in I heat the air a bit more through my speaking engagements in May. Here's a round up of where I'll be and what I'll be talking about. If you're around and are a reader of my blog, please come up ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Paul French doesn’t drink coffee. He figures it’s a waste of time. French is author of Carl Crow – A Tough Old China Hand: The Life, Times and Adventures of an American in Shanghai . “We don’t really drink coffee, do we?” the tall British author continued, “We smell it.” ...
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