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Yihaodian Chairman Gang Yu on Crafting a Sophisticated e-Commerce Strategy

November 27, 2012 By Neelima Mahajan

Yihaodian Chairman Gang Yu on Crafting a Sophisticated e-Commerce Strategy

Some time in the middle of last year, subway commuters in Beijing and Shanghai stumbled across an interesting experiment–the walls of select stations had been turned into virtual supermarkets by Yihaodian, a Chinese online supermarket. All a commuter had to do was scan the QR codes of whatever he needed on the ‘virtual supermarket aisles’ […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, C-Suite Interview, Consumers, Conversations, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Innovation, Marketing, Videos Tagged With: E-Commerce in China, Gang Yu, Retail, Virtual Supermarkets, Yihaodian

Yihaodian Chairman Gang Yu on e-Commerce in China

November 27, 2012 By Neelima Mahajan

Yihaodian Chairman Gang Yu on e-Commerce in China

At last count, China had nearly 538 million internet users–a number that is growing everyday. Out of these 538 million, 194 million have shopped online. And this number is also growing everyday. As a result, e-commerce is one of the hottest sectors in China right now. The Chinese customer is demanding–and unforgiving–and competition between players […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, C-Suite Interview, Consumers, Conversations, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Innovation, Know China, Marketing, Retail, Supply Chain, Videos Tagged With: E-Commerce in China, Gang Yu, Yihaodian

Henry Chesbrough on the Future of Open Innovation

November 21, 2012 By Neelima Mahajan

Henry Chesbrough on the Future of Open Innovation

Innovation communities will push the boundaries of Open Innovation, says Henry Chesbrough, the proponent of this revolutionary idea in management.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, China, Conversations, ExpertSpeak, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Management, The Thinker Interview Tagged With: Ecoimagination, GE, Henry Chesbrough, InnoCentive, Innovation Communities, Intellectual Ventures, Lenovo, Open Innovation, Procter & Gamble, Slider

China’s Craigslist Wannabes

November 12, 2012 By Yan Ruiying and Wang Fanfan

China’s Craigslist Wannabes

Three erstwhile copycats innovate through trial and error, to fight the fierce war over online classifieds market A few years back Ren Jinglei, a university student interning at an IT company in Beijing, decided to buy a bicycle to ease his commute to the office. Like an increasing number of Chinese people, Ren prefers to […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, Consumers, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Technology Tagged With: 58.com, Baixing.com, Craigslist, Ganji.com, Slider, Taobao

Taking the Hard Road: Chinese automaker BYD tries to innovate

November 5, 2012 By Bradley Gardner

Taking the Hard Road: Chinese automaker BYD tries to innovate

  Chinese car maker BYD is finding it tough to shift from imitation to innovation. It used to take a cheeky sense of pride in copying, then beating much bigger rivals. Low costs and imitation made BYD one of China’s top five carmakers in an incredibly short space of time, even inviting a high-profile $232-million […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Automobile Industry, Best Practice, Branding, Innovation, Know China, Strategy Tagged With: BYD, Geely, Imitation, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Slider

The Future of Work: Hello robot, goodbye worker

May 31, 2012 By Bennett Voyles

The Future of Work: Hello robot, goodbye worker

How will the progress of IT and automation change the future of work? In 1988, Harvard Business School Professor Shoshana Zuboff predicted that the working world was on the verge of a revolution in which many jobs would be “informated”-automated and computerized in ways that would greatly extend human capacities even as it dumbs-down the […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Connections, Digital Economy, Emerging Economies, Employment, Finance, Innovation, Know China, Manufacturing, Technology Tagged With: Automation, Foxconn, Hal Varian, Internet of Things, Labor, Manufacturing, Robotics

Innovation with Chinese characteristics

January 18, 2012 By Christopher Beam

Around the world, the October death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was a collective moment of mourning, admiration, and reflection. In China, another element was added to the mix: self-flagellation. Why, lamented many commentators, has China failed to produce its own Steve Jobs? Former Google China chief Kai-Fu Lee, writing on Sina Weibo, blamed an […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, Chinese Economy, Innovation, Know China, Manufacturing, Strategy, Technology Tagged With: Apple, Education, Huawei, Steve Jobs, Technology

Innovation in China: still awaiting transformative leaders

June 24, 2010 By CKGSB Knowledge

Innovation accounts for a sizable portion of economy-wide growth in productivity, especially in high-income countries. According to the 2011 World Intellectual Property Report ‘the Changing Face of Innovation’ recently released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), innovation-driven growth is no longer the prerogative of high-income countries alone. Low and middle-income economies including China have […]

Filed Under: 2010, All Articles, Best Practice, Chinese Economy, Innovation, Management, Policy and Law, Strategy Tagged With: R&D, World Economic Forum

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