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Haier CEO Zhang Ruimin: Challenge Yourself, Overcome Yourself

October 7, 2015 By Neelima Mahajan

Over the past 30 years Haier CEO Zhang Ruimin has led the company through several path-breaking business model changes, which have helped the company build a strong brand, grow both organically and through acquisitions, globalize and “get close to the customer”. Zhang is now leading the company through yet another transformation to make it what he calls an “internet-based platform company” made up of extremely responsive micro-enterprises. For the closest parallel, think of a Silicon Valley within a company. In this rare interview, he talks about his management philosophy.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, C-Suite Interview, Conversations, Management, Strategy Tagged With: Business Model Innovation, Haier, Leadership, Slider, Structural Reform, Zhang Ruimin

Scott Anthony on Limiting the Risks of Innovation

July 8, 2015 By Bennett Voyles

Innovation expert Scott Anthony talks about the challenges of the ‘first mile’ where an innovation moves from an idea to reality.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Conversations, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Q&A Tagged With: Business Model Innovation, Innovation, Risk, Slider, Start-ups

Xiaomi’s Mission Impossible?

April 28, 2015 By Chris Russell

Having conquered China’s smartphone market, Xiaomi now wants to take over your living room—and the world

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Digital Economy, Innovation, Strategy, Technology Tagged With: Apple, Business Model Innovation, Internet of Things, Lenovo, Marketing, Patents, Slider, Smartphone, Xiaomi

How CEO Zhang Ruimin Reinvented Haier – Three Times Over

September 2, 2014 By Neelima Mahajan

Bill Fischer, author of Reinventing Giants, on how CEO Zhang Ruimin transformed Haier from a lumbering giant into the world’s largest white goods manufacturer—and a world-class brand. China has never been at the forefront of management innovation. Whenever you talk of management innovation, the companies that come to mind are GE, Procter and Gamble, Whole […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Branding, Conversations, Innovation, Management, Q&A, Strategy, Videos Tagged With: Business Model Innovation, Chinese Company, GE, Haier, Leadership, Management, Manufacturing, Quality Control, Slider

Beyond Profits: China’s Social Entrepreneurs

July 3, 2012 By Kay Park

Philanthropy, Strategic Philanthropy

A new breed of entrepreneurs takes on China’s most vexing problems

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, Entrepreneurship, Know China, Social Entrepreneurship Tagged With: Business Model Innovation, Liao Jianwen, Liu Zhifeng, Mong Grass, Social Entrepreneurs, Social Innovation, Social Ventures, Spring Mountain, Wang Zhaoming

Liao Jianwen on Social Innovation

May 12, 2012 By Michele Scrimenti

In recent years, a handful of Chinese entrepreneurs have set up companies that use legitimate business models to tackle some of the country’s most vexing problems — and also turn in a profit. As these early experiments show, social innovation — or using business models to solve social and environmental problems — requires a fundamentally […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, CSR, Know China, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Good, Videos Tagged With: Business Model Innovation, Liu Zhifeng, Social Entrepreneurs, Social Innovation, Social Ventures, Spring Mountain

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