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Freshly Brewed or Overly Roasted?

December 1, 2019 By Mark Andrews

Chinese startup Luckin Coffee is expanding at a breakneck pace. How will Starbucks and other coffee players respond? Starbucks had coffee lovers in China’s main cities wrapped up until Luckin arrived, but is the market big enough and growing fast enough for both and more coffee vendors?

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Branding, China, Consumers, Management, Marketing, Strategy Tagged With: China's Beverage Industry, Coffee War

Changing Tides: The Chinese Management Style Adapts to Modern Times

September 26, 2019 By Colin Peebles Christensen

Illustration: The Chinese management style changing to win in a new era

As China shifts from a manufacturing economy to a knowledge-based economy, will the Chinese management style need to adapt?

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Management, Strategy Tagged With: Business Management, Business Strategy, China's Changing Economy

Ray Williams on How to Make Your Teams More Productive

April 18, 2019 By Bennett Voyles

In his 23 years of executive coaching, Ray Williams, president of Ray Williams Associates in Vancouver, B.C., has advised many executives on how to improve the performance of their teams. He took time out recently for an interview over Skype with CKGSB Knowledge to share his insights on how to make your team more productive, whether they work together in one room or are scattered all over the world.

Filed Under: All Articles, Conversations, ExpertSpeak, Management, Q&A Tagged With: Business Management

Go Team! Understanding and Correcting Team Dysfunction

March 27, 2019 By Bennett Voyles

Many—maybe even most—business teams are dysfunctional. Whether your teammates are co-founders of a startup or the C-suite of a Fortune 500 company, the evidence suggests you are probably not working together as productively as you might. Outsized egos and mis-sized groups are the most frequently cited cause of team dysfunction, but they aren’t the only problem.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Management, Strategy

Go Team! Why Teams Fail and How to Set Them Straight 

March 18, 2019 By Bennett Voyles

Business has always been a team sport, but over the past two decades, teams have become a much more central concern for managers. Pushed by the automation of repetitive tasks and pulled by the need to innovate, many senior executives now believe that their future depends largely on the performance of their teams. But although technology is advancing, people are not. A recent survey among MBA students and degree holders shows that only 29% said that their teams were organized in a way that gave them a three-quarter shot at success.

Filed Under: China, Employment, Management

Big Blue Dances in the Digital Era: An interview with IBM China’s CMO

November 13, 2017 By Liu Sha

Companies are dying fast these days. In the 1950s, the average age of a company on the Standard & Poor’s 500 index was 60 years, now it is less than 20. But International Business Machines (IBM), known as “Big Blue”, seems to be an exception. Over the past few decades, it has managed to keep up as others were dying and has successfully transformed itself. Now it has become a provider of cognitive solutions and cloud services. How has such a giant company managed to transform? Gill Zhou, chief marketing officer of IBM China, offers an answer in this interview with CKGSB Knowledge.

Filed Under: All Articles, C-Suite Interview, Consumers, Conversations, Management, Marketing, Multinationals in China, Technology Tagged With: Branding, IBM, Marketing

Managing Millennials in the Workplace

June 12, 2017 By Bennett Voyles

For most of human history, integrating a new generation into society has been pretty straightforward: The youngsters were shown what needed to be done, they did it as well as they could (or faced serious consequences if they didn’t), and, over time, earned a place for themselves in society. But things are different now. Executives all over the world have reported that they have difficulty not only managing this new generation but even understanding them. These young employees, their managers say, are responding differently from prior generations to everything, from assignments to incentives. Can managers cope with a new generation?

Filed Under: All Articles, Demographics, Employment, Management Tagged With: Demographics, Employment, millennials, Talent Management

How MINISO Became a Mega-Success

May 31, 2017 By Tom Nunlist

While e-commerce giants like Amazon and Alibaba continue to rise, many physical-store retailers are dying off. MINISO is a rare exception, however. Founded in 2013 by Chinese entrepreneur Ye Guofu and Japanese designer Miyake Junya, MINISO has exploded into an emerging business empire with 1,800 stores in 40 countries, delivering an eclectic collection of affordable, curated goods, challenging the physical retail naysayers. What is the key to MINISO’s success? Through careful consideration of the customer and a unique aesthetic, it manages to do what online stores cannot: Deliver an experience.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, C-Suite Interview, China, Management, Retail Tagged With: E-Commerce in China, Miniso, Retail

The End of the Office: Managing Remote Workers and Other Challenges

May 2, 2017 By Bennett Voyles

Management was never easy—“like herding cats,” as the old joke puts it—but in the old days, the cats were at least in the same alley. Today, management may be more challenging still, as executives must lead an ever-changing stream of employees and independent contractors—who may or may not be in the same building or even in the same city—as they navigate through an ever-changing technological landscape, and deliver on objectives that may also shift. So what are the positive and negative aspects of working remotely? How is the employee mindset and the management style of employers affected?

Filed Under: All Articles, Employment, Management Tagged With: Employment, The office series

Innovation the Smart Way, an Interview with Georg Tacke

February 1, 2017 By Tom Nunlist

In our increasingly fast-paced world, there is no room for companies to be complacent. To survive in the competitive marketplace long term, constant product innovation is a basic necessity. However, nearly three-quarters of new products either fall far short of their targets, or fail entirely. Not only that, businesses have become tolerant of this high failure rate to the point where it is treated as a given risk. But Georg Tacke, CEO of the global management and consulting firm Simon-Kucher & Partners, disagrees with this assumption and thinks the failing might be the result of a homegrown issue—from the initial design to end marketing.

Filed Under: All Articles, Conversations, Innovation, Management, Q&A Tagged With: Conversation, product design, Q&A

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