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China business intelligence. Insight and expertise from decades of global consulting experience. It's more than a different language. Culture is important. Is China a threat or an opportunity for your company? The China Business podcast is an English-language podcast that shares insight and experiences from years of on-the-ground experience working with hundreds of companies - large and small - in China.

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China M&A – An interview with Dr. Kim Woodard (part 3)

Download this podcast Length – 16:50 Download audio file (20091106_kim_woodard_pt3.mp3) OK … we are on to Part 3 of our interview with the newest addition to the Technomic Asia team, Kim Woodard. In this section, we get down into the nitty-gritty of doing deals in China. Enjoy! ...

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[ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:44:41 +0000 ]

China M&A – An interview with Dr. Kim Woodard (part 2)

Download this podcast Length – 17:54 Download audio file (20091102_kim_woodard_pt2.mp3) We are in the middle of a Podcast interview with Dr. Kim Woodard, the newest addition to the Technomic Asia team here in Shanghai. Kim’s background includes setting up A.T. Kearney in the early days of China business and running his own boutique M&A consulting firm. We brought [...]...

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[ Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:58:56 +0000 ]

China M&A – An Interview with Dr. Kim Woodard (part 1)

Download this podcast Length – 17:03 Download audio file (20091028_kim_woodard_pt1.mp3) Unless you have been living in a hole or the dark side of the moon for the past year, your life has somehow been impacted by the global economic slowdown. You, a friend or a family member have lost a job; your municipal budgets are being cut; heck, [...]...

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[ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:24:09 +0000 ]

Life in China IS Reality TV

Download this podcast Length – 6:14 Download audio file (20091025_china_reality_show.mp3) I woke up this morning with two words running through my head: “Reality TV”. Kind of a scary thought, huh? But what got me thinking about Reality TV is not the content, per se, but the business model: find a bunch of people, average schlubs, and film them [...]...

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[ Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:01:08 +0000 ]

Seeing China’s Potential – Part 2 of an Interview with Sayed Jafry of ThermoFisher Scientific

Download this podcast Length – 15:22 Download audio file (20091016_syed_jafy_pt2.mp3) Last week I posted the first part of an interview with Sayed Jafry of ThermoFisher where we discussed their decision to located the global headquarters for their environmental division in China. Even though China is not currently a big part of their business, ThermoFisher management thinks that this [...]...

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[ Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:46:21 +0000 ]

Seeing China’s Potential – An interview with Syed Jafry of ThermoFisher Scientific (part 1)

Download this podcast Length – 14:38 Download audio file (20091014_syed_jafy_pt1.mp3) Those of you who are long-time listeners to the China Business Podcast have heard us talk, endlessly, about ways that companies need to be looking at the potential opportunities in China, not just the actual ones … to look not only at the present, but the future of [...]...

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[ Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:51:57 +0000 ]

Don’t make me disobey my mother … China should be a top priority for 2010

Download this podcast Length – 4:16 Download audio file (20091009_china_top_2010.mp3) My mother told me that its not polite to say “I told you so”, but I can’t help it. From the start of the global economic crisis last year, we’ve been blogging and Podcasting like maniacs saying, “Yea … I know it is rough out there. But China [...]...

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[ Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:40:06 +0000 ]

Health Care Insurance in China, Really?

Download this podcast Length – 15:40 Download audio file (20091002_china_healthcare3.mp3) In the past couple of Podcasts, we’ve been talking about healthcare in China and, specifically, about the potential opportunities that this might represent for foreign companies doing business in China. The rallying cry here in China these days comes under the heading of “yi1 gai3”, literally “healthcare [...]...

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[ Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:59:25 +0000 ]

In China A Name Means Something

Download this podcastLength – 7:39Download audio file (20090905_name.mp3)The scholar Confucius was an interesting guy … he was also a bit of a worry-wart. Certainly, there was a lot to be worried about … Kingdoms were fighting Kingdoms, people were starving, there was a general lack of education across the land. And the rulers [...]...

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[ Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:08:15 +0000 ]

China Health Care: The Land of Opportunity

Download this podcastDownload audio file (20090830_healthcare2.mp3)In a country this big there are plenty of sick people. Combine hundreds of millions of sick people, with less than 1,200 hospitals capable of providing comprehensive care, by that I mean best physicians, technicians, and staffing, which are called Grade 3 hosptials, and you have the world’s largest [...]...

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[ Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:04:41 +0000 ]

China Healthcare … and you think the U.S. has problems??

Download this podcastDownload audio file (20090807_china_healthcare1.mp3)I have been living and/or working in China for over 20 years and have been witness to one of the world’s most amazing phenomena … the aging of the population. Why is that so amazing in China? Well, just 50 years ago the life expectancy of the average [...]...

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[ Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:31:10 +0000 ]

China Has Gone Mainstream, But US Business Still Gets Excited

Download this podcastDownload audio file (20090703_nothing.mp3)Those of you who are regular consumers of this Podcast and associated blog may have noticed that I have been unusually quiet as of late. In fact, I’ve gotten email messages asking if I was alright. Was I sick? Did I break my fingers or lose my [...]...

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[ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:39:13 +0000 ]

Continuous Market Entry Never Ends in China

Download this podcastDownload audio file (20090629_market_entry.mp3)Nearly 18 months ago, I wrote an article for the British Chamber of Commerce in Guangzhou called “Continuous Market Entry”. A client of ours found that article and called to talk to me about it. It had been awhile since I looked at it so I did a [...]...

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[ Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:53:35 +0000 ]

China’s M&A Market, Like a Ride on Disney’s Space Mountain

Download this podcastDownload audio file (20090621_manda.mp3)I’m speaking this week at the Sixth Annual GIC Mergers and Acquisition Summit, the title of my presentation is Deal Cultivation – Keys to Success in Making Acquisitions in China. The M&A process in China is much different than in the United States. Understanding this difference will reduce [...]...

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[ Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:34:36 +0000 ]

Mergers and Acquisitions in China: Not a Quick Wedding

Steve Ganster Keynotes Deal Cultivation at China M & A ConferenceShanghai, China, June 21, 2009 – Steve Ganster, Executive Director of Technomic Asia, will highlight the opportunities and challenges of mergers and acquisitions in China at the GIC sixth annual Mergers and Acquisitions Summit held in Shanghai on June 25. Ganster says [...]...

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[ Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:25:32 +0000 ]

Mergers and Acquisitions in China: Not a Quick Wedding

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[ Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:25:32 +0000 ]

Remember the regulators

Download this podcastDownload audio file (20090503_regulators.mp3)China’s rapid development in the past 15 years can leave one feeling a bit dizzy. My first time in Shanghai in the late 80s – in town for an escape from the small central China city where I was living and teaching – was heady enough. There were only 10 [...]...

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[ Sun, 03 May 2009 00:16:04 +0000 ]

China’s Economy is improving. My kids told me so

Teenage Attitude IndexDownload this podcastDownload audio file (20090421_tai.mp3)Every market prognosticator worth his/her/its salt is in constant search-mode for “leading indicators” – data points that show us which way the markets are shifting and where trends will be moving before they actually become trends. The easiest (and most used) are probably the ones everyone knows: GDP, [...]...

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[ Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:08:57 +0000 ]

Deep Thoughts from the Beach

No More Vacations For Me Download this podcast Download audio file (20090403_deep_thoughts.mp3) Sheesh … can’t a guy get away for holiday without the world falling apart?? I go for 10 days of sun, sand and minimal Internet and come back to find the world upside down. AIG needs more money (to fund bonuses? foreign banks? Liddy’s baseball card [...]...

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[ Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:17:48 +0000 ]

A Stimulus Package that Stimulates?

Follow the Money, Most of it Will Stimulate Download this podcast Download audio file (20090331_stimulus.mp3) There has been a lot of press, not to mention moaning and groaning, about stimulus packages in the last few months. Many countries have put forth their genius to turn their economies around…but we haven’t seen much fruit yet to be sure, [...]...

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[ Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:13:29 +0000 ]

Making sense out of China for US business school students

Eye Opening and Life Changing - ChinaSense Trips for US Business School Students Download this podcast Download audio file (20090228_jenny_kent.mp3) The world is a very large place if you get outside your comfort zone and experience it. That’s easy for me to say, I first set foot in China when I was 20. It was a very different [...]...

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[ Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:24:10 +0000 ]

“On the Frontlines: Doing Business in China” provides keys to harnessing China’s power as a strategic business destination for Western companies

The Atlantic’s James Fallows hosts and the New York Times’ Joe Nocera offers commentary and analysis throughout the video series Despite the global downturn, China still offers an economy that’s growing, with predictions for growth ranging from about 7 percent to 9 percent in 2009, stimulated by significant government investment. As such, China will remain a [...]...

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[ Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:00:01 +0000 ]

China M&A: How to mess up a deal, possibly wrecking both your company and your career

“So, Kent, how would we really mess this one up?” Download this podcast Download audio file (20090203_how_to_mess_up_a_deal.mp3) Full transcript of today’s podcast: In a recent Podcast, I talked about how we at Technomic Asia think that many sectors in China today are in a “pre-consolidation” phase where, we believe, that we are going to see a lot of the [...]...

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[ Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:45:07 +0000 ]

Supplier guanxi management

Over on his “Go Go Go! Supply Chain” blog, Jim Tompkins of Tompkins Associates writes about building strong relationships as the key to successful supplier relationship management, especially in China, which Tompkins calls “North America’s preferred overseas destination for low-cost sourcing.” He writes: [T]he most significant part of Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) — the actual Relationship — [...]...

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[ Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:10:30 +0000 ]

Things that go around again

Question: Can you pull out of the biggest financial freefall in modern history by encouraging your people to go shopping? The recent Republican administration in the U.S. tried to do this with their rebate checks of 2008, encouraging people to go spend on feel-good stuff to wipe away the icky sensation that we were circling [...]...

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[ Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:38:06 +0000 ]

Out with old, in with the … ???

I woke up this morning thinking about capitalism. I know…heady stuff for a Monday morning. First thoughts Monday morning should be limited to pondering which texture of socks to wear that day (the color, black, is a given). Wednesday or Thursday is when the brain has fully recovered from Weekend Mode and can handle the [...]...

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[ Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:20:02 +0000 ]

Top 20 reasons to love China

For two decades, the good folks back in the USA have asked me: “What is so great about China?” It’s a fair question, I suppose, coming, as it does, from a people who struggle to locate Seattle on the map. Still, I am a little tired of their pestering me. The time has come to [...]...

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[ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:46:03 +0000 ]

Why China matters, part 2

Why China Matters - Part 2 Today’s podcast features Steve Ganster, managing director of Technomic Asia. Kent’s not gone — just sharing the spotlight. Download this podcast Download audio file (20081215_china_matters_2.mp3) A full transcript: I wanted to take a few minutes to lift our thinking out of the chaos and calamitous scenarios bombarding us in the news today to revisit [...]...

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[ Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:13:23 +0000 ]

Why China matters, part 2

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[ Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:13:23 +0000 ]

Talking monkey

Talking monkey Download this podcast Download audio file (20081204_talking_monkey.mp3) A common question among the foreign community in China is “Do you speak Chinese?” Well, my answer is yes, but with a somewhat metaphysical qualification. Yes, I speak Chinese, however I’m unsure that when I do that I am really “me” — or even human. Because to the non-philosophy [...]...

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[ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:33:53 +0000 ]

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