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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Download this podcast Length – 7:39 Download 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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Download this podcast Download 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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Download this podcast Download 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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Download this podcast Download 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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Download this podcast Download 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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Download this podcast Download 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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Steve Ganster Keynotes Deal Cultivation at China M & A Conference Shanghai, 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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Download this podcast Download 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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Teenage Attitude Index Download this podcast Download 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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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