The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business
Originally published in 1982, this classic guide to the inner workings of the strategic thinking process offers provocative insights into the ways that the Japanese think strategically and focuses on helping western business people free up their creative power to improve the odds of creating winning strategic concepts.
Content: Book | Author: Kenichi Ohmae | Subjects: International – Asia, Strategy
How Dragons Can Mutate Into Paper Tigers – Reflection On Face-Saving Management and China
Power dynamics can make an authoritarian system very successful but also vulnerable and insecure. In vying for international prestige Chinese statesmen are pursuing a set of targets they believe will boost the country’s future growth and glory. But there are reputational risks of which all leaders should be aware.
Content: Article | Author: Kai-Alexander Schlevogt | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subject: International – Asia
India – From Emerging to Surging
India’s gross domestic product is growing by an impressive 6 percent a year. But research by the McKinsey Global Institute has uncovered three barriers preventing the country’s GDP from growing even faster: myriad regulations governing products and markets, distortions in the market for land, and widespread government ownership of business. Thirteen policy measures could remove these barriers, allowing the economy to grow by 10 percent … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Amadeo M. Di Lodovico, Shirish Sankhe, Vincent Palmade, William W. Lewis | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Economics, International – Asia
Think State-Owned Companies Are Inefficient? Look at China
For most Western observers, state-owned companies are wasteful white elephants while private enterprise sets the standard for efficiency. A look at China’s large public sector giants, however, tells a different story, according to Wharton management professor Marshall Meyer. Even China’s entry into the World Trade Organization later this year or early in 2002 will not eradicate state ownership of major Chinese companies. Meyer shares the … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: International – Asia
Fighting the State
China entrepreneur Li Yonghui has a harrowing tale to tell: He tried to take over a state-owned enterprise–and paid the price.
Content: Article | Author: Dexter Roberts | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: International – Asia
Hobsons Careers in Asia
Job-hunting advice and details of companies providing graduate career opportunities throughout Southeast Asia and China including training offered, degree subjects required, vacancies, salaries, and case studies of recent graduate recruits.
Content: Career Information | Subject: International – Asia
PC Shipments in Japan
China Mobile Phone Market
Darkness Before The Dawn
Strategist Michael Porter tells why Japan’s economic sun has set, and how it can rise again.
Content: Article | Author: Edward Teach | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Economics, International – Asia
Japanese VC: Small is Beautiful?
Two Funerals and a Wedding? The Family Life of Trading Blocs in East Asia and Asia Pacific
The financial crisis of 1997-98 hit the East Asia and Asia Pacific area hard, especially the primary regional organisations ASEAN and APEC. Perhaps down, but not quite out, a new regional group called ASEAN Plus Three (APT) emerged. Will it succeed where the others have failed? Professor Douglas Webber examines the strengths and weaknesses of these organisations. He also shows how several of the factors … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Douglas Webber | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: International – Asia, Trade
Can Japan Compete?
Not long ago, Japan was considered a competitive powerhouse with exemplary business practices that were admired and often copied, particularly in the West. What went wrong? In a new book, HBS professor Michael Porter and two coauthors take a closer look.
Editor’s Note: read an interview with Porter about this book at
Content: Book | Authors: Hirotaka Takeuchi, Mariko Sakakibara, Michael E. Porter | Subject: International – Asia
IT, ASPs in Singapore
Australian Internet Business Spending
The Art and Practice of Japanese Management
“Japan’s extraordinary postwar industrial success was defined by lean production, consensus and continuous improvement. But lately it has been the country’s perceived weak points, such as lifetime employment and over-regulation, that have come to the forefront of the debate on Japanese management. But new ideas are emerging with the younger, more flexible generation of Japanese managers, which means there will still be plenty for the … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Adrian Wooldridge, John Micklethwait | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: International – Asia, Management