costruire la Cina City Marketing Consulting & Investment Company?
Cari amici,
È 3 in Cina, ma sono sleepless per alcuni motivi, ci è un'idea che viene in su nella mia mente ora, poiché sto lavorando ad un programma di progetto di sviluppo del parco di logistica per la mia città de hometown, quindi, credo che sia grande da installare una città Marketing Consulting & Investment Company per servire le province e le città cinesi. Che cosa è il vostro parere?Sto cercando alcuni esperti per consultarmi nelle seguenti zone:
- Esperti di Europa (chi di sviluppo della città hanno la comprensione del suono della coltura europea, la storia sviluppo delle città europee' ed ecc. )
- Esperti dell'America (chi di sviluppo della città hanno la comprensione del suono della coltura americana, la storia sviluppo delle città americane' ed ecc. )
- Sviluppo di bene immobile della città sviluppo degli esperti (Infrastrutures e proprietà commerciale ed ecc.)
- Esperti di vendita della città
- Gli esperti di finanza, che stanno mettendo a fuoco sui governi del serving (disegno di politica, attrezzi di finanza progettano, la comprensione sana del rapporto di finanza fra il governo ed il mercato)
- Consulenti di gestione/consiglieri Seasoned
- Esperti nelle politiche
- ed ecc…
Ripartireste prego i vostri pensieri ed input insightful? Grazie in anticipo.
Riguardi migliori,
Kevin
July 9th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Hello Kevin,
From your post, I think your idea is to be some kind of bridge/consultant for Chinese entrepreneurs and businesses in various cities who are interested in doing business/investment into foreign markets (EU, UK, US,) etc. is that right>?
That has a lot of merit, if your focus is on 2nd-tier cities. This is already well established in Shanghai and Beijing - but not elsewhere. Many Chinese are looking to expand OUT of China, but just don’t know how to best do that.
Regards,
July 9th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Kevin - as an Englishman living in China for the past 5 years, I am interested in your thought process. What I would like to understand more are the specifics of your idea - what is the main advantage of what you are planning? Who are you looking to sell the service to? Why should they seek this type of advice? If you can let me have some more info, it would be interesting to pursue as we have a consultancy business in the US, which is all about helping US companies succeed in Asia so could be a useful starting point.
Let me have your thoughts and see how we can go from there.
Thanks - David
July 11th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Interested parties can also drop me an email at | FirstKevinWang@gmail.com
Clarification added 4 days ago:
What is the nature of the company?
The company is an business entity, which can be considered as a McKnsey & Company with an unique focus on serving Chinese government, i mean the county governments, city governments and etc.
What are goals?
The aim of the company should be dedicated to help the governments to do development for the local people and cities, which may include how to plan better, how bridge the governement and market, how operate the public projects in a market economy manner.
Main business:
- City branding. Each city needs an exceptional branding strategy as a product. (positioning, planning, proceeding, promotion)
- Think Tank for governements. Act as an independent advisor for the government on macro perspective and micro perspective with international broad view.
- Work as an investment bank to run some infrastructure projects
- Government Governance consulting. (As an independent advisor, it’s more convenient than the officals who are involved in daily operations to say something and to do something - Yes, of course, need to obtain support from the government seniors.)
- And etc.
Where is this company based?
If it’s possible to do this, I am thinking about put this company in Beijing or Shanghai. (Bridge finance, economy, trading, culture, human resources, and central government connections.)
Business model?
The business model can be presented in two ways.
One is that we can position our as a consulting company as commercial advisory firms, and the clientele is different level of governments;
The other one, we can also have some other indirect benefit from other business (however, dun go to “conflicts of interest” easily).
July 16th, 2008 at 2:51 am
Dear Kevin,
I think it is a great idea. One obvious impediment to this project is government contacts and Guanxi. Having said that, it is not that difficult to overcome the problem so long as you partner with someone who’s the relative of the decision maker. Then pitch your case with a clear understanding of how much money will be transfered under the table.
Most of the government contractors are relatives or close friends. This holds true for local, municipal based contracts. For SOE deals they usually go for the largest consultancies which sometimes create more problems than they solve but at least they have “face” whilst using the big names.
July 17th, 2008 at 5:04 am
I like your thinking. I’m in the process of moving to Chengdu (I’m Canadian and living in the U.S. right now), and I’ve had similar thoughts. I’d be happy to give you feedback when you have something new.