Zullen wij een van China van de Stad van de Marketing het Raadplegen & van de Investering Bedrijf bouwen?
Beste vrienden,
Het is 3 am in China, maar ik ben sleepless om sommige redenen, is er één idee dat omhoog in mijn mening nu net komt, aangezien ik aan een het ontwikkelingsprojectplan van het Park van de Logistiek voor mijn hometownstad, daarom, ik werk geloof dat het groot is om een van de Stad op te zetten van de Marketing het Raadplegen & van de Investering Bedrijf om de Chinese provincies en de steden te dienen. Wat is uw advies?Ik zoek sommige deskundigen in de volgende gebieden te raadplegen:
- De ontwikkelingsdeskundigen van de stad van Europa (die correct begrip van Europese cultuur, de geschiedenis van Europese steden' ontwikkeling, en enz. hebben. )
- De ontwikkelingsdeskundigen van de stad van Amerika (die correct begrip van Amerikaanse cultuur, de geschiedenis van Amerikaanse steden' ontwikkeling, en enz. hebben. )
- De deskundigen van de de onroerende goederenontwikkeling van de stad (Infrastrutures en commerciële bezitsontwikkeling, en enz.)
- De deskundigen inzake marketing van de stad
- Financier deskundigen, die zich bij het dienen van overheden concentreren (het beleidsontwerp, financiert hulpmiddelenontwerp, correct begrip van het financiënverband tussen de overheid en de markt)
- Gekruide bedrijfsadviseurs/adviseurs
- Deskundigen in politiek
- en etc….
Gelieve te delen u uw gedachten en pientere input? Dank u vooraf.
Vriendelijke groeten,
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.
July 18th, 2008 at 5:30 am
Thanks for the kind reply.
Not all of the Chinese officials are working for money, if the work can help them to achieve some great ideas, I believe that you can get government support as well….. Corruption appeared anywhere along with power, thy are twins; just focus on how to do something which can create values.
July 18th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I am Mr Emmanuel from Ivory Coast. I have been with you people for over one year sharing together with you people. Infact i believe this is the time for me to be in China and see things myself.
Thanks.
Emmanuel Ekeh
July 22nd, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Hi All,
I am very interested in participating in this opportunity. I currently live 50% in California and 50% in Tianjin. I am planning to move to China very soon for long term. I have spent many years in China for work, school, and family.
As we learn more about what we want to achieve out of this with some structure, goals/objectives, and timelines, I would like to contribute my skills and relationships both in the US and China (government sectors) to serve the efforts of this initiative as I really believe it is really needed.
I also have a close friend working on a number of real estate projects for his US firm in China and they continue to expand.
What are the next steps? (B.T.W. I will be in Tianjin within the next two weeks if folks would like to meet)
Best regards,
-Raj
Skype: gavenraj (ping me here)
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:54 am
Hi Kevin :
I can understand what do you think of your business.
It sames a good idea to do like that and have a good market .in fact ,there are lots of problem you will meet .
I am A Chinese people in South of China ,I should tell you the fact .Government is the Goverment in China . Every department is security. you can not contact with the authority as you want. Do you know the people’s congress in China ? it is a congress for the goverment consulting . Every department have their programm department to find out the way to to accomplish their task .
you can offer the sevice to bring more economy sources to China . there is a goverment department called Bureau of Investment Promotion .it is a department which specially in this field .
Thank you for bring more chance to China .
I would like to make friends of you .
would you ?
I am Lucy ,Caroline Lucy
email :caroline_lucy@163.com
or skype account :caroline_lucy
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:15 am
Dear All,
Thank you for your kind reply and some insightful input.
As an initiation stage, actually, I am not wisdom enough to give a very comprehensive/detailed plan for your reference.
Everything has a hard period at the very beginning, word-of-mouth is the best marketing strategy, which means that if we have a real expert/professional team and have done a successful job, then, some of the difficulties will disappear.
Who can be the leader to do this?
Who can be the member to do this?
How to do it from nothing to something?
……
If you only work for money, that will be quite difficult to partner with at the beginning, otherwise, you must have a long-term view of the future.
Whatever, thank all of you once again. Let me know your thoughts and wait for more participators.
Best regards,
Kevin