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Door David Dayton

„Het gaan naar China is“ mantra van de bedrijfswereld geworden. U kijkt het Oosten. U hebt uw thuiswerk met AmCham (Amerikaanse Kamer van Koophandel In China), op Internet, met andere „Handen van China“ en in uw industrie gedaan. U hebt uw „perfecte leverancier“ online gevonden, vond zelfs een tweede fabriek als veiligheidskopie. U hebt een groot bod op uw product. De beelden van de fabriek kijken groot, zijn de steekproeven precies wat u wilt, en de telefoongesprekken met verkooprep, terwijl misschien een weinig beperkt, zijn nuttig geweest. U bent opgewekt. Lees de rest van „het Werken met Chinese Fabrieken - Deel II: Qualifying Your Overseas Supplier” or post a comment

One of the trends inherent to the economic growth in China, is the fact that more and more people are taking Chinese language classes. The best way to do that? Go to China and talk to Sally Zhang. She works as Program Director at the Chinese Language Education organization in Beijing. Conveniently located in the middle of Beijing’s business center.

Beijing is home to most of her students. “At this moment, we are teaching Chinese to 82 students. Mostly Westerners, but also people coming from Japan and Korea. The continuously increasing amount of students can to a degree be explained, by the steadily increasing number of foreign companies in China. A few years ago, there was only the Chinese bank, nowadays I have five students who work for foreign banks operating in China. These financial professionals need to be able to read newspapers and documents in English as well as in Chinese. Fortunately for them, they work at companies where English is, at this point in time, the most common language.”

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By Donny Huang

In 2005 numerous public relationship crisises have haunted multinationals operating in China. Big brands such as P&G, Nestle, KFC, Johnson & Johnson, and Sony have suffered severe damage to their brands’ reputation. An analysis of the underlying reason for the problems encountered shows that they are due to a fundamental misunderstanding of the intricacies of Chinese culture on business. This reaches far deeper than most people think. Read the rest of “Mentality, Mindset, Mianzi - How to Avoid a Crisis” or post a comment

By David Dayton

Once again, I’m in a factory working through production issues that would be impossible to solve over the phone, with email, or even with photographs. What’s the issue this time? Among other things, my primary task this trip is to define the factory’s actual capabilities compared with the overly-optimistic sales pitches presented in their brochures. Qualifying a factory is definitely something that you can’t do from across the globe or even from a great distance within the same country! Read the rest of “Working With Chinese Factories - Part I: The Initial Visit” or post a comment