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China Initiative

Thrive with China’s ecosystem

China Initiative

Thrive with China’s ecosystem

With our strong intellectual foundation and our extensive experience working with multinational corporations and leading Chinese companies in China, IMD provides increasingly sought-after research, insights, and in-country practice into what it takes to thrive in this complex and important market.

How Chinese companies are reinventing management

by Mark J Greeven, Katherine Xin, and George S Yip, Harvard Business Review, (March–April 2023)

Becoming China-ready

by Mark J Greeven, I by IMD, (7 July 2023)

Why innovators in China stay close to the market

by Neil C Thompson, Didier Bonnet, Mark J Greeven, Wenjing Lyu, and Sarah Jaballah, MIT Sloan Management Review blog, (13 September 2022)

IMD China Company Competitiveness Indicator

Which food and beverage companies in China are the most competitive?

China’s cutthroat retail competition is spurred on by a range of factors from digital advances to changing customer journeys. IMD’s China Company Competitiveness Indicator takes an in-depth look at China’s top food and beverage companies and tracks how likely they are to move toward a new knowledge discipline and competence.

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Featured study

Innovating in Asia in 2023

As Asia’s GDP has grown from 26% to 38% of global GDP over the past two decades, European and American companies have increased their innovation footprint across the region. Based on survey results and interviews with 83 professionals involved in leading or supporting innovation activities in Asia for their companies, the ‘Innovation in Asia’ study examines what companies need to do to maintain their competitive edge.

STUDY

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News Stories

Tesla fends off hot competition from China to lead auto sector in Future Readiness Indicator

Automotive companies that scale capabilities like chipset design and software were found to be more future ready and therefore likely to keep growing.

16 May 2023

News Stories

China and US pursuing markedly different digital transformations

The US and China are pursuing radically divergent strategies for digital transformation across business, government and society, the latest digital research from the IMD World Competitiveness Center (WCC) has revealed.

29 September 2021

News Stories

Europe dominates, China rises, and the US remains stable in 2021 World Competitiveness Ranking

Western European countries lead in the 2021 rankings, reflecting the resilience of economies in the face of the global COVID-19 health crisis.

17 June 2021

Case Study

Transforming Geely: From fridges to motorcycles to EVs … to?

The case is about the continuous entrepreneurial transformation, over two decades, of a company in terms of increasingly advanced technologies and international product markets. It describes how Geely, a leading player in the global automotive ind…

By Mark J. Greeven, Patrick Reinmoeller, Lisa Simone Duke and Wei Wei

17 March 2022

Case Study

CATL: Global battery supremacy

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL) was founded in 1999 under the name ATL. Initially, it had no technology of its own, and the founder, Zeng Yuqun, traveled to the US and acquired a patent for a lithium-ion polymer (LiPo) battery from B…

By Mark J. Greeven, Yunfei Feng and Patrick Reinmoeller

17 February 2022

Case Study

Youhualin: Digitizing the supply chain in China

Youhualin, a Chinese technology company driven by operations research, artificial intelligence and big data technology, provides intelligent decision-making solutions to help companies optimize operational issues that have been persistent pain poi…

By Mark J. Greeven, Patrick Reinmoeller, Yunfei Feng and Erik Walenza-Slabe

20 January 2022

Research

We develop cutting edge research on Chinese companies and on China’s role in the world.

Insights

Discover our insights into the latest developments in China and how these may impact your organization’s outlook.

China Indicator

Our China Indicator measures how competitive companies are in the Chinese market, sector by sector.

About

The China initiative provides insight and in-country practice into understanding and thriving in China.