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Providing it can avoid the perils of geopolitics, Chinese electric vehicle battery maker CATL has all the ingredients necessary to become a world-beating multinational, says IMD Professor of Innovation and Strategy Mark Greeven.

The biggest risk of all is not engaging with China for the sake of innovation, sustainability, strategy, and understanding.

By engaging with local start-ups that understand customers’ pain points, Western multinationals can provide innovative products and services for the Chinese market. China represents a huge growth market for many companies. Yet many Western multina…

China’s retail revolution draws on convenience and technology to fulfil customer needs in innovative ways.

By putting the consumer’s needs at the center, China’s retail companies have rethought the value chain and reinvent the retail model, delivering a greater and more relevant retail experience to consumers, argued Mark Greeven, IMD’s Professor of In…

The level of complexity and uncertainty in today’s global economy, and even within our own organizations, can feel overwhelming. Learning to create and orchestrate ecosystems can help.

In 2020, China’s online sales amounted to RMB11.8 trillion (US$1.8 trillion). That’s more than the US and Europe’s combined, and a 10.8% increase over 2019. The lens for consumer trends is hovering over China where previously it was over the US. S…

Last year was a bad one for retail; more retail stores closed than in any year prior in recent times. As a result, iconic fashion labels Forever 21 and luxury chain Barneys New York fronted a long queue of renowned retailers filing for bankruptcy….

As China – despite the disruption caused by the virus – celebrates the dawning of a new decade, many people are asking: what will the world’s second largest economy bring to – not to mention take from – the world in the coming months? Some trends …

A business ecosystem is an innovative way of organizing and is not only found in pioneering Silicon Valley giants. In fact, we find the best examples of business ecosystems at the other side of the world: China. It is the rapidly emerging Chinese …