Michael Wade and Jialu Shan — How China is rebooting retail

Leapfrogging. The Chinese are starting to set the pace. "Innovation" is not just a Xin Jinping Thought slogan.

The Conversation
How China is rebooting retail
Michael Wade, Professor of Innovation and Strategy, Cisco Chair in Digital Business Transformation, IMD Business School, and Jialu Shan, Research Associate at Global Center for Digital Business Transformation, IMD Business School

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Kai-Fu Lee and Jonathan Woetzel — China, the Digital Giant

Retraining the displaced will be a major challenge for China’s government, as will preventing the major digital players from securing innovation-stifling monopolies. But the government’s readiness to embrace the emerging digital age, pursuing supportive policies and avoiding excessive regulation, has already placed the country at a significant advantage.

Digitization also addresses the issue of the economic effect of China's aging population and the one-child policy's affect on replenishing the labor supply.

Project Syndicate
China, the Digital Giant

Kai-Fu Lee, co-founder and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, and Jonathan Woetzel, a McKinsey senior partner and a director of the McKinsey Global Institute

Peter Diamandis — China Is an Entrepreneurial Hotbed That Cannot Be Ignored

During dinner, Kai-Fu lamented that 10 years ago, it would be fair to call Chinese companies copycats of American companies. Five years ago, the claim would be controversial. Today, however, Kai-Fu is clear that claim is entirely false....

SingularityHub
China Is an Entrepreneurial Hotbed That Cannot Be Ignored

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