All Roads Lead to China:

Over time, there are few things more important (and perhaps less appreciated) than a good old fashioned system that operates well.  Systems are something that anyone in supply chain, economics, or general management can appreciate (when running well), and in China where everything is about large numbers, the need for processes is unquestionable. That, for [...]

Over the years, there have been more than a few articles on China’s interest, or lacking interest, in developing domestic innovation and IP in the commercial sector, and China’s use of soft power, or failing to use its soft power, to promote the best interests of the state. And while these issues are rarely tied [...]

I guess it is only fitting that this become one of the last hot questions to be pondered in the public domain these days.  After all, there is a cleantech war underway (which China is winning), there is talk that the world needs to move away from the USD, and the Moody’s of China saw [...]

After about a year of planing, designing, procrastinating… and more procrastinating… I am happy to release the newest All Roads Lead to China. Still only about 95% complete, I hope that the new design and functionality will help readers make your way through the 3+ years of posts, city reports, maps, and resources that have [...]

A few weeks back I was asked to speak at the BMW Europe Asian Young Leaders Forum on “How do cities organize communal life and maintain social harmony? What can business contribute to these processes?”  It was the week after EXPO, and everyone was in Harmonious society mode, but in developing what I thought were [...]