Learning, access, perspective

Programs

Designed experiences for executives, institutions, and teams that want a practical connection to China’s business reality.

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An executive group visiting a China innovation laboratory
Designed access Enterprise and team experiences built around a clear objective
China Innovation Journey: Beijing & Shanghai
Currently available

Executive journey / curated business immersion

China Innovation Journey: Beijing & Shanghai

A two-city lens on China’s strategic platforms, technology ecosystems, consumer brands, and global-market expression.

Program route

  • Beijing: strategic context, technology platforms, policy and innovation logic
  • Shanghai: brands, consumption, global taste and market-facing execution
  • Curated meetings, facilitated context, and cultural anchors around the business question

Outputs

  • Objective-led itinerary and access plan
  • Pre-visit briefing and participant preparation
  • Onsite coordination, interpretation, and context translation
  • Post-visit reflection and action summary
Boundary: Access to named companies, executives, and venues is subject to confirmation, scheduling, and host approval.
China Innovation Journey: Greater Bay Area
Currently available

Executive journey / manufacturing-to-innovation route

China Innovation Journey: Greater Bay Area

A Guangzhou–Dongguan–Shenzhen route connecting manufacturing depth, product development, hardware, logistics, and the innovation ecosystem.

Program route

  • Guangzhou: trade, commercial history, and regional business context
  • Dongguan: manufacturing systems, product development, and industrial scale
  • Shenzhen: hardware, technology, venture logic, and global productization

Outputs

  • Theme-led route and meeting sequence
  • Enterprise-visit preparation and access coordination
  • Bilingual onsite communication support where agreed
  • Participant notes and next-step synthesis
Boundary: Company access, itinerary timing, transport, accommodation, and third-party fees are confirmed case by case.
China Sourcing Beyond Price
Assessment required

Executive lecture / workshop / academic case session

China Sourcing Beyond Price

A practical management framework for sourcing decisions: reduce uncertainty on both sides instead of treating China sourcing as a price comparison.

Program route

  • Supplier verification: identity, claims, samples, visits, trial orders, behaviour
  • OEM/ODM responsibility, quality gates, compliance, and cost/China+1 decisions
  • Cross-cultural translation between production reality and buyer governance

Outputs

  • Audience-specific session architecture
  • Case-based slides, discussion prompts, and exercises
  • Executive decision framework or workshop summary
  • Optional follow-up advisory path
Boundary: The session provides a framework and discussion; it is not a supplier list, due-diligence report, or project execution service.
Enterprise Business Visit Program Design
Currently available

Custom enterprise / MBA / professional-group program

Enterprise Business Visit Program Design

A plannable team experience built around an industry question, with clustered geography, company visits, logistics coordination, and learning outputs.

Program route

  • Define the learning or commercial objective before choosing destinations
  • Cluster visits by geography to protect participant time and discussion quality
  • Combine enterprise access, supply-chain observation, cultural context, and reflection

Outputs

  • Program brief, participant profile, and learning objectives
  • Theme-led itinerary with responsibilities and contingencies
  • Visit, interpretation, transport, and onsite coordination plan
  • Group debrief, action notes, or final globalization plan where agreed
Boundary: This is a group or enterprise program. It is different from Custom Projects’ customer-specific business-visit execution.

Custom Business Visits vs Business Visit Programs

Custom Projects are customer-specific execution: individual objectives, selected factories or partners, meetings, interpretation, and onsite coordination. Programs are plannable enterprise or team experiences with a theme, learning objective, itinerary logic, and group format.

What we confirm before delivery

Audience, objective, format, dates, locations, language, access requirements, speakers or hosts, travel and third-party responsibilities, and the expected output.

Build a program around the objective

Send the group profile, purpose, preferred timing, and China themes you want participants to understand.

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