From one of my standard talks in 2018 (since retired). This is about bike-sharing, mobility and super-apps. Video below and Youtube link is here. Part 1: What is the Engine of Chinese Bike-Sharing? Part 2: Give Consumers Exactly What They Want Part 3: In Digital China, Re-Imagine Operations ASAP Part 4: In Digital China, Get […]
From one of my standard talks in 2018. This is about bike-sharing and re-imaging operations. Video is below and Youtube link is here. Part 1: What is the Engine of Chinese Bike-Sharing? Part 2: Give Consumers Exactly What They Want Part 3: In Digital China, Re-Imagine Operations ASAP Part 4: In Digital China, Get Ready […]
Bike-sharing in China is a great example about how digital tools can have a big impact on fairly simple businesses. Mostly by increasing convenience and giving consumers what they really want. From a talk I gave in Singapore in 2018. Video is below and Youtube link is here. Part 1: What is the Engine of […]
From one of my standard talks on digital China. Given in Singapore in 2018. Video is below and Youtube link is here. Part 1: What is the Engine of Chinese Bike-Sharing? Part 2: Give Consumers Exactly What They Want Part 3: In Digital China, Re-Imagine Operations ASAP Part 4: In Digital China, Get Ready for […]
In Part 1 (here), I laid out how Alibaba has evolved in China. It was for a retail marketplace, but you can see a similar pattern in many of China’s digital giants. The next phase in this evolution is “new retail”, and it is changing this pattern in a big way (coming in Part 3). […]
China’s digital giants are going international. Sort of. Asia is viewed as a strategic requirement by many (Alibaba, JD). So we see a lot of moves there (Alibaba acquired Lazada). Payments (Alipay) and hotel bookings (Ctrip) are following Chinese tourists abroad. So they are going pretty much everywhere. For example, Ant Financial recently tried to […]
My latest video on China’s sharing economy. Shot in Thailand. Link here. Music is: Sunburst by Tobu & Itro https://soundcloud.com/7obu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/… ———-
在过去三个月中，我在传统企业（保险公司、医院、化工企业和快递公司）做了多场演讲，主题涉及数字化在中国的进程。在这些演讲中，我将我的主题归纳为中国数字化转型和颠覆的三条规则，具体如下。
在第一部分里，我阐述了中国几家数字巨头企业（美团、携程和阿里巴巴）为何在近期先后进军网约车市场的原因。在接下来这一部分里，我将为以下问题寻找最佳答案：
过去几个月以来，中国的几家数字巨头企业先后闯入了网约车市场。这让人颇感意外，因为随着优步的退出，中国网约车市场必定将呈现出滴滴出行一家独大的局面。并且，我认为滴滴也抱有同样想法，因为它们目前正集中精力开拓国际市场。通常来说，只有在赢得中国市场后企业才会这么做。