4th Dean’s CEO Forum
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- Category: On The Campus
- Published: Monday, 16 June 2014 14:51
Theme: Small Company, Big Opportunities
– How SMEs Seize New Opportunities by Cooperating with Big Corporations
In 2014, situations for Chinese SMEs do not seem good and a lot of them stopped production and went into bankruptcy. Chinese National Commerce Department indicates that the total profit ratio for SMEs is below 3% and its development speed falls far behind large enterprises. This leads to huge pressure facing exporting and domestic demand. However, in developed countries like the US, SMEs are the most vigorous business vehicles.
Experts believe that SMEs should actively collaborate with large corporations and then seek assistance from the local government in order to overcome current difficulties and achieve internationalization. Unfortunately, lacking of mature venture capital system and cooperation experience, Chinese SMEs are facing more demanding collaboration challenges.
Thus it is time to think about how SMEs can learn to capture “the big chance” to work with large corporations and how to effectively improve SMEs’ own influence and competence through this cooperation. This forum will invite professors who have in-depth research outcomes in this field, and CEOs who have experiences working with big corporations to share their knowledge and experiences with you, and discuss with you about how to seize opportunities in an effective way.
Dear CEO,
After successfully held three Dean’s CEO Forums of Nottingham University Business School China in the past two years, we cordially invite you to attend the 4th Dean’s CEO Forum. The forum aims to bring together CEOs from the greater Ningbo area on a periodic basis to discuss management topics of importance to help keep up with the latest management developments and make firms world class.
We want to provide a platform for CEOs to interact and gain insightful ideas from a discussion stimulated by inspiring talks by professors and other CEOs. A central point of this event is not only the presentations, but also the interaction with and the learning from the experienced audience as well. Thus, much time will be allocated for discussion with the audience.
It is hoped that the Dean’s CEO forum can serve as a place for busy CEOs to take a little time out to discuss their problems and ideas and thus gain insight and strength to tackle many difficult issues they regularly face. It also aims to be a place for an elite group of CEOs to meet and have informal interaction.
Your participation will be much appreciated; we are looking forward to seeing you!
Prof. Carl Fey
Dean of Nottingham University Business School China
Attendance Information
Attendees
50 successful CEOs, government officers and professors
from business school
Language
English and Chinese with simultaneous interpretation
Location
International Conference Center,
the University of Nottingham Ningbo China,
199 Taikang East Rd., Ningbo, China
Time
14:30-18:30, Tuesday 1st July, 2014
Registration
14:30-14:50
Programme
14:50: Dean’s Opening Remarks
Attendance is allowed with confirmation letters only.
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Deadline: Friday, 27th June, 2014
Speech Content
Mr. Larry Qin
How can a new venture in Ningbo partner successfully with a large multinational?
Use the example of the Ningbo Smart City programme and specifically the case of IBM Smart Logistics.
Mr. Yun Xu
How can a Chinese new venture partner successfully with a large multinational?
Use the example of Gridsum and Microsoft’s relationship.
Prof. Shameen Prashantham
How new ventures can go global by forging links with multinationals? Theory of "Dancing with gorillas"
Keynote Speakers
Mr. Larry Qin
CEO, Ningbo Smarter Logistics Technology Co., Ltd
Mr. Qin once worked for China Changcheng Computer Group and Oracle as technology engineer and project manager. From 1997 to 2013 he was service director of smart e-business laboratory in IBM China development centre and general manager of cloud computing laboratory in IBM China mainland area. Now Qin works for Ningbo Smarter Logistics Technology Company as CEO and is cooperating with IBM on Smart City Project.
Mr. Xu Yun
Assistant President, Gridsum Technology
Mr. Xu is the assistant president of Gridsum Technology and is in charge of partner cooperation, business development and general management. Before joining Gridsum, Mr. Xu worked for Microsoft for over 10 years in different departments such as Server & Tools Business, Developer & Platform Evangelism and Emerging Business Team. He has rich experience in product development, marketing, partner management and business development. Mr. Xu graduated from Tsinghua University with a B.E. degree in Computer Science & Technology.
Prof. Shameen Prashantham
Associate Professor in International Business and Strategy, The University of Nottingham Business School China
Prof. Shameen has many years’ experience studying internationalization for small and medium size enterprises. Currently his main research direction is cooperation relationship between entrepreneurial enterprises and multinationals. In addition, he was senior lecturer in International Business & Strategy at Glasgow University and his research has won the Most Original Research Prize at the Academy of International Business (UK) and was a finalist for the Barry Richman Award at the Academy of Management (USA).
Prof. Carl Fey
The University of Nottingham Business School China
Dean of Nottingham University Business School China
Professor of International Business
Prof. Fey is a famous and experienced executive educator. He consulted for Gasprom Neft, TNK-BP (Russia’s largest FDI deal), and Siemens (One of China’s largest investors) and has directed and taught on many highly rated company-specific and EMBA programmes and was a leader in developing the International Association of Chinese Management Researchers. He served on its executive board between 2008-2010
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