China’s cabinet industry maturing in 2006
This article originally appeared in FDM. Larger firms offer higher quality as domestic demand grows and consolidation is likely. Cabinet products from Jianpan Cabinet Co.…
Supply Chain Challenges
About two dozen supply chain executives from around the world gathered here earlier this month to discuss the business-technology challenges of managing their dispersed and…
Back to the Future
This article originally appeared in CMO (Chief Marketing Officer), an IDG magazine (which has since ceased publication). Jim Murphy learned about marketing to Chinese customers…
RFID in China
While Chinese manufacturers and the Chinese government must come to terms on standards, this burgeoning industry is poised for growth Haier Group, China’s leading home-appliance…
Standard Chartered claims first “true” loan securitization
The China Construction Bank privatization project, recently approved by the Chinese government, may become the first true loan securitization in China. As the sole advisor,…
CSFB helps move securitization forward in China
In the spring of 2004, China’s largest commercial bank struck a deal with Credit Suisse First Boston, CITIC Securities and China Credit Trust to securitize…
CITIC named Special Purpose Trust in ground-breaking project
This fall, one of the two big bank securitization projects in progress is the MBS project of China Construction Bank. The Special Purpose Trust that…
China opens up to new deal structures, new participants
China’s securitization market finally reached a new maturity level this fall, with new participants and new deal structures. The watershed moment was September’s listing of…
Brokerage pioneer in China’s securitization space
While other brokerage firms have tried – but so far failed – to get securitization projects off the ground, the Beijing-based China International Capital Corp.…
Foreign Companies Driving China Supply Chain Infrastructure
The Chinese economy has been growing rapidly despite an underdeveloped supply chain network. Most Chinese manufacturing companies do not yet rely on supply chain systems,…
China’s Weak Logistics
Electrolux China, a group that manufactures kitchen, cleaning and outdoor appliances for consumers and business users, set up its supply chain system in 2002, after…
Supply Chain Infrastructure
The Chinese economy has been growing rapidly despite an underdeveloped supply chain network. Most Chinese manufacturing companies do not yet rely on supply chain systems,…
Biometrics Comes To the Heartland
A couple years ago, good security meant a good firewall at the periphery of a bank’s network. Today, given the range of internal and external…
Chinese Legal System Hinders IP Protection Efforts
If finding a software pirate is as simple as walking down the street and looking around for wheelbarrows, why is China–home of the largest authoritarian…
Cost for Windows falls–to 50 cents–in China
Despite three years of attention by lawmaking committees and a steadily increasing roster of laws protecting intellectual property, China is a shopper’s paradise for all…
Open Source – China’s Bet on Linux
As China prepares to become a full member of the World Trade Organization, the Beijing government is trying to prove to the West that it…
Network Security: An Arkansas Bank Protects Communications Inside-out
A couple of years ago, good security meant a good firewall at the periphery of your network. Today, given the wide range of threats that…
Chinese Companies Pick Linux to Boost Their Own Skills
The last couple of years have seen one disaster after another in China’s financial sector: financial scandals, record losses, a stock market at six-year lows.…
Open-Source May Help China Curb Software Piracy
Since Linux doesn’t require user licenses, it’s also a way to combat software piracy, which is an epidemic in China. Under pressure from the world…
Chinese Companies Plan Massive Linux Deployments
Tokyo-based TurboLinux has recently announced that the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China will roll out Linux in all of its 20,000 retail branches. ICBC,…
Microsoft Fights Piracy In China, Linux Wins
As proprietary software vendors crack down on piracy, China looks to Linux as an alternative. On virtually any street in Shanghai or Beijing, you can…
Outsourcing: Russia and Eastern Europe
Compared with some of the big-league outsourcing players, Russia is a rookie. The country’s current revenue from IT outsourcing is $150 million to $200 million…
Russia and Eastern Europe
Compared with some of the big-league outsourcing players, Russia is a rookie. The country’s current revenue from IT outsourcing is $150 million to $200 million…
Newspaper Web Sites Struggle to Attract Younger Readers
Online editors who have managed to attract the elusive younger set make it sound so simple: Give them content they’ll want to read and forums…
News Sites Experiment With ‘Dayparting’ by Tailoring Content
Online news sites have long noticed a troubling drop-off in visitors during the evening hours. Last year, several newspapers got together with Minneapolis-based Minnesota Opinion…
Piecing It All Together
A year after Steve Kaufman and his staff at Goshen, Ind.-based health care insurer Mennonite Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) launched a massive enterprise application integration…
U.S. government expels legitimate reporters
U.S. visa rules single out journalists with burdensome requirements In May, nine legitimate journalists were stopped while trying to enter a country. They were repeatedly…
Down economy spurs automation in collections
It’s a tough time to be a credit manager. On the one hand, customers are trying to improve their cash flow by conveniently forgetting to…
‘I’m addicted to war’
A former war buff embarks on her own 12 step program My name is Maria, and I’m addicted to war. I had my first taste…
How to spot a fake atrocity
In the mid 1990s I worked in the former Soviet Union, covering various republics as they disintegrated into civil war. And I occasionally came across…