International Business School Suzhou (IBSS) at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) will launch an online OE Programme onChina 2022 and beyond.

Programme information

Date:October

Language: English

Teaching Mode: LIVE Virtual Class

Fee: 6000 RMB

• Programme fee includes tuition, case licensing fee, andother course materials.

• Certificate issued by International Business School Suzhou at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University will be awarded after completing the programme.

Discount:20% tuition discount for XJTLU alumni.

Target participants: The target audience is made by managers, consultants, business practitioners that need to better understand how China is evolving and how this will impact their businesses. It is not only for new incumbents, but also for those who need to refresh their knowledge about Chinese business environment.

Introduction

In the postpandemic world, China is having a stronger competitive position. It was the first country to naturalize it, the first one recovering a sustainable growth with booming internal consumption. The start of the 14thfive-year plan and the dual circulation policy create new opportunities and challenges for the international companies to do business with China and within China. This programme aims to provide an overview of macroeconomic for the next 5 years as well as identify the key opportunities for foreign enterprises to cooperate with the local businesses to achieve mutual beneficial outcomes. Theprogrammecombines lectures, business overviews (seminars, workshops, guest speakers) and practical examples of innovative business models fitting a changing China.

Session 1

China Outlook in the 14th Five-year-plan

This course will illustrate the economic trend at macroeconomic scope and then extends to the industry level analysis, in the context of the world economy as well as the China economic development plan over the short-term and medium run, and in combination with the discussion of opportunities as well as challenges encountered within.

Dr. Yue Jiang

Dr. Yue Jiang holds a PhD in Economics from Cardiff University in the UK, her research area lies in macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics. She is devoted to professional development and is affiliated with Higher Education Academy.

Session 2

Strategic Thinking and Decision Making in the Chinese Complexity

Despite the strategic process seems almost the same all around the globe, the post-pandemic world has created diverging directions among different business context. There is a new wall around China which is made on the self-awareness of the country and of its citizens in being in a leading position for the next decades.

By the time you complete the programme, you will be able to:

• Identify theCritical Success Factors of doing business in the changed China

• Define win-win strategies fitting into the Chinese context

• Avoid biases and traps in making business with China

Prof.Roberto Donà

Roberto Donà is an academic and a business practitioner with a long experience in China. He is a Professor of Practice in Management at IBSS, the business school of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, where he also serves as a director of the Master of Science in Management. He is also an Honorary Professor at School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the University of Chinese Academy of Science and Adjunct Professor at MIP Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business. Roberto has strong international exposure having worked in Russia, Bulgaria, Argentina, the USA and China. His fields of interest are on internationalisation and Innovation Processes in Asia and their managerial implications. Since the beginning of his career, he worked also as a management consultant for both domestic and international companies serving in several board positions. Currently, he is an Independent Director at Novena Global Healthcare Group (Singapore). He is also the First President of the Association of the Italian Scholars in China (AAIIC).

Session 3

Consumption and Digitalization in China

As China has recently become the largest consumption market, this seminar presents an overview of Chinese households and individuals’ consumption patterns and preferences. The second part of this seminar then explores the latest developments in terms of the digitalisation of the Chinese consumer market.

Dr. Eddy Fang

Eddy is a Senior Associate Professor in the Department of Intelligent Operations and Marketing, and is currently serving as the Deputy Dean of International Business School Suzhou at Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University. Eddy previous served as the Head of the Economics Division and the Director of Accreditations for the Business School, under which position he held a central role in IBSS’ initial accreditation for AACSB and EQUIS.

Eddy holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he focused his research on the diffusion and adoption of innovations. Upon arrival in China in 2012, Eddy opened up new research directions to contribute to the development of the Chinese market - e.g. consumer behaviour in China, tourism development, and contemporary issues in the domestic food industry. In this context, Eddy is currently leading multiple projects on the topic of food scares, and the social mechanisms that are creating, sustaining, and mitigating them. Eddy’s research has been published in leading international journal such as Technological Forecasting and Social Change(ABS3, IF:5.846), Journal of Business Ethics (FT50, IF: 4.141), Review of International Political Economy (ABS3, IF: 2.321), among others. Eddy’s current stream of research is funded by several grants from the National Science Foundation of China.

He also regularly contributes to academic and practitioners’ forums to talk about consumer behaviour in China, and leads market studies for international firms interested in accessing the local market.

Session 4

Intelligent and Agile Supply Chain

This Course aims to provide managers and decision makers with the best practices and frameworks to help design the most suitable supply chain for their organization. An additional and very important objective is to help executives to understand how to develop and nurture effective relations with suppliers, customers and one’s own corporate functions.

As aparticipant in this Course, you will:

• Understand andmanage the complexities and risks of global supply chain

• Achieve salesand earnings growth through effective implementation of supply chain strategy

• Help enterprises win in a changing market through multi-party cooperation and multi-dimensional integration

• Learn the best practices on how to continuously develop a superior supply chain

Dr. Martin Lockstrom

Currently, Dr. Lockstrom is Senior Associate Professor of Operations Management at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China, where he is teaching and doing research in the areas of purchasing, logistics and supply chain/operations management. Dr. Lockstrom received his BSc/MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management at Chalmers University of Technology and his PhD in Operations Management from European Business School, Germany. He has previously taught graduate courses at European Business School, Moscow State University, Tongji University and MBA courses at CEIBS. He has published more than 50 academic and practice-oriented papers and book chapters, and made more than 60 conference appearances. Dr. Lockstrom has more than a decade of consulting experience working with multinational corporations such as BMW, Atlas Copco, DuPont, EY, among others.

Session 5

Fin-tech & Financial Market

This course effectively combines technology and innovation with business and finance, with a clear focus on FinTech, and how the financial markets/services are interrupted, especially in China. It is not limited by technological innovations in the FinTech industry (e.g., machine learning). It also covers the innovations in terms of financial products (e.g., cryptocurrency), business models (e.g., crowdfunding), investment strategies (e.g., apply AI to high-frequency trading), and regulation ideas (e.g., RegTech).

The programme is set to have a technology-focused curriculum according to the hot trends of ‘Technology’ and ‘innovation’ in China. The programme will be able to:

• to understand the knowledge and skill gap created by the pace of technical transformation in financial services and markets;

• to Integrate both practical business cases and blended knowledge withinthe Fin-tech sector and the influence of hottest trends in technologies onfinancial markets and services;

• to Identify the ethical issues, regulation/governance challenges andeconomic environment faced by the Fin-tech sector;

Dr. Jia Zhai

Dr Jia Zhai joined IBSS at XJTLU in 2020. Previously she taught at the University of Salford, Ulster University in UK and XJTLU since 2010. Her research is mainly in the areas of financial technology and applied financial econometrics, e.g. machine learning in finance, option pricing, sentiment analysis, and volatility forecasting. Other interests may include green finance, open banking and investment decision making.

She has published a number of articles in leading international journals, including European Journal of Operational Research, the Journal of Expert System with Applications, Decision Support System, Quantitative Finance, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and the European Journal of Finance. She has been the reviewer for several peer-review journals, e.g. International Journal of Finance and Economics, Expert Systems with Applications etc. Her research outputs have been presented at world-leading conferences, e.g. INFORMS, EURO, Asia FA, EFMA. In the last few years Jia obtained competitive grants funded by NSSFC, Education Bureau China, and ESRC UK, with the collaboration of external universities. She has been collaborating with international universities, e.g. University of Edinburgh, Liverpool, Birmingham etc., and Chinese universities, e.g. University of Fudan, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics etc.

She initiated and led the MSc Financial Technology (FinTech) at Salford as Program Director. She has taught a range of modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has also supervised several PhD students in the areas of corporate social responsibility, financial manipulation, and volatility connectedness.

Session 6

Leadership Model in China

Drawing from the science of human motivation, this module focuses on how to best lead and motivate employees in a knowledge-based environment. Compared to traditional manufacturing or service sectors, working in a knowledge economy requires extremely high levels of employee initiative, creativity and innovation, often called “high-performance” work. It also requires a different kind of leadership or management style, especially one which focuses more on intrinsic motivation, and less on extrinsic motivation. This module will explain how these different types of motivation work and how leaders can adapt their style of communication and guidance to get the best out of their employees in high-performance environments.

The module willfocus on the following knowledge and practical skills:

• Understanding the context of the knowledge economy and high-performance work.

• Understanding the theory of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and howto motivate people.

• Gaining a knowledge of leadership styles and how to apply them in different situations.

• Assessing your leadership style, and how you could adapt it, to achieve maximum employee performance.

Dr. Nuno Camara

Nuno Camara is an organisational psychologist, specialising in employee engagement, organisational culture and corporate reputation.

Before coming to China, he was MBA Director and Associate Professor at the University of Southampton and taught courses on managing people in organisations, change management and corporate reputation.

Nuno was in industry for 12 years, initially as a corporate communications professional in the financial services sector, and later as a consultant advising companies on reputation management. He has worked for large organisations like Aviva, Clifford Chance and J P Morgan, as well as small agencies like Smithfield Financial and Citigate Communications. He has also consulted with a variety of private, not-for-profit and public organisations, including Heineken, GSK, Unicef, UK Ministry of Defence and Visit Scotland.

Nuno is also a qualified executive coach and has a strong interest in leadership development. He did his PhD at Henley Business School and his Masters at the LSE.

He grew up inthe UK and Portugal and speaks four languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish andFrench. He is now living in Suzhou and trying to learn Mandarin.

Discount

Alumni price: 20% tuition discount for XJTLU alumni.

How to Apply

Applicants can apply for the programme by scanning the QR codeas follows:

Notification

To ensure the continuity and quality of your learning, you are required to make proper arrangements to attend, according to the programme schedule released by IBSS. We cannot make up missed lessons or confer you with the certificate of completion if you are absent from the course for personal reasons. IBSS reserves the right to amend information on this programme including price, discount, date, location, faculty, daily schedule and other details.

Contact Information

Tel: +86 512 8188 4886 /+86 512 8188 3236 / +86 512 8188 8727(Working hours: 9:00-17:00 Monday to Friday)

E-mail: IBSSExecED@xjtlu.edu.cn

Address: IBSS Building, South Campus of XJTLU, 8 Chongwen Road, Dushu Lake Science and Innovation District, Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou