From Elephant to Jaguar

From Elephant to Jaguar -

How to Win in China with Management Consultants

Edited by Gregg Li, Charles Foley, and Alfred Ho

Authors and contributors include Gregg Li, Charles Foley, Alfred Ho, Robert Tricker, Gordian Gaeta, Carol Yip, and Artie Ng

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The CEO's job is the most difficult.  To lead the company to compete and win, one must assess the competitive environment and quickly develop and implement the corresponding action to counter.  Speed is of the essence.  Organizations that move like a Jaguar, win.  In a fast-paced but chaotic business environment, organizations cannot be like an elephant. 

In the West, CEOs have often been able to deliver his organization's mission not alone, but with staff . . . and for the successful few, by seeking the assistance from and building on intellectual partnership with an army of professional independent management consultants. 

CEOs in China need not fight the war alone.  A few have not.  With the world now at China's doorstep, the CEOs cannot afford to.  Many CEOs in the past have relied on themselves or at best individual advisers for such support.  The modern CEOs today in China have, and do leverage on the strengths and valuable ideas that professional company doctors have brought. 

Management consultants, like anything else, can bring tremendous amount of improvement or offer the minimal amount of value.  Some CEOs were succeeding, some failing miserably.  In this book, the reader will learn the methodologies, practices, and pitfalls that winning international CEOs have employed in selecting, leveraging, and working with practical and action-orientated brainpower that an army of international management consultants have brought to bear.

About the Editors

Gregg Li, CMC, FIMC, CISA, FCFC

Dr. Li a Company Doctor and a Governance Architect for over 20 years, has been helping governments, universities, private and publicly listed enterprises improve their information strategy and governance health.  Gregg is the founding Chairman of the Academy of Management Consultancy and the ICMCI Chairman for Asia.  Dr. Li has been associated with the East West Center, American Express, PKKI which is the management think tank at the University of Hong Kong, and Coopers & Lybrand Management Consulting Services and received his training from Washington University, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, UCLA, and the University of Warwick in information strategy and engineering.

Charles Foley, CMC, FIMC

With over 30 years of consulting and teaching experiences training management consultants in the UK, Australia, Malaysia, and China, Charles started his career at PriceWaterhouse in UK, moved onto KPMG in Australia, then to the University of Hong Kong, and finally as Director of the Academy of Management Consultancy.  Charles has a BA, Grad. Dip, and MBA from the University of Liverpool and currently studies in Stafford-upon-Avon in the UK.

Alfred Ho, CMC, FIMC, FIIM, FITP

Alfred has been editing journals, books, magazines, and reports on management and management consulting for many years.  Alfred is an Oxford University accredited Development Adviser, Assessor, and Internal Verifier of the NVO (National Vocational Qualification) system in Management.  He is now the Provost of the Academy of Management Consultancy and a Principal at G. Li & Company.  Alfred received his BSocSc and MBA from the University of Hong Kong and an MSc in information systems from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. .