Historical Assessment 1980 - 2000

 Trends Analsysis: Shanghai Business Enviroment 1999

What did you enjoy?

• The training section was very interesting and enjoyable.
• Creative brainstorming and mapping process.
• Have got a lot of information about environment.
• Brainstorming, mindmapping.
• I enjoyed thinking through the history and mindmapping with people from different industries and with very different experience levels here in China.
• The process to tackle issue.
• I enjoyed hearing the ideas, opinions, conversations of intelligent, articulate people from a wide variety of backgrounds and organizations.
• Process moved quickly.
• I ‘m happy to learn the thinking process with the group (mindmapping) and shared the analysis of the world development from 1980-2000. As the important thing is to practice and practice makes perfect, so we should take the learning from this seminar and put into our work.
• Interaction with diverse group of people.
• Yes.
• Listening to other views.
• Everybody’s participation and ideas.
• Idea exchange and sharing.
• Thinking about and looking at the broad sweep of world affairs and developments of the last 20 years
• Enjoyed interactions with other participants.
• The thinking process of questions. It’s a different way for me.
• Different perspective of thinking.

What was useful?

• The mind map is very useful.
• Mindmapping.
• I think that Mindmap will be very useful for me to change thinking system.
• Diversity of group insight, expertise from different members of group
• The Mindmapping allowed me to put many observations and thoughts into context.
• The mindmap was very useful to plan marketing and to explain Shanghai and China to business visitor.
• Group interactions and comments. Variety of businesses involved in group.
• Learning from others.
• It is useful for me, that I can change my way in the fuuture, when I am working with my staff to do the next year plan. 1. Share the information. 2. Look the history. 3. Talk about the future.
• The "process".
• All the information comes out of the group.
• The process and analyzing the trends.
• Noting the rapid pace of system change in China wrought by opening and liberalization.
• Brainstorming.
• The "mind map" skill. It’s another system to discuss and consider problems.
• Methodology throughout the training and within each session.

What were some new insights?

• Use the shortest time to pt all the information together, which are common sense but not been pt together. Also enjoyed listening to other people’s thinking and knowledge.
• You’ve got to manage changes.
• I think we can do more.
• Need to move on to vision, action plans on Future Search.
• The rapidly changing environment adds uncertainty to doing business here, but potentially offers great future opportunities.
• Most participants are more looking technology related development, while people related is less sensed.
• Number of trens and indicators was a lot. Different opinions based on your understanding.
• Mindmap, historical perspective process.
• Identified/learned the trends affects the business environment.
• Lots of activities in China in short period of time – Best place to be?
• Business ------ like people going through ups and downs in its life.
• Perhaps the world is in a retrenchment/rationalization phase. Making use of, fully developing, radical developments (end of Cold War, opening of China, internet). We await the next "big new thing."
• The world looks different to different people.
• From the "Shanghai business environment" discussion, I have a lot of information to consider my job, my company, and my personal development. It’s a long distance between "wishing" and " reality".
• Helpful for corporation within changing environment.

Suggestions to the facilitator?

• Do a little bit more conclusion.
• If he can be a little more background study on the audience, he will not look as ignorant.
• Difficult to read handwriting – looking forward to typed up notes. I enjoyed your positive attitude and the interactive format of the seminar.
• No
• Flip charts should be better prepared. Does not look professional.
• None.
• Thank for Mark a lot.
• Good seminar.
• Do the summary earlier and let everyone speak out about what they learned through the process.
• Could spend less time in the world events and more on the trends in China/Shanghai.
• ½ day is insufficient, seems to need 1, or 2, day as minimum.
• Thank you. Mark. But it is a long time from 1980 – 1999 (2000). A lot of us did not come to Shanghai before 1990.
• More time and more case introduction

Prepared by Mark Pixley at The Institute of Cultural Affairs in Hong Kong. For more information on this process, please contact icahk@hkstar.com

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