Flagship China Executive Immersion
See how China does it, for yourself: Our highest-commitment format brings leadership teams into the companies, operating environments and ecosystems shaping some of the fastest-moving changes in commerce, technology and consumer business. We combine company visits, senior operator dialogues, field observation and facilitated synthesis around the strategic questions your team brings.
Find out moreWhen the question matters enough to see China for yourself
China has become one of the most useful places to study how companies respond when competition, technology and operating models move quickly. Our China Executive Immersions are private programmes built around the questions your leadership team brings.
The programme may include major companies. It may also include founders, former operators, merchants, suppliers, warehouses, smaller companies or people whose names never appear on conference agendas. What matters is whether each part helps answer the question.
The conversations go beyond the corporate presentation
On recent programmes, participants have spent time with:
- A former Chief of the CEO Office at a major Chinese local-services platform who worked on competitive strategy during the delivery wars
- Founding team members of a leading food-delivery platform, including a co-founder
- The co-founder of one of China's largest rider-management providers
- A former SVP of a leading profitable first-party dark-store operator
- Founding members of large-scale low-cost delivery initiatives
- Restaurant owners and merchants discussing platform economics from the other side of the marketplace
The exact people change with every programme. We decide who is useful only after we understand what your team is trying to learn.
Themes we have built programmes around
The question comes first. These are some of the areas where we have repeatedly taken teams into the field.
- Food delivery and quick commerce: Fulfilment models, merchant economics, rider networks, dispatch, density and unit economics.
- Ecommerce and marketplaces: Merchant systems, supply, platform economics, cross-border trade and competitive strategy.
- Logistics and automation: Warehousing, sorting, robotics, autonomous systems, AI and international logistics.
- Retail and consumer: New retail formats, omnichannel models, supply chains, franchise systems and consumer behaviour.
- Live and video commerce: Platforms, creators, MCNs, studios, merchant operations and content-led selling.
- AI and robotics: Applied AI, enterprise adoption, agents, customer service, physical AI and commercial deployment.
- Chinese companies going global: Organisation, localisation, supply chain, overseas expansion and how operating practices change outside China.
