On location
Corporate business expeditions
Custom programs inside international business ecosystems.
Executive learning expeditions · China
Meet the leaders of China’s most interesting companies. Bring the decisions home.
Closed-door meetings at Alibaba, Tencent, Ant Group and other companies, built around the questions your leadership team is working on right now.
We are changing how companies learn.
برامج مصمّمة لفريقكم القيادي · الصين وأسواق أخرى عند الطلب
Companies we visit with our programs
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Client challenges
The questions leaders bring to us
We don’t start with a list of companies or a route. We start with your business challenges.
AI & transformation
How do you adopt AI so that business results change, not just your employees’ tools?
Discuss this challengeCustomer experience
How do you combine personalization, speed of service and the economics of customer decisions?
Discuss this challengeNew business models
Where do companies find new sources of growth, and how do they test whether they are viable?
Discuss this challengePeople & organization
How are roles, management KPIs and the way teams work together changing in the age of AI?
Discuss this challengeOperational excellence
How do you scale processes while keeping quality, speed and manageable economics?
Discuss this challengeStrategy & innovation
How do you turn new technologies and market signals into leadership decisions?
Discuss this challengeWhat makes us different
Don’t just see innovation. Understand the decisions behind it.
Practitioners, not generic lectures
Substantive conversations about specific management challenges and decisions.
A program built for your team
Companies and topics are selected for your industry, group and objectives.
Questions you can’t ask at a conference
In-depth meetings and discussions with practitioners, where participation is agreed.
Translated into your context
We help separate an interesting example from an approach that is really worth testing in your business.
For whom
If you have been thinking for a while about how to train your company’s managers, this is the way to do it.
Not a course and not a tour. A program built around the questions your managers are already asking, with the people who have answered them in practice.
Executive learning in China
The business questions worth travelling for
Go beyond presentations. Explore how Chinese businesses are rethinking AI, customer experience, growth and operations, through curated executive programs and expert discussions.
AI & the future of workWhen AI makes employees faster, but organizations slower
AI is changing how reports are written, code is reviewed and information is handled. But one person’s speed can add to managers’ workload and make results less transparent.
Leadership questionHow do leaders redesign workflows, accountability and quality control when AI becomes part of everyday work?
Banking & financial riskFrom detecting fraud to responding in real time
In fraud prevention, models matter, but so does how fast the risk strategy can change. Behavioral data, device signals and graph connections reveal patterns invisible when you look at one customer at a time.
Leadership questionHow long does it take your organization to go from a new risk to a changed strategy?
Retail & digital commerceWhat makes digital commerce ecosystems scale?
Platforms connect customers, merchants, products and fulfillment operations in one loop. The interesting part is not the app, but the operating model and the decisions that keep the loop growing.
Leadership questionWhich part of your customer journey could become a platform, and what would have to change in your organization to run it?
Smart manufacturingWhat does an intelligent factory actually change?
Robotics and automation are the visible part. Behind them are management decisions about planning, quality, people and the pace of change on the shop floor.
Leadership questionWhat would your plant have to stop doing before automation starts paying off?
Customer experienceHow do digital leaders design seamless customer journeys?
Technology, data and operating models shape the customer experience together. Personalization, speed of service and unit economics have to be managed as one system, not three projects.
Leadership questionWhere does your customer journey break between departments, and who owns the fix?
Strategy & new business modelsHow do companies reinvent themselves before they have to?
Ecosystem strategies and new growth models rarely come from a crisis. They come from organizational choices made while the core business is still healthy.
Leadership questionWhat would your company need to start building now, while it still has the room to do so?
These examples reflect topics and materials studied by IHD. Meetings with specific companies, speakers and the program are agreed separately. Publishing detailed cases and using logos requires rights clearance.
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Let’s talk about a program for your team.
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No off-the-shelf tour. We start by understanding your challenge.
China
China: from technology trends to management practice
China is interesting not only for how fast it adopts technology. It is where you can study how companies rebuild their organizations around AI, develop financial platforms, create new customer journeys and automate physical operations.
- Enterprise AI
- Digital Banking & FinTech
- Customer Experience
- Retail & E-commerce
- Manufacturing & Robotics
- Supply Chain
Examples of thematic directions
China: AI & Business Transformation
AI in products, in employees’ work and in management.
China: Future of Banking
Digital banks, risk, payments, customer experience.
China: Industrial Innovation
Manufacturing, robotics, automation and operations.
Method
How we build a program
Understand the challenge
Client interviews, the team’s composition, and the questions that need answers.
Curate the content
We select relevant companies, experts and cases, and arrange the meetings.
Organize the immersion
Visits, substantive discussions and work with participants’ questions.
Turn experience into decisions
We capture management conclusions and hypotheses for further testing.
Format, duration, meetings and any additional deliverables are defined individually.
Formats
The format follows the challenge, not the other way round
Expert meetings
Executive learning & expert sessions
Expert meetings and thematic sessions for senior leaders.
Team work
Leadership simulations
Management simulations for teams: strategy, negotiation, succession and AI leadership. Format and facilitators agreed separately.
Substance
A good-looking program needs strong content behind it
- A brief built on your challengeEvery program starts with the client’s questions, not a ready-made route.
- Curated casesTopics and companies are selected for your industry and group.
- Questions before each visitParticipants come to meetings with prepared questions.
- Reflection after each visitWe discuss what we saw and capture what is worth testing at home.
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Let’s talk about a program for your team.
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No off-the-shelf tour. We start by understanding your challenge.
Programs
Programs built around your team’s decisions.
Three formats that can be combined. We choose the format after we understand the challenge, not before.
On location
Business expeditions
Custom corporate learning immersions in international business ecosystems.
- Who it’s for
- Boards, CEOs and owners, leadership teams, heads of business units, corporate universities.
- What participants work through
- How companies in another market solved a challenge similar to yours; the management decisions behind it; what applies to you.
- Typical flow
- Pre-trip briefing, meetings with companies and experts, daily discussion of what you saw, executive debrief.
- Destinations
- China is our core destination. Other markets on request.
Expert meetings
Executive learning & expert sessions
Practitioner talks, deep dives and moderated executive discussions.
- Who it’s for
- Senior management, strategy and digital teams, participants of leadership development programs.
- What participants work through
- One management topic in depth: AI in the organization, customer experience, new business models, risk, operating model.
- Typical flow
- A practitioner talk, a case deep dive, participants’ questions and a moderated discussion of applicability.
- Where
- At your office, at an off-site or online — by agreement.
Team work
Leadership simulations
Strategy, leadership, negotiation, succession and decision-making in the age of AI.
- Who it’s for
- Leadership teams, high-potential talent pools, participants of corporate development programs.
- What participants work through
- Decision-making under uncertainty, role allocation, negotiation, and the consequences of management choices.
- Typical flow
- An introduction, game rounds with team decisions, a review of the results and takeaways for real work.
- Facilitators
- Format and facilitators agreed separately.
Customization
What we tailor for every program
Nothing is included by default. We discuss each item during the brief and set it out in the proposal.
- ChallengeThe management question the program should answer.
- GeographyThe market where this challenge is being solved most interestingly.
- AudienceGroup composition, seniority, industry.
- ConfidentialityWhat can be discussed openly and what stays within the group.
- Company selectionCompanies and experts that fit the challenge. Meetings are confirmed separately.
- LanguageThe language of meetings and the interpretation format.
- LogisticsThe organizational side of the trip or session.
- DebriefHow results are summarized and conclusions captured for leadership.
Contact me
Let’s talk about a program for your team.
Leave your name and email. I’ll get back to you to discuss which format will be most useful for your leadership team.
No off-the-shelf tour. We start by understanding your challenge.
China · Executive expeditions
China from the inside: how leading companies make decisions and build new business models.
Custom programs for CEOs and leadership teams. We look beyond the technology to organizational decisions, operating processes and business impact.
Why China
Where new technology quickly becomes a management decision
China is interesting not only for how fast it adopts technology. It is where you can study how companies rebuild their organizations around AI, develop financial platforms, create new customer journeys and automate physical operations.
The value of the trip is not a product demo. It is the conversation about what leadership decided, what had to change in processes and people, and what is worth testing in your own company.
Themes
Six management themes a program can be built around
AI & agents
How AI is changing products, employees’ work and management processes.
Discuss this themeBanking & FinTech
Digital banks, payments, risk management and customer experience in financial services.
Discuss this themeRetail & customer experience
How companies connect online and offline, personalization and customer economics.
Discuss this themeManufacturing & robotics
Automating physical operations and how it changes the way work is organized.
Discuss this themeLogistics & supply chain
Speed, reliability and control of supply chains at large scale.
Discuss this themeHR & the future of work
Roles, KPIs and how teams work together when part of the work is done by AI.
Discuss this themeExample case themes
What meetings in China can cover
AI & the future of work
When AI makes employees faster, but organizations slower
AI is changing how reports are written, code is reviewed and information is handled. But one person’s speed can add to managers’ workload and make results less transparent.
Leadership questionHow do leaders redesign workflows, accountability and quality control when AI becomes part of everyday work?
Explore the case Banking & financial risk
From detecting fraud to responding in real time
In fraud prevention, models matter, but so does how fast the risk strategy can change. Behavioral data, device signals and graph connections reveal patterns invisible when you look at one customer at a time.
Leadership questionHow long does it take your organization to go from a new risk to a changed strategy?
Explore the case Retail & digital commerce
What makes digital commerce ecosystems scale?
Platforms connect customers, merchants, products and fulfillment operations in one loop. The interesting part is not the app, but the operating model and the decisions that keep the loop growing.
Leadership questionWhich part of your customer journey could become a platform, and what would have to change in your organization to run it?
Explore the case Smart manufacturing
What does an intelligent factory actually change?
Robotics and automation are the visible part. Behind them are management decisions about planning, quality, people and the pace of change on the shop floor.
Leadership questionWhat would your plant have to stop doing before automation starts paying off?
Explore the case Customer experience
How do digital leaders design seamless customer journeys?
Technology, data and operating models shape the customer experience together. Personalization, speed of service and unit economics have to be managed as one system, not three projects.
Leadership questionWhere does your customer journey break between departments, and who owns the fix?
Explore the case Strategy & new business models
How do companies reinvent themselves before they have to?
Ecosystem strategies and new growth models rarely come from a crisis. They come from organizational choices made while the core business is still healthy.
Leadership questionWhat would your company need to start building now, while it still has the room to do so?
Explore the case The meetings and the possibility of visiting specific companies are confirmed while the program is being prepared.
Example structure
How a program can be structured
This shows the logic, not a fixed itinerary. Days, meetings and duration are set around your challenge.
- Pre-trip briefingMarket context, the group’s objectives and the questions participants want to ask.
- Company and expert meetingsConversations with practitioners about decisions, processes and results — where participation is agreed.
- Daily synthesisA short end-of-day discussion: what we saw and what it means for your company.
- Executive debriefManagement conclusions and hypotheses the team takes away to test.
Who it’s for
Who gains most from a program in China
- CEOs and executive committeesStrategic decisions, new sources of growth, speed of change.
- Banks and financial companiesDigital banking, risk, payments, customer experience.
- Digital leadersBringing AI and data into products and processes.
- Strategy and transformationBusiness models and organizational change.
- HR and corporate universitiesRoles, capabilities and KPIs in the age of AI.
- Operations and manufacturingAutomation, robotics and supply chains.
Request
Let’s discuss a China program for your team
Tell us about your industry, challenge and group. China will already be selected in the form.
Executive learning in China
What your team can explore in China.
Each case is a management trade-off and a question worth discussing with your team. We walk through the full versions, with decisions and results, in private briefings.
AI & the future of work
When AI makes employees faster, but organizations slower
AI is changing how reports are written, code is reviewed and information is handled. But one person’s speed can add to managers’ workload and make results less transparent.
Leadership questionHow do leaders redesign workflows, accountability and quality control when AI becomes part of everyday work?
Explore the case Banking & financial risk
From detecting fraud to responding in real time
In fraud prevention, models matter, but so does how fast the risk strategy can change. Behavioral data, device signals and graph connections reveal patterns invisible when you look at one customer at a time.
Leadership questionHow long does it take your organization to go from a new risk to a changed strategy?
Explore the case Retail & digital commerce
What makes digital commerce ecosystems scale?
Platforms connect customers, merchants, products and fulfillment operations in one loop. The interesting part is not the app, but the operating model and the decisions that keep the loop growing.
Leadership questionWhich part of your customer journey could become a platform, and what would have to change in your organization to run it?
Explore the case Smart manufacturing
What does an intelligent factory actually change?
Robotics and automation are the visible part. Behind them are management decisions about planning, quality, people and the pace of change on the shop floor.
Leadership questionWhat would your plant have to stop doing before automation starts paying off?
Explore the case Customer experience
How do digital leaders design seamless customer journeys?
Technology, data and operating models shape the customer experience together. Personalization, speed of service and unit economics have to be managed as one system, not three projects.
Leadership questionWhere does your customer journey break between departments, and who owns the fix?
Explore the case Strategy & new business models
How do companies reinvent themselves before they have to?
Ecosystem strategies and new growth models rarely come from a crisis. They come from organizational choices made while the core business is still healthy.
Leadership questionWhat would your company need to start building now, while it still has the room to do so?
Explore the case Brazilian quick-commerce grocery service
When a growth strategy stops working
A Brazilian quick-commerce business went through distinct stages: proving the customer promise, expanding the network fast, and then shifting to unit-economics discipline.
Leadership questionWhich KPIs should change when capital becomes more expensive?
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These examples reflect topics and materials studied by IHD. Meetings with specific companies, speakers and the program are agreed separately. Publishing detailed cases and using logos requires rights clearance.
In more detail
Cases and questions for your team
AI & the future of work
When AI makes employees faster, but organizations slower
China · Technology & E-commerce
How do leaders redesign workflows, accountability and quality control when AI becomes part of everyday work?
Situation
AI is changing how reports are written, code is reviewed and information is handled. But one person’s speed can add to managers’ workload and make results less transparent.
Full version
The company’s decisions, results and figures are covered in the full version of the case, which we walk through in a private briefing for your team.
Banking & financial risk
From detecting fraud to responding in real time
China · Banking & Finance
How long does it take your organization to go from a new risk to a changed strategy?
Situation
In fraud prevention, models matter, but so does how fast the risk strategy can change. Behavioral data, device signals and graph connections reveal patterns invisible when you look at one customer at a time.
Full version
The company’s decisions, results and figures are covered in the full version of the case, which we walk through in a private briefing for your team.
Retail & digital commerce
What makes digital commerce ecosystems scale?
China · Retail & E-commerce
Which part of your customer journey could become a platform, and what would have to change in your organization to run it?
Situation
Platforms connect customers, merchants, products and fulfillment operations in one loop. The interesting part is not the app, but the operating model and the decisions that keep the loop growing.
Full version
The company’s decisions, results and figures are covered in the full version of the case, which we walk through in a private briefing for your team.
Smart manufacturing
What does an intelligent factory actually change?
China · Manufacturing
What would your plant have to stop doing before automation starts paying off?
Situation
Robotics and automation are the visible part. Behind them are management decisions about planning, quality, people and the pace of change on the shop floor.
Full version
The company’s decisions, results and figures are covered in the full version of the case, which we walk through in a private briefing for your team.
Customer experience
How do digital leaders design seamless customer journeys?
China · Technology & E-commerce
Where does your customer journey break between departments, and who owns the fix?
Situation
Technology, data and operating models shape the customer experience together. Personalization, speed of service and unit economics have to be managed as one system, not three projects.
Full version
The company’s decisions, results and figures are covered in the full version of the case, which we walk through in a private briefing for your team.
Strategy & new business models
How do companies reinvent themselves before they have to?
China · Technology & E-commerce
What would your company need to start building now, while it still has the room to do so?
Situation
Ecosystem strategies and new growth models rarely come from a crisis. They come from organizational choices made while the core business is still healthy.
Full version
The company’s decisions, results and figures are covered in the full version of the case, which we walk through in a private briefing for your team.
Brazilian quick-commerce grocery service
When a growth strategy stops working
Brazil · Retail & E-commerce
Which KPIs should change when capital becomes more expensive?
Situation
A Brazilian quick-commerce business went through distinct stages: proving the customer promise, expanding the network fast, and then shifting to unit-economics discipline.
Full version
The company’s decisions, results and figures are covered in the full version of the case, which we walk through in a private briefing for your team.
Contact me
Let’s talk about a program for your team.
Leave your name and email. I’ll get back to you to discuss which format will be most useful for your leadership team.
No off-the-shelf tour. We start by understanding your challenge.
Our approach
We start with a management question, not an itinerary.
What we do
Practical learning for senior leaders
IHD Business designs practical executive learning programs through international business ecosystems, meetings with practitioners and analysis of real management decisions.
We aim to make every meeting substantive: connect the topic to the client’s challenges, prepare the questions, and help the team discuss how what they saw applies to them.
Method principles
Four principles behind every program
Curate relevance
Topics, companies and cases are selected for the client’s challenge, industry and group.
Access practitioners
Meetings with the people who made the decisions — subject to agreement with the companies.
Facilitate reflection
We help the group discuss what they saw and draw conclusions, not just collect impressions.
Adapt to your context
We turn other companies’ experience into hypotheses you can test in yours.
Team
The people who design and lead the programs
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