China has pumped billions into "pillar" industries such as telecoms, information technology, car manufacturing and steel.
He focused the group on six industries that have provided most of its revenues since 2000 steel, motor vehicles, power, telecoms, information technology (IT) and hotels and increased its often paltry shareholding in these core businesses.
At companies whose products are technology or research-based -- in the pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, telecom, and information technology (IT) sectors, among others -- the intelligence gathered by CI analysts must cover technical information relevant to a company's competitive mission and environment.
In the next business cycle, telecom and information technology workers who lost their jobs will be the ones doing the hiring, Dr. Kamer said.
At the time, he was the partner in charge of Latin American media, telecom and information technology at the consultancy Booz ,Allen & Hamilton.
The CEO of Baidu's new company will be Yu Gong, who was formerly president and chief operating officer of China Mobile 's 12580 business, the telecom's information service hotline.
But it will be new wide-area wireless-broadband technologies, rather than Wi-Fi, that will form the basis of the new wireless local loops.As this survey has argued, the three trends currently driving the telecoms industry are wireless, broadband, and the convergence of voice and data, telecoms and information technology.
And in the corporate market the operators face a new challenge: the increasing overlap between telecoms and information technology (IT).
Since the early 1990s, China's Communist rulers have continually emphasised the need to create modern telecoms and information industries, where possible with home-bred technologies.
But then there were few computers and telephone lines in China, and, as the central telecoms authority controlled virtually all access to international gateways, it was easy to block the path to unfriendly foreign websites and to monitor any on-line shenanigans within China.Now it is much harder, after rapid growth in both Chinese telecoms and information services.
Based on a survey of 485 senior executives around the world, it indicates that the top determinants are the technical skills of a country's workforce and the quality of its telecoms and information-technology infrastructure.
