Advantech: evolution of its IoT ecosystem strategy

Dr Guo (Ginkgo) Bai is based at the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, China Europe International Business School, Shanghai, Shanghai, China. Dr Guo (Ginkgo) Bai current research primarily focuses on governance design, digital economy, adaptive efficiency, collective creativity, etc. The book, China’s Development: Capitalism and Empire, which is co-authored with Professor Michel Aglietta, has a significant impact in France and beyond. Dr Bai has been invited as Speaker on China’s Economic and Political Development to institutions in France, the UK and China.

Dr Liman Zhao is based at Case Center, China Europe International Business School, Shanghai, Shanghai, China. She has developed over 40 teaching cases with her colleagues at CEIBS. The topics of the cases she wrote cover entrepreneurship, strategy and innovation. She has published about ten cases with IVEY Publishing, and one of her cases was ranked Top 10 by EEMCS Competition 2015. Her academic research focuses on social entrepreneurship and international entrepreneurship.

Mr. Zhenrong Edison Wang is based at MBA Department, China Europe International Business School, Shanghai, Shanghai, China. He is an MBA2019 student at CEIBS. Prior to his MBA program, he had rich experience in power and energy industry, including technology R&D, project management, and business development. He also joined a start-up as senior product manager to develop a smart design software for turbomachinery industry. As an MBA student, with strong interest in industry 4.0, IoT and cloud services, he started his internship at AWS – the global leader in public cloud service.