North Asia CAPE has partnered with Export NZ to deliver our Strategy Builder workshops across New Zealand for kiwi businesses.
More about our Workshops
We offer single-day workshops targeted at SMEs looking to enter, or better engage with the Chinese, Japanese and Korean markets. The workshops aim to build market understanding and make in-market experiences more meaningful. Sessions bring in exporters to share their stories, and include current in-market COVID-19 research relating to each country.
Workshops are facilitated by Dr Antje Fiedler and Dr Ben Fath of the University of Auckland Business School, with contributions from in-market businesspeople and other experts.
In 2021, we will be launching a new workshop - Digital in North Asia, and refreshing our regional focused Strategy Builders.
Want to grow your business by keeping pace with emerging trends in one of Asia’s fastest changing markets?
This workshop explores principles and practices that help businesses master the rapidly-developing Chinese market. We will explore the following topics:
- Speed and micro-segmentation in China
- Speed and the need for ‘hyper’-personalisation in China
- Speed and sensing trends in China
How can NZ businesses convince customers in highly-established markets such as Japan to appreciate new products and solutions?
This workshop explores how to navigate ‘stable’ markets exemplified by Japan. We will tackle the challenge of growing a business in a market where customers are very happy with current offerings and will develop analytical lenses for understanding such markets by focusing on:
- From ‘Made in Japan’ to ‘Made for Japan’
- Fast followership strategies and value creation
- The blurring of customer segments in Japan
How might NZ businesses grow in overseas markets such as Korea’s, where consumers seek out and privilege memorable experiences?
This workshop explores experience-based consumer markets exemplified by the South Korean market. We provide fresh perspectives on how NZ businesses can create stand out experiences in this trend-setting market by focusing on the following main topics:
- Navigating experience-based consumer markets
- Saturated markets and the concentration of experiences
- Experience differentiation in South Korea
Want to understand the emerging digital landscape in North Asia?
This workshop builds your digital savviness for the region by emphasising some core similarities, differences and emerging trends in the Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean online landscapes. The workshop focuses on developing a high-level appreciation of several important themes, and will provide participants with practical tools and tips. We will discuss the following topics:
- Mobile cocooning: Who is online anyway?
- Digital first and what it means for my business
- Online retail ecosystems and the next wave of exporting
- Shoppertainment and how to reach the new consumer
- Building business partnerships in the age of Hyperconnectivity
Benefits from attending a workshop include:
- Opportunities to apply practical, market-specific insights to your business.
- Networking with fellow businesspeople to share ideas and broaden market knowledge.
- Gaining valuable commercial insights drawing from other businesses' successes and failures in North Asian markets.
2021 workshops
Digital in North Asia
- 18 March: Wellington Register here
- 24 March: Hawke's Bay
- 21 April: Gisborne
- 12 May: Auckland
Growing in Japan’s quality-conscious market
- 4 March: Wellington Register here