Our Method — Three Ideas, Four Stages
Advice here is not improvised. Three ideas decide how we look at a business, which partner to look for, and how the work gets delivered. Four stages set the order. The same method runs on every engagement, in China and closer to home.
How we see advantage, what partner we look for, and how we deliver.
Refined across 25 years of NZ–China advisory work, these three ideas shape every engagement we run.
The Strengths Theory
Your advantage is not what you think it is. It is what the market recognises, values and genuinely misses without you. What made you a leader at home carries a different weight elsewhere, so the first move is rediscovering your value through your buyer's eyes.
Read the Strengths Theory →The Partner-Led Philosophy
We don't find the partner you want. We find the one who wants you. The obvious, high-profile partners do not necessarily need you; the ones who do will invest in you, with lower cost, lower risk and real staying power.
Read the Partner-Led Philosophy →The Sequenced Method
Every engagement follows the same four stages, in the same order. Each stage builds on the last, from the groundwork most firms skip to a market presence that runs without us.
Read the Sequenced Method →One order, every time.
The sequence exists because a market does not reward speed for its own sake. It rewards being believed, and being believed takes groundwork before it takes spending.
Market Clarity
The groundwork most firms skip: understanding the business culture and how decisions are actually made, registering and building the social platforms your buyers use, and putting up a Chinese-language website that reads as if it was written there. Then the market read itself: which segment recognises your value, and who else already serves it.
Partner Introduction
Finding the partners who genuinely need what you bring, and getting you in front of them. Not a list of names: introductions that come with a reason to talk.
Deal & Delivery
Negotiation support, pilot launch, and the unglamorous work of making the first orders land properly: terms, pricing, logistics and the paperwork that decides whether a pilot becomes a habit.
Scale & Institutionalise
Turning a working pilot into a repeatable operation: the people inside your company who own it, the reporting that keeps it honest, and a presence that no longer depends on us.
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