IDC sees opportunities for clients in govt-backed plans

To help China to become the hub of technological development, IDC will encourage both international and local companies to understand the differences between the markets, and to share ideas for their future development.

For example, IDC will continue to develop the Smart City Awards to share the best global practices and share their successful Smart City implementations.

What do you think of the opportunities and challenges facing your company amid recent supply-side structural reform in China? How does your company fit into the national strategy of Made in China 2025 and Internet Plus?

The opportunities and challenges facing our company are associated with providing the best advice for our clients to make the best of the many new opportunities and challenges that they now face.

For example, the supply-side challenges that multinational companies are facing under the new Secure and Controllable Policy is informing our advice with greater focus on the need to develop regionalized and customized integration of cyber security in China.

Furthermore, both Made in China 2025 and Internet Plus are great invitations from Chinese government, and IDC continues to provide the related research to help traditional manufacturing companies go through the digital transformation journey as well as to share best practice and bench-marking services to support their decisions.

For example, IDC's DecisionScapes are a portfolio of decision-making methodologies that enable CIOs, IT and line of business executives to make better informed strategic decisions. These comprehensive assessments, delivered in a full-length research study, and summarized in an easy-to-read graphical depiction, provide them with the critical information necessary to make their most important decisions.

Internet Plus will drive economic growth by integration of Internet technologies into industry and generate big-data challenges and opportunities. IDC will support the development of these new highly data-driven systems to support the growth for our clients.