Question and Answers: An interview with Jonathan Woetzel, director in McKinsey’s Shanghai office – author of Operation China

An interview with Jonathan Woetzel, director in McKinsey’s Shanghai office – author of Operation China

What specifically do you think that automotive companies are doing wrong in China at the moment? In particular in terms of managing the supply chain, and where they could improve?The automotive industry in China is relatively unique in the sense that it’s one of the few countries where entire sectors of the automotive industry have been developed by foreign companies. There are few countries in the world where that is actually the case, so it’s hard to say relatively speaking what’s good or bad about it, given the pretty unique context.