Recently, the China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center (CDGDC) of the Ministry of Education announced the results of the 2023 Call for Thematic Case Studies, which was open to graduate education institutions nationwide. A total of 655 projects were approved nationwide, with the School of Management of Shandong University securing 2 project approvals.
The project “Galloping Towards Innovation: Weichai’s Journey of Technological Innovation Catch-up and Breakthrough” declared by Professor Cai Di and his team has been granted funding by the thematic project “Intelligent Manufacturing in China”. The project “Strategic Planning & Turning Challenges into Opportunities - Research on Structural Risk Analysis and Response under the Context of ‘Going Global’” declared by Associate Professor Wang Lei and his team have been granted funding by the thematic project “Going Global”.
The School of Management attaches great importance to the integration of educational theory research and teaching practice innovation. In the practice process, it actively implements the spirit of new ideas, new methods, and new education, as well as the principle of emphasizing on teaching and practice. Furthermore, it strengthens the cultivation, improvement, promotion, and application of excellent case resources, fully leveraging their demonstrative and leading role, and promoting comprehensive improvement in the quality of teaching research.
Galloping Towards Innovation: Weichai’s Journey of Technological Innovation Catch-up and Breakthrough
As a long-established state-owned enterprise, Weichai has been revitalized under the leadership of Chairman Tan Xuguang. It has gradually established a distinctive and feasible innovation management model, referred to as “the chain-linked model of innovation”. At the same time, the company vigorously promotes the open competition mechanism to select the best candidates to undertake key research projects. Through the establishment of a series of mechanisms and activities, the innovation culture and the innovation system with Weichai’s characteristics, have been formed. Weichai’s success is attributed to its true, thorough and long-term adherence to the correct development concept, principle and direction of “science and technology is the first productive force and innovation is the first driving force”.
Chief Expert of the Project: Cai Di,
Professor of the Department of Leadership and Organizational Management of the School of Management at Shandong University
Strategic Planning & Turning Challenges into Opportunities - Research on Structural Risk Analysis and Response under the Context of“Going Global”
Chinese engineering is involved in overseas construction and Chinese brands, Chinese standards, and Chinese services have also gained recognition abroad. However, the intertwining of various complex factors in the international market has given rise to structural risks that are hidden, destructive, and difficult to control. State-owned enterprises, Sino-foreign joint ventures, universities and colleges have been able to find opportunities in crisis and turning them into opportunities in dealing with structural risks. They have not only brought Chinese engineering technology to the world but also provided carriers for the dissemination of Chinese culture and Chinese spirit. These practices deserve to be documented, organized and analyzed to build risk management theories and project management theories with Chinese Wisdom. They can also guide students to experience China's great country's responsibility in the construction of “Belt and Road” and the engineering spirit in the light of the country's “going out” strategy and international environment, thus realizing the in-depth integration of the course's civics and teaching process.
Chief Expert of the Project: Wang Lei,
Associate Professor of the Department of Project Management and Industrial Engineering of the School of Management at Shandong University
