China → Global

Going global is not about exporting what already exists. It is about deciding what the company should become in the world.

Seven questions before one market.

DUNE Global 7 turns expansion from a country hunt into seven connected founder decisions.

  1. 01WHY

    Why should this company go global?

  2. 02WHERE

    Where should we win first?

  3. 03WHAT

    What exactly are we taking global?

  4. 04WHO

    Who is the first real global customer?

  5. 05WITH WHOM

    Who helps us enter?

  6. 06HOW

    How should we enter and retain long-term control?

  7. 07BUILD

    What has to exist locally for this to become real?

Explore the DUNE Global 7 method

Start with the decision.

  1. 01
    WHY

    What Is the First Step in Going Global?

    The first step is not choosing a country. It is deciding why global growth matters, what future it must make possible, and which capability has a credible right to win beyond China.

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  2. 03
    WHERE

    How Should a Chinese Company Choose Its First Overseas Market?

    Choose the first market for strategic fit and quality of learning—not for market size alone. The best beachhead is where real demand, company advantage, access, economics, and manageable complexity meet.

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  3. 04
    BUILD

    Product Export Is Not Company Globalization

    Product export moves an offer across a border. Company globalization builds the customer knowledge, local capability, organizational system, and global-local decision rights required to create value repeatedly in more than one market.

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  4. 08
    WHO

    What Is the Founder’s Role in Going Global?

    Globalization cannot be delegated too early. The founder should own the first thesis, first consequential customer and partner relationships, cultural learning, and resource choices until the company has evidence and a capable operating leader.

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  5. 09
    WHAT

    How Is AI Changing Global Expansion?

    AI is reducing some cross-border operating friction, but its larger effect is strategic: it can change the product, reshape the customer experience, and make a different global business model possible—not merely translate the old business faster.

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  6. 10
    WHY

    Where Does the Second Growth Curve Come From?

    The second growth curve rarely comes from brainstorming unrelated businesses. It emerges where an underused earned asset meets a structural change, creating a new customer problem the company has an unusual right to solve.

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  7. 11
    WHAT

    How Chinese Supply-Chain Capability Becomes a Global Business Model

    Supply-chain capability becomes a global business model when the company moves beyond low cost and makes orchestration valuable to the customer: sensing demand, configuring supply, coordinating complexity, learning quickly, and reliably delivering an outcome.

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  8. 12
    BUILD

    What Is a Global Growth Blueprint?

    A Global Growth Blueprint is a living decision system—not a market report. It connects WHY, WHERE, WHAT, WHO, WITH WHOM, HOW, and BUILD to owners, evidence gates, a 90-day route, a 12-month capability plan, and conditions for stopping or changing course.

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Connected thinking. Applied to decisions.

Method defines the enduring frame. Insights answer live founder questions. Scenarios show application. Services bring the decision into the room.

  1. METHODGlobal 7
  2. INSIGHTFirst Overseas Market
  3. SCENARIOStrategic Scenario 001
  4. SERVICEGlobal Growth