The well-known economist and Dean of School of Management, UCAS passed away in July 12. 8 days after his departure, his work “On Virtual Business” was published. The book was highly praised by the scholars in China.
The concept of virtual business was put forward by Cheng Siwei in 2005. He then published a series of articles and made a lot of speeches on virtual business. Virtual business defined by Cheng Siwei based on system engineering theory, adopted advanced management and information technology, linked the fist process of manufacturing of the real economy to the final consuming process, realized Comprehensive integration and overall optimization, and finally reached the purpose of improve the operation of real economy.
The book collected more than 30 articles, speeches and interviews of Cheng Siwei, involving supply chain management, the 4th party logistics, mobile Internet, Internet of things, and cloud computing, etc.
