Year: 2014
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Do we have Digital Monopolies?
Our world today is dominated by internet giants who hold sway over our daily routine. Google, Amazon, Facebook not only dominate a part of the internet, but hold such commanding market share that we could start calling them Digital Monopolies. Regulators certainly think they are monopolies, if we look at the recent anti-trust allegations in…
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Flying on a single engine with clueless pilots in rough weather
That blog title was an attempt to summarize the state of global economy today. The global economy, for a while, is running on a single engine ; that is of US and UK. Euro zone is still struggling and one financial shock away from recession. Japan is running out of fuel after an year of…
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Lessons from Warren Buffet’s Annual Letters – Part 1
This is the first in the series of articles about my learnings from Warren Buffet’s annual letters to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway. The greatness of this man is in distilling his worldly wisdom in investing into simple sentences that an average investor can understand. His annual reports, starting from 1965 to 2013, are a classic…
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Banking on Agility : Have you got it right?
A blog post from me on Wipro website about the emergence of Business Operations Platforms in Banking & Financial Services. Banks, driven by complex business environment and uncertain regulatory framework are moving their processes on to rule-driven, configurable and flexible business process platforms. The trend is going to catch up in 2015 and beyond in…
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Platform Thinking
Networked platforms are changing the game in a way that has never been imagined before. In a simple sense, a networked platform, brings the consumers and suppliers of services or content together to transact business or exchange ideas. Platforms – as compared to traditional e-commerce sites – go a step further. They build a complete…