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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…
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The 15 years of Google
Interesting graphic that depicts the evolution of Google and its business model since 1997. In many ways, Google defined what internet is and yet it evolved quickly with what the internet came to be today. We take many things for granted today when we open a browser. When we search we expect to find most…
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Battle of ideas on India’s future
In the midst of our economic woes in India, two of the world’s leading economists are debating on what the India’s future economic growth model should be. Amartya Sen and Jagadish Bhagwati are two of the eminent economists that India has ever produced. Both have a different point of view on the path that India…
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Is Apple Listening to 7 million jail break customers?
With every iOS update it seems that the percentage of users jailbreaking their phones is increasing. What does that tell? Customers want more out of their devices than what Apple is providing. The divergence is increasing with every incremental update. Importantly, the users who want to tweak their devices are also the loyal apple developers.…
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China’s Shadow Banking System
A well researched article in FT.com warns about the exponential growth of shadow banking system in China and the potential fallout in future. Wealth Management Products (WMPs) are emerging as alternate asset of choice for investors in China seeking better returns than the bank deposits. Mainstream banks in China offer regulated and ultra-low interest rates…