Category: Business & Management
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Google's Portal for India elections
The single minded vision of Google is to democratize the information in the world. Every person on this earth should have access to all available public information, no matter where they are. What better way to prove this than this Google initiative in the largest democracy in the world, India. Google search page for Indian…
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iPhone in India
iPhone, a craze here in US, doesn’t seem to be doing well in India, one of the fastest growing cellular markets in the world. Apple did not seem to have done their homework in understanding the local tastes of the consumer before getting in to the market. – India is a pre-paid cell phone market…
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Nano is here
Nano is here Finally the $2000/ 100,000 Rupees car is here. As everybody did I also thought that Nano will probably feel like a bike or a rickshaw on 4 wheels. Initial reviews from test drives suggest otherwise. Looks like Tata Motors managed to make it feel and perform like a real car. The makers…
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Innovative business models from India
A business model nurtured in the western world is not necessarily a good model for the emerging countries. The Business Week article India Inc.: A Lesson in Business Design talks about how India is trying to radically reinvent the business models to suit the special conditions in its local markets. Rule of 10% -delivering goods…
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Whither Annual budgets
This article Corporate planning through the fog describes how annual budgets will become a thing of the past. The markets and economy are changing so rapidly, more now than ever, that a budget may become useless in the next quarter. Here is what other companies are doing. I was a bit perplexed by this article…