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India is on a roll. Indians are on a roll. We have learnt how to grow through consumption. In a four-part series, I try to dissect the secrets behind India’s growth story. Happy to share the first secret: The Youngistan. [Read More…]
Number crunching has never been more interesting than when measuring the impact of technology on an ordinary life. Every minute, the world buys stuff worth over $850,000 online, puts in 3.7 million searches on Google, sends 18 million text messages, 38 million WhatsApp messages, 187 million email messages, views 4.7 million videos on YouTube, watch Netflix for 266,000 hours, swipes Tinder 1.1 million times, downloads 375,000 apps. The world has over 6 billion mobile phones, 3.6 billion Internet users, 450 million Wi Fi networks, etc. [Read More…]
The controversial advertisement by Government of India inviting professionals from private sector into the bureaucracy on a contractual basis of three, extending upto five, years is an interesting one. While much debate has erupted on the possibility of a hidden agenda behind this move by ruling political coalition, the idea, by itself, looks neat and merits attention. Not going into the politics behind the move, this composition also is in no way casting any aspersions on the competence of our UPSC bred Civil Services babus. After all, a substantial credit must be given to those visionary Civil Servants for India’s impressive growth despite severe handicaps like poverty, illiteracy, complex social fabric, poor infrastructure, etc [Read More…]
Data teams up with audio and video and creates new avatars of social media. Government teams up with various hospitals, pharma companies, NGOs, insurance companies, etc. to offer affordable healthcare. Banks and NBFCs team up with financial technology entities to offer co-lending to MSMEs. An interior design company teams up with NBFC, technology company, retail chain and a large builder for an off-the-shelf solution in making a dream home. Welcome to another wave in marketing. [Read More…]
Investor Relations is defined in Wikipedia as a strategic management responsibility that is capable of integrating finance, communication, marketing and securities law compliance to enable the most effective two-way communication between a company, the financial community, and other constituencies, which ultimately contributes to a company’s securities achieving fair valuation. [Read More…]