“Water, water, everywhere; Nor any drop to drink” from Coleridge’s famous poem was part of everyone’s curriculum in school, but it may soon become a harsh reality for today’s urban dwellers living in mega cities. With only 2.5% of the... Read More.
General Motors India recently announced plans to phase out some of its old luxury models (Optra and Aveo), owing to the current slowdown in the automobile industry. In an industry where workers rarely get any breaks, GM India had observed... Read More.
Theory tells us that as industries mature, scale becomes increasingly important. ValueNotes’ latest research indicates that this is now the case with the legal process outsourcing or LPO industry in India. Back in 2005, ValueNotes was one of the first analyst... Read More.
I am baffled by the title of a recent press release from Assocham - “Corporate espionage via social media rampant in India Inc.: Survey”. It is misleading. Assocham conducted a survey in 5 cities in India, covering 1500 senior people in... Read More.
Theory tells us that as industries mature, scale becomes increasingly important. ValueNotes' latest research indicates that this is now the case with the legal process outsourcing or LPO industry in India. Back in 2005, ValueNotes was one of the first analyst... Read More.
Two decades have passed since the first Earth Summit was held at Rio de Janeiro. The Rio+20 Earth Summit will be held this week to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 conference, to review the progress made in implementing... Read More.
Niranjan Rajadhyaksha wrote in his weekly column The Impartial Spectator describing how culture influences growth of nations, “Parking behaviour is a reflection of social norms prevalent in a country”. And social norms affect (directly and indirectly) the way we conduct... Read More.
LEDs have been positioned as the future of the lighting industry for quite some time now. But due to the high costs and limited consumer awareness, the Led industry so far has managed to grab just a small mouthful of... Read More.
All businesses everywhere undertake some kind of CI; they cannot survive without it. Even mom and pop stores do – although very informally. In India, it is mainly the large companies and multinationals that have formal competitive intelligence activities. How do... Read More.
Notwithstanding the alleged irregularities in the Facebook IPO, let's understand that IPO markets have structurally changed over the last two decades. Increasingly, models and rules borrowed from the US have been adopted in other countries, including India. From a time when... Read More.
