25 May CI: Working without precision
Picking out and piecing together relevant bits of information on the business environment from the noisy information overload around, is what CI practitioners must do. ... Read More.
21 May CI preparedness
Most organisations approach competitive intelligence in a fire-fighting mode. They watch their market share go down one quarter, and hope it just a one-off thing. After the trend persists in the second quarter, they start making noises internally and call... Read More.
10 Apr J.P. Morgan Asset Management – ValueNotes Investment Confidence Index, Wave III
Measured optimism in India's financial community Apr 2010: The 3rd wave of the J.P. Morgan Asset Management - ValueNotes Investment Confidence Index (ICI) in India suggests a sense of measured optimism from the financial community. The results indicate that a range... Read More.
09 Mar Actionable analysis in an imperfect environment: A guide to CI in India
Practitioners of competitive intelligence (CI) in most developed markets are accustomed to applying analytical and statistical tools to in-depth information which are available in standard database formats and collected from reliable sources. However, India can overwhelm even the most astute... Read More.
15 Feb Rural schools – private or government?
I have long held the view that the quality of education that the government provides in India through its municipal schools is significantly inferior to that provided by the private schools. I felt the government should simply give “education coupons”... Read More.
23 Jan The food prices blame game
Today’ news reported that the Congress has put the issue of food price rise on the shoulders of the agriculture minister and the minister in turn has shifted the blame on to Mother Nature. Who is responsible? And who needs... Read More.
25 Oct Celebrating the Right to Information
It has been four years since the Right to Information Act was passed in India. Its record during its relatively brief tenure is mixed. A recent a study by the National RTI Awards Secretariat instituted by the Public Cause Research... Read More.
10 Oct J.P. Morgan Asset Management – ValueNotes Investment Confidence Index, Wave II
India’s appetite for investing is back Oct 2009: The results of the second wave of the J.P. Morgan Asset Management - ValueNotes Investment Confidence Index (ICI) in India suggest that confidence has picked up across all segments in the financial... Read More.
10 Aug J.P. Morgan Asset Management – ValueNotes Investment Confidence Index, Wave I
India's first-ever investor and advisor focused sentiment indicators Aug 2009:J.P. Morgan Asset Management India, in association with ValueNotes launch India’s first Investment Confidence Index (ICI). The Index, which will be published on a quarterly basis, captures the confidence of retail investors, corporate... Read More.
29 Mar Market Research Outsourcing (MRO) – buyer survey
March 2009: ValueNotes hosted an industry briefing in Bombay to present the findings of its research report, Market Research Outsourcing (MRO) - buyer survey. Delegates discussed the future of the market research offshoring business and the funding opportunities in MRO... Read More.
