Suggestions For The Indian Software Product Industry
Lamenting on the declining revenues of the Indian software product industry, this article in today's Economic Times puts the blame on long sales cycles and lack of preferential treatment for…
Win 100 SAP Customer Contacts Every Week
In continuation of our recent launch of v2 of our SAP MAILING LIST, we're pleased to launch our program to give away 100 SAP customer contacts (worth $200) every week.…
FIs Can Bolster Equity Participation Only By Mitigating Risk
In an attempt to drive more investments into markets for equity and other higher risk asset classes by the Indian population, 97% of which reportedly prefers safer avenues like savings…
A CAPTCHA A Day Keeps Customers Away
It wasn't very long ago that I'd extolled the virtues of reCAPTCHAs and had introduced them in this blog to make it easy for people to leave behind comments without…
Puzzle Versus Mystery: Who’s To Blame For The Great Recession
I recently read the following definitions: Puzzle: Pivots around lack of information e.g. Watergate scandal, Osama bin Laden's whereabouts. Can be solved with more information. Mystery: All the information is…
GTM360 Launches SAP Mailing List v2
Around three months ago, we launched our SAP MAILING LIST product which then contained around 3,500 contacts of SAP customers and partners. Apart from fielding inquiries from several prospective customers, we derived a…
Regulation Can Prevent The Last Crisis
Lately, there has been a lot of buzz around how Reserve Bank of India, Bank of China and other banking industry regulators in the emerging world saved their respective economies…
Why Implementation Methodologies Won’t Go Away Anytime Soon
Writing in a recent Finextra blog, Gordon Perchthold laments on the futility of relying upon methodologies. Involved especially in ERP and other large change initiatives, SAP ASAP, Oracle AIM and other implementation methodologies…
A Little Communication Can Go A Long Way
I was recently in the market for a new credit card, and I decided to inquire about the various options available with the branch manager of a leading leading Indian…
How Banks Can Differentiate Beyond Products
In a recent comment on a Finextra post (http://www.finextra.com/community/fullblog.aspx?id=4490), Madelie von Ludwig ( http://www.finextra.com/community/profile.aspx?memberid=51569) of Nedbank, Johannesburg wrote that banking products "are becoming a commodity and differentiation has to take…