All Payments Are Not Equal – Retail Payments Primer
This is a slightly edited version of my answer to the following question on Quora: I had a similar experience recently. I scanned the Merchant’s QR code at a restaurant with…
Is Scalability A Bogey Created By Hardware Industry?
A friend recently asked me the following question via Twitter: https://twitter.com/gopibella/status/1254986207601152001 I read the linked HBR article on Blockchain technologies and replied as follows: Many mobile payments use cases I…
Resolving The Tussle Between Different Pricing Methods
Most of us are familiar with Cost-plus and Value-based pricing, which are the two most commonly used methods for pricing products and services. In cost-plus pricing, all input costs are…
Role Of Analytics For B2B Websites
Analytics is indispensable for a B2C website. Website analytics tools like Google Analytics etc. reveal friction hotspots, blindzones, etc. and thereby help website owners redesign forms, modify CTAs, rotate online…
Why Is It So Hard To Spot Fake News? – Part 2
In Why Is It So Hard To Spot Fake News? - Part 1, I listed six hacks for spotting fake news. To recap, they were: Google It Check the URL Verify…
Why Is It So Hard To Spot Fake News? – Part 1
I struggle with this #FakeNews thingy. It's quite easy to conclude that something is fake after the fact. After all, as they say, hindsight is 20/20. But it's difficult to…
Beware Of The “Upskill Or Die” Scam
"Cognizant fires 30,000 employees at mid managment levels." "Infosys lays off 10,000 project managers." The media has been full of such reports for a while now. The common narrative in…
Differentiate Your Inside Sales With NATO Phonetic Alphabet
There are several ways for IT companies to differentiate their products and services. They include: STRADOF framework to look beyond features to find differentiators Marketable Items to make headway in…
When ERP Projects Get Derailed By “Silly” Reasons
According to the popular narrative, a software product should be highly customizable so that it can meet the customer’s specific requirements. Often times, when customers say customization, they have in…
Remote Working Funny Incident
According to The Register article entitled New York Attorney General probes Charter over claims it forced staff to work in offices amid coronavirus pandemic, US telco Charter Communications is facing…