Talk of Many Things

According to a recent report, FMCG companies have started manufacturing store brands for leading retailers in India and elsewhere. As I've written in the past, store brands - also called…

I was initially shocked to learn from this report released by ThreatMetrix last week that financial services firms worry more about fraud than customer convenience. On second thoughts, I shouldn't…

Brands like Xerox, Maggi and, to a lesser extent, SAP, virtually represent entire product categories. With a dominant market share,  such generic brands have not only enabled their owners earn huge revenues in the native product categories -…

Like me, most automobile drivers might find GPS navigation systems more useful to reach a particular place rather than to find the way to the general area in which the…

"Executive mandate" is often cited as a critical success factor for virtually all kinds of information technology projects. Whether it involves the development of custom solutions or implementation of ERP or…

In response to a recent question on LinkedIN, “After an interview do you send an email or do you think a handwritten personal note can be make a difference?”, I’d…

Widely lauded for putting more money in the hands of India's vast rural population, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) provides guaranteed employment of 100 days per year to the…

I can easily understand Alex Gross's complaint with the Seattle zoo where he takes his son in James Patterson's novel London Bridges since my family and I have faced similar…

In India, it's customary for people to take calls on their mobile phones even when they're busy in meetings or while they're driving - most often only to tell the…