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Manufacturing Execution System Market in India: The MES market in India is one of the fastest growing markets in the Global MES market. The majority of the growth of the MES market in India is derived from the Pharmaceutical, Oil and Gas, Automotive, Consumer Packaged Goods, and Food and Beverages industries in India. The MES market in India is expected to grow at a CAGR of 17.32 percent during the period 2011–2015.
India - Broadcasting and Digital Media: This report mainly focuses on Broadcasting and Digital Media market .India has long had a fascination with television. After years of steady growth, the country has emerged as one of the largest TV markets in the world in terms of viewers. In the last decade the television programming landscape has been totally transformed. India now has one of the largest broadcasting networks in terms of infrastructure.
Electricity in India: This electricity market report covers the sale of electricity to industrial, commercial, household, transportation, and other end-users, including agricultural. The Indian market has seen healthy growth in recent years with the exception of 2010 when it declined. The electricity market is expected to grow further in terms of value with moderate but rather steady growth rates throughout the years up to 2016.
Life Insurance in Asia Pacific: The value of the life insurance market is shown in terms of gross premium incomes from mortality protection and retirement savings plans. The insurance market depends on a variety of economic and non-economic factors and future performance is difficult to predict.
India - Telecommunications Infrastructure and Forecasts: This report covers overview of national telecommunication infrastructure developments and forecast. India has a huge national telecommunications network. With fixed-line penetration falling below 3% coming into 2012, the country has nevertheless achieved a remarkable coverage, 98% of the population having some form of access to a telephone.
How the Leaders are Tackling Global Trade Management: As supply chains become more complex and the numbers of overseas suppliers expand, Global Trade Management has assumed critical importance. How are the leaders managing supplier relationships, data integration, and compliance challenges in this increasingly tough global arena?
Business Process Outsourcing: A Strategic Review on Indian Perspective: The aim of this paper is to extend a conceptual understanding of business process outsourcing (BPO) and its prevailing practices in the background of the post-liberalized economic scenario of India. Efforts have also been made to discuss the major work verticals of Indian ITES-BPO industry
Connecting With the Digital Customer of the Future: The authors expect that media and entertainment (M&E) providers will increasingly be challenged to offer consumers entertainment experiences that are more relevant, and therefore perceived as more valuable
The Flow Story: The article offers information regarding the development of brand equity with enhancing revenue flow. It mentions that a shareholder value should be created by firms to tie any intermediate marketing performance metrics to the value.
Understanding factors affecting consumer intention to shop in a virtual world: The objectives of this study were to understand that factors affecting consumer intention to shop in a virtual world and to analyze the relationships among these factors. Particularly, this study explored consumer innovativeness as an external variable that influences consumer intention indirectly through its effects on consumer experiences with the virtual world application. The findings indicated that consumers’ perceived enjoyment and control positively influenced their shopping intentions.
QS TopMBA.com Jobs & Salary Trends Report 2012: A major annual report shows that global growth in employer demand for MBA graduates rose by 12% in 2012, with emerging markets contributing more than ever.
Essec signs deal for brand new campus in Singapore: Essec dean Pierre Tapie has announced that the French school will build a new campus in Singapore to extend the teaching of its degrees a nd executive short courses.From January 2013, the school will teach its Grange Ecole Masters in Management degree in Singapore, and teaching of the school’s Executive MBA and full-time MBA programme.
Free, high-quality and with mass appeal: Massive open online courses could revolutionise learning.Edward Hess, professor at the University of Virginia’s Dard¬en School of Business, is teaching a “massive open online course” (mooc) starting in January on Coursera – the free online education platform founded this year by two Stanford University computer scientists. So far, more than 26,000 students have signed up.
Thunderbird appoints former university president as dean: Thunderbird School of Global Management has appointed Larry Penley as its next president (dean). Dr Penley has been interim chief academic officer and provost at the Arizona school since April 2012 and will replace former astronaut Barbara Barrett. She in turn has been acting president following the departure earlier this year of Angel Cabrera to become president of George Mason University, in Virginia.
Indian institutes rush for global accreditation: Indian institutes are increasingly applying for international accreditation, including from bodies like the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), Association of MBAs (AMBA) and EQUIS, for getting into the list of global schools having coveted accreditation.
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