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The Indian Cloud Revolution: Indian IT industry had established a global model that was viable and offered better services to IT companies across the world but Indian companies are yet to take to cloud computing in a big way. Enabled by Information Technologies and riding on the back of telecommunications network, the Cloud can herald a myriad of solutions ranging from enabling telemedicine, setting up remote-classrooms.
Market Analysis of Water and Wastewater Treatment for Power Sector in India: The Indian market for water and wastewater treatment in the power sector is in its growth stage, driven mainly by the demand for additional power and energy by rising population and growing GDP. Ion Exchange and DM are still the most favoured water treatment options for boiler feed water. RO, UF/ MF are gaining grounds, but are restrained due to the price factor.
India Media and Entertainment: The Indian Media & Entertainment sector has failed to live up to high expectations, dragged down by a fragmented structure, bickering over transformations and weak economic growth. We believe the M&E sector is set to undergo major changes that would channel it back onto a robust growth path. It is an attractive play on the booming spending on consumption in India and is gearing up to capitalize on the growth potential.
Global Geographical Information System Market in Transportation Industry: The Global GIS market in the Transportation industry is driven by many factors. The need to optimize transportation management is one of the major drivers in the market. The governments in developed and developing countries across the globe have started using GIS solutions to improve their transportation system.
Electric Vehicle Charge Point and Battery Technology Evolution: The development of battery technology and particularly the rise of lithium-ion(li-ion) batteries has propelled the Electric Vehicle market forward in recent years. An effective public charging infrastructure is a crucial element in the rollout and mass acceptance of EVs. Electric Vehicle Initiative (EVI) countries, comprising of UK, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, Germany, France, Spain, Japan, US and China, have together pledged to have 20 million EVs on the roads by 2020.
Sustainability as Adaptability: Most corporations now view sustainability as a key requirement for competitive advantage, but few claim to have achieved it. One of the key obstacles separating intention from execution is that the sustainability frameworks employed by companies tend to be insufficiently clear, precise, or comprehensive to guide decision making. One of the most pressing challenges for corporate leaders today is, of course, to sustain the economic viability of the core businesses.
Your Strategy needs a Strategy: Major players like Microsoft or Google or Facebook can, without much warning, introduce some new platform or standard that fundamentally alters the basis of competition. In this environment, competitive advantage comes from reading and responding to signals faster than your rivals do, adapting quickly to change, or capitalizing on technological leadership to influence how demand and competition evolve.
Uncertainty about Government Policy and Stock Prices: Stock prices should fall at the announcement of a policy change, on average. The price decline should be large if uncertainty about government policy is large, and also if the policy change is preceded by a short or shallow economic downturn. Policy changes should increase volatilities and correlations among stocks. The jump risk premium associated with policy decisions should be positive, on average.
A New Perspective on How Companies and Executives can Accelerate the Development of Women Leaders: In light of today’s leadership shortage, companies face challenges in trying to identify and develop new leaders to fill the key roles left vacant by baby-boomer retirements. This feat can only be accomplished by tapping all sources of future leadership talent–especially women.
A Learning Organization Perspective of Quality Operations in the IT Industry: High-tech IT firms are special organizations that favor excellence in working conditions and policies, procedures, techniques, new ideas, and innovative services that exceed customer needs, and more importantly, invest in people in terms of both personal and professional development and skills.
To Expand Its Economy, India needs MBA Talent: With more of India’s companies now competing aggressively on the world stage, they will need a continued pipeline of globally minded managers and creative engineers to achieve their goals.
New IIMs to synchronise placement process to beat competition: The new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) plan to join hands to beat competition from their older peers. The older IIMs synchronise their placements. Similarly, the newer IIMs can co-ordinate the placement process so that there is no job loss and the whole process is transparent.
GMAT gaining acceptance in India: GMAT gaining acceptance in India If you have failed to crack CAT, look at GMAT as an option to gain admission to any of the top ranked B-School in India and abroad. GMAT seems to have gained acceptance in India in recent years for admission to PG programmes, not just in business administration, but other streams as well.
Top B-schools see foreigners apply for faculty posts: Be it the gloomy economic scenario in the West or the growing numbers of globally acclaimed B-schools of India, domestic campuses are finding more number of non-Indian origin people applying for faculty posts
Jobs Trends Outlook for India 2012: This report features recruitment and hiring trends and employment prospects for graduate business and management students in India and briefly spotlights trends in the Indian student pipeline for graduate management education.
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