The IIPM Think Tank - Strategic innovators

Strategic Innovators

Issue - 30/11/2010

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Strategic Insight

And you Thought The World Bank Changed our World!
Set up after World War II as a response to the world currency failures of the 1930s, the International Monetary Fund was designed to help countries meet their Bretton Woods obligations of fixed curren...

Welcome to The Lost Decade
During the decade between 1991 and 2000, nearly 2000 venture backed companies went public. Take a look at the chart below. (It includes venture funded startups in all industries, from software to biot...

The Role of Anti-Brand Communities
Introduction and Purpose
Brand names identify, label or symbolize abstract values such as quality, status, or reputation and are a means for differentiating one product, service, manufactu...

Why Apple Wants Intrinsity
Apple’s stealthy acquisition of Intrinsity is the latest strategic move toward becoming a fully integrated consumer-electronics company. To differentiate its products and justify their higher prices, ...

A Fundamental Flaw in The Indian 3G spectrum Auction Design
The Indian telecom market is divided into 22 telecom circles and with a population of over a billion, each circle has an average population of 52 million which means that the average circle in India l...

Road Ahead for The Food Processing Industry in India: Roadblocks and Opportunities!
Recent upsurge in the Indian economy has opened up newer avenues for diversification in the food processing industry. The economic liberalization and increased consumer prosperity shows the enormous p...

Cash Kingpin of Business!
In a truly globalised economy where competition is cut throat and you get run down with even a minor sign of complacency there are times when you need to stop and look at your fundamentals. This write...

Best Practice

The Secret Need of SMEs Revealed!
SME in India
In a country like India, the potential of the SMEs to garner revenue, hold the economy stable while playing a key role in India’s competitiveness in the global markets is cons...

Case Study

Facebook’s future, Zuckerberg’s Choice!
How much is Facebook worth? Actually, the 26 year-old founder & CEO of Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg, doesn’t care. He publicly claims so. In fact, he proved it when he outplayed a clever Wolf’s bait (M...

CEO Profile

Growth Is Slowly Coming Back
SI: How has Infosys fared in the recovery phase in your view? What are the key achievements for FY 2009-10?
KRIS GOPALAKRISHNAN (KG): Given the recessionary conditions and general s...

Riding On Into The Dust Storm
When R. C. Bhargava (the topper of the Civil Services Examinations of 1956) wanted to join Maruti Udyog Limited in 1981 as the Director (Marketing), people advised him against leaving BHEL (Bharat Hea...

Setting ‘The’ Benchmark!
SI: SBI’s NIM (net interest margin) has improved significantly from 2.30% in June 2009 to 3.18% in June 2010. Where do you see it going forward?
O. P. Bhatt (OPB): We certainly want to inc...

Editorial

Product recalls A Curse or a Good News?
What’s it with product recalls that gets the world staring at the accused with a frown-filled sceptical look? Profit-seeking investors count such actions on behalf of the corporations as just another ...

Path Breaker

‘‘Following on The Heels of The Fiorina era, Mark Hurd was Exactly what HP did not need!”
Mark Hurd, the ousted former CEO & Chairman of HP, ensured a vision-led growth for the company. Under him, HP’s m-cap and revenues crossed the $100 billion mark for the first time. Now, he’s gone. Hur...

‘‘Indian Companies take over Foreign Companies for very Different reasons Than do Companies in Developed” Economies
SI: Despite the economic crisis, foreign investment in the Netherlands increased in 2009...
Robert Schipper (RS): Trade and foreign direct investment have not only driven our economy in th...

“We Serve Close to 4,200 Global Customers out of our India Centres”
SI: Since inception 130 years ago, how has the journey been so far?
Nick Lambert(NL): From a telegraph company to having a ringside view of the evolution of technology, we have successfull...

SI This Quarter

Strategy & Business This Quarter
Honda’s Ignition Woes

It seems the riddles of Honda Motor refuses to die down. For the third time since 2003, Honda Motors is recalling the popular Accord and Civic passenger cars to a...