I must confess, I’ve had the good fortune of working/collaborating with several ‘thorough professionals’ in business, finance and technology and through these relationships, I have been a beneficiary of immense knowledge and continuous learning. The one thing that I learnt was “Always learn. All the time.”
You have heard the buzzword and want to cash in but don't know how. This post will give you insights to everything you need to consider, plan and implement to achieve a customer-centric, synergistic digital business.
Once upon a time there was a king and once when he returned from the tour of his kingdom he found that his feet were dirty due to patchy road and dirt all around the city. He was sad and decided that he should get built a good quality road so that his feet do not get dirty again. He had a wise minister and proposed that instead of spending treasury on road king should wear a good quality long boots which can cover his feet and this would solve the problem!
The 2 February monetary policy review and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan’s interaction with the media after the release of the policy didn’t have an iota of surprise. Rajan has taken every care to make the policy review a non-event ahead of the Union Budget which will be presented by the end of this month.
India went up in arms last week when the Coldplay video Hymn for the Weekend went online, probably as a prelude to the Super Bowl 50 scheduled in a few days from now, sparking off a furious cultural debate. People objected to the stereotypes in the video. Nothing wrong with stereotypes. After all the dictionary meaning of stereotype is 'a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.' For the masses stereotypes should work well, except that the people who criticised it for being a stereotype were from the upper echelons of Indian society (probably Coldplay target groups in India) who no doubt detest the stereotype. Because they want to think of the stereotype as the past. Others spoke of cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation is a big word and typically involves members of a dominant group exploiting the culture of less privileged groups — often with little understanding of the latter’s history, experience and traditions. So I am not sure the phrase was being used in the right context. Unless we look at ourselves as the less privileged group here, which would indeed be very unfortunate.
Imagining how India will look in March 2019, a month before the next election is an interesting exercise. This is important as most parties appear to be preparing for a 2019 which looks very similar to how it looks today. However, given the direction that the Modi Govt has taken and assuming success in all the programs, India may look quite different from today. I am only focussed on issues that impact the average voter.
Let me give in to temptation and begin by saying that ‘All investments are subject to market risks. Please read the scheme information document carefully before investing’. Now that I have absolved myself of all the crimes I am going to commit in the coming few paragraphs (and also arson, theft, murder and sedition), let me just clear the biggest misconception people have about investments: no matter how much the word ‘in-vest’ points at something which is inside a man’s vest and no matter how much 80C seems to point at the measurement of something which is inside a woman’s vest, investments have got nothing to do with anything remotely close to a man’s/woman’s torso. In fact, it’s a subject of the heartless and occasionally, of the brainless.
General Motors announced in January that it is beta testing Maven, a car-sharing and renting service, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
I must confess, I’ve had the good fortune of working/collaborating with several ‘thorough professionals’ in business, finance and technology and through these relationships, I have been a beneficiary of immense knowledge and continuous learning. The one thing that I learnt was “Always learn. All the time.”
You have heard the buzzword and want to cash in but don't know how. This post will give you insights to everything you need to consider, plan and implement to achieve a customer-centric, synergistic digital business.
Once upon a time there was a king and once when he returned from the tour of his kingdom he found that his feet were dirty due to patchy road and dirt all around the city. He was sad and decided that he should get built a good quality road so that his feet do not get dirty again. He had a wise minister and proposed that instead of spending treasury on road king should wear a good quality long boots which can cover his feet and this would solve the problem!
The 2 February monetary policy review and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan’s interaction with the media after the release of the policy didn’t have an iota of surprise. Rajan has taken every care to make the policy review a non-event ahead of the Union Budget which will be presented by the end of this month.
India went up in arms last week when the Coldplay video Hymn for the Weekend went online, probably as a prelude to the Super Bowl 50 scheduled in a few days from now, sparking off a furious cultural debate. People objected to the stereotypes in the video. Nothing wrong with stereotypes. After all the dictionary meaning of stereotype is 'a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.' For the masses stereotypes should work well, except that the people who criticised it for being a stereotype were from the upper echelons of Indian society (probably Coldplay target groups in India) who no doubt detest the stereotype. Because they want to think of the stereotype as the past. Others spoke of cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation is a big word and typically involves members of a dominant group exploiting the culture of less privileged groups — often with little understanding of the latter’s history, experience and traditions. So I am not sure the phrase was being used in the right context. Unless we look at ourselves as the less privileged group here, which would indeed be very unfortunate.
Imagining how India will look in March 2019, a month before the next election is an interesting exercise. This is important as most parties appear to be preparing for a 2019 which looks very similar to how it looks today. However, given the direction that the Modi Govt has taken and assuming success in all the programs, India may look quite different from today. I am only focussed on issues that impact the average voter.
Let me give in to temptation and begin by saying that ‘All investments are subject to market risks. Please read the scheme information document carefully before investing’. Now that I have absolved myself of all the crimes I am going to commit in the coming few paragraphs (and also arson, theft, murder and sedition), let me just clear the biggest misconception people have about investments: no matter how much the word ‘in-vest’ points at something which is inside a man’s vest and no matter how much 80C seems to point at the measurement of something which is inside a woman’s vest, investments have got nothing to do with anything remotely close to a man’s/woman’s torso. In fact, it’s a subject of the heartless and occasionally, of the brainless.
General Motors announced in January that it is beta testing Maven, a car-sharing and renting service, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
