Let’s look at the statistics. Only 30 million out of 250 million internet users (12%) are shopping online despite being lured with heavy discounts, mouth watering promotional schemes and ‘Cash on Delivery’. There must be ‘pain' experienced by customers that must be stopping them from participating in the party. Unfortunately these paint points reside within the business model created by the 'biggies'!
After a one-week break, Shreyas is back with his 46th edition of Shreyas Recommends. This week - How much does Warren Buffet read? How much does a CEO earn? Why did a consulting firm buy a design firm? The story of the white rhino and why doing things alone may be recommended.
It is always considered to be good to pursue an MBA degree from a reputed B-School before handling a management role. But what disappoints the most is the inability of majority of B-Schools to showcase the core corporate realities & to teach the implications of management concepts. Most of the B-Schools focus on the breadth of knowledge rather than depth of it. Practical irrelevance of this knowledge for the future managers is the by-product of this approach. Here are 3 important management concepts which B-Schools are usually failed to teach practically:-
We bring you Episode 9 of the Founding Fuel Series - New Rules of Business by Rajesh Srivastava where he talks about Growth Hacking - a concept where there is no additional marketing spend but exponential growth in users and/or revenue. He uses case studies not only of technology pioneers like Dropbox and Gmail but also of brick and mortar businesses like Reliance Infocomm (before it was given to ADAG) and Gillette.
Week 45 is here. Shreyas takes us on a journey from Berlin to Bollywood to Mother's Day to GST to Indian Stock Markets. Also, should facebook buy Twitter?
There are several trends that will define the 21st century. A dominant one will be an enterprise strategy to be proactive. The admired enterprises of today do not wait for trouble to raise their ugly heads; they pick up issues at a nascent stage and proactively take actions to ensure that trouble does not arise at all. As a result, the cost incurred in rectifying any problem is smaller and the damage is limited. And such companies go one step further to win customer loyalty by anticipating their needs.
