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E-Commerce Sales : A Lesson Learnt

E-Commerce Sales : A Lesson Learnt

It’s that time of the year again when the gloves come off in the E-commerce war! This time around, The Big Billion Days find themselves sharing space with The Great Indian Festive Season and Snap-a-deal. The big guns of the Indian E-commerce battle it out publicly, literally, in their bid to win GMV supremacy and push their numbers. E-commerce majors have raised billions of dollars in investor money and are under pressure to keep their frenetic growth intact. Coming before the crucial festive season, Snapdeal, which has been inching closer to Flipkart, is now gunning for pole position. Bahl and Bansal's attack on each other is reminiscent of the cola wars between PepsiCo and Coca-Cola more than a decade ago, when claims and counter claims were made through the media.

IIM Indore
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'Getting feedback right: Motivating employees through evaluation, appreciation, and coaching' - David Patient

'Getting feedback right: Motivating employees through evaluation, appreciation, and coaching' - David Patient

“Feedback is a critical element of best-practice performance management” — this was the key message that the audience took away as they walked out of the auditorium after an inspiring, and insightful talk by Dr. David Patient, Academic Director and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Portugal, a partner institution of MYRA School of Business.

MYRA School of Business
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Life in K-Kups.

Life in K-Kups.

Oh God! Harsha Bhogle got the first movers advantage. He said it before I could say the same sentence. And so I’ll have to quote him saying, “I always believed that the most difficult thing in this world is to get into an IIM, however after coming here I realized that the most difficult thing is to get out of here”. We guys have to be very careful while writing something here. It has to be checked and cross-checked that the thing you are writing hasn’t been written by someone else at any other place, because here “Plagiarism is a serious offence and is looked down upon”. “The consequences may be severe” and “& it will be strictly dealt with”. You have to be vigilant at every step. Think before saying or doing anything. One can’t do things just for the sake of doing; it has to be backed by a strong reason and a rationale. Ha ha – that’s too much of a dose for a beginner or an outsider. Welcome to life@IIM-K, oops it’s “The Indian Institute Of Management Kozhikode” and very rightly we call it “God’s own Kampus”. Of course that’s not a spelling error. At IIM-K everything starts with K, and at K we call in Kampus. And beware we are very passionate about it. Once you stay at any IIM, no matter what kind of a person you are, everything is wiped off. Now you belong to that place and that tag defines you and stays with you forever. That is the power of an IIM and not only IIM-K but every other IIM. This is how they are designed and made. It’s really worth to be here, and all those aspirations and dreams and efforts do not go in vain. Step in here and you are assured that next two years of life will be well spent.

Ankit Abhishek
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How Organizations 'Un'Manage Change !

How Organizations 'Un'Manage Change !

Albert Einstein once said, “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once”. It is then perhaps evident that events constantly happen over time and things constantly evolve and thus change. When change is so imminent and certainly constant should it be managed by conscious interventions? Perhaps there is an alternate approach and that lies in making ‘Change’ a way of life! If Organizations are dynamic enough ‘Managing change’ will happen more from the ‘sub-conscious level’ of the organization. For this to take place it is essential that constant evolution forms the very nerve of Organization, deep rooted at the ‘Tacit Assumptions’ (As Edgar Schein defines it) level of Organization culture.

IIM Ranchi
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