Union Budget 2019 had many firsts : Independent India’s first woman to be the Full Time Finance Minister, shunning the brown Budget briefcase in favour of a red parcel like bag, keeping the Budget speech devoid of numbers which most people do not relate to. These...
Banking and Financial Services (BFSI) are one of the oldest industry sectors in the world. Apparently, the oldest surviving bank of our times started in Italy way back in 1472. And in India, financial services industry started in late eighteenth century. BFSI sector...
People make a significant difference to a business : its sustainability, reputation and financial results. Every business leader looks for the best talent, but does not invest adequately in this direction. The amount of efforts and time put to develop a product,...
Steve Jobs said, “The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world.” Businesses need to move at a great speed in order to deal with an environment which is volatile and uncertain. It is their talent who has to...
“First comes thought; then transformation of the thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality”, said Napoleon Hill, author of best-seller self-help books. Companies are focusing on their core business rather than frittering away their...
Howard Scultz famously commented about attrition in customer traffic to Starbucks, “I don’t want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse. We must maintain a value proposition to our customers as well as differentiate the...
