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Category Archives: Change Strategy
Of salmon – freshwater,saltwater and smoked ! The wonder of organizations and the President’s speech
The salmon comment by President Obama turned out to be one of the funniest comments of the State of the Union. The fact is that organizations – including Government, for-profit,non-profits are equally hilarious in what they do and more on why they do it. There must be some good reason that one arm of GovernmentContinue reading “Of salmon – freshwater,saltwater and smoked ! The wonder of organizations and the President’s speech”
How does innovation create jobs? – The Music Industry example
But there comes a point when unless you change the technology platform you can only do so much. My favorite example is the vinyl records->music cassette -> disc-> MP3 music platforms. Just the number of songs you could fit in into a device has jumped exponentially, industries like cassette tape makers are extinct but their place is taken by an entire cell phone industry that offers MP3 music- famously led by the iPod and iPhone.
Why do you cover glass buildings with fishing net – in India? -To balance democracy with business-
By the time (this post from January 2011) I figured this one out, our favorite taxi-cab company cab had reached the Hyderabad,India airport and I missed taking a picture. This was one image that should have appeared in this “New Year” post. Anyway let me explain why 20-50 floor glass buildings were covered with aContinue reading “Why do you cover glass buildings with fishing net – in India? -To balance democracy with business-“
Wikileaks is the third cusp in the information age- nothing is confidential and execution is the critical skill!
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in India soon after Sarkozy of France as both economies surge after 2000 years
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Jobless rate in US climbs by 0.2 % and the DOW climbs by almost same rate!
Today (December 2010) as the US jobless rate climbed by 0.2% to a dismal 9.8% the stock market actually went up by 0.17% which when rounded is a 0.2% rise! Experts on the stock market say that the market believes that the Government actions will increase as will be the bipartisan moves in the USContinue reading “Jobless rate in US climbs by 0.2 % and the DOW climbs by almost same rate!”
WikiLeaks on Cyber Monday – adding value when all information is available
The latest round of WikiLeaks on Cyber Monday (November 2010) is ironic. Cyber Monday got its name from early days of the Internet when folks would go to work on the weekend after Thanksgiving and use the high speed office broadband for Internet shopping for Christmas and the holidays.Now the Cyber Monday deals start onContinue reading “WikiLeaks on Cyber Monday – adding value when all information is available”
Ireland: from boom to bust and bailout
Some years ago I had been researching the great outsourcing work being done out of Ireland. Being culturally closer to the US, it was easier though costlier to work with Irish providers. Ireland had beaten unemployment from 16% down to 3.9% and Government incentives including low taxes had major companies like Pfizer, Dell, Microsoft, Google doing a lot of work from Ireland. In fact, with no tigers in Ireland it came to be known as “Celtic Tiger” given its huge growth and success like the South East Asian “Tiger” countries in early nineties.
[Note: This post is originally published Nov 22, 2010 updated for formatting only May 18, 2021]
As US auto starts booming again time to bailout weaker Tier 1 Tier 2 suppliers who could not globalize
When US auto sales declined from 17 million in 2005 to a low of 10.5 milliom in 2009 the suppliers whether Tier 1 or Tier 2 got squeezed. The demand for lower costs and market contraction meant that weaker auto suppliers barely stayed alive and certainly could not globalize into low-cost locations. There was neither hope nor cash to expand globally.