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Category Archives: Change Strategy
Healthcare – avoiding Washington gridlock and growing jobs
Americans are sagacious and have given an electoral verdict and its really important for Congress to understand the mandate. Consider healthcare reform. The time has come to spell out what the details of healthcare reform will look like. If there are differences between the political parties – they need to sort it out between theContinue reading “Healthcare – avoiding Washington gridlock and growing jobs”
Selling loans as a product: US Mortgage market and India Microfinance
If you are not a banker it’s difficult to visualize loans as a product that everyone is pressured to sell on the banking side of the transaction. This insight came up during a discussion with some friends involved in pioneering microfinance in India.
[Note: This post from October 25, 2010 was updated on May 31, 2021 for formatting issues.]
Amazon sales up 40% as Kindle and e-book sales soar -implications for business
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Robo-signing foreclosure mess – applying auto assembly Taylor logic to services?
Fredrick Taylor famously did “time and motion” studies to improve productivity in the automobile industry. The American auto worker, pressured to produce more – did always honestly give a bolt the number of turns required. We seem to not understand how or if Taylor’s principles apply to the service economy. It now turns out thatContinue reading “Robo-signing foreclosure mess – applying auto assembly Taylor logic to services?”
Southwest Airlines and AirTran Merger : synergy in routes -just need to align “low-cost” culture
Herb Keller got Southwest Airlines going and was much celebrated as a CEO who knew how to get the mission and vision of the company “owned” by every employee- a feat that most CEO’s can only dream of doing. The current Southwest CEO and Chairman Gary Kelly favors serving larger airports that Southwest earlier avoidedContinue reading “Southwest Airlines and AirTran Merger : synergy in routes -just need to align “low-cost” culture”
“Outsourced” at NBC is so yesterday
It seems that the new “Outsourced” series on NBC is a TV version of the movie Outsourced (2006). At such a difficult economic time in the USÂ – hackneyed stereotypes of Americans and Indians do not foster global understanding and are certainly not funny if the US viewer is unemployed. Just see the comments onContinue reading ““Outsourced” at NBC is so yesterday”
Employees First -Customers Second – the enabling CEO and Gen Y
Vineet Nayar ‘s ideas are quite remarkable and yet simple. He says that its really important to be able to motivate employees through transparency ,empowerment and enabling. The employee should truly feel that this is her/his company, cause and customer and s/he is the “owner”. Also Nayar is one of the first large company CEO’sContinue reading “Employees First -Customers Second – the enabling CEO and Gen Y”
Recession is over,stockmarket is up – when will jobs and housing turn around?
Apparently,the recession is over since June of 2009 – it was announced today, stocks went up in the US and em pathetically-worldwide. But this does not go well with lots of Americans. As President Obama mentioned today, all talk of the recession ending is useless if you do not have a job. And currently theContinue reading “Recession is over,stockmarket is up – when will jobs and housing turn around?”
Re-thinking Medical Insurance Business as an Electricity Business- executing healthcare reform
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