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Category Archives: Globalization
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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Pfeffer on power in organizations- the”just world” hypothesis in B2B and Supply Chains
Jeffrey Pfeffer has a new book (2010) out on Power and you tend to listen to Pfeffer given his huge eminence in the field of power in organizations. This blog’s interest in Pfeffer really goes back to how power works in B2B,Distribution Channels and Supply Chain relationships.In this latest book, the most fascinating point to me was the “just world” hypothesis. We tend to believe that if you do your job well, are fair in your dealings – the system will take care of you- and you’ll be all right i.e. you’ll get promoted, keep getting business or supplies etc. etc.
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]
Microfinance problems in the developing world – let’s look at the math
Last month (in 2010) this blog had reported about the microfinance industry problems and now there is a story in the NY Times . Let’s get the math straight- if you hire a CEO at a salary of 0.5 Million $/year and the the typical loan you give out is $200 at let us say 10 % ( rates for microfinance loans are reported at 30-70%) you make 20 $ a customer on interest. Just to make up the CEO salary you need 25,000 good microloans and this number would be about 10 thousand loans if you went up on the interest rate. If you counted the whole other administrative costs of putting loan officers in every village the number of loanees needed to break even would sky-rocket.That’s hard (find “good” loans to give out) for a populous country like India, very hard for less populated Latin America and truly difficult in many sparsely populated parts of Africa.
[Note: This post from November 19, 2010 was updated on May 31, 2021 for formatting issues]
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.
Rolls Royce engine troubles: why aviation industry closes ranks on safety but pharma can’t
You might have heard (November 10, 2010) about the Qantas plane to Sydney whose engine parts blew out part of the fuselage and the plane luckily made it back to Singapore. Since then several airlines with the Rolls Royce engines have been grounded for checks and verification.
[Note: This post from November 10, 2010 was updated for formatting issues on May 31, 2021]
Global organizations think local in India – GE,UTC ,Pepsi – the US small business “global” ecosystem?
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