Replace its Razr

Ask someone about Motorola’s latest management rejig and you’d perhaps hear just a ‘sigh’, with a sardonic grin!

After all, times must be quite desperate for Ed Zander, CEO, Motorola Inc. to confess, “Performance in our mobile devices business continues to be unacceptable...” Reasons enough for a change in top management, which included the appointment of Greg Brown as President & COO and Thomas Meredith as acting - CFO.

Motorola gave yet another shocker to its shareholders on March 21, 2007 with its dismal first quarter 2007 outlook, warning investors of a ‘negative’ EPS between $0.07 & $0.09! While the MotoRazr rocked; the company had become oblivious of successful launches by competitors.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

Bold-age coming

By the time you end up reading this sentence, 7 people would have been added to the global population chart. It is estimated that the world’s population will touch a mind-boggling figure of 9.2 billion by 2050 with three times as many people (against present population) above the age of 60. Thanks to technology and better medical facilitation, the average life-span will be above 72 years by 2025 A.D. While diseases like cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, infectious diseases and cancer would cause mortality, increasing medical progresses would have increased the longevity across the world. In the future then, old age is bound to create complications for society. The worst sufferers would be females who, though having a better average life-span than men, are more likely to be susceptible to physical and emotional violence. More than the growing population then, the incapability of providing a better life style for millions of elders would be worrisome.

The waning practices of family care and positive attitude towards the elders thence becomes alarming. Effective steps like adult day care and counseling, home health aides, nursing care and tax benefits to adult children who live with their parents need to be urgently considered, if not forcibly implemented.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

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