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Friday, October 03, 2008

Dragon... and a little fire

There is an uncanny similarity between the events in Tibet and what was written in the book Dragon Fire

‘Pakistan neutralized,’

read the encrypted message. Air Marshal Commodore Ravi Thapar received it in the code which still had not been deciphered by the United States and European experts. It was a simple message leading to a battle plan he had already drawn up. The Chinese forces which had been pushed into Arunachal Pradesh would now be cut off from behind and then destroyed. Part of it was revenge for the dreadful defeat by China on India in 1962. Part of it was sensible military strategy... These were the lines from the famous thriller Dragon Fire written by renowned BBC journalist Humphrey Hawksley in the year 2000.

This futuristic fiction which was sequenced in the time zone of 2007 is having its ramification felt right in 2008. Incidentally Dragon Fire is set against the backdrop of a Tibetan uprising propelled by a renegade group of soldiers belonging to India’s elite Special Frontier Force (SFF) most of whose recruits are incidentally Tibetan Buddhists. It was Major Gendun Choedrak and his men from the SFF whose mission was to rescue a Buddhist religious leader Lhundrub Togden from the Drapchi Prison in Lhasa, Tibet.....Continue

Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Saturday, September 27, 2008

The stork’s at our beck and call!

While every woman dreams of becoming a mother, getting pregnant requires reflection…
It is a generation where numerous give more importance to their careers than to social interactions and many spend more time with

their computers than their respective better halves. Confident that technology, like always, will save the day and allow one to procreate whenever one wills, people are allowing their biological clocks to tick away. Buoyed by successful cases like that of Jennifer Lopez, 38, who recently gave birth to twins, and our queen of masala movies Farah Khan, 43, whose triplets are at the moment harvesting gifts from the film community, late pregnancies are becoming the norm, rather than an exception.

Says Dr. Swati, Gynecologist and IVF-fertility specialist, “While 20-40 is an absolutely safe age group to give birth to a child, 40-50 needs to be closely monitored at all points of time and beyond 50 is not recommended.” The pregnancy of the 42-year-old film director Farah Khan had made many skeptical but her delivery of three healthy babies has intrigued all those who wish to postpone parenthood and finish their education or invest in their career; or for that matter because of the belated arrival of their soul mate.Continue.....

Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

‘delicate & flashy’

The

new car features a mid body mounted V8 4.2L Audi FSi motor belting out 420 bhp of thump and over 400 foot pounds of torque. The design sequencing is decisively understated, taking the car bang on in Porsche territory rather than the ‘delicate & flashy’ Italian terrain. Massive representation & preparatory expenses have been incurred by Audi & its dealers. Speaking of business, analysts are however not that positive. There is a possibility of brand confusion with the R8 as consumers take Audis as family recreational products and not out and out sports cars. Furthermore, VW will have to reposition the R8 with respect to its subsidiary Lamborghini. The new Audi shares at least 30% of its parts with the Lamborghini Gallardo! The positioning of both super cars in one segment has the potential of eating each other’s market share, which can be particularly insalubrious for parent company VW! Moreover, Audi still has to convince the buyer that it is a competent sports car maker...

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

The drive for sportsmanship...

Audi seeks to refresh its sporting heritage with R8, can it succeed?
Call it t

he outcome of destiny or of inappropriate positioning, Audi has gradually fallen out of favour with sports car enthusiasts. It simply does not find itself in the league of Ferrari F430, Lamborghini Gallardo and Porsche 911 Turbo. Not without reason, as the car maker is predominantly associated with saloons competing head on with the relatively mundane Mercedes E320 CDI and BMW 550i! So would you spend a $100,000 on a super car made by this Bavarian auto major? If lineage is a matter of concern for the discerning buyer, then the Audi brand is no pushover, if one recalls its association with the legendary ‘Auto Union’ of the pre-WW2 era. When the R8 super car is launched internationally in early 2008, Audi hopes to once again resurrect its sports car intentions. According to Ashish Masih of Autocar India, “The R8 has the potential to make Audi a super brand. It is already receiving rave reviews.” Lying dormant in the avenues of Audi headquarters in southern Germany, the blueprint of the R8 was there all along, but Audi was just not confident enough!

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Thursday, May 08, 2008

She sells coconut oil?

Rajvi MARIWALA... does that in Marico & maybe better than anybody else in the industry ever could

She’s only 27 and joined her family business just last year. But what makes her stand out in the masses? Especially when there’s a long list of industrialists’ children who are born with silver spoons and are fortunate enough to join the family legacy at their very

first job. Well, Rajvi Mariwala opted out of that list! Born in the Mariwala family, which owns the coun- try’s leading FMCG business – Marico Group – Rajvi, at the age of 27, has the experience of working in two global firms and joined the $250 million Marico Group – as a Brand Manager – only her third job once she had proven her mettle outside in non-family firms.

An MBA from the prestigious University of Geneva, Rajvi worked with the USA based Merci Corps North West and also with Trikaya Grey. Bucked up with international experience, she joined the Marico Group in 2006 with a mission to uplift the position of the brands. CMD Harsh Mariwala needed his daughter to ensure the proper branding of many of the brands that Marico had been buying over. A FICCI FMCG analyst, who has also worked with the Mariwala, confirmed, “Rajvi understands sales and branding very well. One year is too short to prove her contribution but she will definitely do great with all the brands in Marico’s portfolio.” Not many women her age reach even half her level. And Rajvi, the exemplar ever progressive woman, has shown how to make the most of circumstances, even with the cliched silver spoons. She makes our list with gumption!

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2008
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Monday, January 28, 2008

I feel like we have control over our own destiny for the first time in the last few years!”

Agreed that Jeff took over a troubled titan but compared to Welch-era summit (when GE shares traded at $60), today having fallen by more than 33%, at just $40.7 (as on July 25, 2007), they represent a sad song for the investors as Jeff confesses, “It’s disappointing to all of us – ‘frustrated is the word I’d use. But I feel like we have control over

our own destiny for the first time in the last few years!”

But as Welch displayed confidence in his competence as, “My anticipation when I recommended Jeff for the job was that it would be 20 years & I see nothing that would be able to change it…,” the truth remains – while on one hand, Jeff has handled well the total $75 billion worth of acquisitions making GE a superpower; on the other, he has also managed write-off s worth $4 billion & a sell off of GE’s Plastic business for $11.6 billion in May 2007. Jeff ’s move to walk away from his dream of bolstering GE’s healthcare division through the purchase of Abbott Labs’ diagnostics unit for a highly overvalued $8 billion on July 12, 2007 also goes to prove that despite the slumbering stock (which has remained stagnant since he took over six years back), he still knows the first people to please – his shareholders. And for his critics, Welch nearly fired him while at GE Plastics for delivering just 7% growth instead of the planned 15% growth, but he didn’t… surely for reasons mighty!

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Friday, January 18, 2008

Penguin guy takes on the World... by words alone!

Until recently, John P. Kotter was known in business circles as a well-respected author of management books and a longtime professor at Harvard Business School. Now he is known as “the penguin guy.” Last year, Kotter rewrote his 1996 book about organizational change, “Leading Change,” for a new generation of business readers. But this time, he recast it as a fable about a talking penguin named Fred who mobilizes the entire penguin colony

against the threat of its melting iceberg.

With bright colorful illustrations and large text, “Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions” looks at first glance more like a children’s book than something a chief executive might read. But the book is attracting readers and creating a penguin movement in boardrooms around the world, Kotter said. Since its release last September, “Iceberg” has sold some 224,000 copies in hardcover (“Leading Change” has sold more than a million copies in 10 years), and been translated into 10 languages, with 10 more foreign editions in the works. Corporations have created exercises based on the lessons in “Iceberg.”

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Thursday, January 10, 2008

World over children are bought & sold in market…

UNICEF reported; there are 1.2 million children trafficked each year worldwide. Coalition against Trafficking in Women – Asia Pacific (CATW-AP) states over 200,000 children & women have been trafficked during last ten years in Bangladesh & 200-400 children are trafficked monthly. UN estimates that

nearly 200,000 children are trafficked yearly in Cameroon, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Mali, Ghana etc. Reports also state that Burma, Cambodia & Laos exported more than 200,000 women & children. There is also a startling increase in women & child trafficking in Asian countries. India imports about 5,000-7,000 Nepali girls annually. Japan, home to Asia’s largest sex industry, trafficked 150,000 non-Japanese from Thailand & Philippines.

Do we essentially want to create a society for our progeny where every mother, sister, friend & spouse has been through this nightmare? And can one imagine the horrifying impact that it would have on a society that took thousands of years of painstaking effort to build? This decision would someday have to be taken. Or else....

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2008

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

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

A politician’s gift

The British perhaps had seen it a long time back and were prudent enough

to exit in time. It is rather intriguing that even sixty years after their exit, the problem of sectarian violence, sometimes as communal clashes or caste violence and oft en on ethnic and class grounds, torments India. As if the external threats from our noble neighbours was not enough, these oft en avoidable internal conflicts have the potential to nullify all that independent India has achieved in six decades.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

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

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Business Information Security Officer

LOCATION: Mumbai
Apply to: it@planmanindia.com

A leading MNC bank, which comprises of the financial service sector’s most diverse consumer product offerings, including banking services, credit cards, loans and insurance requires a Business Information Security officer.

The incumbent would be responsible for actively executing the IS program elements and other plans developed by the Business or Infosec office as applicable, assist the businesses in identifying IS risks and ensure they are understood – that appropriate controls are embedded in the day-to-day operations and remediation of non-compliance is documented and addressed. He must respond to security events by initiating and coordinating emergency actions to protect the business unit and its customers from an imminent loss of information or value.

The incumbent would also be responsible to report IS issues to the business and work with them to identify solutions to remediate them. Escalate as applicable with appropriate documentation. Facilitate awareness and training programs as specified by the Business and/or Infosec unit as applicable. Coordinate and actively manage the Third Party IS Assessment program in coordination with the business. Identify and proactively implement corrective action for any gaps identified as part of above mentioned reviews and coordinate the capture of IS key indicator metrics for reporting as would be applicable.

Experience: The incumbent should have a minimum of 3-5 years experience in Operations & Control activities, with a good understanding of products, processes and technology. Should have a good understanding of the applicable policies and their business implications. Should possess good communication skills and be capable of handling complex business relationships in a mature manner. The incumbent should preferably be CISA certified.

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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Times are changing and radio jockeys are fast turning into brand ambassadors...

As the FM wave sweeps through the country, radio advertising is going through a sea change, both in terms of revenues and format (PwC expects a 28% growth in ad revenues for the medium by 2011). However, with more and more brands aspiring to go on-air, the ad spots are getting cluttered and with many options available, people are switching channels really fast.

Small wonder then that brands are now spending big bucks to get more than just the 10 seconds (or however long!) ad slot. While the advantages for brands are quite obvious, stations get money and also a way to keep their listeners tuned in even during ad breaks. Talking about the Jaggu mission (which won them many innovation awards) Shariq Patel of Radio One says, “There was a lot of money offered, but it was something that we believed in and saw consumer benefit in, so we went ahead.”

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

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Friday, May 18, 2007

(S)afely (F)orgotten...

There goes another brand, this one out of the stable of the AV Birla Group-led Madura Garments (MG). SF Jeans, the not so cool baby from this garment major came under the axe and

quite simply lost its head. Relying on muscle is one thing, but understanding and purging the chink in the armour is, to put it mildly, vital, and this has been achieved by the company.

MG seems inclined to focus on its power brands–Louis Philippe, Van Heusen, Allen Solly and Peter England– that exhibit tremendous potential to scale up. The company did not find its niche in the casual wear segment until 2003 (when it launched SF Jeans), a tad late considering that competition like Levis, Lee and Wrangler were already well on the scene. Focused on tapping the mid-price segment, like most ambitious stories, this one too fell flat. SF raked in a mere Rs.20 crore as revenues.

The raison d’être behind the move to drop an under-performer seems both logical and in tune with the strategy of the company to reposition itself from a ‘closet’ brand to a ‘lifestyle’ brand. The resources that backed SF Jeans will now be redirected towards strengthening other brands under the Madura umbrella. Extra moolah and a more uniform product profile – looks like Madura Garments has finally managed to drive its denim ‘blues’ away.

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Thursday, May 03, 2007

Alan Johnston’s four weeks in captivity in Gaza strip failed to show any trace of him

Compare this to the American hypocrisy in claiming itself to be the defender of the free world. In its efforts to emerge as the champion of free press, American criticism of the alleged muzzling of free media in Cuba, Russia and

Latin America has been high pitched and consistent. One would remember that when the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan in early 2002, the US coolly washed its hands off the crime of its (then) staunch ally Pakistan. Pathetically, General Musharraf got so audacious that he boasted to global media that the beheading of Daniel Pearl was the “consequence of his excessive eagerness in knowing things he shouldn’t have known.”

The freedom of press concomitantly flows from the Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The article notes that “everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media.”. As of today, that freedom is being manipulated, cajoled, pressurized and even crushed by the ruling elite of the world. And that declaration definitely stands emaciated at best.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

The sole superpower of the world falls fl at on its face when it comes to providing basic health amenities to its citizens

So while the administration is keeping the nation preoccupied with its theatrics in

West Asia, thousands of Americans swarm overseas to benefit from the socialized healthcare system. A study in contrast is that of America’s neighbour – Canada, which remains as one of the prime destinations for the American citizens to avail health care benefits. With its socialised healthcare system, Canada publicly funds healthcare almost up to 75% of its financial needs. Also, since the inception of the Medicare System in 1966, government funding and financial cover for universal health cover has increased substantially.

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Monday, March 19, 2007

Economy is abuzz with old war horses...

Aditya Birla Group’s Hindalco Industries has acquired the

US-based aluminium giant Novelis for $6 billion in an all-cash deal. The acquisition of Novelis – which is the world’s leading producer of aluminium rolled products – would include $2.4 billion in debt. Following the transaction, Hindalco with Novelis is expected to be the world’s largest aluminium rolling company, one of the biggest producers of primary aluminium in Asia and India’s leading copper producer.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative