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The beginning of the 21st century is a story of resurgent India. How India can sustain on that resurgence in the world arena is a point of study. While there are many perspectives of visions of India’s future, India needs to address many fundamental issues, before it can hold centre stage in world affairs.What then are the fundamental managerial challenges affecting India which it needs to address and how can we come up with strategies for the same.
Clusters are geographic concentrations of inter-connected firms, specialised suppliers, service providers, associations or institutions in a specific field that are inherent in a region or a nation. Clusters can emerge out of specific resources of the region like raw materials or out of specific group of products like auto components or out of specific skills like jewellery and so on. From time immemorial clusters have been emerging at various places and at ...
What's a world without leaders? Strategic leadership makes a vital difference. This book looks at the traits of the strategic leader who has to carry the organization from a small to big, from good to great. Apart from defining strategic leadership, the book profiles Sam Palmisano at IBM, Lee Iacocca at Chrysler, Carlos Ghosn at Nissan and Jack Welch at GE.
Knowledge has emerged as the primary basis and strategic tool for competitive advantage. The world today is gearing towards the knowledge era. Products, processes and firms are increasingly becoming knowledge intensive. The slogan 'what is repetitive automate, and what is easily available outsource' lead to the beginning of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). The next logical step was of hiring skilled operators to handle knowledge intensive activities and thus ...
The Age of Permanence, according to Alvin Toffler, is dead. The current era is characterised by complexity, uncertainty and fast changes triggered by technology and competition. In such a situation, it would make a lot of sense if we can forecast the shape of things to come. This need has led to the evolution of futurology as a discipline. Dreaming and crystal-ball-gazing have been pastimes of men in all ages: from Nostradamus to da Vinci to Jules Verne, HG ...