Friday's 2.0
56th Session of the EMERGE Friday’s 2.0 on The 5 Steps to innovate Within an organisation by V.R. Ferose, SAP Labs
So, we again have an almost full room at the NASSCOM HQ, with Avinash, introducing Mr. Ferose and the NASSCOM EMERGE Friday’s 2.0. I am glad to be bringing you LIVE the 56th session which leaves me, with another session to be completing my half century with the EMERGE Friday’s 2.0 :)
My NASSCOM Talk: Made in India, Made for the World
Yesterday, I gave a talk at the NASSCOM Emerge Friday 2.0 event about how the time is ripe for Indian startups to target the global market: ‘Made in India, Made for the World‘.
So far, Indian startups have focused on tweaks for the local market, not inventions or tweaks for the global market, partly because Indian VCs have tended to fund me-too startups with a business model focused on enabling transactions for the local market (book a air/ rail/ bus/ movie ticket).
LIVE Blogging Made in India Made for The World – NASSCOM EMERGE Friday’s 2.0 55th session by Gaurav Mishra
Well, so here I am, once again with a full house at the 55th NASSCOM EMERGE Friday’s 2.0 session, which is being taken by Gaurav Mishra, popularly, known for his blog Gauravonomics. I am always amazed as to how “social media” is attracting and pulling crowds world over.
LIVE Blogging the 54th Session of NASSCOM EMERGE Friday’s 2.0 on New Age Marketing for Rapidly Growing Companies
Here I am LIVE blogging the 54th Session of the NASSCOM EMERGE Friday’s 2.0 on New age marketing for rapidly growing companies by Mr. Peter Yorke, who is founder and independent consultant at Yorke Communications Private Limited, an organization that builds content as a platform for internal and external communications. Peter strongly believes that the basis for generating leads, building market image or cementing relations with customers and employees is through good and sustained content. Peter was recently Vice President – Marketing and Communications at Oracle Financial Services (formerly i-flex solutions), a global, Oracle majority owned, financial services software provider. He was directly responsible for the marketing and communications function and ran a virtual and global communications team.
Everyday SME Challenges, Tried and Tested Solutions’ – NASSCOM EMERGE Friday’s 2.0 (25th session – Chennai)
Everyday SME Challenges, Tried and Tested Solutions’ a panel discussion by four business leaders (Serial Entrepreneurs), most of them having co-founded and promoted two or more businesses, who have walked your path earlier.
Panel Discussion on Entrepreneurship Challenges
Moderator: Mr. G. Shankaran Nair, President – Corporate Strategy, Servion
- Panelists:
- Mr. Ashok Ramaswamy, Managing Partner, Sandpath Capital
Live Blogging the 53rd session of the EMERGE Friday’s 2.0 on Exploring Business Opportunities in Germany at NASSCOM
As the Official Blogger for the NASSCOM Friday’s 2.0, many people ask me, that I would surely have a plethora of knowledge with me, as I have the opportunity to attend all the sessions and also since I LIVE blog the sessions, I must be highly attentive.
The 52nd Friday’s 2.0 session with Mr. Subroto Bagchi at The NASSCOM HeadQuarters
LIVE blogging Mr. Subroto Bagchi, at The NASSCOM Friday’s 2.0 this is Mr. Bagchi’s second book launch at The NASSCOM HeadQuarters.
I am much glad to LIVE blog this session with Subroto, as I am a former MindTree Mind and having Subroto right in front of my eyes is just a great feeling!
Discover “The Professional” within you – An evening with Subroto Bagchi, MindTree
The word Professional has many connotations. Instantaneously it conjures up images of nattily dressed doctors, engineers, MBAs and mostly of people who are self employed, having the ability to earn their livelihood through practise of their chosen craft. Over time, the word has become rather loosely coupled and we have to take adequate care, lest it becomes a clichéd variety. It is actually a very powerful idea – a way of life, only pursued by a certain type of people, who have a rather distinct mindset. As succinctly put by Mr Subroto Bagchi in his new book, the two rare qualities that a professional displays, are the ability to work unsupervised and the ability to certify the completion of one’s work. He does not need a boss who writes his appraisal, giving him constructive feedback for continuous improvement. In most work environments, people who produce anything of economic value usually need supervision. A person who needs supervision is no professional. He is an amateur, maybe even an apprentice.
Opportunities for SMEs in Latin America – NASSCOM Friday’s 2.0 – 51st session
The session was moderated by our own Ankur Lal. He opened the session by putting across the significance of Sep 11. The great terrorist attack on USA, the christening of google.com, the 51st session of NASSCOM Friday’s 2.0. and for the local scenario first time someone was going to speak on Latin America and India IT opportunities.
The Mc-D model
I was browsing my favorite newspaper, “the Wall Street Journal” and I came across this piece of news which sort of stopped me for a moment – “Your Bad luck is a windfall for airlines” and what I gathered is that your ticket cancellation, preponement, postponement or any such arrangements yields airlines a whopping $2 billion a year, much more than what they earn for baggage services and a simple search shows that a typical airlines makes around $15 billion. So if you add all these ticket alteration revenues, baggage revenues and all other value added service revenues, I am sure will come to a huge % of the total revenues but still one perceives that airline makes most of its money via the ticket sales.
