How many managers is too many managers? Why every corporation needs a Marie KondoSpring is not only a time for cleaning our homes, but also for decluttering organizations. Managerial clutter, bureaucratic tasks, and exce...
14 Feb, 2024, 01.14 PM IST
Take India to $20 trillion: India Inc must establish a cadre of innovative companiesTo help build a $10 trillion economy India’s businesses must become the most progressive in the world, fully prepared for the challenges of...
17 Feb, 2015, 10.36 AM IST
10 business jargons that have caught the fancy of the corporate worldFrom the days when manufacturing dominated the economy to the growth of knowledge-based companies of the noughties, business jargon has ref...
05 Aug, 2014, 06.00 PM IST
- Drive & Leadership
Too many leadership experts still fail to distinguish between the practice of leadership and the exercise of bureaucratic power.
30 May, 2013, 07.41 AM IST
Entrepreneurs, not job-seekers, are the solution for the country’s problems: Amit Kapoor, Chairman, Institute of Competitiveness"Business and engineering schools have to sit and ideate with students. Entrepreneurship has to be worked into the curricula."
12 Apr, 2013, 08.42 AM IST
Begone, management gurus!As management theories fall flat, B-schools look to change curricula & corporates are no longer smitten by prodigies from such institutes.
08 Jul, 2010, 05.20 AM IST
- Companies must focus on R&D based on market feedback
R and D based on customer feedback would feed product design which could then be used in producing custom-made goods. Transform your biz dr...
10 Nov, 2007, 11.40 AM IST
- 'Manufacturers must think global'
Even as the debate on core competency and diversification continues to dog Indian companies, a well known Japanese management expert was in...
30 Oct, 2007, 04.46 AM IST
- Trading in wellness
He transformed his family’s commodity trading business into an FMCG powerhouse.
30 Jun, 2007, 04.10 AM IST
- Outsourcing could cast its spell on core jobs in West
When economists debate the merits of outsourcing, they always invoke the early 19th-century thinker David Ricardo and his theory of compara...
15 Jun, 2007, 02.24 AM IST
- Indian gurus lend gyan on MNC boards
Call it the Indian tone at the top. A clutch of Indian gurus now grace the board rooms of Fortune 500 cos.
26 Sep, 2006, 02.17 AM IST
- Make your business future-proof
Companies today face an array of unprecedented challenges: how to build an organisation that is as nimble as change itself; make innovation...
11 Sep, 2006, 04.05 AM IST
- How to reignite the creative spark
Innovation isn't about operational efficiency. According to Hamel, it needs a different management DNA.
06 Sep, 2006, 01.08 AM IST
- Strategising to succeed along with Gary Hamel
“In the new economy, those who live by the sword will be shot by those who don’t,” says Gary Hamel, the man who occupies pride of place alo...
01 Sep, 2006, 12.25 AM IST