
Is Apple the new Sony?
Two weeks back I started reading a book called “Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony” – nice book. The book made me realize that for a guy growing up in 1970s and 1980s Sony Corporation would have been what Apple Inc is for a guy growing up in 2000s and 2010s. This article is...

We Need Marketers – New, Improved & Free!
Let me explain the headline first…you need a new set of marketers if you have to succeed in future. Ironically, the marketing guys we need should be – New, Improved, & Free. Exactly the same set of values that the marketing guys from the past have been marketing to us with. I have never been...

When external facing employees blunder, it costs a lot more
Yesterday I had to book a cab to go to Hazrat Nizammudin Railway station, so I Googled for ‘Easy Cabs’ to get a number from my mobile. On my screen I saw a number (later I would come to know that it was India Taxi service’s customer care number) and dialed it (See image below)....

Linkedin will shut out all old-world job sites
Today, if I were asked to become the CEO of any jobs site, I would refuse the offer. It is a bad time to be one. Those that are already on the job, will be looking for a way out – the old-world job site business, the business of resume arbitrage is all but over....
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Cloud Storage – the possible winners & losers
In the last ten days, Amazon has launched Amazon Glacier, an extension to its Cloud offering which offers 1 gigabyte of data storage for a month for as less as one rupee. And Microsoft has launched its SkyDrive for Android, a mobile platform it is competing against everywhere. Why all the action in and around...
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