Category Archives: management

NHAI Must Speed Up

Posted on July 31, 2007 by indra

I have been traveling quite often in last one year- Uttarakhand, Gujarat, UP and Bihar, and very recently Himachal Pradesh through Haryana and Punjab. As my mode of transportation, I always prefer a car vehicles mostly and knowingly to see … Continue reading →

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Innovation -The Only Winning Way for Manufacturing Sector

Posted on July 5, 2007 by indra

I am quoting below (in Box) a story by Matthew May, a former senior advisor to Toyota University, the author of The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation, and the director of the innovation firm Aevitas. It appears in … Continue reading →

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Whirlpool-Massacred Noida-Summer

Posted on June 9, 2007 by indra

Last summer, it was Godrej refrigerator that created havoc. I was stressed as Rajesh with Shephali and Svanik were here in summer, and that too unfortunately straight from California. Godrej service facility in Noida kept me busy for a lot … Continue reading →

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Design ‘For the other 90%’

Posted on June 7, 2007 by indra

“The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.” –Dr. Paul … Continue reading →

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Innovating India

Posted on May 31, 2007 by indra

For quite sometime Anand suggested and is trying to put all my papers and books that I have written on my website http://www.drishtikon.com. He has already put my last book, ‘Latest trends in Machining’ that is now freely accessible for … Continue reading →

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Productivity and Innovation can make India win

Posted on May 29, 2007 by indra

I was going through an article in ‘Business Standard’ that tells so highly of the success of China and particularly that in manufacturing. I also got the shocking news of Indian government canceling the study tour of China by officers … Continue reading →

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Management Matters

Posted on April 2, 2007 by indra

Be it a public or private enterprises, management is key. And many times it requires only some commonsense. One needn’t have an IIM, or Stanford/ Harvard background. Let us look at two stories- one from the pubic sector and the … Continue reading →

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India’s Auto Industry- A Showpiece in Manufacturing Sector

Posted on March 27, 2007 by indra

In February, France’s Renault and its Japanese affiliate, Nissan, announced plans to team up with Mahindra & Mahindra to build the passenger car manufacturing plant. The Rs. 4,000 crore ($902 million) facility in Chennai will turn out 400,000 cars a … Continue reading →

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Corporate India’s Rural Strategies

Posted on March 21, 2007 by indra

Many bigger business houses in India are taking rural initiatives for getting into enormously large market of CK Prahalad’s ‘the bottom of the pyramid’ as well as to carry out their social responsibility. Rural India is having more than 742 … Continue reading →

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Automotive Mission Plan 2006-2016- Some Salient Points

Posted on February 7, 2007 by indra

The Ministry of Heavy Industry of India has come out with its ‘Automotive Mission Plan’ 2006-2016. India intends to emerge as the destination of choice in the world for design and manufacture of automobiles and auto components with output reaching … Continue reading →

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