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It is a well-known fact that Indian PSUs (Government owned companies) are sleeping giants. When they wake-up the private sector better watch out. The recent State Bank of India campaign is taking the Indian Private banks head-on.

Now, it is LIC's turn:

Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is all...

Christopher Carfi writes:

Laurence Haughton's well-organized It's Not What You Say...It's What You Do communicates a series of tactics of how to actually get.things.done at an organizational level. Four broad building blocks are given which, in concert, Haughton contends will result in what he calls ...

Jennifer Kirby writes:

The most important measure in corporate performance management is the value customers put on your company - their connection score. For this measure increases or decreases company profitability. Today's profits are the direct result of customer valuations - the sum total of all...

John Hagel writes:

Organizational success depends upon effective mobilization of resources.

Push models treat people as passive consumers (even when they are producers like workers on an assembly line) whose needs can be anticipated and shaped by centralized decision-makers.  Pull models treat pe...

Trendwatching writes:

MINIPRENEURSaremillions of consumers making some money on the side, satisfying their enterprising urges instead of relentless consumption. Can you in turn satisfy them?

Increasingly, consumers are participants instead of passive audience members, and this mega-trend manifests it...

Paul. A. Barsch writes:

Just as amino acids are the building blocks of proteins and proteins are the main building blocks and functional molecules of the cell, so too are the three C's of CRM the building blocks to a successful CRM implementation.

1. CAREFUL -Be careful as to your aim and objective...

Peppers & Rogers wrote:

At the recent Forrester Consumer Forum in New York, three Fortune 500 companies shared their approaches to becoming more customer-centric. All are different, but each has the same goal -- to connect with end-user consumers.

Target's bullseye: differentiation
Instead of comp...

The big debate in India right now seems to be - Should the government open-up foreign direct investment(FDI) in retail. There are divided opinions on this issue here. Some seem to say the customers will benefit, others say the supply chain will get better in India and a lot of them say the "kir...

Anna Muoio writes:

According to the creative people behind the BrainStore, an "idea factory" in Biel, Switzerland, it's possible to generate new ideas with as much rigor, and as much speed, as it takes to make products on an assembly line.

Where do great ideas come from? They come from righ...

John Hagel writes:

The blogosphere has been grappling overtime with the Web 2.0 meme over the past week. Perhaps the most significant event was the release of Tim O’Reilly’s long awaited What is Web 2.0 article.

Here are seven principles that are shaping Web 2.0: