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The less talked-about aspects of the Indian business culture

Category: Blog, Competitive Intelligence Professionals, Head of Marketing, Head of Research, Head of Strategy, India Strategy | May 20th, 2013 | By Varsha

Understanding the local business culture is an important pre-requisite for doing business in any foreign country.

If you Google Indian business culture, you’ll find dozens of articles on the cultural sensitivities that foreigners needs to have, for doing business in India. Most of them talk about what I think is the relatively easy stuff that

Category: Blog, Head of Research, Head of Strategy, India Strategy, Market Research & Intelligence | August 16th, 2012 | By Haril Joshi

After the incidence between NDTV and Neilsen, many respondents have started questioning the research data published. But the real problem with any research lies in the faulty scope and methodology. Highly diversified and fragmented markets like India need a customized solution for research and syndicated reports/association reports can only be used for reference!

Category: Blog, Chief Investment officer / Fund Manager, Head of Strategy, India Strategy, Market Research & Intelligence | July 20th, 2012 | By Haril Joshi

The blog tries to capture the irony represented by the ValueNotes research that almost all the CXOs feel that the economy and their industry will under perform; most feel that they can outperform their competitors because the fundamentals are good

Category: Blog, Chief Investment officer / Fund Manager, Head of Strategy, India Strategy | June 18th, 2012 | By Ribhu

Niranjan Rajadhyaksha wrote in his weekly column The Impartial Spectator describing how culture influences growth of nations, “Parking behaviour is a reflection of social norms prevalent in a country”. And social norms affect (directly and indirectly) the way we conduct our economic activities that have a bearing on the nation’s economic progress. The author cites

Category: Blog, Chief Investment officer / Fund Manager, Head of Strategy, India Strategy, Pharmaceuticals & Biotech | June 14th, 2011 | By Sayli Vaidya

With global pharmaceutical markets registering sluggish growth (around 4-6%), multinational companies have shifted their attention towards emerging markets like India which grew at the double digit rate of around 13-15% in 2010. Economic growth, increasing healthcare expenditure and the improved Intellectual Property framework has made India an attractive destination. It is currently the third largest

Category: Blog, Competitive Intelligence Needs Assessment, Competitive Intelligence Professionals, Consulting, Head of Strategy, India Strategy | July 6th, 2010 | By Varsha

As a competitive intelligence professional in an emerging economy, documentation is my pet peeve. Business and economic growth in developing economies will be higher with greater transparency and information, all other things remaining unchanged.

The argument is simple. Under-documentation is a big impediment to decision making. It makes informed decision making very expensive. This

Category: Blog, Chief Investment officer / Fund Manager, Competitive Intelligence Needs Assessment, Competitive Intelligence Professionals, Consulting, India Strategy | March 9th, 2010 | By Varsha

Practitioners of competitive intelligence (CI) in most developed markets are accustomed to applying analytical and statistical tools to in-depth information which are available in standard database formats and collected from reliable sources. However, India can overwhelm even the most astute CI practitioner, as many traditional methodologies don’t work in the Indian context. More…