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Srikanth Acharya

I was on a trip to Delhi in January 2012 and was strolling casually in one of the book stores in the Bangalore Airport. Out of nowhere this book caught my eye. For the first time, I saw a book that was written specifically for B2B markets. I purchased the book “Strategic Brand Management For B2B Markets: A Road Map for Organizational Transformation”, written by Dr.
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Harvard Business Review

Teams that are geographically-dispersed, or virtual, have now been used and studied for more than three decades — yet
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Ron Kaufman

In many organizations where service is identified as an area for improvement, the problem is not poor service from every department or person, it is inconsistent service in pockets of the organization. Poor service in one area brings down the perception of service levels in all areas. A classic example of poor service in the US is the Department of Motor
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Dave Crenshaw

What if your business could save thousands of dollars a month, without cutting staff? This is what any business owner continually seeks to do, right? There are many low-cost, massive-benefit opportunities to dodge wastefulness and increase productivity. You just need to know where to look.
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Seth Godin

Often, we're hesitant to identify a problem out of fear we can't solve it. Knowing that we have to live with something that we're unable to alter gives us a good reason to avoid verbalizing it--highlighting it just makes
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Ron Kaufman

2011 was an extraordinary year. There were more revolutions around the world, violent and otherwise, than we’ve seen in many years. These dominated local and global news channels, political and business conversations, and the attention of people everywhere. Even Time magazine acknowledged the Protester as the Person of the Year.
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Balaji Pasumarthy

As the New Year Approaches we like to make resolutions and what we would like to do during the Brand New Year. How about making a Stop Doing List Instead.
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Pradeep

The 3rd in a series of articles which deal with the basics of quality management & Six Sigma.   Six Sigma is defined as a process improvement methodology based on statistical thinking. But what is Statistical Thinking? Well it is not essentially the way a statistician thinks, nor does it have anything to do with complex formulae and visualizing graphs in our minds.
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Manoj Sethu

First things first – what is Project Management? A project by definition is a temporary organisation or an actionable team that function with a defined beginning and marked ending, functioning within constraints such as scope, time and budget.
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G Nagaraj

Hello Folks, Let me start with the what one of the senior SCM Professional has to say abt the certificationsCertification of CSCP OR CSCM. From a long time consultant and trainer who has earned both, here is my comment. These are very similar in nature and each has strong points. CSCP has more diagnostic tools which are very helpful in your preparation for the exam.

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