Service providers in telecom space, particularly small to medium sized are contracting out their operations to Managed Services providers, essentially vendors out there. There must be so many business justifications in doing so, but are the service providers accepting their failure to run the operations effectively. After all what do these managed services providers do? [...]

Well this is an old story now, but let me make a point about it today. Microsoft has been blamed by many that it is not giving its competitors a fair chance of competing. This is about mainly two products that Microsoft bundles with its operating system – Internet Explorer and Media Player. Another one [...]

The bugle for 15th General Lok Sabha elections has already been blown. Political parties have started coming back to people with their ‘what they did’, ‘what others did not do’ and ‘what they will do’. Campaigning is one of the critical elements of electioneering and in India it plays a vital role in the final [...]

The end products for market research, reports have become soft – they are not now printed, except for those still conservative formal researchers. Many market research groups, small ones like ours, prefer to deliver output in soft copies as it saves a lot on printing, shipment and helps to keep the reports interactive. There is [...]

Market research has almost become paperless. By using simple technology solutions (although making them is not easy) market researchers worldwide have been able to put in research in a very cost effective manner besides squeezing the time schedules. A lot of tools help market researchers in the analysis part of the research making the post [...]

Every day we see companies announcing layoffs. This time downsizing is not based on performance or any other usual reasons. This all is happening due to the sluggishness in the market which is resulting in everything from negative demand, shrinking profits or even losses, piling up of inventory and closure of units. As they say, [...]

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