Written by: Shashank Joshi
About the author: Chairman Sagacious Programming and Development Pvt Ltd.│Ex CEO MoneyonMobile
A digital instrument that converts your Mobile phone into a device for carrying out financial transactions can be defined as a Mobile Wallet. Technology evolved from a fixed line phone to a cordless phone to a mobile phone and that got us thinking of how we could add various services to this device and found replacement to various services that were restricted to a desktop or a hand held camera……
Month: August 2020
Showbiz During Pandemic – A Media And Entertainment Perspective
Written by: Dr. Sharmila Banerjee
About the author: CEO at Green Chillies Motion Pictures | Founder and CEO -IWLF | The Leadership Consortium
Create a synergistic marketing environment where the CMO and CXO/CCO can collaborate to create the best customer experience
The COVID-19 pandemic began at a time of increasing global economic vulnerability. There were already genuine concerns of falling consumption levels and investment alongside rising unemployment. Brexit and the U.S-China trade war hadn’t helped and there was a palpable sense of uncertainty…..
Decoding the Impact of Virtual Technology on Interpersonal Communication
Written by: Shalini Singh
About the author: Chief-Corporate Communications, Sustainability & CSR at Tata Power | Woman Director | TEDx Speaker | Passion for Social & Green Causes!
In a Pre-Covid world, we would not be talking about how integral virtual technology is to interpersonal communication. This is because earlier interpersonal communication was not completely dependent on virtual technology. Before Covid-19, only around 7% of U.S. employees regularly worked from home collaborating and connecting virtually. In Europe, most countries had only up to 10% of remote employees……
Test of Resilience and Communication
Written by: Shalini Gupta
About the author: Innovative Product and Marketing Evangelist | Ex-VP Brand Head Inox, Lokmat | Ex-CMO Reliance Broadcast | Regional PR & Brand Head – Bharti Airtel
Most of us civilians have grown up hearing stories of bravery while our soldiers have braved the enemy facing them at the front. This pandemic has probably shown us at every step how it is fighting a battle at our doorstep, in our locality, protecting our loved ones and for the 1st time probably gave a sense what really is the experience of our soldiers at the front……
Consumer Insight: A Sure Way to Convert Good Advertising into Great Advertising.
Written by: Praveen Jaipuriar
About the author: CEO at Continental Coffee Pvt. Limited | ex- Head Marketing – Dabur India Ltd
A few days ago, I got a message reminding me to recharge my DTH account. While I was recharging, I realized something startling. My package had some 400+ channels. What an amazing amount of clutter. We live in the age of clutter. Reaching a consumer was relatively easy in the 80s when you had one TV channel, few newspapers and a couple of radio channels……
Code RED
Written by: Abhijeet Mukherjee
About the author: Ex. President & CEO – QDigi Services, Hindustan Unilever, Coca-Cola, Eicher, Aircel, General Electric Company & Monster.com
Developing & executing a 360-degree Marketing (below the line) plan for an internationally renowned Beverage Brand. This resulted in marketing leadership across all the Beverage Categories.
Let me call this Brand – “Brand X”
Decoding Shopper – Consumer Dichotomy
Written by: Tuhin Ray
About the author: CEO, Malbros Group (Africa) | Vice President, Future Group (India) | Vice President, Aditya Birla Group (India) | Business Head, Spencer’s Retail Ltd (India) | Leadership Role (more than a decade) in Sales, Consumer and Customer Marketing, Colgate- Palmolive (India)
When we speak about the market dynamics and the consumption behaviour, there needs to be a deep understanding about the difference between shopper vs consumer. Generic marketing will draw upon consumer insights that relate to the perception of the product and the likeability of the product depending on product attributes.
And you say it again and again and again…
Written by: Arpan Basu
About the author: Director Communications at Coca-Cola India and South West Asia
Existing empirical research confirms that there is a positive relationship between reputation management and development of corporate houses. Corporations have long since realized the importance of managing the reputation that will sustain their advancement in the age of competitive business management….
Secrets of an International Assignment
Written by: Ashish Kothari
About the author: Ashish Kothari has over three decades of experience in Marketing & Sales in industry sectors ranging from transport fuels, lubricants, entertainment and FMCG. He has worked in global markets across 5 continents, and currently works as a Senior Vice President in India
Have you ever wondered why we only ever hear the term “Non-Resident Indian”, and not “Non-Resident any-other-nationality”? Perhaps there is a technical answer deeply embedded in India’s complex tax laws. But viewed from another lens, this group does merit a dedicated terminology. After all, they do constitute by far the largest group expatriates resident abroad! International assignees are a major sub-group of NRI’s, and the subject of this article….
Service Champions Don’t Cut Corners!
Written by: Ashok Jaiswar
About the author: Group Head Marketing and Corporate Communications – Greaves Cotton Limited and Ampere Electric
“You sell it and they may forget you, You serve well and they may remember you always.”
This has been a source of great inspiration for me as a Sales & Marketing person working to create great memorable experiences in the lifecycle journey of customers….
Organisational Coma
Written by: Subir Palit
About the author: Business leader | Motivational Speaker | Former COO, CMO | Current Country Head – Greenply Industries. He has over three decades of experience in marketing in consumer electronics and building materials industry
Marginalisation of smart employees at workplace, specially freshers (new joiners) with more knowledge capital and wisdom has been prevalent in the past and continues even today due to feelings of self-doubt and jealousy of those in current leadership positions as they are perceived as threats.
Vuca world mandates everyone to think like a leader
Written by: Madhumita Manna
About the author: Director/Head Marketing – OTC , Center of Excellence (Emerging Markets), Working with a Pharmaceutical Giant
Sushmita Sen once said Change is the only thing which is constant, this led to her winning the title of “Miss Universe”.
The past five – six months have changed the trajectory of everyone’s life and once again proved that change is the only thing that is constant in the continuous evolving world or should we call it the VUCA world……….
Packaging: A True Salesman
Written by: Sanjay Gupta
About the author: VP (Packaging Development & Procurement),DS Group│More than 30 years of experience in the field of Procurement, Packaging & Product Development
Packaging is the art, science and technology of wrapping, protecting and showcasing products for consumer centric, commercially viable manufacturing, distribution, storage, movement, sale and use with ease for ultimate satisfaction and delight to consumer…
Effective Sales team can create great synergy with BTL campaigns
Written by: Debasish Satpathy
About the author: Vice President at Schaeffler India – Head of Automotive Aftermarket
What’s next? A key question by garages, workshops, and automotive retailers. Mind space of customers is further cluttered in the current situation. In any case, there were topics of BS VI impact, Electronics proliferation in Vehicle components, E-vehicles repairability in aftermarket, E-commerce disruption, Technical competency (or lack of it), ability to compete with OE backed service stations etc occupying the mind space of aftermarket intermediaries.