Growth of the Mobile Handset Market

Another factor that has contributed to the growth of the mobile handset market is the much lower R&D costs in India, which typically account for more than 40% of the total product development cost. As a result, the last five years have seen companies like Nokia, Motorola, Alcatel & Ericsson establishing their design and R&D centers here in India. Not only this, even the government realized the immense growth opportunity that lies in the telecom sector and made some noteworthy regulatory changes to significantly bring down the custom tariffs from 10% to 5% and abolished the Special Additional Duty of 4%; the changes that forced many mobile handset manufacturers and original equipment manufacturers to consider the option of manufacturing in India.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

INCARNATE ENTREPRENEUR

“Women are not on the rise. They have already risen” is perhaps the best way one would define Tomoyo Nonaka,Chairman, Sanyo Electric Company Ltd. (a leader in consumer & commercial electronics), who is one of the most influential woman entrepreneurs in Japan! Hearing Tomoyo converse might make one purport that she is a fervent environmentalist, talented with great oratory skills. To top it all, as a woman who qualify ed with a Master’s degree in the GraduateSchool in Humanities and obtained a degree in journalism from the Faculty of Humanities of Sophia University in Tokyo, to view Tomoyo simply based on her educational degrees, can only but mislead.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Malaya Chaudhuri – Arindam Chaudhuri Initiative

'Home Deliveries'

Besides, people r to just pick up their phone and ask the friendly neighbourhood store to ‘home deliver’ a packet of milk or munchies as and when she feels like it. There is simply no way Wal-Mart can afford to do home deliveries, no matter how much it tries to adapt to the Indian environment. One solution for Wal-Mart could be to locate the stores in the vicinity of where target consumers live – that is inside cities and densely populated suburbs. But the real estate costs of this move will be astronomical and could derail the viability of Wal-Mart from day one inside India. So what exactly can Wal-Mart do? Well, to survive as a company that will remain in the rest of the century, Wal-Mart has no choice but to try and have a strong presence in India and China. Alexander could afford to go back from the Indian borders. Wal-Mart cannot afford to!

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Malaya Chaudhuri – Arindam Chaudhuri Initiative

Political Tool

A couple of months ago, Justice B. P. Jeevan Reddy Committee had strongly recommended the repeal of the controversial Act against which there is growing resentment in the North-Eastern states. The Act, which gives discretionary powers to the forces, has become a symbol of state oppression and a political tool in the hands of the insurgents to galvanise support among the locals. The regular incidents of indiscriminate killing of innocents, maltreatment of the local population and a few rape cases committed by the armed forces personnel constantly add fuel to simmering discontent in the states, thus making the provisions in the Act draconian.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

Intel's Core 2

Quad Core, which essentially implies four identical processing units embedded in one processor chip is the next line of high performance processors based on Intel’s Core 2 (code named Conroe) architecture. Both Intel & AMD are now relying less on increasing clock speeds and are expected to compete on the multi-core platform (there is market speculation that processor clock speeds are hitting a speed bump due to technology constraints). Each ‘core’ of the quad-core processor has a relatively modest clock speed of 2.66 GHz. But Intel has taken the lead in the desktop arena in terms of dual core. The quad-core version promises a performance enhancement of more than 80% over the dual core range.

An IIPM and Malaya Chaudhuri – Arindam Chaudhuri Initiative

Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Malaya Chaudhuri – Arindam Chaudhuri Initiative

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