THE INDIVIDUAL FOCUS

With the competition heating up, the players are using all possible means to grab the maximum pie of the market. Whether it is extensive price cuts, tying up with service providers or offering a lot of freebies – players are not hesitating to even shed away their margins in order to win market shares. Amidst such strong competition, Nokia (with its established base of loyal customers & strong distribution network with over 78,000 retail stores across India), still leads the Indian mobile handset market. However, over the past year, Nokia has seen unprecedented aggression from Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson & LG – all trying hard to make a dent into Nokia’s market share.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

Human Rights

That there is an urgent need to repeal the AFSPA, is a sentiment expressed across the board from human rights activists to concerned citizens. According to a serving Major General (who did not want to be quoted), “It is in Kashmir and not in the North East that we need such kind of military powers because there the militancy is done by the outsiders.” There is no denying the fact that these states do need special support to uplift their economic status and help them join the Indian mainstream. Unfortunately, successive Indian governments deliberately and insanely have failed to accept that the main reasons for extremism to flourish are lack of community and individual economic development. But then, how can they be expected to know this; national economic development is surely tougher than nuclear science, eh!

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative