Hoping to ride the recovery wave and coming out of the tumultuous, recession hit year; countries, corporations and individuals are fraught with doubts and apprehensions like - the probability of a double dip recovery, rise in inflation, which way is the dollar headed, economic shift from the West to the East in 2010?.This article provides answers to these questions and more

The Indian aluminium industry is well placed to consolidate its position in the aluminium world. India is emerging as a preferred destination for global players and investors with interests in both upstream and downstream capacities. Given its strategic potential, can the Indian aluminium industry play a key role in transforming India into a global player in the non-ferrous metals industry by the year 2020? This article provides answers to this question and more

There will be a lot of people in India and in the rest of the world who will be rueing the fact that they did not predict the crisis of 2008. They could have actually anticipated this crisis way back and acted on signals that were there even in 2007.

Speak to the average Distribution and Logistics Head about improvement initiatives and the discussion invariably revolves around costs. A majority of the companies view this function as a cost head and focus effort on reducing logistics costs, rather than viewing it as a possible revenue enhancer.

Innovation is a process for creating experiences or effects that people find valuable – valuable enough that they choose to adopt (begin using) the product or service that provides the experience. It is also a transformation process – from ideas or knowledge into value typically, but not always, in the form of money.

Although the need and benefits of enhancing customer satisfaction are well known, we see very few corporates following a systematic process to identify and prioritise improvement areas. A broad-brush approach across relationship initiatives rarely helps.

In the backdrop of the modernization of Indian retail and the existing structure of the cold chain industry in India, this paper attempts to answer two questions – one, to what extent will the demand for cold chains rise in India; second, will this demand be met captively by retailers or will it be an opportunity for independent service providers to flourish.