Arun Jethmalani, Author at ValueNotes Strategic Intelligence

10 trends for 2021 – and not all about technology or Covid!

Arun Jethmalani — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:18:09 +0000

The start of a year invariably leads to a flurry of articles and prognosis about key trends for the future. Many of these are extrapolations from the recent past – like “Work From Home (WFH) will continue in 2021”. Thanks,

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Will China continue to be the world’s factory?

Arun Jethmalani — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 06:25:44 +0000

Since 2018, the US and China have engaged in a bitter trade war. While many thought the two sides would reach a deal soon, this has not happened. Rising tariffs, rhetoric and uncertainty have now forced many US companies to

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Insights into actions and strategies to fight the Covid-19 crisis

Arun Jethmalani — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 10:10:57 +0000

A recent survey of senior executives at companies around the world found very similar reactions – regardless of company size or geographical location. The immediate and obvious response has been to cut costs and ensure liquidity, even while maintaining operations

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Random thoughts on Life in the post-Covid19 world

Arun Jethmalani — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 08:54:45 +0000

It is now clear that we’re seeing the worst health and economic crisis, ever. Entire countries are shut, businesses cannot function, unemployment is rising dramatically, value chains have been wrecked… and worst of all – there is no end in

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Leveraging Data: Mindset comes before technology

Arun Jethmalani — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 05:08:00 +0000

Given the incessant noise around big data and analytics, businesses are scrambling to board the train. And a lot of money is being spent on data collection and technology. The impression is that AI and machine learning algorithms will magically

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Future of work – II

Arun Jethmalani — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 06:51:31 +0000

The rise of the individual entrepreneur Some weeks back, while chatting with my son’s friends (all in their mid-20s), I got around to asking what they were doing (typical father question :))! At some point, it hit me that none

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Win Loss is not CRM analysis

Arun Jethmalani — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:22:40 +0000

Very few (if any) organizations will admit they don’t conduct win-loss analysis. After all, this is now deemed integral to every sales process. Since every CRM has a field for “Reasons for loss”, it is easy enough to analyze. Any

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Urban Infrastructure – Opportunity or Disaster?

Arun Jethmalani — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 05:41:24 +0000

Today’s popular mega-trends are almost invariably linked to technology. Common buzz-words are artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, IoT, data, analytics, “smart” objects, the gig economy, electrification, digitization, and so on. Technology is of course, a major disrupter – but there are

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Privacy is dead!

Arun Jethmalani — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 09:21:07 +0000

The issue of privacy took centre stage, when Mark Zuckerberg faced up to senators, live. What made this transgression different was that Facebook data (via Cambridge Analytica) was used to influence or manipulate elections. This resulted in angry posturing from

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E-commerce: Altering the shape of India’s FMCG markets

Arun Jethmalani — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 07:58:26 +0000

The Internet has already changed our lives, and if one thing is certain – “we ain’t seen nothing yet!” For incumbent companies and industries, much attention has focused on the obvious threats. For instance in retailing (esp. books) and advertising;

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