Category: Rodin

Indian roads: Supply chain’s Achilles heel

Aug 25, 2023 | ,

It is time to see roads as central to any supply chain. Else, the grand call for ‘resilient supply chain’ will falter at every level – national highways, state highways and intracity roads. While road accidents occur on all three types of roads, the last acquires a certain additional significance since they represent last mile connectivity and involve multiple agencies making a unified oversight a nightmare. Unless big businesses intervene, the situation is unlikely to change.

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The masked debate – net neutrality

Sep 7, 2022 | ,

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. So they say. Yet, I have decided to be a fool and revisit the contentious debate over net neutrality, which was disguised as a battle for democracy and equality when it was in fact a battle between different businesses. There is a context to this revisiting – the dawn of 5G and the investments made by telecom companies in acquiring spectrum. In the interest of full disclosure, I have no business interest in this matter!

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Define yourself

Apr 18, 2022 | ,

Twentieth century was a testimony to the fact that the absence of a background need not prevent anyone from undertaking a business venture. Skills can be acquired but what is needed is the knowledge to understand a business and the ability to execute. Besides knowledge, what can limit you is an inappropriate management structure and span of control. The 21st century is taking this boldness much farther

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