Category: Business World
Managing Patriarchy In India-Bhavana Bindra
As the world celebrated international women’s day this week, several organizations ensured they had ticked the box when it came to gender diversity. But more than that several others have sincerely attempted to move the needle towards removing age-old constraints in having more women employees in their workforce. Some have successfully traversed the journey from
BR Cover Story | Outstanding Women Rocking the Business world
Gender equality is one of the key drivers of effective management, regardless of industry. While there are fields like social entrepreneurship and agribusiness where this balance could be achieved sooner than in others, the trend is pretty clear: gender equality is being encouraged in an increasing number of businesses and sectors, so we’re seeing more
The role of fintech in shaping the post-pandemic business world
The fintech industry continues to expand at a rapid pace in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The fintech market in India was approximated at around Rs 1,920.16 billion in 2019 and is expected to reach Rs 6,207.41 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 22.7 percent. The rise of the startup ecosystem is further bringing
The World Is Going Virtual: How to Level Up Your Business Strategy
You have a passion for succeeding. You’re always looking for ways to take your business to the next level of success. And you’re smart enough to realize that these days, taking your business to the next level means expanding your share of the digital marketplace. Leveling up in the virtual business world means combining new
Feature Story: The Unsung Heroes of the Business World – Lane Report
By Matthew Moore By Shannon Clinton As stay-at-home mandates were being issued a year ago and businesses ordered to close or greatly alter operations, accountants’ phones began ringing with new questions about the impact of COVID-19 in the midst of an already busy tax season. Suddenly thrust into the roles of therapist and financial prognosticator,
Jaguar s Award Winning Electric SUV I PACE To Launch on 23rd March
Jaguar Land Rover’s first all-electric performance SUV, the Jaguar I-PACE will be launched in India on 23rd March 2021, through a unique and immersive digital launch event – ‘Jaguar Futuropolis’ a virtual, future-facing urban metropolis that is home to the all-electric I-PACE. Since its debut, the I-PACE has won more than 80 global awards. It
Turkey’s GDP growth ‘praiseworthy’: Business world
ISTANBUL Members of Turkey’s business community hailed the country’s economic performance based on its gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate last year according to data released Monday by the country’s statistical authority. Turkey’s economy expanded 1.8% year-on-year in 2020 despite the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, said the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat). The country’s
The First Lady Of New Banking
Mabel Chacko, Co-founder & COO, Open Financial Technologies, a neo-banking platform for SMEs and startups, talks to BW Businessworld’s Urvi Shrivastav about her company: On the fintech sector…The first wave was led by payments and lending. We are now in the second wave of fintech. There is wider adoption of services that would otherwise not
Fintech Is Future-Srinath Sridharan – BW Businessworld
The Indian government’s initiatives of the past few years namely the enrollment of over a billion people with the Unique Identification Authority of India for Aadhaar cards (the biometric identity card), rollout of the Jan Dhan banking scheme for social inclusion, smartphone penetration reaching over a billion, creation of the UPI backbone and the ‘Digital
Setting Base For A Strong Digital Economy-E. S. Rao
IN the last 70 years, India has moved from the Agriculture age to the Industrial age and now moving towards the digital age with the revolution in the digital electronics, IT and Telecom technologies and contributing to the Indian economic growth and GDP. As our Honorable Prime Minister said, “Digital India is an enterprise for
Making It Simple To Create Wealth
From being a software engineer in Silicon Valley to helming ClearTax, Founder and CEO Archit Gupta has spearheaded a massive paradigm shift in the fintech sector through the use of technology. After graduating in 2008 in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he began working at a California-based IT company, Data Domain, as a
Progress People: Suzanne Moseley offers advice to business world | News
Suzanne Moseley, a business advisor with the UT Tyler – Longview Small Business Development Center, has seen it all when it comes to the business world. “I have experience in businesses both failing, and succeeding,” Moseley said. “I have learned from my mistakes, and I have learned from my success as well.” Before working with
Making businesses relevant is what we do then now and next But what makes us a great place to work is much more than just that
In an interview with BW Businessworld, Sanjay Menon, Managing Director, Publicis Sapient India, talks about GPTW listing, digital business and more How does it feel to be ranked in the GPTW listing?Being among India’s 75 best workplaces in IT & IT-BPM 2020 is a great feeling. For us, it’s not just a certification, but a
Future of the Business World: A Girl Scout Advocates for Redefining Success
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | Naomi Porter, our March 2021 Future of the Business World podcast guest, embraced entrepreneurship when she was only 11 years old with her first venture, Spice It Up. Now 16 and a high school junior in California, Naomi is using her business experience and
Bringing Simplicity And Efficiency – BW Businessworld
Today, more than ever, restaurants and the food service sector have become truly essential. The pandemic showed us how quickly consumer behaviour changes and how resilient the restaurant industry is, which had to accelerate technology adoption to scale its operations almost a decade ahead of time. Launched in 2012, POSist is a cloud-based restaurant technology
Ishkaa The ripple of refreshing content -ANI
New Delhi [India], February 22 (ANI/SRV Media): With the aim to revolutionise the content world, Ishkaa, a creative and collaborative venture, was founded by Ishviene to work with the finest talents this country has to offer and spearhead the media 3.0 narrative. This studio brings together artists from different fields and interests to create the
Man With The Golden Touch
There is gold in everything that Ketan Kothari and his company, Augmont does. “I have established Augmont, India’s only company which provides products related to the complete lifecycle management of gold be it digital gold, gold coins and bars, loans against gold, scrap gold, gold FD, gold bonds, gold ETFs and investible jewelry on EMI,”
Being Black In The Boston Business World
This Black History Month, we’ve been shining a light on various aspects of the Black experience in Boston. We’ve remembered pioneering legends such as former state Rep. Doris Bunte and architect Donald Stull, and have taken stock of how those communities hit hardest by the coronavirus are tackling equity and hesitancy in the vaccine rollout.
Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week
The Canadian Press Madigan’s successor resigns amid ‘questionable conduct’ SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The hand-picked successor to former House Speaker Michael Madigan’s seat abruptly resigned Wednesday, under pressure from his sponsors, who accused him of unspecified “questionable conduct.” Edward Guerra Kodatt submitted his resignation to the House clerk Wednesday morning, according to Democrat Emanuel “Chris” Welch
Building An Ip Savvy Nation
Agacious Research (Sagacious IP) is a global IP research and consulting firm helping companies and institutions to monetise IP, defend IP litigations and provide intelligence so they can lead through innovation in their industry and achieve most out of their IP budgets. While setting up the company, the initial challenge was hiring skilled candidates who
RetailTech The Next Hot Spot-Lloyd Mathias
Technology in the retail space is still largely untapped unlike those in FinTech, EdTech, HealthTech and MarTech . The biggest challenge is that Indian retail is still dominated by the traditional kirana store where technology for most still means acceptance of digital payments like Paytm or Google Pay. Very little tech enablement has happened in