First of all: On the one hand the increase in leave to eligible women is to be welcomed. From 12 weeks in the old act to 26 in the amended one is indeed a quantum jump. However I have difficulty…
Category: Faculty Blog
Going Digital with Analytics: The Need of the Hour
Dr. Manish Sinha* Is digital transformation making its presence felt? Surely, if one goes by the contribution that only apps have been making to our national income. Data suggests that in 2015-16, apps have contributed 1.4 lakh crore to our…
Reforms in the Industrial Disputes Act
There was recently a news item in the Economic Times of Thursday 4th May 2017. A precis would read somewhat as follows: The Maharashtra Govt seems to be going the whole hog on reforms with the state bringing back a…
MCCIA competition – Runners up
The students of SCMHRD secured second position at the prestigious MCCIA competition. The topic for the competition was Skill development and its connectivity with productivity. The participants Shruti Ravinder, Snehal Gaikwad, Shruti Agarwal, and Vileena Jayant took their research through…
How to improve business performance?
One of our MBA (Executive) students, Mr. Pawan Joshi feels that quoting low price to gain business is not worth. Operation becomes difficult, team gets demotivated and commitments fail. It is required to prepare operational plan and collect relevant data…
Cost and Loyalty analysis in B2B helps in client relationship management
Strategizing for long-term customers with high profitability is one of the primary concerns of a firm. This is what one of our executive students (MBA Executive), Mr. Akshay Pawale, who works in TCS, holds. These clients need to be delighted…
Inclusive Growth in a Mobile way: m.Paani By Dr.Dipasha Sharma
Time: 5 AM, Location : Small house located in Dharavi, Mumbai (Aai chikni Chameli, chhup ke akeli…………………..) a bollywood song is ringing as alarm tone on a Chinese mobile handset in background. Sudha Deshpande, the 35-year-old lady of the house…
Plugging the ‘Smart’ in the Smart City By Vasundhara Sen
With what has become one of the most ambitious projects of the BJP government, every qualified city is now gearing up to become a “Smart” city. Pune being one of them, has started working round the clock, with what-have-yous, on…
The Execution of Financial Inclusion- Oh What A Confusion! By Raji Ajwani-Ramchandani
( Picture : Taken by the author during a research visit in the slums of Pune city) Financial Inclusion generally gets a fresh lease around elections, When the mango person becomes the cynosure of a lot of attention …
Public Sector Banks in India: We love to hate em but… By Raji Ajwani-Ramchandani
Sure they may seem inefficient, unprofessional and a lot of other things. We love to hate em just because of the whole customer disservice experience that we may have sometimes encountered and they epitomize all things bureaucratic and slow. However…