tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-210932152011-08-21T18:08:37.740+05:30This is a blog written by a Business Analyst on the latest developments in the business world. I try to keep it non-jargonised and simple. Who said Business Analysis is having words thrown at youThe Simple Analystnoreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21093215.post-1140518885590551682006-02-21T16:18:00.000+05:302006-02-21T16:18:06.523+05:30

In India, the main headlines of all the major dailies have one story in common nowadays – it is the battle of LN Mittal and his bid to buy over Arcelor. It is indeed a very interesting story to follow, however, there are some twists have been tough to predict even for the best of the analysts. The story has taken on a political agenda with the Presidents and Foreign Ministers of countries playing

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What are you reading at the moment? It is a Blog – my blog, The Simple Analyst. Blogging has been popularized as ‘One-Click Publishing’. Still seems rather abstract and seizes to convey the ‘real’ meaning and impact of this tool. If you closely observe the rising popularity of this communication tool – you will notice that it has been used as a medium where an individual, group or anonymous

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India and China are two of the most populated countries in the world – and most articles today have these two countries as a subject matter. Caterpillar, one of the world’s largest Heavy Equipment Manufacturers has China as one of its Critical Success Factors.It makes me wonder why such an impetus has been given to these two countries – and why this has happened. I think the first part of that

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The impermanence or transience felt in the present generation is nothing new to any one of us. Impermanence is omnipresent - in the growing middle class, the global economic situation, prices in crude oil and the lifestyle we lead. In this fast paced ever-changing life each one of us has set out to achieve our goals and ambitions. The corporations that often push/pull the global economic growth

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The Apple iPod is a rather interesting product for more than one reason. These reasons are why it has created such a media blitz and you see so many articles written about it. Sometimes you wonder if these articles about the iPod will ever stop. And then you see my blog which has a lot of articles about Apple as well. Why is there so much of a fuss?It is called creating a positive ‘Customer

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Mumbai is the Indian sub-continent’s Financial Hub. I am in this city today and when I look out of a rather glamorous building, I see never-ending traffic jams, people everywhere as if they were ants and poverty and slums. It gets me wondering how such a disparity exists? On the one hand you have all the biggest companies of the nation headquartered in this ever expanding city and on the other

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Recently, I was on a mission to buy a suit – and what a tiring mission it was. I wanted to purchase a suit that was unique and not like that ones that everyone else wore to meetings, or the ones that my granddad would have worn to his meetings.  I wanted a suit that was unique to me – and that got me pondering on the importance of a concept – Customization. Can companies that sell products to me

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There is a lot of hue and cry about the emerging economies of India and China. An Indian myself, it always excites me tremendously to read such articles – aah!! That is what you long to read every morning – another article that emphasizes the great country that you belong to. However, there is a reality that still strikes you when you are headed towards a state-of-the-art building in the Silicon

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Have you stopped and thought about something very simple – how do brand names come to define the product category? When you take Xerox as an example – the brand name has today become a generic term for the product category. I am sure all of us have asked for “one Xerox copy” of a document. Similarly today we have ‘Google’ - the divine incarnation of what Search should be. When you have a question

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As a business analyst it is important to understand the subtle seismic shifts that take place from day-to-day in the world of business. However, at times you come across a very subtle change that will drastically shift the way business is done in the future. Some very fascinating examples come to mind when we talk about Business Model Transformation. Take the case of Google Inc. – the world’s

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It is interesting to note the developments that have been taken place on the PC and computing front. On the one end there is the Hardware – where players like Intel and Apple – have come together to co-create. And on the other hand you have software and internet players like Microsoft, Yahoo and Google who are trying to get your machine to play only their products. There is also a raising debate

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Governments across the ‘developed world’ are facing a rather unique crisis – unprecedented aging of the population. A majority of the productive European population is growing older and there is a minority of youth coming into the economic fore. This gives rise to a couple of rather daunting questions,With a minority of productive workforce on the lookout, how will Governments maintain growth in

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Some very interesting figures that I read on a McKinsey Quarterly article. 12 percent of US newlyweds last year met online. More than two billion people now use cell phones. We send nine trillion e-mails a year. We do a billion Google searches a day, more than half in languages other than EnglishSource – McKinsey Quarterly – Ten Trends to Watch in 2006

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The battle for supremacy 30,000 feet above the air was hotter than ever in 2005. Airbus and Boeing have been fighting for market share to fly the skies, while the airline companies have been riding on the booming demand. However, with December being one of the busiest months of the year, we have seen Airbus taking the prime spot by garnering majority market share over Boeing. It has bettered

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Keep on a daily watch-out for more new and analysis from The Simple Analyst.

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It is a precedent to the onslought in the convergence field. Steve Jobs' announcement at the Mac Expo this month - to join hands with Chipmaker Intel - has to be looked at as the first step in what will be a 'War of the New Worlds'.The New Apple desktop and laptop computers rate much higher on performance and speed. This could only mean one thing - the move towards home media convergence is well

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Organizations across the world have shifted their focus from cost-cutting and bottom-line efficiency towards top-line oriented growth. It is important that the Information Technology (IT) deployments are also oriented towards this shift in focus. Traditionally, IT investments have been budgeted for as a percentage of the overall revenue of the company. However, it is imperative to

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