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Impact of Digitalisation and Automation

The business world is rapidly digitizing, breaking down industry barriers and creating new opportunities while destroying long-successful business models. This process is called “digital disruption” and it is one of the critical forces in today’s business world. Although sweeping technology-enabled change often takes longer than we expect, history shows that the impact of such change

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Growth of E-commerce

The cartoon gives a very accurate representation of the irony of the on-going digital revolution. E-commerce in India is growing faster than other Asian countries. Growth has been enabled in part by the ecommerce market leaders in India—Flipkart, Amazon and Paytm Mall—who have been expanding into new sectors, including grocery. This investment along with India’s

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Porter’s Generic Strategies

They were first set out by Michael Porter in 1985 in his book, “Competitive Advantage: Creating and sustaining superior performance.” Porter called the generic strategies “Cost leadership (no frills), “Differentiation” (creating uniquely desirable products and services) and “Focus” (offering a specialized service in a niche market). He then subdivided the focus strategy into two parts:

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