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At the outset, this post is not about how to recite Genesis 1:3 in a thick Malayalam accent:). It’s about ways to stimulate the use of LED lights. But, first, some background: I was very excited to read about UJALA Dashboard in an Economic Times article titled LED There Be Light” (now you know the … Read more
We all know the cost of a failed payment in terms of loss of service, late payment fees, reinstatement charges, and so on. In this post, I’m going to estimate the cost of escaping a failed payment. I had to pay college fees of INR 300,000 (~US$ 4615). The college supported an array of digital … Read more
If you follow this blog, you know that I mostly write about fintech, marketing, product management and customer experience. IT architecture is a new topic. I was prompted to write about it after witnessing a series of chaotic happenings with modern SMAC architecture during the last few months. For the uninitiated, SMAC stands for Social-Mobile-Analytics-Cloud. SMAC … Read more
On a recent tweetchat about customer service, many tweeples felt that social media was only suited for escalations. Not me. I use social media, especially Twitter, as the first port of call to complain to brands. That’s because: Telephone means having to listen to hold music and navigate through convoluted phone trees. This is painful and … Read more
With over 100 million users a year ago, PayTM was already ahead of its digital payment competitors before the November 2016 demonetization of high value currency notes in India. On the back of the push for #CashlessIndia consequent to #CurrencySwitch, the Alibaba-backed mobile wallet has increased its lead over its other mobile wallets (e.g. MobiKwik, PayZapp) … Read more
Since I wrote Strange Happenings In Amazon India, I went through another experience with Amazon India. It was so strange that it merits a separate blog post. Here goes. I’d recently ordered a leather wallet from Amazon India. When I received it, I realized that it didn’t have a coin pouch. Therefore, I wanted to … Read more
In Omnichannel Couponing Drives CEM Success – Part 1, I’d highlighted the space challenge in the couponing phase of a CEM program. To recap, this comprises issues that range from where to insert the code and how to make the code large enough to be visible but small enough to fit on the existing package … Read more
In Why Overcoming The Tyranny Of Excel Is A Lousy Positioning Theme, we’d cautioned software companies from pitching their software as a replacement for Excel. Since then, we’re happy to see more innovative positioning around Excel by technology providers. For example, BI vendor Domo pitches its suite of data visualization products as complementary to – … Read more
The Indian government recently demonetized the INR 500 and 1000 notes and announced plans to introduce new design notes in INR 500, 1000 and 2000 denomination. In the wake of this move – trending on Twitter as #CurrencySwitch among other hashtags – many people have been asking why India hasn’t taken this opportunity to go … Read more
I exhibit cult loyalty for Amazon among a few other brands. As I wrote in What Drives Cult Loyalty?, I’ve been shopping on Amazon for over 15 years in Germany, UK, USA and, finally, India, during which period I must’ve bought at least 100 items from it. Knock on wood, Amazon hasn’t even bungled a … Read more