Three Reasons Why Companies Don’t Behave Like Individuals

Since companies comprise individuals, many people believe that companies and individuals will behave in an identical manner under the same situation. I disagree. There’s a big disconnect in the behavior of individuals versus companies. I can think of at least three reasons for this disconnect: Fiduciary responsibility Market cap Emotion #1. FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY Let me … Read more

Statistical Significance Is Dying – And Data Science Is To Blame

I concluded my blog post entitled Demystifying The Ubiquitous Sample Size Of 2000 on the following note: A survey with a sample size of merely 2000 can deliver statistically significant results for a population of millions provided the sample is representative of the population, which is determined by how homogeneous or heterogeneous the population is. … Read more

Consent Dilemma – Have You Given It Or Not?

The Netflix show Social Dilemma has rekindled the eternal controversy over privacy, tracking, and manipulation by digital companies. As consumers, many of us outrage at brands for using our private information to target us with personalized communications, ads and targeted offers. In this post, I’m going to go out on a limb and argue that … Read more

How RuPay Can Disrupt Visa And MasterCard

In Don’t Go Global Without Cracking The Value Proposition For Foreign Markets, I’d unpacked the dangers of taking your product global before cracking its value proposition for foreign markets. I’d taken the example of UPI in that post. Now, I’ll take RuPay, another product from UPI-owner NPCI. For the uninitiated, RuPay is a homegrown payment card … Read more

Bugs Are Everywhere – Don’t Single Out Excel & Access

It’s fashionable to dunk on Excel and Access in many quarters. Take The Register for example. It blames Excel for under-reporting 16,000 Covid-19 cases in What a Hancock-up: Excel spreadsheet blunder blamed after England under-reports 16,000 COVID-19 cases, and Access for inventory discrepancies in Excel is for amateurs. To properly screw things up, those same … Read more

Traditional Media Has Itself To Blame For Its Downfall

Millennials don’t read newspapers and magazines. That bodes ill for the future of traditional media. As though such threats caused by generational shifts are not lethal enough, traditional media is hurting itself even further with its lax attitude and casual behavior. Here are some ways by which traditional media is hurtling towards its downfall. Can’t … Read more

Driving Greater Sales Marketing Alignment – Sales POV

In Driving Greater Sales Marketing Alignment – Marketing POV, we covered the solution to the misalignment problem from the POV of Marketing. In this blog post, we will see some ways by which Sales can drive greater alignment with Marketing. To recap, the following are the key areas of misalignment between sales and marketing from … Read more