About the parody song below...

Indian minister slapped by a common man due to high food prices! Sharad Pawar, Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Government of India was slapped a few days back. Here is the clip and a parody song. The problem is not just about food production. It is mis-management & inefficiency. Poor Supply Chain Management. Greed of middlemen. Indian Ministers need to do MBA :)

Walmart to come to India soon? Tesco & Carrefour too?

Western supermarket brands to possibly enter India (new FDI rules announced by the Indian government). Walmart (USA), Tesco (UK) and Carrefour (France) to enter the Indian economy that is battling high food prices and shortage of food grains due to poor supply chain management and inefficiency of middle men. Only 8% of urban Indian retail sector is organ ized and 92% is unorganized - tens of millions of middlemen who form a powerful lobby support protectionist rules of the past. Expect the fury of Indian public along with a tough fight from politicians and middlemen.

Walmart has a tough journey ahead in India! But if it does make inroads, it shall be HIGHLY profitable. If Walmart's legendary supply chain management efficiency is brought to India, it shall help solve the problem of wastage of food due to poor logistics. However, Walmart should take care not to step on others toes (which is quite difficult) or hurt the margins of sellers by squeezing them. 

- Gerry.

Traffic to this blog has begun to take off ! X axis is timeline in months. Y axis is number of page views per month.

Why is effective, clear, detailed and perhaps repetitive communication important?

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” - George Bernard Shaw.

Too many activities this week.

Swamped with work and term end assignments this week. Plus there are too many activities going on at the Business School. It is hard to attend 'em all.

Nov 24th was a fun day,

This is what my friends did to my name tent :) (A name tent is used in class for the Prof. to identify you :)

 

Ryerson MBA. Integrative Week presentation - (My part only here). Qantas Airlines & Jetstar Airlines business problem with Unions.

"Why This Kolaveri Di" - This song is a huge hit in India right now :)

#7 MBA student video blog. (Musician at Yonge-Bloor subway station). My ...