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With the job market rewarding specialisation, a one-size-fits-all MBA may no longer be enough. While the classic specialisations in Marketing, Finance, HR, IT, and others are still useful, they won’t necessarily make you stand out from the crowd.

Topics: Thought Leadership

The increasing pace of financial services is now responded by the industry’s necessity to upgrade. This has driven the experts to deduce that the finance, in today’s scenario, acts more as a facilitator than the purveyor of financial products and services. In such scenario, the amalgamation of Finance and Technology (FinTech) is the hottest sector to be in, thanks to enabling technologies like Blockchain, API, Big data analytics, AI/ML and Internet of Things. Of these, Blockchain holds the biggest promise.

Topics: Thought Leadership, Finance & Economics, Disruptive Technologies

Right from tracking assets and inventory to conducting audits and payments, blockchain technology is driving supply chain with more efficiency. Several aspects of the supply chain can be enhanced as blockchain ensures traceability, transparency, and less administrative costs. The analog gaps that are generally present within the systems and across the boundaries of an enterprise can be effortlessly eliminated. Companies can now easily reestablish their approach to an integrated global perspective.

Topics: Thought Leadership

“Our Superstar – The Drone Cam” exclaimed New Zealand’s former cricketer Danny Morrison when the broadcast team cut to the drone camera during the RCB vs MI game in Bengaluru.

Topics: Thought Leadership

Decision-Making is a vital element for any organization. Ranging from the employees placed in the bottom-level hierarchy to the top brass, many critical decisions are made daily.

Topics: Thought Leadership

Remember the tenacious match between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon in 2008? Tennis fans caused a massive surge in electricity demand after Nadal took the Wimbledon title because they were glued to their seats during the epic match. The match was so intense that there were many deuce court serves, crisp baseline shots, elegant backhand shots, belligerent forehand winners and many claims for hawk-eye projections. So, the moments were dreadful for the line umpires. Weren’t they? Both players played at their best levels, yet Nadal proved too good for Federer. After the match, Federer and his coach wanted to perform the SWOT analysis. Hence, it is important to analyse the data diligently. This scenario is relevant not only for Federer but also for all the Professional Tennis players and their respective coaches.

Topics: Thought Leadership

As we move towards the age of Artificial Intelligence, the need to develop our emotional competencies becomes stronger. Most of our challenges, personal or professional, are a result of our inability to recognise and manage our emotions, causing internal and external conflicts, eventually taking our focus and productivity away.

Topics: Thought Leadership

In this digital era, time has abridged so much! No one talks about years, months or days now – it is more about hours, minutes and seconds. The customer wants the services or products to be provisioned immediately at their fingertips seamlessly. Digital transformation is bringing disruption at every level. The old IT service management models are no longer relevant in this digital era.

Topics: Digital Marketing, Marketing, Thought Leadership, Disruptive Technologies

There will be other anxieties about machine learning in 2018. The BPO industry will feel the impact of chatbot deployment, and the initial impact from autonomous vehicles on the trucking industry may also begin to be felt in 2018.

Topics: Admissions, Thought Leadership, Disruptive Technologies