India needs a new password to success By Roopen Roy May 20 2014 FRESH FORMULA: Jack Ma (C), chairman and founder of Alibaba.com, indeed stands apart from the crowd. He has been consistently and routinely granting stocks to his employees — an act unheard of in Chinese business circles It is time to challenge two widely…
Month: September 2025
In Quest of new sources of energy
Energy security: exploring a new source By Roopen Roy Oct 09 2012 It has happened in the last decade but not many have noticed. The US is now more secure in its energy supplies than ever before. Did they achieve it by tapping renewable sources of energy like solar and wind power and by becoming a…
IIM Calcutta Foundation Day Speech 16/11
Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta Foundation Day Lecture 16th November 2015 Roopen Roy Founder and CEO –Sumantrana Management Consultants LLP. Innovation is disrupting the consulting industry Thank you for inviting me to deliver this Foundation Day Lecture at IIM Calcutta. It is a great honour and privilege for me to have the opportunity to exchange my…
How Leaders Groom Leaders
How leaders groom future leaders By Roopen Roy Jul 07 2015 As writer Tom Peters said, “Leaders do not create followers, they create more leaders.” How do leaders create more leaders? Mahatma Gandhi had provided a hint: “Catch them young.” But how do you look at young talent and separate the wheat from the chaff? How do…
Hi-tech or Hi-touch?
Networking with the customers By Roopen Roy Nov 09 2010 Is social media the coolest holy grail of customer intimacy? How will social media be part of your customer strategy? What is social media? Social media embraces social networks that enable an online network among people sharing common interests. As David Armano of Edelman Digital has aptly…
Hello! Panama Calling
Carving out the isthmus from Colombia created Panama. The vision was of a grand canal connecting the Pacific with the Atlantic and linking the North America with the South. The writer Ken Silverstein shone the light on Panama as a financial haven, “In 1903, the administration of Theodore Roosevelt created the country after bullying Colombia…
Have you heard of Barter Card?
Barter Card Roopen Roy Sri Ramakrishna –the guru and mentor of Swami Vivekananda advised his disciples to be detached from money. “Taka Mati, Mati Taka” he said. “Consider cash as a handful of dust and dust as a handful of money.” Rather than devoting oneself to the pursuit of wealth, many followed his…
Hacking and Cyber Wars
Cyber wars and the hacking threat By Roopen Roy Jul 26 2011 The events of the past few months have demonstrated beyond doubt that hacking and electronic interception are serious matters. They can undo individuals, shake empires, destroy careers and put people behind bars. Hacking can be resorted to by almost anyone—the state acting as the…
Green Cloud
http://e.mydigitalfc.com/PUBLICATIONS/DCF/DCF/2011/08/10/ArticleHtmls/Making-the-cloud-green-by-design-10082011011025.shtml?Mode=undefined Making the cloud green, by design By Roopen Roy Aug 09 2011 Cloud computing has the potential of dramatically transforming the way we consume computing power and media storage. The most basic definition of cloud computing is: it is internet-based computing — where applications you use are hosted in a remote, shared data centre, instead…
Grasping Digital India
India should grasp digital opportunities By Roopen Roy Dec 02 2014 The myth that China is only good for “cheap” products and that India is an IT super-power ne-eds to be debunked for the sake of India’s software industry. India’s software industry is mostly services. It relies largely on cost arbitrage. Its growth is volume-led and export-driven….