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Roopen Roy (Views expressed are personal) India’s foreign currency reserves reached $263 billion in November 2010. China, on the other hand, topped the league table with a reserve of $2.6 trillion, followed by Japan with $1.1 trillion. And just for context, the remaining two countries in the so-called BRIC configuration had Russia with…
Ratan Tata’s Nano car project was born out of an audacious and bold vision in innovation. At Rs 1 lakh, it was the cheapest car in the world. To produce it required breakthrough thinking in design and engineering. In hindsight, Ratan Tata believes it was an error to position Nano just as the cheapest car….
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…