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A dream home can become a nightmare By Roopen Roy Mar 01 2016 The average Indian saves for a dream home. A large part of his lifetime income goes into the purchase of a roof over his head. The pradhan mantri awas yojana embodies the assurance of the government to address housing needs of all in a…
Roopen Roy (Views are personal) Authoritarian leaders in power have seldom lost an opportunity to stifle criticism, muzzle the press and stamp out opposition. Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600 after the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy. One of his crimes: he had described the sun as a star….
When innovators become creative with technology, they decisively disrupt existing paradigms. The entrenched, legacy players look like deer caught in the headlights.CNN was a good early example of a disruptive business model in media. It was fathered by online technologies and midwifed by the first Gulf War. Although, CNN was born earlier, it really took…
Roopen Roy (Views expressed are personal) If I told you at the beginning of 2012 that a start-up company barely 16 months old with only 13 employees will be sold for $1 billion, you would have thought I was smoking something. Not really, we are talking about Instagram. It was founded in October 2010…
Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta Foundation Day Lecture 16th November 2015 Roopen Roy Founder and CEO –Sumantrana Management Consultants LLP. 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 thoughts with you. IIM-C has a…
Indians born on or before 1947 account for just about 5 per cent of our population. In the taxonomy of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s famous speech — 95 per cent of us were all born after the stroke of midnight when India awoke to life and freedom. But our next generation is growing up too. Those…
Is an enormous demographic dividend cheque in the mail for India? Is it pre-ordained that a young nation is destined to harvest the benefits of favourable demographics even if it does nothing? Or is there a demographic nightmare looming on the horizon? Our prime minister said, “Our youth can be an asset only if we…
Roopen Roy (Views are personal) Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani girl of Pushtun ethnicity. She is barely 15 years old. She is the youngest nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize in history. I hope she has the distinction of being the youngest recipient of the Prize as well. Malala authored a blog under a nom…
Crowdsourcing is a game changer (views expressed are personal) Roopen Roy The marvels of technology, the shrinking of distances and virtual platforms of collaboration have unleashed the power of crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is a term that was coined back in 2006 by writer Jeff Howe for a Wired magazine article. Although the concept was far…
Roopen Roy (Views are personal) There are several theories on how companies are built to last. But remaining in business for a long time is a tough act. If you look at the Dow Jones index of 30 companies, only 4 continue from the 1960s. The churn in Fortune 500 has been equally…