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Do you need a coach? Vic Ciuffetelli, CEO Asia Pacific, ActionCOACH

Business Coaching is a nascent practice in India and is often clubbed with yet another kind of consultancy or training services. Some companies are hesitant to...

BY Taslima Khan | October 06, 2010 | comments ( 0 ) |

Drivers of Change K S Ahulawalia, Founder, Excalibre Inc.

Excalibre Inc offers dramatic value propositions in enhancing critical measures of performance - quality, service speed and cost....

BY Franchise India | September 18, 2010 | comments ( 1 ) |

Training Entrepreneurs Rahul Jain, CEO, Business Coaching India

Business Coaching India is a trailblazer in the area of business coaching. Businesses across all categories and sectors are coached on how to run their businesses...

BY Shambhavi Anand | September 09, 2010 | comments ( 0 ) |

Technology at its Best Patrick Mathias, Vice- President, Sales-West, Cisco India & SAARC

Technology enablers are increasingly realizing the potential of the huge SMB market. At the same time, they are challenged by the heterogeneity of SMB customers who...

BY Taslima Khan | September 08, 2010 | comments ( 0 ) |

Excerpts of the Interview of Dr. H.P Kumar Dr. H.P Kumar, Chairman-cum-Managing Director National Small Industries Corporation, New Delhi

National Small Industries Corporation Ltd. (NSIC), an ISO 9001 certified company, since its establishment in 1955, has been working to fulfill its mission of...

BY Taslima Khan | September 01, 2010 | comments ( 0 ) |

Software solutions for SMBs Thomas Abraham, MD, Sage India

SMEs would need to migrate from an accounting package to an ERP as they scale up their business. ERP is very important to streamline the business processes in an...

BY Shambhavi Anand | August 12, 2010 | comments ( 1 ) |

Credit rating improves credibility Ramraj Pai, Director, SME ratings, CRISIL

It is high time SMEs realized the importance of credit rating to boost their chances of getting credit and to establish their financial strength before customers,...

BY Taslima Khan | May 27, 2010 | comments ( 2 ) |

"SMEs need reliable power" Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman Planning Commission

The enormous variety of entrepreneurs in the country presents a tremendous challenge before the government to devise support strategies for everyone, right from the...

BY Taslima Khan | May 17, 2010 | comments ( 2 ) |

Dinesh Rai: The challenge of implementation Dinesh Rai, Secretary, Ministry of MSME, GoI

The union budget and the Prime Minister’s Task Force has outlined several policy recommendations for the development of the MSME sector. A host of measures have been...

BY Taslima Khan | April 21, 2010 | comments ( 3 ) |

Entrepreneurial Training Mr. Ajay Dixit, Head, The Centre for Social Entrepreneurship & CSR, EDI.

A recognised national resource institution, EDI is committed to entrepreneurship education, training and research. EDI has been spearheading entrepreneurship...

BY Bhuvnesh Talwar | April 01, 2010 | comments ( 25 ) |

Angel decoded Padmaja Ruparel, President, Indian Angel Network

Borrowing and lending money has never been easy for entrepreneurs and money lenders respectively. However with platforms like Indian Angel Network the process has...

BY Shambhavi Anand | March 15, 2010 | comments ( 3 ) |

SME Calling Mr. Deepak Khanna, CEO, Airtel Business Services, Bharti Airtel

Airtel being one of the market leaders in the telecom sector is now looking at the SME space, which it believes has a huge untapped potential. Mr. Deepak Khanna, SMB...

BY Taslima Khan | March 10, 2010 | comments ( 2 ) |

Emerging sector important for developing nations Michael Spence, 2001 Nobel Prize winner for economic sciences

Michael Spence, 2001 Nobel Prize winner for economic sciences, who did pioneering work on dynamics of information flow and market development, believes that for the...

BY Shambhavi Anand | February 15, 2010 | comments ( 0 ) |

A vision for business leaders! Ketan Dewan, Founder & Managing Director, KRD Vision

KRD Vision, a visionary company setup by Ketan Dewan aims to provide solutions to corporate. In a conversation with Franchise India he discloses his source of...

BY Harmit Singh | February 06, 2010 | comments ( 1 ) |

Learn to go the business way Radha Iyer, Faculty Entrepreneurship & Human Resource Development, K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research

With entrepreneurship becoming the most sought after career option these days, academic institutions have also taken it up as a subject choice. Does a course in...

BY Shambhavi Anand | February 01, 2010 | comments ( 4 ) |

The Lean Way Mr. Amul Mate, Director, Business Development, UMAS Pvt Ltd.

Lean manufacturing is a management strategy, which helps in optimising the resources involved in manufacturing a product or service, thereby, producing the highest...

BY Bhuvnesh Talwar | January 07, 2010 | comments ( 1 ) |

Knowledge solutions to brand building Rajeev Karwal, Founder, Milagrow Business and Knowledge Solutions

While everybody aspires to be tagged with something big, Rajeev Karwal with over 25 years of experience of brand building opted to work for star-ups. His company...

BY Shambhavi Anand | January 04, 2010 | comments ( 5 ) |

E-commerce has a huge potential and benefits Brian Wong, Head, Global Sales, Alibaba.com

Alibaba.com is the world's largest online B2B marketplace, connecting millions of buyers and suppliers worldwide every day. It reaches in more than 240 countries,...

BY Shambhavi Anand | December 31, 2009 | comments ( 1 ) |