As an entrepreneur, you have many dreams to fulfill. You plan strategies and make policies to run your business with a constant eye on high-margin profit-growth. Smooth sailing is what you aim for, but more often than not you find yourself struggling with situations. But overcoming challenges and trying to come up trumps in different […]
There isn’t a single formula that can ensure a start-up success. Many successful entrepreneurs have been studied, their journeys have been revisited and their thought-processes have been analyzed. A few facts can be summarized. Flexibility in thought is the first attribute which has been found effectual to run a start-up smoothly. When you are flexible,
A buoyant attitude and a cheerful frame of mind always keep you motivated in anything you do in life. More so in business, where you are not certain that every plan of yours will see success! Your big plans may get crashed, but a positive approach supports you in trying something else and you carry
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Business is not only investments, profits or returns. Business means data; business means varied kinds of information and their processing. Business means problems and their pinpointing solutions. Business means competition. Business means collection of different resources. Business means personality development and opportunity to explore various aspects of one’s behaviour. Business means many things. You
When you start a business, you are not the only one whose effort decides the success or failure of your business, your staff-members are the main deciding factor. That’s why Talent Acquisition has become increasingly significant in this corporate landscape. And also, Talent Acquisition bears more inherent meaning than a mere Recruitment. Talent Acquisition is
India’s economic fundamentals are getting stronger by the day. Start-up ecosystem is buzzing with activities. Entrepreneurs are coming up from every corner. Even recent demonetization hasn’t dampened the spirit. Entrepreneurs are ready to face hurdles and obstacles head-on whether they come at the inception or along the journey. And the arrangement of financial means remains
Storing data and organizing them in a way that they can be worked out to get meaningful inferences as and when required is a definitive task for companies and organizations. Summarily, data-management is something which is a must for businesses today, more so when we are witnessing a certain digital revolution. Data-management is nothing but
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Successful enterprises transform different types of information and data into business analytical tools for them efficiently. After an apt processing, they extract useful information for the growth of their businesses. But data have to be accurate and precise. And here comes the process of Data Cleansing which is the method to identify inaccurate data in
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Fear of not achieving success is a big roadblock for humans in any sphere of work. We are highly scared of our failures by nature. The apprehension of countering imperfection does not allow us to do things as freely as we could have done. When we embark on a journey to do business, many kinds
All of us are not into business. But there are certain characteristics which must be present in everyone to run the business of life. And these three characteristics are exceedingly important for a person who dreams of being an entrepreneur. When we talk of entrepreneurial dexterity, these three traits, i.e. efficiency, goal-orientation and dynamism, make
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Entrepreneurs are humans, but they are so impassioned about their dreams that they want to grasp them at one go, whereas entrepreneurship is a gradual process. An entrepreneur has got to interweave his ambitions with the blazing zeal that he has and with perseverance simultaneously. He has got to be prepared mentally to give up
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Success has many facets. Success is being a brand in business-arena. Success means the distinctiveness of a business. Success in the business-world has multi-faceted meanings. If you have carved an identity for your business, your brand represents it in totality for clients. The uniqueness of your business grabs your clients’ attention quickly. Your products or
Impediments are part and parcel in business. In fact, sometimes they come from every corner, thick and fast. You get so confused and puzzled that you start doubting yourself and your abilities. Your sales and marketing workforce ceases to deliver results, you fail in the right recruitment of staff or sometimes your competitors in the
Business is an experience which has continuous ups and downs, ascent and descent are integral moments here and sometimes you feel elevated and sometimes totally dejected. Negative moments come in heap. Cash management goes awry, clients come in trickle, your products or services don’t get you expected revenues any more, you make plans but they
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Social Media-presence is increasingly getting infused into different aspects of business. Whether you have just started your journey or have been a giant of decades, you crave for a noticeable agility on varied Social Media-platforms. Digital Marketing is a big requisite these days for companies to flourish constantly at every layer of business. In fact,
What are you not thinking about your website design project? In the crowd of small to big companies claiming beautiful website sites, high technology websites and so on so forth, I am yet to understand what exactly businesses take the website for? Why they do want their website beautiful, look costly ( yes, one of
This is the age of presentations undoubtedly. A brief profile of the company and description of products or services is well-encapsulated in presentations where different forms of creativity give them different shapes. But still, websites with full details of respective companies or organizations hold a significant sway in terms of business-generation. Knowing its business-generation-power, you
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Businesses across the spectrum are adopting digital tools increasingly to deliver customer-experiences of the highest scale. This churn in the market is palpable at every layer. Customers choose and desire for the digital management today. Research one after another has shown that digitally served customers are more satisfied than the ones who get services through
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Online-space has been replete with myriad types of campaigns for some time now. But the quality of these digital campaigns has been the core issue for brands, for sure. Everyone in the fray craves for apposite returns for their online advertisements and apposite returns need quality in those creative expressions. And further, that quality has
Making a corporate presentation of products and services for prospective clients is an intricate task. Specialized skills for various integral ingredients are the utmost requisite. Research on different subjects like similarity of your products or services in the market, competitive analysis, scope of your offerings, target-clients etc. plays a pivotal role to shape your presentation.
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Building a team to execute business-tasks properly and timely is probably the most important aspect of running a smooth business. A well-knit team breeds the ambience of trust for the whole organization. The team-members, with a perfect bonding, hardly have the situations of variance and divergence of ideas which is so very nice for any organization
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Every corporate bear a different culture which is distinctive and separates it from others in working. The very undercurrents of this uniqueness in culture provide an organization with ensuring cohesiveness and ethical values. But there surely exists a commonality among organizations in shaping this culture. 1. Vision: The culture of an organization or business has the
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The average time taken by the company toturn around and respond to a client/request is called its Turnaround Time or TAT. Author: Harish K Saini A timely response to customers forms a pivotal part in the overall customer experience extended to them. Customers ask for a service, make a query or register a request with
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A satisfied customer begets thousands of prospective customers. Meeting customers’ demands may end with the delivery of the products or services they wanted, but meeting their expectations goes beyond that. In fact, meeting their expectations is a recurrent task which has to be handled at different levels and in a customized manner. There may be
A vision is the most potent force underneath a business. Achievable dreams that keep you interested and enthused all through the course of a task can be defined as vision. When you start a business, you envision for yourself where do you want to see your organization after a specified period and then every plan
Digital revolution has spread to every part and branch of corporates and industries. An increased understanding has enabled us to use digital applications more and more meaningfully. HR-divisions of different organizations also have to adopt digital initiatives in entirety to have a certain fluidity and flow in the functions. HR-experts and professional would have to
Target is a keyword in corporate-corridors. Everyone is scrambling to achieve targets. In fact, career-advancements or promotions are decided on the extent of target-accomplishments. But there is one more word which makes rounds there is Quality. You have got to achieve target and you can’t even in your remotest thoughts compromise on quality of your
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Conditional work-force has always had a nice spread in corporate-corridors. Provisional employees for any organization signify an answer to contingency. These employees may be as talented and hard-working as their permanent counterparts, but their own choice of the status or circumstances make them freelancers. Different reports and reviews show that these freelancers today constitute 25-30%
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Better customer-experience is one attribute which keeps your company ahead of others in the market. Innovative products or extremely useful services are alright, but it is this experience of customers while dealing with you and your company is what makes an indelible impression in their minds and carves a deep attachment in their hearts for
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These days, businesses keep the excellent customer-experience in the core of their functions. A competent implementation of different strategies revolving around a supreme customer experience gives great results. The higher the satisfaction-level of your customers, the better the customer experience and this satisfaction of customers can be achieved by bringing some tactical elements into your
Bench-strength is a very popular term in sports where some players are kept in reserve to meet any unexpected challenge in the match. These bench-players are not at all any less skilled than the players playing the match. Corporates too these days keep a reserve of workforce, skilled in different fields, which gives them a
It’s true that a simple idea transforms into a big, booming business, if executed effectively. But simultaneously it is also true that investors and Venture Capitalists make investments in people, not in ideas or other factors. Certainly, before reaching on any decision regarding investments in a start-up, they want to convince themselves that its founders
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Start-ups come with challenges. Though today’s landscape is far more conducive than ever before, yet the innate character of a start-up is made up of different risks. Sometimes you feel you are going strong and sometimes you are bogged down by circumstances. But if you have these 3 accomplishments, you are moving in a right
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With the penetration of smartphones going deep across the country, the utility of Mobile Applications for businesses is on the rise. Different surveys suggest that on account of affordability and easier data-access from handsets, India will have more than 180 million Smartphones by 2019, nearly 13.5 % of the global Smartphone-markets. Our online interactions have got
There is an old saying, ‘Dress the way you want to be addressed’, how apt it is! We must dress in sync with ambience, occasion or the culture of the place where we reside, visit or work. Your corporate wear also must match to your work-place’s culture, ethos and ambience. Your corporate wear reflects your
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Business-landscape around the world got empowered in 2015 when Blue Ocean rose on the horizon as an enlightening business-strategy. Firms and entrepreneurs found a new way to achieve high-margin profit-growth and that too, without the market-competition. Innovations and inventive thinking became the primary assets for a business to excel. But over a period of time,
A book namely Blue Ocean Strategy, written by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, came out of publication in 2005 and added a new dimension to strategy-structure of business-world. Businesses don’t need to tackle competitors, they can create own space of demands in the market. This new unchallenged market-space carved on the better or different quality of
Disruption has become a much-discussed word today in corporate-corridors. In fact, Professor Clayton Christensen gave a new meaning to the word with innovation being the underpinning connotation. According to him, disruption signifies any innovation that makes products or processes easier and simpler with a greater degree of affordability. When you have proper engagement with your
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Schedules in corporate circles are always replete with meetings and seminars. These meetings definitely bring significant decisions for businesses. Even one-on-one-meetings also have had a prime importance in the corporate-world. One-on-one-meetings are special, brief and more enlightening. Your co-workers candidly open up about the problems and hindrances in your organization. More often than not, that
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Humans have this intrinsic yearning for recognition. Recognition boosts anyone to achieve greater things in life and profession. That’s why it’s very necessary to have a mechanism in place at your organization where appreciation for good work is ingrained in its culture. A certificate, a memento, raise in salary or promotions can do wonders for
When your employees are satisfied at your company, they contribute with their full potential. In fact, your co-workers are the most important asset of your business. Investments, revenue, products, services and other elements may have their importance, but it is the human resource working at your place which ideates, innovates and executes different plans to take
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Official meetings are an avenue to construct employee-engagement. Instead of one-on-one, you talk to many co-workers instantly. But these meetings should not become a perfunctory part of your work. They must be effective in finding solutions and reaching to different decisions. You can instill some routine-tasks in your mechanism to make these meetings more and
Performance-assesEnterprisent or supervision of performance of your employees must be embedded in your system seamlessly. Making official assesEnterprisent of their performances on intermittent basis is well and good, but having a regular interaction with them to gauge their normal progress works wonders for you. They work daily, they can deliver results daily and they can
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Adjustment to an office’s culture is a complete process for an employee. This process has so many different aspects. Every organization has different sets of rules and regulations and completely different corporate culture. Some offices follow some orientation-programmes and some others recruit specialized HR-people to smoothen the process for new entrants. An organization’s activities and
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Aims and objectives define an organization. Its vision, mission, values and future, everything is encapsulated in its definitive aims and objectives. Every organization or company locates its purpose of work in its aims and objectives. Your team-members must have a strict adherence to your organization’s goals. Their personal ambitions and aspirations must have a reflection
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The success of any organization or company is heavily dependent on the people working there. As an entrepreneur, you are as good as your team. Cohesiveness among your team-members is a must to help you achieve business-goals. But team-building is an art and you can only have your staff-members working as a team when you
Skilled, accomplished and proficient employees are a great asset for any organization. Similarly, passionate employees are equally an enormous possession to have. And so, finding passionate employees also becomes quite a task. You may have some solutions in your mind: 1. Define company’s profile plainly: You must advertise you company’s profile clearly so that every prospective
People who look for work which utilizes their skills are passionate about their skills. When they find work for them matching to their respective skills, they get engaged to their respective works also with same fervour. They become so passionate about their assignments that their output always becomes heavier than that of others. These people
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A team-leader in a corporate set-up is a vital cog in the whole mechanism. Sure, leaders are as successful as their team-members. But if the leader is efficient, he carves his team into a successful unit. An efficient leader knows how to infuse motivation among his team-members and extract results from them. He may have
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You are never away from your inner self. When you pick up the gauntlet to do a business, it is just an extension of your personality. So, your business normally becomes a personal experience for you, which goes through numerous phases. Success or failure of a move, campaign being hit or a flop, promotional tools
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