Harish K Saini

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Listening is an art When we listen to something, we are usually engaged in passive listening—we anticipate our brains to pick up on the key aspects and retain them later. However, active listening is a critical ability for effective communication. It takes practice to become a better listener, but it will improve your ability to

Lateral Recruitment is a regular phenomenon in various corporate circles. In this new age, when market-driven strategies rule the roost and different kinds of expertise have emerged, Lateral Hiring brings immediate solutions for organizations. But you must bear certain points in mind while making Lateral Hiring for your business: 1. You should always frame interviews

If your clients are satisfied with your services or products, it means your business is in good health. Client-satisfaction undoubtedly reflects the scale of success your business has achieved. But it is very difficult to assess the depth of this satisfaction. One better option and clients get away from you.  A fully satisfied customer rarely

An entrepreneur has to be a diligent go-getter. His resolve must be rooted in his vision. He must draw his deep commitment from his mission. And his resolve and commitment, both, are reflected in and sustained by a definitive perseverance. Entrepreneurship is all about a regulated set of activities, steadiness and determination. You can’t and

As Rikant was studying in Kurukshetra University, he was working as well, but without informing his father about his simultaneous job. Soon after, he also started up Duke Travels up in arms with his brother Nishant, a co-founder of EaseMyTrip. Rikant started aggressive marketing right at the inception and transported his offering on bulk SMS-mode. Bulk

Though start-up ecosystem these days is getting conducive in our country, yet places like Aurangabad in Maharashtra are still far from being in mainstream. Where and when Sachin Kate lived in Aurangabad, proper schooling did not exist there. He had to leave the area to a place where he attended school properly. Sustenance was always an

Businesses have a natural course which takes them to grab right choices at right time. You just have to have that subtle sense, specific to your business which assists you in grabbing that moment. That one moment is the most appropriate to carve the change, decide the level of quality, pick aptly skilled workers and

For most of the people rejection gives disappointment, but for some it bolsters confidence. Winners don’t take negative responses seriously; they take them to reinforce their conviction in their belief and understanding. Had they taken these rejections seriously, they would have stopped somewhere and not become the icons they became. Colonel Hartland Sanders bore more

A small idea bears a big capacity inside. A man perceives or visualizes many ideas in his life-time, not all of them click, but if any of them does, it turns into a huge business or great accomplishment in some other arena. The key does not lie in one specific idea getting clicked, but it

Success of a business has many variables. When all its components fall in place, then only you can expect positive results. But businesses never get established in jiffy, it takes years to get to the top. When you go through the stories of successful businesEnterprisen, you get to know so many intriguing aspects which made

Successful people stick to some common habits. Successful people have some unique characteristics in common. If you observe a bunch of successful people deeply, you will find one more thing generic, they keep away from some behavioural traits. Unquestioning attitude: If you scan through a list of successful people representing even different fields, you will

Team-effort is something every organization aspires for. Corporate circles are always engaged in coming up with newer methodologies to construct solid teams assigned for specific tasks. A collective acumen of team-members is constantly more effective than the effort of two or three people working separately, more so in preparing presentations. When working on a presentation,

It is always said that there is no short-cut to success; you have to go through the grind. There are people who get a sliver of success by a lucky inheritance or a sheer chance, but they don’t go much far. The trial and error-phase, incessant failures, an elongated period of ideas not getting fruitful,

Behaviour is what establishes you in your society, behaviour is what exhibits your character, behaviour is what makes you successful in business or other spheres of life. And that behaviour bears a range of facets of human nature. Perhaps assiduousness is the greatest of personality-assets. You can name it persistence, diligence or perseverance, but the

A client is the most vital factor for a business. You chalk out your strategy, make your plans or draw a roadmap, keeping your target-clients in your mind. One satisfied client becomes the greatest promotion for your business. So, having him in the loop always and fulfilling his expectations during the different phases of your

A brand represents the distinctiveness of an entity. That distinctiveness is what separates it from others. In summary, a brand becomes a compact identity of a business. The brand of a business can be built on its logo, advertisement, products, services or any associated campaign. All these ingredients in different forms grab quickly the attention

3 key-points in meeting clients’ expectations A client is the most important entity in the entire mechanism of businesses. Whether you are in manufacturing industry, trading, supplying, distribution or service industry, you work for your clients. Clients are the vital cog in any commercial endeavour. You can fulfill his expectations by sticking to some fundamental