It is corporate earnings season once again! And while we wait for major corporations the world over to declare their earnings, we are also watching India Inc’s earnings report for the September 2023 quarter, which falls just before the festive season in India. In fact, because Diwali is slightly later than usual this year, we… Continue reading India is Bucking the Economic Slowdown, Or Is It?
The last time I wrote about the global economy, I wrote about its fractious state, thanks to the geopolitical tensions all around. This time, I thought I would look at it from the multilateral institutions’ point of view and then share my own thoughts on where the global economy might be headed. As I write… Continue reading Global Economy Still Searching for Direction
As has become commonplace these years, 2023 too has been a year of extreme weather conditions, natural disasters, excessive and unseasonal rainfall in some places, drought in other places. We know that extreme weather conditions and natural calamities are becoming the rule, but it doesn’t conform to any pattern and we are unable to mitigate… Continue reading Greening the Planet Against Climate Change
In the old days when I was still a cub copywriter in the advertising industry in India – which is around 35-40 years ago – the prevailing marketing wisdom was that the consumer or customer is the one who makes the biggest decisions on brands. “Customer is King” was always heard at meetings, in conference… Continue reading Have Consumers Changed the Way They Make Brand Decisions?
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For years and maybe even decades, technology experts and think-tanks have been warning us of the impact of automation and AI on work, skills and jobs. McKinsey, in its 2017 report on the Future of Work, which I had written about and shared on my blog in 2019, had indicated what kinds of jobs and… Continue reading The Generational Impact Generative AI Could Have on Work
This month saw the grand finalé of the G20 2023 summits under India’s presidency. New Delhi, India’s capital was suitably sanitized, beautified and locked down – for a 3-day holiday – so that leaders of the world’s most economically powerful countries as well as heads of multilateral institutions who had descended upon the city could… Continue reading G20 and BRICS, All in Expansion Mode
In my previous blog post, I had written about airlines as world connectors, providing an important economic and cultural link between countries and their people. And in it, I tried to create and recommend a new brand strategy for British Airways, already an image-builder for Britain as well as a world connector. I had envisaged… Continue reading Airlines as Image-Builders of Countries
We think of airlines as transportation, and also in the context of tourism, but rarely as providers of international connectivity, as vital as telecommunications and the internet. And even more rarely do we think of them as performing an important economic function, not even in today’s globalized and highly connected world. They are critical not… Continue reading Airlines as Connectors of the World
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Peripatetic Perch 