A call to Arms

If the early 1990s had marked a big break from the closed economy model of the socialist era, the mid 1990s defined a paradigm shift away from the Nehruvian foreign policy model. It is not far fetched to state that the 21st century ushers in a new era in privatisation of Indian defence, endeavouring to transform the mighty Indian armed forces from a ‘holy cow’ to a roaring tiger Imagine, the hostilities have broken out between India and its primary adversary. The Indian naval warships & airforce combatants deployed in the war zone are all set to launch their missiles onto the enemy vessels & territory. And suddenly, they find their navigation equipment – dependent on feed from the US-based global positioning system (GPS) – giving erroneous output. The war machines go blind because they don’t know where they are and in which direction to turn. The missiles with faulty navigation technology are flying helter-skelter. All plans go haywire. This is a possible scenario, which the defence strategists oft en discuss to bring out the dangers of over-dependence on foreign defence technology & the importance of indigenisation.

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Shifting to channel selling is unavoidable, but the road ahead is tough...

Of course, the numbers tell the true story. While HP has already dethroned Dell as the top PC vendor in October 2006, the shipment results for Quarter 1 2007 brought greater worries. HP outperformed the industry with an impressive annual growth rate of 28% while Dell floundered with a decline of 7.8%! Dell’s market share plummeted & stood at just 13.9% compared to HP’s 17.6%. Exclaims Gartner Analyst Jeffrey Hewitt, “Dell faces challenges related as much to business-model fundamentals as to execution issues. Re-evaluating its business strategy is a good first step...” But the scepticism refuses to die as well. “These are areas where Dell has limited experience, so it will be a major challenge for Dell to excel...” opines another Gartner Analyst Heeral Joshipura.

Add to that the fact that a lot of channel partners of rival companies like HP & Lenovo wouldn’t be too excited to partner with an erstwhile staunch rival like Dell. And if at all they would, they would drive a very hard bargain, which could further squeeze Dell’s margins. While times demand a focus on sales growth over bottom lines, this strategic reversal will most likely be a painful one.

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Should Biyani be even worried about advocates of the Devil like us?

At least, he never gave anything away in any of his meetings with us. “We have been a pioneer in many of the formats of retailing earlier; and we will continue to be so in the future,” he confidently asserted to B&E in our previous meeting. Look at the situation from his perspective – Pantaloon continues to ride the organised retail boom, thanks to the compelling ‘pioneer’ advantage. For the nine months ended March 2007, the company has continued meteoric rise to register profits of Rs.23.6 billion (yoy growth of 63.8%). Profits after tax were equally encouraging at 110% to reach Rs.1 billion. And Kishore Biyani has even been christened The International Retailer for the Year 2007 by the US National Retail Federation. Why in heavens should he even care two hoots about doomsday specialists?

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The new roaring dragon!

Any growing economy is ought to be mentioned (at least somewhere) as New China, and Vietnam is no exception. Since90s Vietnam had been the second fastest growing economy, just after China (again!). What’s more, it is poised to clock an annual growth of 8%-10% upto 2015. Playing upon the ‘de-risking card’, it is attracting investments from MNCs that are hesitant to invest more in the capricious China.

This once war-torn economy now has GDP accelerating at 8.5% annually. From Intel to Microsoft , most of big IT players are pumping huge amounts of money. The State too is leaving no stone unturned to lure the investors as is witnessed in the enactment of bankruptcy and intellectual property laws in the recent periods. To support the investment drive, the infrastructural development is also taking place at an unprecedented pace, wherein the government is investing around 10% of GDP on infrastructure. Vietnam’s competitive advantage over China has been its English speaking young population whereby the youngsters are not only well educated but employable. Moreover, the domestic market for soft ware and technology services has been instrumental in creating a successful outsourcing market. This had made Vietnam shift its headlines from political pages of newspaper to business pages.

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Much beyond the meteorological reports and satellite scans, there is this one sign that unerringly foretells the misery that will befall men in times of a deluge: that of the elephant leaving its thicket for safer shores, in herds, tuskers up front, calves ensconced in the middle, mothers by their side; the earlier they leave, the worse the fury of the flood to come. In Assam, a home to over 5,000 of the world’s 32,000 Asiatic elephants, however, that tie with revered “Ganesh Baba” has all but snapped, with the toll in the now infamous and ongoing man-elephant conflict at a shocking 200 persons an year in India, with the count of jumbos killed yearly in the country touching an alarming 300. (A century ago, the Asiatic elephant count stood at 100,000; African elephants dropped from an estimated 3 to 5 million to between 400,000 & 600,000!)

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