Thursday, January 24, 2008

Oversized & overrated!!!

Think of the aircraft manufacturing giant Boeing, & you perhaps question the very ‘bulky’ American’s audacity when it deafeningly defies gravity. But there itself you are caught on the wrong foot, for bulky it is when it comes toMcNerney, CEO, Boeing giving ultra-rich cash returns (with a blinding $81.9 billion in m-cap on the NYSE) but not when it comes to aircraft designs! Don’t believe us? Well look at its July 8, 2007 rollout – the mid-sized B787 ‘Dreamliner’ by lieu of which this American showed precisely why it felt that ‘big isn’t beautiful’, logically!

Well, nothing to take away from the $10 billion bull-headed super-jumbo A380 manufacturing strategy of Airbus, but the new delivery market for largesized aircraft s over the next 20 years (including the A380s) according to a 2026 forecast by CAPA will stand at just $270 billion, representing just a pathetic 9.6% of global market till 2026 (which stands at a dazzling $2.8 trillion)! So all in all, Airbus’s latest expensive hobby (which belongs to this segment) is meant to cater to just 9.6% of the total market demand for new aircraft s over the next two decades. On the contrary, Boeing’s latest, the 280-seater B787 falls in the twin-aisle category – the most lucrative segment worth a most scintillating $1.27 trillion (accounting for 45.4% of total market).

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2008

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Wild Hogs-II

Don’t tell us you didn’t see the movie Wild Hogs! Aw, come on. It’s a rollicking comedy about four buddies – John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy – who, sick of the boring rigmarole of their depressing lives, decide to rock the highway party up, to go upcountry on a side splitting motorcycle road trip. Not only do they end up fighting with almost every highway roadster they meet, but also ensure endless hilarious disputes with each other. So what’s that got to do out here in our review on the Bajaj Group? Well, we guess you missed the start.

To be honest, it’s not half as bad with the Bajaj Group; in fact, despite the past external and internal argument trafficking, they’re in quite a good shape. But if you thought that there’s more than what meets the eye in the July 14, 2007, appointment of Niraj Bajaj (Rahul Bajaj’s cousin) as the Chairman of Mukand Industries just two days after Rahul Bajaj was honourably eased from the same post, you might be spot on.


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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2008

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative


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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Book like there is no tomorrow

The most awaited book of the year, the last and the final book of the Harry Potter series – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows finally hit Harry Potter the book shelves around the globe. Potter attracted thousands of Indian fans who waited outside the bookstore in the wee hours of the morning to get their hands on the first copy of the book. The book pulled around 2 million copies, which were ordered well in advance. The figure includes 2,40,000 copies from India itself. With 11 million books sold in the UK and the US, in just twenty four hours, the seventh book has broken the record of the sixth book also which had sold around nine million copies on its first day.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

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