Driving back and forth to you job in Munbai is like smoking a packaged of cigarettes, and nothing become better. Indian government spend 17 dollar per capita and year in infrastructure while China spend 116 dollar. The Indian mentality is pretty much having a back-up plan for the back-up plan while China is straighter forward, which… Continue reading Is the Indian IT miracle over?
Category: Globalization
Global population growth
The world’s population will grow to 9 billion over the next 40 years, as we can see in the chart below from the Economist. The world in 1950 looked very different from how it does now. Europe was home to 22% of the world’s 2.5 billion people. Germany, Britain, Italy and France all counted among… Continue reading Global population growth
Banking Outlook Africa 2010
As in the previous year, Bearing Consulting has sponsored the Banking Outlook Africa conference, which took place at the Sandton Convention Center in Johannesburg, July 19-23. To download the program, please click on the link below: Banking Outlook Africa 2010.pdf A hot topic at the conference was that 230 million households in Africa remain… Continue reading Banking Outlook Africa 2010
Charging for value – Sure…
Over the last decade it has been a lot of discussions about pricing based on value. However, there are several issues related to that and not an easy task. To begin with your company must be committed to really go for value creation meaning down prioritize other activities that might be short term valuable for… Continue reading Charging for value – Sure…
Zero Carbon Goal – The need for Energy Innovation
At the TED2010 conference recently, Bill Gates unveiled his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he’s backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050. The TED talk is in the video below. Bill Gates… Continue reading Zero Carbon Goal – The need for Energy Innovation
The Paradox of Choice
As we have gained economic growth and higher living standards in western societies, we have also gained freedom of choice. In his book the Paradox of Choice – Why More is Less and in the TED talk below, psychologist Barry Schwartz argues that choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but… Continue reading The Paradox of Choice
The rise of Asia
Hans Rosling is a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker. He is Professor of International Health at the Karolinska Institute. Rosling was a young guest student in India when he first realized that Asia had all the capacities to reclaim its place as the world’s dominant economic force. At TEDIndia in November 2009,… Continue reading The rise of Asia
Statistics that will reshape your world-view
With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling presents data that debunks several myths about world development. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute and gave this speech at the TED talks conference in Monterey, California in February 2006. Stats that reshape your world view
Bill Gates on Creative Capitalism and Innovation
In the interesting video below, TIME Magazine editor Richard Stengel discusses creative capitalism and innovation with Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. Well worth watching! Bill Gates on how to fix capitalism