Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Bajaj auto’s lifelines are the discover and Pulsar brands

Bajaj auto’s lifelines are the discover and Pulsar brands. The man at the helm K Srinivas elucidates on current plans and future implications

Also, instead of focusing on 10-15 brands, Bajaj has kept its focus only on a handful of brands. Do you believe this strategy has helped the company stay ahead of the competition?
Proliferation of brands and product portfolio is reflection of diffused positioning and ambiguous understanding of the market. We believe that sharply positioned product portfolio is key to widest and deepest market presence. Our twin brand strategy shows why actually less is more and is reflected in the company’s performance so far. While Pulsar is the #1 sports motorcycle, Discover is positioned as a sporty commuter. Between them, we now have a dominant presence in the fastest growing segments in the category.

Won’t your own offerings like Ninja 250 and Duke 200 pose competition to the Pulsar range?
Ninja 250 and Duke 200 are positioned in the super sports segment. They are in the highest end of the sports segment and will not be competition to Pulsar which is positioned for the mass sports range.

What’s the road ahead for the company’s new found export focus?
The volumes in export market have been growing at a much faster pace than the domestic market. For instance, our average exports volume have moved up from 25,000 units to 1,12,000 units in a span of just five years. This underlines the future potential for Bajaj Auto in the global markets.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
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Saturday, January 05, 2013

No more destiny’s child

To come to power and stay in it is what the Krichners’ and their competitors need to figure out

When Argentina goes to elections on June 28, a lot would be at stake not only for the country but also for those who have been in power. If at all economic conditions of the country have not improved, it shows that the first couple, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her predecessor and husband, Néstor Krichner are losing ground. While the mid-term elections were supposed to take place in October as per schedule, the pre-ponment of the mid-term polls in all probability would spell doom for the current government. Says Jorge Giacobe, pollster and analyst, “…this is the end of the prolific cycle of the Kirchner name.”

The era which began in 2003, when Néstor came to power and tried to and to a great extent even succeeded in, controlling the tumbling economy of Argentina, appears to be nearing its end. During his rule the economy started to recover from the recession it faced during 2001-03. Néstor reduced the debt on the country, a step which worked in the beginning but failed as time went by. Yet power did not elude him as he was succedeed by his wife.

But now, things could be changing. This is more than evident since the country election has seen a heavy flow of funds. The drums are beating loud and many new presidential candidates have come to join the race.

Francisco de Narvaez, who is the closest competitor to Krichner and heads the deputies lists in Buenos Aires, is spending millions to fortify his position. Public opinion polls show that the two are close to each other as far as results go.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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Friday, January 04, 2013

Please spend!!!

MLAs need to use the funds

India might have 450 million paupers; it has never been a poor nation in the sense of availability of funds. But sadly, it has always been a poor performer when it comes to the efficient allocation of these funds.

The capital city itself is a stark indicator of this unfortunate situation; so one can imagine the issues with the rest of the country. According to a report by CAG that was released in 2006, there were 34 Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) of Delhi in the list of blacklisted MLAs, who hadn’t been able to utilise the funds allocated especially to them for their constituency development under the Assembly Constituency Development Programme (ACDP). The report stated that in the financial year of 2004-05, there were 3 MLAs who didn’t spend even a single penny for development. The remaining spent less than half of the amount that was allocated to them.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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Thursday, January 03, 2013

Will the real IRA stand up?

Eventually, the moderate IRA won & a political solution was reached

Way back in 1922 in Ireland, then a part of the British Empire, if you were a Brit and found out that there was an ‘Irregular’ in the vicinity, it did not mean that the person needed lessons on better behaviour. It actually meant you needed to run for your life pronto! For ‘Irregulars’ was the name given to the extremist wing of the dreaded Irish Republican Army (IRA) at that time, formed with the aim of militarily freeing Ireland from the British Empire.

The original IRA’s (formed in 1919) life was short; as the Britishers hastened towards a treaty with it that led to the formation of the Irish Free State (with dominion status under the British) and Northern Ireland (to remain a part of UK). IRA was split on the issue of accepting the agreement. The breakaway group, the ‘Irregulars’ under Eamon de Valera, fought another war with the Empire from 1922-1923 when they were defeated; but they continued their extremist activities and also continued a political course through their party Sinn Féin. Once Republic of Ireland came out of Commonwealth, IRA’s genda shifted to unification with the Northern Ireland. IRA split again in 1979 into Official & Provisional IRA on the issue of whether or not to use violence. Since the 1960s, IRA has killed about 1,800 people. In 1990s, IRA began talks with British government and called for ceasefire after a power sharing agreement. The Republicans agreed to allow Northern Ireland to remain under UK till popular mandate in that country favoured it (Belfast Agreement of 1998). Now a few disintegrate groups – mainly Real & Continuity IRA have continued the violent legacy.


ource : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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GENESIS AND LEGACY: ARMED STRUGGLES

Most terrorist movements eventually wither away for they fail to replace an armed struggle with a political one

In fact, one of the first organized armed resistances of the 20th century was the Irish movement against the British rule which led to a fierce conflict in between 1919-1921 that eventually led to the formation of Ireland while Northern Ireland remained part of the British Empire.

It is said that even though Irish Republican Army was no way in a position to defeat the British Army, yet the guerilla warfare it resorted to, made the British existence in Ireland inviable – not only politically, but also economically [a critical reason for the English to occupy territories even before World War II] – just as the Mujahideens did for Soviets in Afghanistan. Later on, the Provisional Irish Republican Army was formed in the 1960s for carrying on the protest against the two-Ireland policy and for ousting the British from Northern Ireland. But a war of attrition cannot be carried on without harming the common populace. Expectably falling prey to this paradigm, the subversive activities of IRA – which included bombings and assassinations – eventually made it lose much of the support it had in the Republic of Ireland and even in Northern Ireland. Eventually, after more than three decades of continuing a war of attrition against the British rule, in 2005, in the face of ever expanding domestic opposition, IRA finally agreed to lay down arms and carry on its struggle though democratic and political means; Sinn Féin became its widely accepted political front. If Sinn Féin [read its EU election campaign agenda and commitment to the ‘Peace Process’ to understand the gargantuan philosophical transformation] epitomised this intelligent change in IRA, the same gambit was chosen by the Maoists of Nepal, Fatah in Palestine and even say, Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan.


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