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Customers and Users

Understanding how customers and users behave is crucial to the development of new digital products and services. Individual consumers behave very differently from corporate users; knowledge-focused users are different from both these groups.

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Innovation in business models can deliver breakthrough competitive advantage

Dr. Uday Phadke discusses innovation in business models and how it can help companies establish competitive advantage. He uses the examples of Getty Images and dezineforce to illustrate how business model innovation has helped these companies alter the competitive landscape.

12 April 2010

Outward bound M&A deal activity from India picks up in 2010

Indian companies are becoming more active in international Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). The out-bound M&A activity has ranged from the occasional multi-billion dollar deal to a number of smaller deals. The activity has been across a number of sectors such as telecommunications, IT services, Oil... More »

23 March 2010

Online video consumption grows, but pricing and business model challenges still remain

In spite of increasing consumption, the challenge of monetising online video content still remains as evidenced by the experience of YouTube and Hulu. More »

10 March 2010

Innovation in Indian IT-BPO services industry is at a tipping point. Are the innovators creating maximum value?

Innovation in the Indian IT-BPO services industry has come a long way and has reached a tipping point as illustrated by the recently announced NASSCOM awards. The number of nominated and shortlisted companies was much higher than the previous years and much wider scope and scale of innovations.... More »

08 March 2010

Disney's partnership with Hulu will change the rules in online video distribution

Disney's investment and joint-venture partnership with ad-supported streaming video site Hulu, will seriously impact existing players like Google's YouTube and Apple's iTunes service. More »

02 May 2009

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