Ashutosh Gupta and Satyam Arora of Evalueserve, a financial services firm, wrote recently in a paper called Macro Examination of Financial Reporting in India: “One of the common threads in many cases is the pressure to meet quarterly numbers, which inevitably leads to cutting corners. Small “adjustments” leads to bigger ones and eventually result in a collapse.” (…)

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China has once again warned companies looking to explore for hydrocarbons in the South China Sea (SCS) to stay away from the disputed waters. The South China Sea is believed to hold large reserves of undiscovered oil and gas.
(...) The debate on the territorial sovereignty is not new, and many companies continue to explore in the region without much problem. Fittingly, as the energy industry believes, challenges and opportunities go hand-in-hand.

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(…) According to Sanjoy Roy Choudhury, country head at Evalueserve India, one of the earliest movers in the KPO segment, “The development of the KPO industry followed the success India saw in the IT and BPO industry, which utilised the large pool of educated people on different talent dimensions. There is a decade-long lag between the KPO industry and its predecessors, which have experience in project management and offshoring practices.

The KPO industry leveraged this experience to grow. In addition, large global firms began offshoring complex tasks to their captives in India after they realised that complex but data- and manpower-intensive research and analytics could be successfully delivered in a similar offshored environment. This resulted in the growth of specialised KPO firms. Further, domain skills were created with expats returning to India and setting

up firms in their areas of expertise, with best practices from the markets that would use them.”

Accelerated innovation is less of an option and more of a necessity for growth. Fusing core products/technologies with unanticipated technological shifts has redefined the innovation process and has moved it beyond the environs of brick-and-mortar R&D labs.
Apple is considered one of the most innovative companies in the world today. Is Apple a strong technology innovator? Or, has it managed to transform itself by exploring innovations that are at the cusp of evolving, often unrelated, technologies?
In recent years, organizations are finding new ways to innovate successfully and frequently. Such organizations, often struggle with two key questions while embracing the culture of innovation. (...)

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Evalueserve believes that 3G subscription will increase at a rapid pace (30 percent CAGR - Compound Annual Growth Rate) between 2012 and 2016 to cross the 200-million mark. Along with 3G services, the number of 3G-enabled mobile handsets will also continue to grow, reaching an active installed handset base of 680 million by 2016. Boosted by better handsets and data speed, mobile value-added services will also boom in the future; Evalueserve expects total MVAS users to reach 430 million during the period.
Evalueserve anticipated that the rural mobile subscriber base will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 12 percent between 2012 and 2016, at nearly twice the expected growth rate of the saturated urban market. It is likely that 62 percent of the new mobile subscribers added in the next five years will be from the rural market.

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Evalueserve, the global specialist in knowledge management processes, has been working in the financial services area for eleven years. Ashish Gupta, the company’s COO and the Head of the Financial Services Business Unit, tells us that ‘although the company has a global presence, there is a strong focus on using local expertise and manpower. This enables Evalueserve to deliver customized solutions and end-to-end process support.’

‘Great improvements can be accomplished when knowledge resources are managed more effectively,’ says Prajeet Patel, Evalueserve Nordics Managing Director. ‘Getting the right information to the right person at the right time will fundamentally improve any business. By using advanced re-engineering and proprietary technology, we can often increase the client’s process productivity by over 30%,’ says Ashish Gupta.

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(...) An estimated 100,000 electric vehicles are sold in India each year, and studies say there could be 7 million electric vehicles on the roads by 2020, which would require an investment of more than 4 billion dollars.
Bhavya Sehgal from Evalueserve research said the aggressive adoption of environmental standards along with rising fuel prices was driving the introduction of not only fuel-efficient vehicles but also those ones based on alternate fuel and propulsion technologies.

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