Mobile Banking Innovation from ICICI Bank

ICICI bank never ceases to amaze me with the amount of innovation / service offerings they bring to the customers regularly. Any industry will come with its own limitations and boundaries and it takes leaders / innovators like ICICI Banks pantaloons, walmarts, apples, googles, airtels of the world to change the game, remove barriers or […]

Moved to WordPress from Blogger

4 days of Christmas break without a thing to do. The first thing that came to my mind is to revamp my blog. I have been thinking of upgrading the blog (yes, thats right, upgrading) to wordpress from blogger for a while now. Since my blog is hosted on another site through ftp, there is […]

Software or Strictware ?!?

A quiz for all the techie folks who visit phd. What is the software that has the below features (apart from other)(1) The software will issue innumerable warnings if it ever occurred to the software that it is not genuine(2) The software would give users a time limit of 30 days to validate their copy […]

Pay money but seek no control !

That seems to be the motto of some of the service providers. How often we end up paying for services and (or) products through our nose yet we get little or no control on how it is delivered to us or what we are getting. Take for example “airline seats”, despite the rapid advancements in […]

Amul – an agile brand

Saw this hoarding near Spencers plaza today. Amul is an agile brand. Is your brand / company / service / product agile? PS: The image is copyrighted, click on it to see the archives on Amul’s website.

Mobile Tailor

Today there is a special vehicle parked in my apartment basement. A mobile tailor! I must say this is quite innovative. In the day and time of DINK and global sourcing, quite a lot of us dont have time and energy to locate the nearest tailor for mending jobs, neither we know how to needle […]

Fresh MBAs and IT Companies

The combination sounds as inseparable as ctrl+c and ctrl+v. But when it comes to making a career choice there is a fair bit of confusion as to what an MBA will do in an IT company, especially in the first few years. Marketing companies have it easy, in the first 18 months, you would be […]