A while ago I received a call from my Bank (On a Sunday), the man on the other side stated I am one of the very few who have been selected for a pre-approved personal loan.
I decided to know whats in store and encouraged the call for a bit, as expected my information has been culled out from my Cards account and the Bank is proposing a well-tailored Personal Loan offering. As an offer, its a good one. Most likely I will grab it in the next few days.
The reason why …

Those who have visited CXOToday.Com in the last few days would have read an article on Aligning IT & Business Strategy and if it can pay off? If not, please do read it here and resume reading this post.
In a nutshell, the aforesaid Article unearths some interesting facts around IT and Business Strategy alignment basis a research done Bain & Co. As you must have read, Organizations that have gone ahead with an accelerated IT focus have been proven to be performing better than those who are waiting for the D-Day for IT and …

My feed reader this morning updated the link for Guy Kawasaki, as usual there was yet another interesting note from him.
If I were to reproduce the essence of the post without giving too much of importance to the Verbatim, he talks about using Disruption techniques to gain momentum or value in any endeavor. Though his post was in connection with the Venture Capitalists industry, think it’s wise to extend its reach beyond the VC horizon.
Any responder to a stimulus has some sort of idea about the stimulus (most of the time …

As most of know, iPhone has dropped prices in the last few days/weeks. In addition to approx $200 reduction to new customers, Steve has something for the existing iPhone users as well. This Man is Fantastic…
To all iPhone customers:
I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions.
First, I am sure that we are making the correct decision to lower …

The following statistics is from one of the leading Analytics blogs on Retailing. Though the following information is a bit peripheral, I am sure it’s useful.

“Customers who shop multiple channels are worth seven times as much as customers who shop just one channel”.

“Customers who research items online and buy in-store spend $72 more during their in-store visit than other customers spend”.

“Customers who conduct a live chat session are three times as likely to convert to a purchase as customers who don’t conduct a live chat session”.