Tuesday, October 07, 2008

These eleven remind you of 300

The BCG report elaborates how MNCs struggle in RDEs like India, win-win partnerships are the best option

We admired their supreme fighting skills300 as depicted in the Hollywood flick 300, as they resisted a much larger Persian army that came in scores. Fact is that Spartans were indeed phenomenal warriors. It is said that the world learned a lot from their fighting techniques. Cut to the 21st century corporate world, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) seems to have identified some such Spartans in the RDEs (Rapidly Developing Economies) of the world! In its latest report titled ‘The BCG 50 Local Dynamos’, BCG has highlighted 50 such companies from ten key RDE countries like China, India, Brazil et al, which have successfully resisted competition, both from MNCs as well as state owned companies in their respective domestic markets. Eleven companies from India have been identified as among the 50 dynamos like Bharti Airtel, Titan (from Tata), ITC Limited, ICICI Bank et al as leading the pack, ranking it second in the list. China ranks number 1 with 15 companies in the list.

“Proper supply chain management, local understanding and above all, market penetration are factors, which help these domestic companies to stay far ahead of their foreign counterparts,” explains Sushil Dungarwal, Senior Analyst, FICCI. Agrees Harit Shah, Analyst, Angel Broking, who feels that, thanks to the local expertise, once the companies have “proper execution skills in place, the job is already half done.”...Continue

Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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