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Raghu Kastury Principal Consultant & Head of Strategic Business Unit - Retail & Distribution, Sundaram Infotech Solutions Limited
 
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Cost effectiveness is the right measuring Criterion 
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 Cheap & Best is possible
S. Muralidharan  |  Argues in support of  "Cost effectiveness is the right measuring Criterion"  |  10 months ago
Cost effectiveness is the right measuring criterion. Cheap and best possible only to the extent of proliferation and promotion. Later on, the best takes precedence over price! I support and endorse your view Mr. Raghu. Thanks for referral.
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Sustain 
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 Sell it off
S. Muralidharan  |  Argues in support of  "Sustain"  |  11 months ago
Mr. Kasturi, a number of entrepreneurs I know of in manufacturing segment are in great fix like your friend, especially when they based their business purely on Government orders! If he continues on his strength with this dependence factor, surely...
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realistic 
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S. Muralidharan  |  Argues in support of  "Notional"  |  11 months ago
This can be taken as "Presumptive Lost Sales" and not sales lost in real terms! Reversing of sales can be done even after billing. You can only psychologically assess buyer's intention to buy a product, his needs and wants can be assessed, but I...
akshaya bhatia  |  Argues in support of  "realistic"  |  11 months ago
Realistic albeit metrics to ascertain are complex and not trivial...
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If technology helps increase sales, can this increase be attributed to part of lost sales prior to using technology?
Santosh Kr. Gupta  |  Answered  |  11 months ago
There could be many reasons for loosing sales or an opportunity, where Technology crunch is one of them. One thing I would say, if we compare the results before technology enhancement and after it, we can get the good ROI on technology. there is...
Ashish Gandhi  |  Answered  |  11 months ago
I am in complete support to what Mr Muralidharan mentioned above. It can not be derived to be lost sale as you never knew it existed in the first place, or you didnt have the bandwidth to service that open opportunity. If at all you knew that...
S. Muralidharan  |  Answered  |  11 months ago
No. I would take it as "opportunity lost".  The bench-mark of sales before implementation of technology would have been the same and would have been taken as the optimum sale output given the constraints.  If technology enables excess sales, then...
 
 
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India is ready & considers it as investment 
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 India is not ready & Considers it as Expense and Luxury
Raghu Kastury  |  Argues in support of  "India is ready & considers it as investment"  |  11 months ago
Quite a few retailers in India are still apprehensive about the benefits of technology that can bring to Retail.And few others are in still not clear how to use technology to enhance their retail business.
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Hidden costs & Intangible benefits have direct impact on the bo 
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S. Muralidharan  |  Argues in support of  "Hidden costs & Intangible benefits have direct impact on the bo"  |  11 months ago
I endorse your views in tot Mr. Kastury. I would like to add a few more points, viz., shelf-life analysis of perishable goods, apply scientific techniques to alert staff to take out goods on display which are nearing expiry date, a proper ABC...
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Can we term, converting white into black as black magic? or Black in to white as black magic?
Satyakanth Kastury  |  Answered  |  11 months ago
  It seems like a magic for those who do not know how to convert, but those who do this routinely and made it as their profession, it is no magic. If any one is able to detect this conversion process and bring the culprits to justice, then I...
 
 
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Yes 
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Joydeep Dasgupta  |  Argues in support of  "Yes"  |  6 months ago
  Quality: - excellence superiority class eminence value worth a feature. What has money got to do with all the above? A brand is a quality conversation of an individual or group of individuals accepted, respected acknowledged and valued across...
Raghu Kastury  |  Argues in support of  |  11 months ago
Quality is directly proportional to affordability. Quality is a luxury in a way.
Meena Deshmukh  |  Argues in support of  "Yes"  |  1 year ago
Yes its surely a myth in India thats the reson we dont have a Microsoft or IBM from India...we have millionaires but not companies that can go global..take any name be it Mcdonalds, Reebok, Nike, Shell..its just beyond Indian capabilities and the...
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Why politicians use white color so much - White clothes, white cars etc?
S. Muralidharan  |  Answered  |  11 months ago
Mr. Raghu, are you a colour therapist? Your postings are more or less related to colours only! White signifies "TRUTH & TRUCE"! Do they adhere to that is a million dollar question! The simple explanation that could be offered is "white cotton...
Raghu Kastury  |  Answered  |  11 months ago
Thank you Nitin. Good to be back and well received by people like you. I have cut off from this, because I found that I was getting addicted to it. But then I thought I will do a controlled discussions. Thanks again
 
 
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I am not sure if the politicians are colourful or colour foolish, but it is the huge amounts of white that is getting converted in to black.
S. Muralidharan  |  Answered  |  11 months ago
How colourful the whole concept has become, Mr. Raghu.  You are right, the huge amounts of white is getting converted into black! Another paradigm is, saffron-clad persons are fighting with white-clad gentlemen, discussing black and white in public!
 
 
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