365businessdays Research Team

SEBI’s relaxed listing norms: Impact on SMEs

Small and medium Enterprises are increasingly being seen as the next drivers of growth in India. Currently, they account for almost 90% of the industrial units in India and 40% of the value addition in manufacturing sector. SMEs also contribute 35% to Ind... Read >

How Can Cloud Computing help SMEs

Cloud Computing is an internet based computing based computing where various resources like software, information, storage, processors are shared and provided to computers and other users on demand. It marks a paradigm shift from traditional computing bas... Read >

Budget 2011-12: Growth and Fiscal Consolidation, can we achieve it?

The union budget for the year 2011-12 was presented amidst an unstable macro-economic environment characterized by high inflation, high interest rates and a need for lowering the fiscal deficit. This budget has tried to balance the need for sustaining the... Read >

Nokia - Microsoft Strategic Partnership in Smartphone market

On February 11, 2011, Nokia and Microsoft announced their plans to form a strategic partnership to bring their strength and expertise together for creating new global ecosystem. Both the companies plan to combine their assets to produce innovative mobile ... Read >

Unique Identification (UID) scheme: what does it hold?

Unique identification mission was launched by Indian government in year 2006 with the objective to provide identification to each citizen of the country. This identification was primarily meant to be used for efficient delivery of welfare services in the ... Read >

Sale of Honda's stake: future at Hero Honda

India is the second largest two wheeler market in the world after China. Demand for two-wheelers is up by 24.52% from 2009 to 2010 with total sales of 10.5 million units. The motor cycle segment contributes around 80% of the two wheeler market. The key fa... Read >

Tata Nano – What went wrong?

With the launch of Tata Nano in March 2009, it was evident that the Nano will be future of small cars in India. At a price of INR 1, 00,000 Tata presented “People’s Car" with features like good fuel efficiency, rear positioned engine, eco-friendly, stylis... Read >

Irish Economic Meltdown

Ireland economy’s phenomenal growth during 1993 to 2007 (also known as “Celtic Tiger") was largely based on the success of the economic model driven by factors such as banks providing cheap credit, low cost base, educated work force etc. With Ireland’s e... Read >

Is it worthwhile for consulting firms to go public?

Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) hit Wall Street on 17th of this month and has raised about $238 million with its initial public offering (IPO) of stock. Based in Virginia, Booz Allen primarily provides management and technology consulting to the U.S. government... Read >