Do you want to expand your business beyond your home country by creating a global market for your awesome products? Of course, who doesn’t want to grow? Reaching to a wider customer base can increase the chances of getting more sales which in turns generates more profit for you, isn’t it?.But, can that be so easy to go global? Not at all, there are many important things that need to be worked upon before you register your international presence. It starts from creating your online sites, localization, making the payment process working for global customers, knowing the government policies and ... Read More

It’s amazing really. All the effort one puts in during a four-year Engineering course, finally depends on those 20 minutes one spends in an interview room. After all, that little time one spends before a panel decides, whether you will land that plum job or whether your classmate will. Hence, it’s very important just how you present yourself, during those few minutes, since somewhere the cumulative effort put in during our school and college years, will bear fruit, once we get that well-paying, much sought after job.So now we will look at 3 key aspects that you should keep in ... Read More

The first day of any employee, be a fresher or an experienced person, will always start off with a training session. The day long training completes with numerous amount of information, but does so much effort made by the Organization is worth the money invested in the training.We all agree training is the key to a well-motivated, knowledgeable and efficient staff. However, here we are going to discuss the top reasons on why the training sessions do not help your employees, and why this whole expenditure on training is not fruitful. We will check out the conditions because of which ... Read More

Trainer and coach are the words that fall into the league of words and phrases that are hard to define. You may dabble around for hours together and may reach the grey area that separates trainer and coach. However, has anyone managed to draw lines in the sand on the sea beach and kept them safe from the waves? Therefore, the lines will be blurred. That does not mean though trainer and coach mean the same thing. Yes, it means that, a trainer is not a coach and a coach is not a trainer.Let us try to understand the differences ... Read More

Looking at the safety concerns of your Organization, an anti-virus software is a basic requirement in today’s technology-savvy world. Every now and then, we keep on getting new viruses launched in the market. This, in turn, requires a basic anti-virus software being installed on your PCs.If you are a start-up or a small scale technology firm, it is difficult to invest in a good and costly anti-virus software. Worry Not. We have some great anti-virus software available in the market for free or we can say at a very less price. These products are free only for non-commercial use; if ... Read More

The Goods and Services Tax or GST Council, under the chairmanship of Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and his state counterparts, has decided rates for over 1, 200 goods and 500 services, placing them in four tax slabs of 5, 12, 18 and 28 percent.As we know GST is one of the most important tax reform since independence, it will be a disruptive influence. However, it is expected that it will promote new investment and contribute to the overall growth in GDP.The GST is expected to remove the cascading effect of taxation, avoid multiple taxation, and result in reduced prices ... Read More

Start-ups are promising, innovative and conducive to the ever expanding business environment. According to NASSCOM, India is gaining the third spot globally with the fastest growing base of start-ups. The growth rate has been almost 40% with more than 4000 being added every year since the beginnings in late 2014. Worldwide, US leads the way in the start-up ecosystem followed by Indonesia, UK, Germany, Brazil, Spain, Canada, and France.While all start-ups require financial support to flourish, they also need a technology stack to build their applications for the user/customer. The technology stack is simply the software tools/programming languages used for ... Read More

Isn’t it difficult to tackle certain situations when one wrong step can change the entire consequences? Yes, some situations make us dumbfound, and paralyze our decision-making capabilities whether that has a positive or negative impact on our project’s life. So, don’t you think that it is better to have some tools and techniques to deal with such threats and opportunities?Irrespective of the project’s duration and intricacy, risks are always there and in the case of long-term complex projects, the level of risks increases manifolds. So, to minimize the negative impact on our projects, we should have a concrete plan with ... Read More

Last week, while discussing with my colleagues on various topics, the discussions took an unexpected turn and reached to one of the trending topic called ‘Employee Attrition’. Frankly saying it was not unexpected, actually for the last couple of months we have been seeing many ‘good-bye’ or ‘keep in touch’ kind of parting emails almost twice or thrice in a week. Everybody is discussing on it, whether it is during lunch time or coffee breaks, the gossip and rumors are in the air!These type of discussions are not only restricted to one company. Actually, you can see such trends in ... Read More

Managing a project is not everybody’s cup of tea. There are many aspects of the projects which we need to plan and manage perfectly to achieve the desired success, whether it is the scope, schedule, cost or quality. It is also seen that many times, the project runs into trouble only because the Project Manager fails to monitor and control the project cost.So it is important to manage the project cost throughout the project with proper planning and controlling the project budget. To manage the project cost effectively, there are certain activities which we need to perform initially.Planning the Cost: ... Read More