The Future of Automotive Industry

There is a lot going on in the automotive industry, specifically the car segment. I will use cars as an example to detail out the challenges that the industry faces. All passenger vehicle segments have similar or sometime even tougher challenges. There is all the buzz around connected vehicles, the self driving car, the flying car, electric cars and a lot more. On the surface, it looks like it’s an exciting time to be a car manufacturer, but I can imagine the difficult times that they are in for. There are multiple disruptive forces that are in play in the […]

If I were the CEO of FedEx

If I were the CEO of FedEx..

One of the most important and most talked about topics in the recent times in business circles has been “Disruptive Innovation”. Thanks to the book written by Clay Christensen – “The Innovators Dilemma” and his ability to explain the phenomenon in a few industries, the concept of disruption and disruptive innovation has become a common lexicon in the business circles. One of the industries that is on the verge of being disrupted is the logistics industry. The entire logistics industry is based on the assumptions that production and consumption happen at different locations and hence there is a need for […]