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E-Grocery and JioMart - Strategy and Execution

Vegetables, groceries are the new buzz in the E-Commerce industry. Gone are the days that only the people residing in metros can have groceries delivered to their homes with a single click of an app. Even if you are in tier 2 or 3 cities, you are getting it, and don't you worry if you are not getting it, because soon JioMart will be there. Almost a year old in the industry, JioMart is riding on Reliance's power, and it's available across the country.  JioMart is the next big thing in online grocery retail even as the sector sees tough competition from Grofers, BigBasket, Amazon, Flipkart, and Swiggy. What is JioMart? JioMart is the platform between customers and nearby stores. It serves as a procurement and delivery channel between manufacturers and merchants. JioMart was soft-launched in December 2019 in selected areas of Thane, Navi Mumbai, and Kalyan . However, as the coronavirus lockdown began, the opportunities in e-grocery became more demanding; JioMart was the...

How Organization Design & Structure delivers during Adversities – Learning during Pandemic Outbreak

The sensational spread of COVID-19 has disturbed lives, jobs, networks, and organizations around the world. Associations around the world, including the Forum and its accomplices are meeting up and advancing to limit the effect on general wellbeing and limit disturbances to economies and gracefully chains. The pandemic of COVID-19 has radically changed how we work, impart, and mingle and left us with the test of rolling out critical improvements very quickly on an unprecedented scale. Web-based taking in and telecommuting are approaches to intervene in a small portion of routineness for some; however, others probably won't be 'fortunate.' COST REDUCTION: As the top line of any company has been impacted in this pandemic, to save the bottom line as much as possible, cost-cutting is the first step any organization looks forward to. Organisational Design has a significant role in effective cost reduction strategies in response to the disruption caused by the Covid-19 crisis. ...

Bharat Biotech - Story of entrepreneurship ignited by a mother that might give us the first COVID19 Vaccine

It's been around four months from the first lockdown in India due to Coronavirus (COVID-19). After all the attempts, everyone is hoping for a vaccine that can end this pandemic. Then "Bharat Biotech International Limited" came up with "COVAXIN" that might put an end to all this. Human trials are going on, as I write this, and we all hope it becomes a success. But, who is behind all this? His name is Dr. Krishna Ella . He is the Chairman & Managing Director of Bharat Biotech International Limited, which was established in 1996 . He firmly believes that innovative technology in vaccine development is essential to solve public healthcare problems caused by infectious diseases. He is an entrepreneur now, and he looks at the issues the Indian society faces and then convert that into a business opportunity. He is from a village near Thiruthani in Tamil Nadu, and his father was a farmer who inspired him to study agriculture and wanted to be a farmer. Taking the ...

Future of HR Functions - Hiring & Retention

Human Resource department is an irreplaceable part of any Organization, and its existence to the wellbeing of all the employees (lowest to highest level) is extremely crucial to the growth, sustainability and development of the undertaken business. It takes into account every employee-journey and feeds it to a database (centralized/decentralized) to understand the contribution of every individual towards the stated goals and philosophy.  Some applications of Technology in HR Today’s HR is STRATEGIC , and its involvement starts right from planning the roles, then moves on to fuelling it with Human Capital and then stabilizing the same through timely analysis of deliverables with the assigned tasks that are targeted for proposed growth. Right from creating a Talent Pool through the Applicant Tracking System further towards On-boarding, on to Succession Planning , and until the Final Exit, the above-mentioned cycle is followed for each department and its sub-departments of the busines...