Tag Archives: MARKETING

Riding IPZEH and other management lessons from life

Tweet    Follow @S_kotnala This is from early 80’s; I was a student in Jabalpur perusing my engineering degree. I was day scholar in a college that was some 15-17 KM away from home and the distance was covered on cycle. One did that easily with friends. I had a HERO MAJESTIC and my dear close… Read More »

Do You Have a Yellow Umbrella?

Tweet       Follow @s_kotnala I was sitting in the office of Ashraf bhai, an understated person well known for his ability to create wealth. He had invited me to help him recruit a candidate for his go-to-market strategy. Like many owner-driven organisations, in his office too the master colour control screen of the CCTV… Read More »

Media needs makeover in Visually Digital World

One of my friends not from advertising and media world was working on a presentation for his Senior Vice President. A part in it dealt with the current status and future trend in the media and entertainment scene in India.  Somewhere, he decided to bring it alive pictorially in the digitally visual driven world. Once… Read More »

Why nuance and focus are key to Cannes creative success by BEN ESSEN faetured at WARC

Tweet    Follow @s_kotnala This post is by Ben Essen, head of planning at iris. This was first published at WARC site http://goo.gl/vMkKn3 I have taken this up and pasted here with all rights and content remaining with WARC. Question. What percentage of Volvo drivers are regular cyclists? What fraction of Always $3.4 billion worldwide sales are made… Read More »

11 Reason why your training programmes fails

Tweet       Follow @S_kotnala It’s the time of the year when most organisations tend to re-evaluate their training programmes and the progress they have made. Senior management sees it as not delivering the right ROI. Employees feel that right training is not being imparted. And the poor trainer suddenly has no idea why after… Read More »

NEGOTIATOR

Tweet       Follow @S_kotnala 72nd Episode. Advertising and Media. The  AAAI negotiation workshop by Ruma Biswas happening today in Mumbai took me back many years. Here is what I am talking about. The subject of NEGOTIATION is evergreen and is relevant in every social interaction. Though the relationship and the transaction between Agency Planner… Read More »

Appreciating contribution in creating highly untrained leadership in advertising

Tweet     Follow @S_kotnala The classic quote “Our assets go down in the elevator every night” still reflects advertising and communication organisations and highly people-centric professions. Yet, the practice defies logic. Surprisingly, beyond learning on the run, they do nothing in terms of organised training. Throwing in the deep end seems to be the only… Read More »

The 248KB that fired to defend the honour

Tweet      Follow @S_kotnala 70th Episode. Many answered my call to share some episode from their life in advertising and marketing, this is one of them where I am not in the picture. Back to 2006-2007. Post launch of two English newspapers in Mumbai, the fight for respectful second was still on. TOI (Times of… Read More »