- Mobile devices battles
- Mobile applications and HTML5
- Personal cloud
- Internet of things
- Hybrid IT and cloud computing
- Strategic big data
- Actionable analytics
- Mainstream in-memory computing
- Integrated ecosystems
- Enterprise app stores
Source: Gartner
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Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2013
Reshoring
Rising Chinese wages and a surge in U.S. competitiveness are forcing many American manufacturers to ratchet back their foreign operations, according to a study by The Boston Consulting Group. The shift means that more companies see the value in Made in America, a philosophy always embraced.
Why They’re Coming Back
According to that same study, the China exodus could create 2 to 3 million U.S. jobs by 2020. They predict nearly half of those jobs to be factory positions. Here are some facts:
- When compared to manufacturing in the U.S., many
companies are actually losing money in China because of lower worker
productivity, higher logistical cost, and indirect risks of operating in a
foreign country, like product quality failure.
- Productivity growth in the U.S. is at an all-time
high, with American workers churning out consistently higher quality
products. Yet the country still offers one of the lowest manufacturing
cost structures in the industrialized world.
- Key industries expected to shift operations back to
the U.S. include: transportation goods, appliances, electrical equipment,
furniture, plastic and rubber, machinery, fabricated metal, and more.
- Even foreign companies are adding more operations in
the U.S. to accommodate domestic and export markets.
CCD coming soon !
Well if not the Indian food chain, which I thought is an unexplored business opportunity the Indian Coffee chain ‘Café Coffee Day’ has quick spotted the opportunity. The Indian coffee giant chain Café Coffee Day (CCD) has announced that it will soon open international branches in US, Europe and Middle East. A division of Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company Ltd. (ABCTCL), it is commonly known as Coffee Day or CCD. It opened its first cafe in 1996 on Brigade Road in Bangalore, and today has the largest cafe retail chain in India - with 436 cafes in 69 cities. For more information, please click here. At last, I can (atleast try to)replicate the good old days during my under graduation when I used to spend uncountable number of hours sipping over a hot cup of coffee at CCD. I have some unforgettable memories associated with CCD. The CCD on the Fergusson college road - Pune was the "grand" venue for my grand “first date”. Can anyone forget his or her first date? The CCD proved to be very lucky for me. I got married with Nirupama (first date at CCD) last summer in India. We try to remember and cherish our college day by going to omnipresent Starbucks. However, this is too artificial ... I really miss my hot CCD coffee (that does not mean that I hate or do not like Starbucks coffee). We sincerely hope to see a CCD very soon somewhere in and around Cincinnati, Ohio.
Why not an Indian food chain?
In corporate America, we have chains for every retails sector and food is not an exception. There are Italian (Olive Garden, Buca di beppo), Chinese (P. F. Chang), Mexican (Taco Bell, Chipotle and … ) and other American fast food stuff (and possibly junk) like Mac D, KFC, Burger King, Wendy, Arby and tons of other. The fact, which surprises me, is that there is no Indian food chain. Indian food is quite famous among the western world and especially in United States. Whenever I go to some good Indian restaurant, I see more people of non-Indian origin than Indians itself (based on the experiences at SFO, CA, Mountain View, CA, Palo Alto, CA and Cincinnati, OH). So why have not any entrepreneur thought of an Indian food chain endeavor? I disagree to the argument that there is a limited market or a narrow business opportunity in starting a Indian food restaurant. According to me if done in a cost effective way, standardized, cuisine adjusted to the western palate and with proper marketing effort, Indian food chain should be an excellent business opportunity, which for some unknown reason is still unexplored. Any thoughts?
Population Clock
Check out this webpage where US census Bureau estimates the world population real-time. Just wait for some time and refresh the page. You will see the increase in population in that few seconds you took to refresh the page.
The number I got on 08/25/07 at 01:50 GMT.
The number I got on 08/25/07 at 01:50 GMT.
You can find some similar resources at:
1. http://math.berkeley.edu/~galen/popclk.html
2. http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop
3. http://www.geocities.com/kalblando/popclock.htm
4.http://www.medindia.net/patients/calculators/worldPopulation.asp
1. http://math.berkeley.edu/~galen/popclk.html
2. http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop
3. http://www.geocities.com/kalblando/popclock.htm
4.http://www.medindia.net/patients/calculators/worldPopulation.asp
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