The new wave of millennials prefer convenience over loyalty

The Coronavirus pandemic has catapulted digital transformation to the top of the must-haves in the minds of CIOs. It has been a go-to enabler for organizations to enhance their customer experience and generate higher ROI. Businesses with brick-and-mortar presence were shifting their approach towards building a digital presence to stay relevant and ahead of their competition. Many have already begun their digital transformation journey, while some are in the designing phase. Technology landscape is dynamic in nature. While the pandemic forced businesses to adopt digital drivers such as automation, big…

Why many want complete WHM: Competition Vs Conviction

Organizations and businesses around the world have implemented preventive measures to avoid the coronavirus. There are many companies who are trying their luck for venturing the Work from home concept. Just imagine, if everyone starts working from home, what about the sales force, marketing personals job? What about the production and manufacturing? There will be a huge job loss and software companies to get huge benefits. An expert says the software can make the world and can destroy the world.  Another expert says, this man made pandemic is not going to last…

India’s digital payment market is going to become USD 500 billion industry

India’s digital economy is expected to grow at a faster rate and as per the recent BCG Group and Google study in five years, India’s digital payment itself is going to become USD 500 billion industry. Recently Facebook-owned popular instant messaging app launched its payment services in India. It allows users to send and receive money to their contacts while chatting. It uses UPI, a payment infrastructure built by a coalition of large banks in the country, to send and receive money. This year we have seen many UPI related…

One need to maintain the data -hygiene and management best practices

Given the recent ban of the Chinese apps by the government, with citation of ‘Data Privacy’ as the concern. The pandemic has certainly induced many new ways of work and play into our already burgeoning digital have and havenots. Now people are spending more time online, as people were either working remotely or were pushed to keep themselves entertained within the realms of their home. The digital explosion opened a gateway for app developers –with many entertainment apps gaining momentum and new COVID related apps flourishing every day.   Today,…

Accelerating the financial services transformation agenda during changing times

COVID has forced us to adjust fundamental aspects of our lives with little warning and against a background of anxiety and uncertainty. As the end of 2020 nearing, marketing and sales teams are aligning efforts to increase their pipeline and find more sales-ready leads to start off the new-year in a stronger way. Brands are getting impacted in their top line positively by relooking at their product portfolio and optimizing pricing and promotions especially in the upcoming festive season which will see attractive pricing, cashbacks and consumer financing schemes. The…

Work from home, remote work, telecommuting helped us during pandemic

The culture of flexible work has been the new mantra of many corporates, even though there are many weaknesses, it’ll continue further, since there is no alternative. Many industries are restructuring the way they operate to accommodate this new way of conducting business. The new workforce (consisting mostly of millenials) consider work-life balance over everything else when working for an organization. The pandemic has confined millions of people around the world to their homes, and they can no longer easily access products themselves. Home deliveries have become a viable option, causing an uptick in the…

Covid-19 has brought the biggest transformation in the mankind

 As remote working has become the new normal with the outbreak of Covid-19, cybercrime has reached a new height. Today we are living in an age of digital transformation, but unfortunately as seen in the last 20 years, the industries were never able to accomplish this transformation before COVID-19 broke through. The pandemic has forced us into this digital transformation. Everything has converted our world – fun, entertainment, communication, watching movies, banking transactions, purchasing, teaching & learning and our social interactions into one single gadget. This is a new paradigm,…

It is time to empower the workforce of future through digital adoption

There were several new technologies have evolved along the way. Companies have started embracing these technologies to enable digital transformation and enhance their business operations and 70% of companies either have a digital transformation strategy in place or are working on one. There is no denying that the ongoing pandemic has forced organizations to go one step ahead to protect their systems and networks. It has mostly become harder than ever to do so, partly because employees are doing work from home. In this process, they’re trying and learning new…

The vital role that technology played during the crisis

Eight out of ten people across the region said technology helped them get through the virus—and they used the internet for a wide range of reasons. In most of the sectors we looked at, new users made up more than 30% of total, whereas education, groceries and loans saw the biggest jumps. We are learning new ways of fighting and managing such unexpected diseases that can potentially kill millions of people. It is absolutely true that technology cannot prevent the onset of the pandemics; however, it can help prevent the spread,…

Golden time for certain IT companies during WHM

Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are well-known examples of social media platforms and there are many music streaming applications, and audio services based on the internet, to name a few which during a workday, employees use these social media in different ways. But more frequently, we see employees use Instagram and post what they had for lunch, share memes, and post selfies on Facebook. Some say that it allows the employees to take short breaks for social networking throughout the day will boost mood, which will potentially increase employee engagement. It…