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JULY 6, 2003

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	Perform Or Perish The corner room is no longer safe. With promoters more willing to tighten the screws on their performance, professional CEOs are starting to get the stark message: deliver the goods or walk the plank. Does this change the way business is done in India? Oh yes.

TRANSYSTEM LOGISTICS
On All Sixteen

How a fledgling logistics company helps make
auto giant Toyota's
demanding "just in time" manufacturing philosophy possible in India.
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	FMCG Foibles After three terrible years of sluggish growth and sagging demand, India's FMCG marketers are discovering market reality the hard way—that the only way to get those goods moving off the shelves is to let margins get squeezed. more...		Salaried Millionaires Meet the yuppies who're not just yuppies. They're young urban professionals who've struck it rich by 40. They are India's first set of professional millionaires. How they spend and invest their money should be of interest to us all. more...




	Legal Eagles Meet India's bustling new age legal hotshops. These are the very black coats you'd call when you need advice on intellectual property rights, the terms of your JV pact... more...		Due Diligence Some Rs 1,000 crore worth of property has been seized by banks since the controversial securitisation ordinance was passed a year ago allowing them to choke loan defaulters. more...




	Devils Of Direct Marketing Beware! Hundreds of firms are using 'direct selling' as a cover for their own little Ponzi schemes. We could be looking at a Rs 4,000-crore scam in the making! more...		BT Event A report on the award presentation ceremony for BT's India's Best Managed Company study, plus the Strategy Summit in association with Microsoft . Snapshots and soundbites from the hall. more...




	The BPO Backlash Just how bad is it, really? BT conducted a panel discussion at the Nasscom-ITES seminar held in Bangalore, and discovered that the fear might just be overblown. American protectionists are angry, but impotent. more...		60 Minutes Exclusive interview with David M. Cote, Chairman and CEO, Honeywell. As the man who took over the $22.3-billion company after its failed merger with GE, his own former company of 25 years, he sees India as a ''great place... to expand''. more...




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Q&A: Jan P. Oosterveld Meet a Dutch engineer who describes his company as "too old, too male and too Dutch". This is Jan P. Oosterveld, 59, Member, Group Management Committee & CEO (Asia Pacific), Royal Philips Electronics, a $31.8-billion company going through tough times. His mission is to turn Philips market agile and global in outlook. More Web Exclusives More Net Specials


Bio-dynamic Tea Estate Is there a way to rejuvenate tea consumption? Rajah Banerjee, the idiosyncratic owner of the 1,500-acre Makai Bari tea estate, among India's largest, thinks he has the answer to the industry's woes: value-added tea. 'Bio-dynamic' tea, to use his phrase. Here's a look at some of his organic and flavoured tea experiments.







	Mutual Funds Report After months of misery, the mutual fund industry has regained some lost spirit. The May performances offer indications of a rebound. more...		Back Home Returning to a company one had left has started happening more and more, despite all the awkwardness it entails. The reason? Pragmatism. more...




	The Case Of The Risky Recruit Should software firm Naytrix hire a top performer who's also an alleged sexual offender? more...		Geeks With Funny Bones Working is no fun. Says who? That's what India's high-strung tech firms are asking. They're kidding, of course. more...




	Making Peace Rahul Bajaj makes peace; Kishori Udeshi shatters glass; Udayan Bose hunts around; Amitabh Bachchan tries again; Pallonji Mistry gambles online; and S. Narayan gains power. more...		Kiran's Korner by Kiran Karnik Notes From The Trough by Mahesh Murthy Leadership Secrets by Ajay Sahney





	Water Woes Water may play spoilsport to India's plans of emerging an economic powerhouse in the new century. more... Of Plots And Brands In-film promotions mature as more and more brands hanker to be written into Bollywood plots. more... Mobile's Non-voice Boom Cell phone companies are pushing value-added services to tap a rich vein of revenue. more... The Pensions Scramble There's intense jockeying already among the financial services players for a slice of the Rs 300,000-crore pension funds pie. more...		Help, Tarun!!! Tarun Sheth addresses your career concerns every fortnight. more...


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