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Management : When organizations’ stop learning, they start suffering By: Vijay Sardana During my visit to many factories in India and aboard, many issues what were observed can easily be avoided by careful planning. Proper planning can easily save execution cost. Proper planning can also save operating cost which can help in overall cost saving and improve profits. While planning and execution one should be open to new ideas and suggestions so that any good idea and suggestion can be used without waste of resources and time. In many companies, people feel hesitant in giving good suggestions once the project and execution plan is accepted by the top management. The main reason is that people are not sure how senior management will react and take their inputs one the plan is finalized. I don't see any reason why new inputs cannot be considered after the finalization. If we don't consider new inputs, it means we assume that our teams have stopped learning once ...

Management: Why Supply Chain Management System Fails? By: Vijay Sardana Large number of players has entered into food supply chain with various business models. Most of the retailers are however talking about quality. But in their outlets the quality of supplies of fresh fruits and vegetables is not what they claim. The global as well as domestic supply chain makes food safety and quality system more challenging.   The growing incidences of food safety hazards in last few years were not good from food safety point of view. There have been a number of high profile recalls traced to imported tainted ingredients and contaminated seafood, domestically produced fresh vegetables and ground beef contaminated with E. coli O517:H7 and Melamine incidents in dairy, confectionery, bakery products and processed products. These are clear indications that supply chain managers were either ignorant about food safety concerns or are not serious about food safety issues. That is ...

  Public Policy: Why Oppose Foreign Direct Investment in Retail? By: Vijay Sardana There is a growing debate about FDI in retail sector in India. There are all types of argument in favour and against the FDI in retail. There can be more than one reason to prevent FDI in retailing but at the same time there are many reasons to permit FDI in retail. Most of the argument is about how to protect employment of unorganised small shops. No doubt it is very important social and economic aspect but what about quality of products and services they are offering. I want to know, if people are willing to pay for safe and hygienic foods why as a country we are depriving them for having the better products. Why we don’t want people to have better quality of life by adopting better products and services. After all there is an additional cost to ensure safe food and proper display and delivery of products. Why our political class is not keen to have better quality of life for average ...