Posts in category: The Third Journal

On 26th March 1997, our Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made the first call from Grameenphone mobile network to Laily Begum owning a mobile connectivity situated in one of the villages like many in Bangladesh. That call was not just one of millions calls today, that was a message from the premier of the government and signifies something profound. That call was a message to the world how a service can build a sustainable society by bringing in real empowerment to the people who really need it. Going to root of removing inequalities while empowerment and freedom are in question. That was the start of Grameenphone being part of Telenor Group, a Norwegian Telecom giant in which the empowerment of societies was deeply ingrained.

Even the best of initiatives run the risk of going south for the lack of a good strategy. While the significance of strategic outlook in taking macro-level decisions has been emphasized in the corporate literature of the developed nations, its relevance to sustainable business or economic growth is yet to be fully appreciated in developing countries.

In the long arc of time, there have been many forms of business and marketingstarting with pure and unadulterated sales to organised marketing (and sales) and then to relationships and direct-from-the-web and from mail orders to Omni-channels – as is being currently contemplated. As human societies become progressively more conscious about the underlying traits and characteristics of human actions and, consequently of human interactions, the ideas associated with business and marketing have evolved commensurately.

Creating a Competitive Advantage has remained the main agenda for Supply Chain Management. The Sooner the CEOs and top management focus on re-imagining their supply chains and aligning all parts and relationships of it to match the competitive priorities of the business, the better.

As you know, the letter C here stands for chief and the leaders who hold C-level positions are considered the most powerful and influential members of an organisation. These executives set the company’s strategy, make higherstakes decisions and ensure the dayto-day operations align with fulfilling the organisation’s strategic goals.

There were more than five billion internet users in the world in 2021, which is a 1300% growth compared with the year 2000, and Asia accounted for 53.4% of the total number of internet users in the world population (Internet World Stats, 2021). However, the internet penetration rate in Asia is 63.8% (Internet World Stats, 2021). The recent development of the Internet has completely changed business operations (Hwang & Choe, 2019).

It is frequently heard from different market assessments that technology improvement will change just how we live and totally shift the way we work forever. This sounds true, but it is not the end of this old world.

In our world of 7.5 billion, 800 million suffer from hunger while another 2 billion suffer from obesity and other health-related issues due to unhealthy eating. TABLE FOR TWO is a non-profit organization established in Japan in 2007. Its goal is to right the global food imbalance and improve the health of people in both developing and developed countries

Business’s routines throughout the world have been completely disrupted as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. The pandemic primarily altered our traditional marketing and changed the approach to business.

SCG is the ASEAN leading business conglomerate that has sustained stable growth well into its 110th year, thanks to its business resilience focusing on development and investment in digital technology, enabling the Company to drive its innovative products, services, and solutions to meet the diverse application needs of consumers and the rapidly-changing market conditions as well as deal with crisis situations promptly.