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SME WORLD February 2020 Issue

MSMEs Need to Invest in Quality Methodologies to Succeed and Stay Ahead: Quality Expert Sunil Thawani

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), truly defined as the pipelines to the large enterprises, are the spine of any economy. The sector is the largest employer of people bringing prosperity to millions around the world. As large corporations are creating a kind of vacuum due to downsizing/restructuring/outsourcing non core business processes and services, the MSMEs are rising to the occasion to fill the vacuum by providing goods and services to large corporations as well as society.

9 mins

Digital Lending Harbingers of Lending Transformation

Lending is process of giving fund to an entity on credit based on contractual agreement with a condition to repay the amount as per specified schedule advised in the agreement. The process of lending begins with on boarding of customers, collection of information, assessment and sanction loan limit and disbursement. If the entire process of lending is routed through digital platform with the help of technology, it will be called digital lending.

7 mins

How can we think about Biodiversity without 'Wetland Ecosystem'?

It's been more than two years post the notification of Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2017, guidelines to support state governments to implement wetland rules have been published. With the theme “Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the SDGs” for the year 2020 at United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 5), these guidelines become significant for a country like India which is endowed by a rich diversity of wetlands, ranging from high altitude wetlands of Himalayas, floodplains of rivers like Ganga and Brahmaputra, lagoons and mangrove marshes on the coastline and reefs in the marine environments.

5 mins

It's our choices that show what we truly are, far from our abilities

Measuring what matters begins with the question: what is the most important for the next 3, 6, 9, 12, months. Successful organizations focus on the handful of initiatives that make a real difference, deferring less urgent ones. Their leaders commit to those choices, in word and deed. By standing firmly behind a few top-line OKR's, they give their teams a compass and base line for assessments. Wrong decisions can be corrected once results begin to roll in. Non–decisions or hastily abandoned ones teach us nothing.

7 mins

90% of Corneal Diseases Preventable If Tackled Systematically and Strategically

According to a study by the World Health Organization in 2016, 15 million people in India are blind, and that accounts for 50% of the world's blind population. The study suggests that about 285 million people have visual impairment globally. This includes 39 million individuals who are blind and an additional 246 million who have poor vision.

6 mins

Building up the Startup Ecosystem and Banka CFO's Initiatives

Being a developing country, India has more than 50% of its population under the age of 25 years and more than 65% of its population under the age of 35 years which primarily makes us a young country. We have a lot of untapped talent who are driven by their passion and wish to create solutions for very real problems faced by the country. The Govenment of India has introduced many different schemes. programmes, and grants that can help as individual not only to setup his start-up but also to succeed in it.

4 mins

Food Startup Launches India's First Original Hot Sauce

There are few industries as prolific as the Food and Beverage markets. Globally, this highly competitive silo embodies high-paced shifts in consumer tastes as well as a nostalgic, often inelastic, loyalty to traditional flavours. This dynamo of demand for the new versus the conventional in F&B mirror socio-cultural changes influenced by urbanisation, travel, health and fitness among other rising trends.

4 mins

Safe Anti Bacterial Soultions for Poultry can Radically Reduce Need of Antibiotics

Between reducing the use of anitbiotics and dealing with rampant bacterial infections of poultry, there is need to create safe prevention solutions. Writes, Managing Director - Vetphage Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd

3 mins

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SME WORLD is India’s most authentic information and knowledge magazine dedicated to the SMEs sector. The magazine enjoys a large readership and is popular with entrepreneurs across sectors.
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