It is 8pm on 26th February 2012
I have just returned back to Mumbai from an interesting visit to Nashik where I had the opportunity to meet during the day, with many of that city’s businessmen at a business event. And while I am enthused with the positive growth plans that formed a common denominator in most discussions, I was also appalled at the fact that most industries in Nashik are still discussing decades-old concepts and approaches to improving energy-efficiencies . Not a whiff of an innovative approach from consultants, government agencies or the industries themselves.
As I travelled back to Mumbai from Nashik, I was thinking furiously about why Indian businesses need to look at resource conservation and waste-reduction, as obligations that they are mandated to perform by regulatory agencies, rather than productivity improvements that will make them globally competitive and profitable. And why they cannot make it sexy for their employees to take these initiatives on without any directives!
I have no found any quick answer, but I do realize that unless there are good answers, these issues will remain to haunt the global competitiveness agenda for Indian businesses.
I hope that you are having a great weekend.
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