Strategic Intent
63 articles
Propelled by the Toyota and Suzuki partnership, the resurgence of hybrids is a signal that the electric mobility revolution in India may take a lot longer than was assumed
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
It is tempting to dismiss corporate universities as a relic of a bygone era. The reality may well be a bit more nuanced
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
Many competent leaders from different domains aspire to join public life. But the transition is never an easy one
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
At the heart of the fintech major’s precarious slide lies the abject failure of its Super App strategy. But that’s just one part of the story.
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
BCCI faces a set of crucial decisions ahead that could set the pace for the future
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
In this age of AI, creating an employee-first culture may seem counter-intuitive. But not if you believe in the primacy of building human relationships at the workplace
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
Chairman and MD Sanjiv Puri is trying to kill three birds with one stone
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
His value lifestyle brand Zudio has caught the attention of the entire retail industry. It also signals a coming of age of retail in small town India
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
Is the government’s Make in India programme creating a system where a large section of workers in manufacturing could find themselves trapped in low wage jobs with no future?
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
FF Life: The power of social media has lulled leaders into believing that a carefully curated digital identity is the sure-fire passport to success. They are entirely off-the-mark
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
What do we need more of: leaders who dominate global institutions or local leaders with a make-in-India mindset?
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
The three-month-long takeover saga is reaching its climax. What happens next? (Updated on December 6, and December 24, 2022)
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
There’s simmering tension over moonlighting, hybrid work and a breakdown of old workplace norms. Will this erupt into a full-fledged crisis? Or will better sense eventually prevail?
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
As the Adani group pushes through the doors at NDTV, owners Prannoy and Radhika Roy find themselves with their backs to the wall. What are their options?
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
The aggressive billionaire’s dramatic attempt to take over one of the country’s best known media firms has set the cat among the pigeons. Will Prannoy and Radhika Roy stand their ground? Here are the possible scenarios. (This is a developing story and we are updating it as things unfold. The latest update was on 31 August, 2022)
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
The R K Swamy Hansa group remains the last man standing, even as almost all the large homegrown advertising-led groups have thrown in the towel. How did the Swamy brothers, Srinivasan and Shekar, pull it off?
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
The raging controversy around the Agnipath scheme has placed the spotlight on an issue that has been pushed under the carpet for too long.
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
Why the Hindi film industry is struggling to emerge out of its pandemic-induced coma
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
The Gati Shakti Mission has been billed as a major transformational project. But is it merely a delayed attempt at better housekeeping?
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
There are signs of growing impatience among CEOs to abandon the hybrid work experiment and return to office permanently. What’s driving this sentiment? And could it scupper change?
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
Two of India’s iconic companies—Tata Steel and ITC—find themselves at the cusp of a huge upheaval. And it once again raises serious questions about the role of the board in supervising executive management
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
Large established firms have a tough task in embedding entrepreneurial thinking inside the firm. Because it means rewiring the way leaders think about the future
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
On March 1, Ravneet Singh Gill will assume charge at YES Bank. Will the entry of the quintessential MNC banker from Deutsche Bank be able to calm the troubled waters swirling around YES Bank?
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
The inside story of how Chanda Kochhar let hubris and greed implode her trail-blazing career at ICICI Bank
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
The Modi government’s ambitious scheme was a serious attempt to make air travel accessible to every Indian. But two years later, it is apparent that the challenges may have been somewhat underestimated.
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
The global merger of JWT and Wunderman is a signal of how a new combination of techies and fuzzies might dominate the world of innovation and marketing
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
Less than six months after their momentous deal with Walmart, both co-founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal are out of Flipkart. It is a sad commentary on the hubris and the immaturity that’s gripped India’s high-flying tech entrepreneurs
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
Three years after her sexual harassment allegations against then Indian Hotels CEO Rakesh Sarna, Anjuli Pandit has made her horror story public, signalling a complete breakdown of internal processes to prevent sexual harassment. Yet, Pandit shows the new Tata management a way to make amends
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
The #metoo movement has provided a wake-up call for leaders across India Inc to significantly up the ante in building safe and gender-balanced workplaces
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
In this never ending race for greater productivity and measurement, the practice of management appears to have lost touch with real human values. It is time to correct that
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
There are at least six compelling reasons for rivals to consider making a bid for India’s flag carrier
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
The Indian cricket team’s brilliant run at South Africa holds lessons for how to build the foundation for lasting success
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
Airbnb may have changed the game with its online home stay listing model. But the hotel industry isn’t waiting in the sidelines. It is fighting back
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
This is the time of year when thousands of young MBAs go through their rites of passage. Yet for a while now, campus placement in India’s busi-ness schools have hopelessly derailed. And it’ll take considerable effort and a bunch of new ideas to get them back on track
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
Smart entrepreneurs are best placed to solve the affordable housing crisis. But they need the government’s support
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
Entrepreneurial leaders like Medtronic Labs’ Omar Ishrak and Khan Academy’s Salman Khan are showing how low-cost, disruptive, local solutions can open up new opportunities in emerging markets
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
Academic research in management needs to be more useful and relevant. But any intent to influence practice won’t happen, unless researchers learn to step out of their comfort zone and engage with the real world
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
A new era of shopping is taking shape in India, as retailers—like Kishore Biyani with his Retail 3.0 strategy—look to blur the lines between their physical stores and online shopping. A glimpse into how this will change the way modern retailers operate
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
The logic behind the partnership between Tata Steel and Thyssenkrupp to give shape to a sustainable steel business in Europe is compelling. But the labour pains involved are likely to be equally challenging
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
Companies struggle to manage the present and also remain relevant in the future. There’s a way to fix that. And it starts with a new approach to learning
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
