Views about our education system
Practical exposure immensely helps students in gaining real-life perspective
Peer pressure comes in the way of job choice
Recession is opening the eyes of people to appropriate career options, such as manufacturing
When manufacturing gets glamorous, media will talk about it
Attitude towards manufacturing in the US, Europe, and India
Practice of getting workers' families, and students, to the shop-floor
Many manufacturing enterprises have the potential to improve their profits by 20 to 30 per cent without further investments
Scope for improving the supply chain which leads agricultural produce to manufacturing
Survey of companies based on supply chain complexity, and maturity of supply chain processes
How much can you keep chopping off from your supply chain
Governmental interventions required for improving the agricultural produce realisations
How wastage can be reduced in agriculture (M.J. Prabu participates in the discussion)
Communication skills required in manufacturing
Maintenance job can do with a little more spotlight in manufacturing
Importance of relationship in consulting
Learnability is a key requisite in a consultant
Continue to learn even as you grow old
Trying out multiple initiatives and consultants can lead to fatigue within the organisation
Cocktail circuit motivation may lack objective and end up as a disaster
Thought from a book -- about defining a business as a mature one
Planned cost decline model, coupled with newer products in the manufacturing portfolio
Thoughts about the future direction for automotive component industry
Huge automated factories are the China model, and India may prefer flexible, small-lot, fairly complex manufacturing
Manufacturing gets the wrong end of the stick during economic cycles, but there are also many opportunities
Outlook on consolidation, globally and in India
R and D is extremely important in manufacturing
Demand creation can help more than sops and stimulus packages
Green has to be a little better than fashionable
Cost of democracy, when doing business in India
High cost of logistics due to inefficiencies impacts our competitiveness
Mindless capacity creation in boom times -- Example of textile industry
Potential for the power industry
Manufacturing activities in rural areas
Clusters in manufacturing
Does manufacturing attract enough entrepreneurship
Observations about wind power

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