Analog to Digital

The dream of seeing the latest flick first-day first-show in the comfort of our homes is not too distant. We are almost there. While we wait for it to happen, we are already witnessing a revolution in the way Indians are seeing movies and the shake-up in the business-politics of the Indian cinema industry.

In just over two years, UFO Moviez has 1,100 digital screens across India and the growth will be exponential when smaller towns join the digital cinema revolution currently sweeping the country. While this may seem inevitable because technology is already here, making a viable business out of it needed an innovative and a gutsy mind.

For Sanjay Gaikwad, the brain behind UFO Movies, this is his second big and perhaps much bigger than his first brush with radical business models. The first one was the online lottery ‘Playwin’ which caught on big time, but due to social pressure is under a cloud.

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Carbon finance cuts project risk

Climate change is a reality. For businesses, greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions have become an opportunity/challenge to reduce financial risks. GHG reductions offer important information and insights for guiding new strategic business models.

Carbon finance is a new instrument which can make a project more attractive. In the transport sector, which contributes to one-third of the world’s carbon emissions, this potential has not been explored sufficiently. The Switzerland-based Grütter Consulting is one of the pioneers in this area and has so far realized 3 out of 4 approved CDM (Clean Development Mechanisms) methodologies and has registered large-scale CDM transport projects.

Carbon finance can be an important, albeit not the only primary contributor, to investment and can contribute towards making the project financially more attractive, less risky and more sustainable not only in environmental but also in economic terms.

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Innovation explosion

India is at an interesting point in innovation. Today, things like product quality and timeliness are taken for granted across all industries.

The new buzz in India is innovation. We are trying to harness the knowledge of our clients, knowledge of domains and the knowledge of technology trends. India is innovating at the market place in a big way.

The Indian market is fundamentally different because it has to be high volume and low cost, it has to be scalable, it has to have a national reach and it should be relevant to population that is not well educated. The unique demand of the marketplace is forcing innovation in this country.

We have a whole host of young people joining our companies and they are not burdened with the past. I think there will be an innovation firestorm in India.

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