Why businesses should invest in CCTV cameras? As a small business owner, you are concerned about the safety of your business premises and the security of your staff as well as your customers. Employing security personnel 24/7 may prove cost prohibitive and running background checks on personnel employed may not always be foolproof. Security measures such as CCTV cameras, recorders, and fingerprint/password protected access control systems ensure legal help if things go wrong. More important, they can actually prevent or stop things from going south. Studies suggest that establishments that own ..read more

Contrarian Consulting is an outsourced partner for Accounting, Payroll and Compliance related assignments in India. By looking at complexity of accounting, tax and regulatory environment and availability of appropriate resource to manage significant challenges, we started the Contrarian Consulting to give a compliant and cost effective services to our clients. We are a client focused firm having a decade experience in managing large to mid size corporates. The firm is having its head office at Bangalore. We provide wide range of services in the area of Audit and Assurance, Direct Taxation, Ind ..read more

Any business looking to expand into a foreign market is likely to benefit from a translation service. While there are plenty of online or free services that can help to translate text into a foreign language, they can’t always be relied on to give anywhere near 100% accuracy. If you really want your business to succeed, you will find that a professional service is the most effective option. Let’s take a look at four reasons to use this type of service: Accuracy There is much less risk of experiencing the embarrassing errors when using a translation service. Any poorly translated text can have ..read more

“I have never let gender get in my way. It has taken me over 30 years to get from a garage to the huge campus that we have today and it’s been long journey” Kiran Mazundar Shaw, an Indian billionaire entrepreneur is the Chairman and Managing director of Biocon Ltd, a biotechnology company based in Bangalore, India. She is an Indian Chairperson, CEO, Entrepreneur, Businessperson, Scientist and founder of Biocon Ltd, Asia’s leading bio-pharmaceutical enterprise and the current chairperson of Indian Institute of Management- Bangalore. She is recipient of several prestigious awards including the P ..read more

Ecommerce is a booming sector and in an order to bloom yourself along with it, you need to design a beautiful ecommerce website on an appropriate platform or CMS. CMS stands for Content Management System that helps to build a website that works well and offer unbelievable and pleasant working experience to the users, which increase your chances of conversion. Choosing CMS wisely is hard, as having proper knowledge related to this is compulsory to pass the test. If you are overwhelmed with the options available to you, here is the list of CMS that you can take into consideration and choose acco ..read more

Many today question the need for the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the country; their point – whole of India should be treated as SEZs and this dividing factor be done away with. Units in SEZs enjoy a tax holiday in their first five years and 50 percent exemption in the next five. All imports into SEZs are duty-free. If one is more critical, he can question as to why create a special class of units which divides producers and consumers? India today has a growing domestic market that deserves equal policy emphasis. However, continuing with the sops bestowed upon the SEZs, the government ‘in ..read more

Executive Summary All businesses are grey. A loaded statement but one which befits today’s business milieu. The debate is on the shades of the color and not the color itself. Wealth creation precedes wealth distribution, an unalterable sequence. There is a growing realization that former belongs to the exclusive domain of business and the latter to a shared domain. Businesses demand autonomy from others to create wealth and others demand accountability from businesses for the wealth created. Both, autonomy and accountability are worthless in isolation. Accountable autonomy is the panacea. Curr ..read more

The best way to growing the business is by serving customers in a better way. Serving means a business needs to take care of customers’ requirements and help them find exactly the kind of products or services they need. Similarly, the buyers of today have evolved a lot and their tastes have changed a great deal. More so, their preferences are a lot different these days as they want more from online shopping. They want freedom and don’t want to buy from what is already available at an online shop; they want to design their own product. Buyers today want to customize and personalize products and ..read more

Outsourcing a part or the whole business process has been a common trend after the successful implementation of the globalization, privatization, and liberalization. Enjoying the benefits of these, many businesses or individuals get their works done by a different business entity or a professional offering solution from an offshore country. It allows them utilizing the best resources and talents, crossing the interfaces of their countries. Needless to say, there are a few products and services easily manageable over the internet. The software is one of the most significant among these. Both “p ..read more

The benefits of outsourcing software development overseas are widely recognized. Gaining access to software developers trained in the latest technologies can be very difficult, and international outsourcing gives companies a much bigger talent pool from which to choose. Not only does international outsourcing offer companies greater access to highly skilled individuals with in-demand technical talent, but it also provides the opportunity for companies to save money. Eliminating the costs and risks associated with increasing the number of full time employees (FTEs) may be a matter of survival f ..read more