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I am a firm believer in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey. If you've not read this book, it is worth the time. I mention this because my focus at BA Insight is around Covey's second habit, which is, "Begin with the end in mind." Seems simple, right? Well it is, but it's also quite rare. When approaching any enterprise search project, at any phase, I always try to come back to this idea. What is success? When are we done? What does finished look like? These are all different ways of saying, "Make sure you have goals!"

There may be several generations that a KM system appeals to in different ways, but there are no generational differences when it comes to expecting high quality customer service and knowledgeable agents.

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National non-profit expedited the launch of an online early childhood development community in wake of COVID-19 pandemic?

The acquisition of Collaborative Solutions will add new finance and HR advisory and implementation services to Cognizant's cloud offerings

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The time saved on travel can now be used to upskill or learn about a new sector or industry that you previously did not cater to. Having a sound knowledge of your clients’ business makes you stand out amongst your competition.

The registration process will be in addition to the Directors Identification Number, where a KYC process was recently undertaken.

Thanks to the structural changes brought about by the GOI, incorporating a company has now become much easier and streamlined.

The Code has expanded the definition of “employer” as well as “employee”, resulting in a broad based applicability of the regulations and is now applicable to employees in both organised and unorganised sectors.

We are all in this together, so the ideal way is to stay transparent with your consumers about what your business is going through. Customers can empathize with companies facing a crisis, as long as the communication is transparent.

“Permissions have been received by the majority of the companies, though the workforce has been truncated to 20-30%. It is extremely difficult to reach any kind of optimisation and efficiency in this manner,” Pankaj Mohindroo, chairman of India Cellular & Electronics Association (ICEA), told ET.

To pay this additional interest, you may get an option to either increase your loan tenure without increasing your EMI amount or increase your EMI amount without increasing your loan tenure or make a one-time payment of the interest in June month.

Here are the charges, terms and conditions of availing the three-month equated monthly instalment (EMI) moratorium from Tata capital financial services. These are details as mentioned on Tata Capital's website for financial services.

If you are an IDBI Bank customer, here are the details of the bank's EMI moratorium facility. These details are as per the bank's website.

If you have converted your debit card payments to EMIs to buy a phone, a consumer durable or converted your e-commerce purchases to EMIs, you can avail of the three-month moratorium. Here is a look at how this will work.

In respect of term loans, insurers are permitted to grant a moratorium of three months towards payment of instalments falling due between 1st March 2020 and 31st May 2020.

The 3-month EMI moratorium offered by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) includes all term loans like home loans, personal loans, credit card dues etc.

Normally, one can defer payment by paying 'minimum due amount' and roll over the balance outstanding amount to the next month. In this process, the unpaid amount is carried forward to the next billing cycle and 2-4 percent interest is levied on it.

The borrower has SBI Max Gain home loan at 8.55 per cent under the MCLR option.

According to the RBI Monetary Policy Report, 36 banks out of 62 banks have adopted repo rate as an external benchmark whereas six banks have adopted the market-based benchmarks such as CD rate, 3-month treasury bill etc.

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To ensure hygiene while transporting, the drivers of UberMedic were trained in safety procedures and also provided with personal protective equipment and disinfectants

No salaries for Apr, May; hours flown-based pay for those operating cargo flights: SpiceJet to pilots

Workers in red zones were also finding it difficult to travel to factories in orange and green zones. Milon Nag, managing director of Pune-based KK Nag Ltd said, “Our factories in rural areas are open. But our managers and all live in Pune and they are unable to reach factories.”

It further said that although 2020 is a lost year, in terms of trade, India can think long-term and build relations so that it can occupy the space vacated by China.

Credit bureau Trans-Union Cibil has said that two out of three MSMEs entered this lockdown with structurally strong positions.

India to build two more strategic petroleum reserves, says Piyush Goyal

The temporary suspension of immigration will affect those who are legally seeking entry into the United States for employment but it will not impact the ones who are already living in the country, the order said.

The Ministry of MSMEs offers the International Cooperation Scheme which helps fund MSMEs to participate in international exhibitions and events to get access to the latest in technology.

As we enter the new decade, the question really is how businesses adopt new capabilities that will help them be agile, customer centric, innovative and cost sensitive at the same time.

Swaraj said this while chairing a meeting of India Development Foundation of Overseas Indians, a trust established to supplement development efforts.

Douglas Willson, MD, discusses an article he published in the July 2006 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, "The Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network." Dr. Willson is medical director of the pediatric intensive care unit at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center and the chairman of the Steering Committee for the Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network. (Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2006; 7:301)

M. Cholette, MD, is the lead author of an article published in the January Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Guillaume Emeriaud, MD, PhD.

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Neal J. Thomas, MD

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Mary Jo C. Grant, APRN, PhD, about the article, Dexmedetomidine Use in Critically-Ill Children with Acute Respiratory Failure, published in the December 2016 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.

As per the new Budget, the profit-linked income tax exemption for promoters of affordable housing with a 30 sq m limit will apply only to the four metropolitan cities.

Murthy’s long missive about the pay culture in Infosys echoes the pay reforms debate in advanced economies.

Structural and cost disadvantages have held India back. Absence of local supply chains, high manufacturing and logistics costs, combined with financial and fiscal incentives provided by the likes of Vietnam, puts India at an extra 8-10% disability. To change this, a bespoke production-linked incentive for mobile manufacturing is needed.

Millions of migrant workers toiling in the Gulf countries are facing a crisis due to Covid-19 and the fall in oil prices.

People have a lot of misconceptions about what has been promised. Keep these things in mind when you make financial decisions basis the announcements in the relief package.

ICICI Bank, along with issuing details on availing the moratorium on loans and credit card dues, also issued a set of FAQs on moratorium for equated monthly instalments (EMIs) taken on debit cards.

If you have a credit card from Kotak Mahindra Bank, here are some of the details of its three-month moratorium facility.