As competition heats up, Flipkart accelerates ‘Project 1K’
March 03, 2021
Flipkart plans to accelerate ‘Project 1K’, its internal innovation programme, to encourage the rank and file of the company to come up with both incremental and disruptive ideas. Flipkart received over 265 ideas in Phase-1 of Project 1K.
The ideas were generated from its business, product and tech teams. Flipkart evaluated the top 50 ideas and picked up 15 that were pitched to the senior most leaders, including the company’s CTPO (Chief Technology and Product Officer). These were further whittled down to the top 4-5 ideas. Flipkart plans to execute a few of these ideas over the next 12 months, a top executive told
Vaccine portal faces glitches
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‘Apps unable to deal with volumes lead to disappointments’
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Senior citizens getting registered for vaccination at Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital in Delhi on Monday.
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‘Apps unable to deal with volumes lead to disappointments’
Eager senior citizens waiting for their turn to register for COVID-19 vaccine on Monday had technology come in their way as the CoWIN portal showed errors or displayed a message that the server was busy.
While the government claimed that over one million registrations were done in the first few hours, many took to Twitter to express problems that they faced with the portal.
Tenkasi Days: Sridhar Vembu’s global village
× The soul of India lives in its villages declared Mahatma Gandhi nearly a century ago. But it was the cities that moved the wheels of commerce and where the talent and spotlight shifted. Until Sridhar Vembu, the charismatic founder of Zoho Corp, took it upon himself to prove that the village could be a coding hub of creativity and commerce.
Vembu, recently awarded the Padma Shri award, argues that it was a decision based on first principles to move to a rural outpost near Tenkasi in southern Tamil Nadu nearly a decade ago, and no quixotic ideals. Cities were getting crowded, polluted, facing water shortage and things needed to change. But it’s taken a pandemic during which work from anywhere became an accepted notion to prove how far-sighted was his premise.