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In the demise of former Prime Minister of Japan Abe Shinzo, under tragic circumstances, India has lost an extremely valuable friend. His paradigm for Japan’s role in this century and India’s place in that frame has been farsighted.  Belonging to an elite politcal dynasty, Prime Minister Abe was the son of Shintaro Abe, onetime Foreign Minister of Japan and also the grandson of post-war PM Nobosuke Kishi who finalized a new security agreement with the USA, in 1960.  Prime Minister Abe attained his position at a very young age of…

eShipz enables Small and Midsize Businesses (SMBs) as well as Large Enterprises to enhance their supply chain efficiency and reduce logistics cost, thereby improving customer experience while shipping goods. The firm management shares that eShipz has processed nine million packages on platform and is continuously working on improving business experience by bringing more automation tools via Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). eShipz was founded by Shashi Shekhar Tripathi, Ajaykumar Rajakumar and Shivadeep Mahadi. The founding team comes with a combined Logistics experience of more than 25 years, and…

G.Sabarinathan, PhD1, recalls the story of Asvini Kumar, an alumnus of PGP’81, from a time when there was no template for growing the kind of services business that his venture, Thinksoft, was, and believes entrepreneurship seems to have been always ingrained in the alumni and students of IIMB. On June 23rd, I wrote a brief post acknowledging a few unicorns that I knew of that have an IIMB connection.  Here is that post in case you are curious as to what I wrote.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabarinathan-g-7541a9175/recent-activity/shares/ My post on Open set me…

Early diagnosis/prognosis of a cancer type is critical, but the clinician is expected to look at a huge volume of data. Imaging modalities like Pathology are complicated to report, and time-consuming. There are only 500 cancer pathologists in India, who have the skill to report on a biopsy slide and give an accurate report. But in India, there are about two million cancer patients being reported every year, leading to huge waiting times and sub-optimal outcomes. Moreover, the Founders say that interviewing oncologists made them realize that most diagnostic and…

Food Safety Genie (FSG FoodWorks) is a year-old startup that aims to enable food establishments meet and maintain hygiene standards and make each of these food establishments a safe place to eat. “Each year, it is estimated that 48 million consumers become sick from contaminated food. There is a rapid increase in demand for restaurants due to India’s growing middle class and spending power leading to a shortage of staff. Restaurant staff also are not aware of required food safety standards compounding the problem further. With complex and ever-changing regulations,…

Sayari De is the Co-Founder of the tech-driven community-based platform ‘All About Architecture’, which aims to empower and give access to information to the construction community to help them make smarter choices. She has worked as an architect for about 15+ years. While pursuing her Master’s degree at the University of Glasgow, she was exposed to the way data-driven decisions were made. But when working on projects from inception to construction to handover and use, she says she found this data-driven approach, missing. “There is also an inertia when it…