NERO – Nationalization and Economic Reforms Order (1st Jan 1972) On 1 January 1972, in a speech to the nation, Bhutto and the peoples party’s government promulgated the three-staged program, under “Nationalization and Economic Reforms Order (NERO)”, which nationalized all major metal industries, including iron and steel, heavy engineering, heavy electrical, petrochemicals, cement and public … Continue reading Power of the Executive Order, how the government killed entrepreneurship from NERO to NRO
For the last three days roughly, there has been a positive sentiment around a lot of foreign Ceo interest in Pakistan. I for one actually missed the news item initially but later saw variants on official FB Pages, Media outlet sites, TV and last but not lease a frenzy of “fwds, via  Whatsapp”. Most interestingly … Continue reading 38 Ceos? The Interesting case of our very own Alternate Facts
The real cost of Incubators and Accelerators and the boogymen who promise capital I love startups. I hate the startups that don’t do any thing and cant stop playing pretend. They are wasting every ones time, most importantly their own. But at no fault of their own, they don’t know any better. Day in and day out, … Continue reading Stop Playing Startup and Start Growing Up: Its not you, its your Incubator
The art of customer Service is an art that we need to look at very carefully. Just look around, from banks to telcos, from restaurants to every thing else in between. The common thread is the apathy in how we get treated. It seems that we don’t value the basic tenent of what makes a … Continue reading The customer service society, we are not.
Faizan has spent the better half of the last two decades in large scale turnaround opportunities. After a mix of corporate & startup stints he is now a full time Angel investor & Operator, focusing on deep tech and content distribution plays at Brandver.se, with a core focus on enabling Pakistani businesses to conduct commerce … Continue reading About
This is the question TCS should be asking it self. Given the market size, its operating experience in Pakistan and the scale that has made it ‘case study worthy’ at Harvard; nothing notable besides a spade of layoffs has put TCSs in the limelight recently. That and hiring an ex-banker to lead its re aligned … Continue reading Are we there yet?
It has been a very enchanting learning experience to interact and analyze FMCGs and the people who work within. There are 2 basic types of FMCGs operating in Pakistan. The foreign & the local. Today we will look at the anatomy of the foreign one. Pakistan is a country with over 120M potential clients , … Continue reading Anatomy of an FMCGs Marketing & Sales function