February 13, 2025
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RISE 2024: Advancing Gender Equality In Global Garment, Footwear & Home Textile Supply Chains

The 2024 Annual Report from RISE highlights its pivotal role in advancing gender equality and sustainability across global garment, footwear and home textile supply chains. With comprehensive programmes, strategic collaborations and transformative initiatives, RISE continues to empower workers, challenge systemic inequities and enhance workplace environments. In 2024, RISE
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92% Indian Executives Consider Security Vulnerabilities As Primary Obstacle To Responsible AI Usage: Deloitte Report

According to the Deloitte Asia Pacific report ‘AI at a crossroads: Building trust as the path to scale’, about 92 per cent of Indian executives identify security vulnerabilities, including hacking and cyber threats, as a primary concern in AI adoption, while 91 per cent express significant concern about the privacy risks related to sensitive data in […]
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Give Before You Get!

The principle of reciprocity describes the tendency of human nature to want to offer something when something is received. You feel obliged to do something in return because something was done for you, writes Murugan Santhanam I felt so happy! Finally, I got an inquiry from our principal in Japan for Indian organic yarns. My […]
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AFWA’s 2024 Report Reveals Wages In Asia’s Garment Industry Fall Considerably Short Of Living Wage Benchmarks

The Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA) has released its much-anticipated Path to a Living Wage report, which highlights glaring disparities between garment workers’ earnings and the wages required for a dignified standard of living. Covering eight key garment producing nations, the report underscores how poverty level wages continue to trap millions in financial insecurity
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The ‘Addition By Subtraction’ Principle

By following the principle of ‘addition by subtraction’, company managements can eliminate inefficient machines and people and also customers that drag down efficiency, observes Murugan Santhanam “Can you increase value by subtracting something?” The management coach posed a thought-provoking question. I quickly ducked behind my book, hoping to avoid being called on by the