Sumit

society which rests in past glory finds it hard to create a great future. society which does not value it's glory is not knowing what it's capable to achieve.

[Sumit @mymindb4m]

@Dig_raw21 Minority appeasement

[Sumit @mymindb4m]

@narendramodi Rather than honoring these actors with endless accolades your goverment should honor the civil engineers and construction guys who are building countries infrastructure day in and day out. Food for thought.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

I ran across this video a few days ago and couldn’t stop watching it.

It’s about something ordinary & boring, a plastic gas lighter. But it changes how one thinks about manufacturing.

That lighter in so many of our homes, holds pressurised gas. It has over 30 microscopic parts, has to pass international safety codes, & travel 10,000 miles by sea, & the total cost of doing all that, materials, labour, freight, every middleman along the way, comes to fifteen U.S cents.

So how does anyone make money on this?

Turns out almost the entire world’s supply comes from one place: a county called Shaodong, in China’s Hunan province.

It wasn’t always there.

But today, Shaodong has 114 lighter-related companies packed into the place & between them they source more than 200 different components from each other, all within a 20-kilometre radius. They supply something like seventy percent of the world’s disposable lighters. And the industry alone employs over 80,000 people locally.

Nobody there is winning on cheap labour anymore. They’re winning by shaving a thousandth of a cent off the thickness of a plastic wall, or redesigning a base so a few thousand more units fit into the same shipping container.

It took my thoughts back to an old professor of mine, Michael Porter.
His 1980 book, Competitive Strategy, is still the 1st book most MBAs read, the one that gave the world the Five Forces and basically invented modern strategic thinking.

But there’s a quieter piece of his work, on industrial clusters, that never got nearly the same attention, and it is the one that explains exactly what is happening in Shaodong.

His argument was that nations and regions rarely win because of cheap inputs. They win when rival firms and specialist suppliers crowd into the same small geography for long enough that they keep pushing each other past what any one of them could manage alone. He found it in the Swiss watchmaking towns of the Jura, in the German printing press industry and in Italy’s ceramic tile and footwear districts (interestingly, it’s the SAME blueprint which built Morbi, in Gujarat, into the world’s second-largest ceramic cluster, now outproducing Italy by volume. I have posted before, about Morbi)

None of these started out as giants. The neighbourhood made them giants.

Which is exactly why it’s so relevant to India’s climb up the global manufacturing table

I’ve also attached a slide with this post that I saw recently and which shows us breaking into the top 5 manufacturing globally. (A quick reference check told me that we may not have overtaken Korea yet, but the trajectory’s clear)

That climb has happened on the back of scale: bigger plants, bigger parks, more FDI.

I should declare an interest here, because the Mahindra Group set up 2 of India’s first integrated, plug-and-play business cities, in Chennai in 2002 & Jaipur in 2006.

Both have been extremely successful. Chennai’s business zone alone today employs 45,000 people..

But I admit that we need to think differently.

A park brings in investors and hands them a ready plot, power, water & roads

A cluster is a completely different animal: hundreds of small, specialised suppliers, each obsessed with doing a tiny thing better than anyone else, feeding off each other’s presence for years until no outsider can compete with the whole.

I think that’s the work ahead of us now.

Not just more factories, and not just more parks.

Policymakers & developers like us need to start consciously pulling as many of the inputs and resources a sector needs, the toolmakers, the component suppliers, the testing labs, the logistics specialists, into the same neighbourhood.

Shaodong and Morbi both got there by accident, one town stumbling onto a way to shave a thousandth of a cent off a lighter wall, the other discovering it had the clay and, later, the gas pipeline for tiles.

We don’t have the luxury of waiting for accidents anymore.

We need to do it on purpose

[Gallinews India @gallinews]

Wadala ttb brez ki

@mybmc @MTPHereToHelp @CPMumbaiPolice

[POLYMERUPDATE @POLYMERUPDATE]

Your phone case has a better travel history than most people.

Before it landed in your hand, it quietly crossed 6 countries and thousands of kilometers.
It started as butadiene a by-product of petrochemical refining in the Middle East.

➡️ Polymerised into ABS resin in South Korea's polymer plants.
➡️ Transited through China's logistics corridors.
➡️ Compounded with colour and additives in India.
➡️ Injection moulded locally into the case snapped onto your phone right now.

That's not a supply chain. That's a world tour for a ₹200 phone case.

What looks like commodity plastic is actually the convergence of petrochemistry, polymer science, global shipping, and precision manufacturing across 5 industries, 6 countries, and thousands of kilometres.

The next time someone says "It's just plastic" hand them this post.

#PolymerUpdate #Petrochemicals #GlobalSupplyChain #PlasticManufacturing #MaterialsScience

[Sumit @mymindb4m]

@ForMenIndia_ Attending live Comedy shows is injurious to professional health:)

[Sumit @mymindb4m]

@NalinisKitchen Is there any proof of what ever you are claiming about this couple ? Or is it Fancy writing to draw attention?

[Sumit @mymindb4m]

@Tracking_Live 😝 80 - 0 likho. 800 -0 likho kya farak padta hai.

[Sumit @mymindb4m]

@DesiEsco7 Question should be can we be able to stop and adversary who can attack like Iran with same intensity. No point in patting our back. New encounter our enemy will be tougher. More hard work is required

[Sumit @mymindb4m]

@namitathapar A thing that even practicing muslim never claim you being hindu are claiming.

Are you truly hindu or a Muslim hiding in a closest. This will be question in public mind ?

R U urging ppl to try out namaz ???

I have empathy towards you. But your misfortune is self made.

[Sumit @mymindb4m]

@iamankitpande Your Math's is flawed. How you can fo swp of 12% and still accumulate wealth ? Pls do put an excel to explain

[Sumit @mymindb4m]

@SouleFacts Bahut achhaaa

[MP Congress @INCMP]

विधायक प्रीतम लोधी के बेटे दिनेश लोधी की गुंडई सामने आई है! भाजपा के राज में सत्ता की ठसक में नेता और नेता पुत्र गुंडों की तरह बर्ताव कर रहे हैं!

विधायक पुत्र ने अपनी थार गाड़ी से लोगों को कुचल दिया!
चोरी और सीनाजोरी करते हुए घायलों और वीडियो बनाने वाले नागरिकों को धमकाया!

⦿ मुख्यमंत्री को जवाब देना चाहिए कि उनके जनप्रतिनिधि पुत्रों को धमकी का यह लाइसेंस कैसे मिला है?

[Chota Don @choga_don]

CCTV footage of LET Terrorist Mohammad Qasim getting Killed by Unknown Man 🔥

Bro did 2 step verification before shooting 😂

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Son of a BJP MLA from Pichhore (Madhya Pradesh) ran over five people and arrogantly blamed the victims. He has a similar past case too. His father also has a glorious criminal record.

Look at his Thar: no number plate, sirens, modified lights, and his father’s photo and designation in bold. He must have been roaming like this, and no policeman would have dared act on these multiple RTO offences.

Given his confidence and our faith in the system, this time too he’ll face no action.

[Sumit @mymindb4m]

@PriyadarshiniD3 @CMOMaharashtra Good idea also implement it to people doing business in maharashtra . They are the biggest beneficiaries of maharashtra's resources.

Why cant we expect this from them also going ahead.

[Sumit @mymindb4m]

@ANI This is reality of common man in this nation

[Vijay Shekhar Sharma @vijayshekhar]

I want to see such indian content creators being celebrated, way more than we do.
What an awesome way to remember formulas: Bam Bam Bhole , Sona Chandi Tole 🤩

[Sumit @mymindb4m]

@hormazdsorabjee I dont think this is a factual data. I have a skoda 1 litre TSI rapid. My milage is consistent even after 1 year of run..engine is E10 compliant .

Last week I did a 450 KM run on express way attained 18.5 average.

[@chefrivaajmaharaj @RivaajMaharaj]

@SaffronChargers A troubled Pakistan, a weak Pakistan, when the Elites and the Pakistani Military and Administration is threatened from within, that's when India needs to be vigilant. The Hyenas across the border are being prepared to be let loose on India.