India
Part # 1 Cities in India
City
People
Delhi Mumbai Bangalore
17 million 12 million 8.5 million
Chennai Hyderabad Ahmadabad
7 million 7 million 5.5 million
Kolkata
4.5 million
https://en.wikipedia.org/ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html
Mumbai is the most densely populated city in the world. 23,000 people per km2.
http://www.nriol.com/india-statistics/biggest-cities-india.asp http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/GMABig/story?id=7043270&page=1
Dadra and Nagar Haveli north of Mumbai in the western part of India have had the highest population growth since 2001.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576233981941525872.html
Chennai. People people per km2 in 2011.
http://www.economist.com/suburbs
Part # 2 People who live in India
At least 16 languages are spoken in India.
https://hbr.org/2012/03/indias-exploding-digital-econo
Number of girls aged 0 – 6 years for every 1,000 boys
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13264301
40% of India’s women in the ages 25–54 were economically active in 2010.
In comparison, 88% of women in China and 73% in Brazil were economically active in 2010. http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/asia-pacific/indias_path_from_poverty_to_empowerment
India is home to 28% of the world's hair - thanks to the long tresses that Indian women maintain throughout their lives.
Johnson, Marc: Seizing the White Space, p. 73.
Families in India spend many resources on weddings
http://www.business-opportunities.biz/2010/06/22/indian-weddings-are-big-biz/
The high power distance in India can reduce innovation. For example, only the so-called “peon� = a runner will move a desk from a to b in companies.
http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/guide-to-india-etiquette-customs-culture-business.html
2 reasons for high power distance in India: 1. The influences of Hinduism. 2. The tradition of the caste system.
http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/guide-to-india-etiquette-customs-culture-business.html
The importance of caste is changing in India. For example, no caste exists for call-centre workers, computer programmers English teachers. http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/02/economist-explains-9
Part # 3 Innovation examples and potential in India
10% of people in India have refrigerators.
https://hbr.org/2010/09/the-asian-innovation-century
In Shani Shingnapur, a town 300 km. East of Mumbai, houses have no doors.
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/11/shani-shingnapur-village-without-doors.html
124 million households in India cook with wood.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2277
Feeling your food is a way of signalling to the stomach that you are about to eat. You become more conscious of the taste, textures and aromas. http://clickitab.com/2015/08/12/eating-with-your-hands-and-other-indian-food-traditions/
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21625799-modern-food-retailing-has-struggled-win-customers-indias-old-fashioned-merchants-long
Supermarkets in India.
Foreign participation in India’s retail sector is highly politicized because of the large number of people employed in mom-and-pop stores.
http://hbr.org/2014/01/the-new-rules-of-globalization/ar/3
The number of people using the Internet in India is growing strongly
http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/2016-internet-trends-report/
India has 62,000 newspapers. 90% of them are in local languages. How can the use of blogs help speed up innovation? http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/medium-for-the-masses-how-indias-local-newspapers-are-winning-rural-readers/
On https://www.mygov.in/ people can connect with the government and contribute to achieving good governance.
http://www.enam.gov.in/ creates a digital national agricultural market with the goal of increasing farm productivity.
http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/employment-and-growth/indias-ascent-five-opportunities-for-growth-and-transformation
https://www.zomato.com/india
Between Kolkata and Chennai in the Eastern part of India, few households have toilets.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/ 2014/01/13/40-more-maps-that-explain-the-world/
There is a strong need to create conditions that help keep the Yamuna river in the Northern part of India clean. The Yamuna river is polluted to a level 100,000 times above the standard for safe bathing. It receives 3 billion litres of waste every day from small industries and sewage lines. http://www.strategy-business.com/article/09305?pg=all
The jewelry market in India, estimated to be around USD 15 billion to USD 20 billion, primarily comprises a host of small players. While there are strong city-specific players like http://www.ganjam.com/ and http://www.ckcsons.com/ in Bangalore or http://www.grtjewels.com/ in Chennai, https://www.tanishq.co.in/ is the only significant national brand.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/what-makes-titan-tick-finding-opportunity-in-indias-unorganized-retail-sector/
Weavers, who work for http://www.jaipurrugsco.com/, get wool from Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and China and blends it with wool from Rajasthan in the Northwestern part of India.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/new-approaches-to-new-markets-how-c-k-prahalads-bottom-of-the-pyramid-strategies-are-paying-off/
Examples of crowdfunding platforms: https://www.faircent.com/ https://www.rangde.org/
Using icicibank, people can pay other people on Twitter.
https://www.icicibank.com/Personal-Banking/insta-banking/internet-banking/twitter-banking/index.page
75% of the patients at Aravind eye hospital in Madurai get free treatment.
http://www.aravind.org/default/clinicscontent/aehmadurai http://www.financialexpress.com/news/we-set-prices-not-on-our-costs-but-on-who-can-afford-to-pay-how-much/233536/1
Examples of hotels in India.
https://www.oyorooms.com/
Automotive industry clusters in India
http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/wir2015_en.pdf
Strong growth in Internet of Things in India 2015
Less than 1 million devices connected to the Internet.
Potential in 2015
3 billion to 10 billion devices connected to the Internet.
http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/employment-and-growth/indias-ascent-five-opportunities-for-growth-and-transformation
Further inspiration https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Internet-of-Things-2056421