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The presentation looks at ease of doing business from a digital strategy perspective.
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Ease of Doing Business Randeep Sudan Adviser Digital Strategy and Government Analytics World Bank
Reaction to World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Ranking for India (Source: Wall Street Journal) “These rankings help us work harder”: Ramesh Abhishek, Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy.
“All generalizations are false, including this”. Sometimes attributed to Mark Twain (as in Normand Baillargeon's A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense, Seven Stories Press, 4 January 2011, p. 61.) Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Generalization
Adaptive policyAnecdotes from Andhra Pradesh • GE’s Hyderabad Center • Jack Welch (1998), Raman Roy, PramodBhasin (2003) • Microsoft • Sanjay Parthasarathy, Cyberabad • Reliance • DhirubhaiAmbani (2002), Manoj Modi
What matters • Talent pool • Total workers as a % of the population • Computer engineers • How easy is it to obtain skilled manpower in your territory • Quality and trainability of the talent pool • Infrastructure • How easily are online and information technology enabled processes available for business operations in your state/federal territory? • Bandwidth and bandwidth redundancy • A-Class Buildings • Access to highest decision making levels • Adaptive policy • Speed of decision making (predictability)
Contextualization • All things not created equal: Weightages • Value in inspiring governments to action • Greater granularity • Data analytics
Some more perspectives • Strategic Futures • Singapore’s Centre for Strategic Futures • Committee for the Future (Finland) • No regret interventions • Digital infrastructure • Infrastructure for logistics and supply chains • Talent pool development • Policy testbeds
Potential Black Swans (Source: National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds) • Severe pandemic • Rapid climate change • Euro/EU collapse • A Democratic or collapsed China • A reformed Iran • Nuclear war or WMD/cyber attack • Solar geomagnetic storms • US disengagement