The presentation looks at ease of doing business from a digital strategy perspective.

1. Ease of Doing Business
Randeep Sudan
Adviser Digital Strategy and Government Analytics
World Bank

2. 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.

3. Pulling rank
(Economist September 26, 2015)

4. “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

5. Adaptive policy
Anecdotes from Andhra Pradesh
• GE’s Hyderabad Center
• Jack Welch (1998), Raman Roy, Pramod Bhasin (2003)
• Microsoft
• Sanjay Parthasarathy, Cyberabad
• Reliance
• Dhirubhai Ambani (2002), Manoj Modi

6. 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)

7. Contextualization
• All things not created equal: Weightages
• Value in inspiring governments to action
• Greater granularity
• Data analytics

8. 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

9. 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

10. Thank you