Brand You!

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An excellent presentation by Greg Fisher about Brand You and Me Inc.
Speaks about personnel branding..
Go brand yourself!
Happy Branding!

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10 Basic Business Principles

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Management explained in 10 basic principles.
Its all we need to concentrate to create a product or to survive with the existing product/service.
Keep these at your finger tips.
If someone ask me
what is management and business?
What is money making process?
What all MBA's learn in B-Schools?
What they really dont teach you at any B-school
Check out these simple slides and understand business in five minutes ( knowledge guarenteed but not money)
Go ahead.......

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Eight simple rules for success

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Simple but highly effective presentation

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Brainstorming for fun and profit

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The intention of this placing this slide here is to give a clear idea about what is brainstorming and how it can be useful in developing ideas.

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Understand Innovation in 5 Minutes

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Understand Innovation in just five minutes.
Spend some time, its very useful and clear.

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Thanks to brokenbulbs.com

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Look here i got one interesting Presentation.
Have a look till the end and give your comments.

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Personality tests and Self Assessment

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here are the list of personality tests and Self assessment tests, which would be useful in analyzing ones own personality, job match and career choices.
www.librarysupportstaff.com/4personaltest.html
similarminds.com/personality_tests.html
www.teamtechnology.co.uk/mmdi-re/mmdi-re.htm
www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
www.personaldna.com/
www.chatterbean.com/
www.trans4mind.com/personality/questionnaire1.htm
www.colorquiz.com/
www.enneagraminstitute.com/dis_sample_36.asp
Hope it would be helpful and i would be posting more interesting sites soon.

Free Education in Information Age

We think free education is not possible especially in countries like INDIA.But all top universities in the world including our IIT's are offering free education to everyone through video lectures, audio lectures and animations ( interactive).

But a few of us know about them.This is an effort to create awareness about the Best free educational resources available in the world.

Here are .
1. Free video lectures and animations on all subjects Huge Collection. Text materials and videos on all Engineering and Medical Sciences.
2. Joint venture by IIT's and IISc
3. MIT Open Course Text materials, video lectures on all subjects
4. MIT world Video lectures
5. MIT lecture Browser Browse video lectures on all topics
6. World Lecture Hall You can find any course here, what ever it is.
7. WGBH Forum Network Videos on all subjects
8. Vega Science Trust Physics Special
9. Micro Biology Video Library Biology
10. Animations Genetics, Biochemistry, Immunology, Physiology etc...
11. National Institutes of Health Medicine Special

Business, Management and Leadership
1. HBR Idea Cast Archive
2. Interviews with Great Entrepreneurs
3. HARVARD Working Knowledge
4. Stanford University Videos
5. Knowledge @ Wharton Business
6. Huge Collection of many other including the above all.

Other Useful Search Engines
1. Google Book Search Search the all books.
2. Google Code Search searches public source code
3. Google Scholar Search searches all the Scholar papers.
4. Educational Special Search Engine searches all sites for e-books, study materials, video lectures, animations, including Google videos, Yahoo videos, you tube, Google code search, Scholar, Book search.
We can certainly create awareness, by spreading the news, about free educational resources. Swami Vivekananda words on Importance of Education and Role of youth in Developing INDIA.
"Education, education, education alone! Traveling through many cities of Europe and observing in them the comforts and education of even the poor people, there was brought to my mind the state of our own poor people, and I used to shed tears. What made the difference? Education was the answer I got ".
"My faith is in the younger generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem"

Western Management Concepts in Indian Companies

I want to share some insights about management in Indian context, how it effects and so and so when compared with the western management theories and concepts. So let’s start………

Hope this will be helpful for the young entrepreneurs in understanding the ground rules in India…

Motivation in Indian Context.

Management as we know today is basically borrowed from the west, mainly USA. It’s not from Indian origin and it’s not based on Indian heritage. Indian B-schools design MBA course curriculum based on western Business Schools (for your kind information case study based study methodology is adopted from Harvard’s itself).Thus they ignore the Indian situation.

Management is mainly behavioral study (i.e. consumer, market, buyer, seller…), but they don’t teach how Indian’s behave… (Remember ganguly’s).

Lets not go deep into pro and cons about every thing in management. Let’s have a look into subject Organisational Behavior and Maslov’s theory of motivation.

Maslov’s theory of motivation:

Management text books refer Maslov’s need theory in motivating employees.
He says- a person have five needs—physiological, security, social, esteem, and self actualization. A manager or leader is to satisfy these needs of his subordinates to motivate him to achieve more.

Lets us analyze this theory in Indian context:

In a company, who should motivate workers who are in majority? (Here I am not talking about top management). In day to day life a supervisor, a Graduate engineer Trainee (GET) or a young management trainee (YMT) works with the bottom line people. Now my question is does the GET’s or YMT’s have the authority to satisfy the physiological needs of his sub-ordinate? Only the top management decides whether he deserves a promotion or salary hike or not.

Now security needs: The offer letter which every company gives clearly states that it’s a contract between two parties and this can be terminated by either with or without notice. So no security…. he he he…

As the two basic needs are not fulfilled by a superior or an executive who should motivate his juniors. So Maslov’s theory does not help us in practical field in India.

Another context – In Japan they have life-long employment and they are doing well. We in India have permanent jobs in government organizations and you know the rest of the story…. So, Job security brings positive result in Japan and negative result in India.

Any Comments and ideas to share...?

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What is Six Sigma all about?

Six Sigma denoted by “6σ”, in simple words is a measure of quality and strives for its perfection. Six sigma methodologies is a data driven highly disciplined approach in elimination of defects in a process either is in a product development or service design company. In short and simple, achieving six sigma is all about producing not more than 3.4 defects per million products or service transactions. Why do we need six sigma, when we can just think about three sigma? To answer this question let us look at the facts and figure which prove the need. A medium aircraft needs 10,000 parts and three sigma means 27 parts will be defective, which is highly unacceptable. So when creating quality products three sigma will not be sufficient and we need to work towards six sigma.

Increase in performance and reducing defects results in achieving high profits, producing quality products and quality oriented company brand image, employee morale and in developing quality centered strategies. There are many other programs or methodologies in quality improvement other than six sigma, but what makes it different is as follows.

1. It’s a customer centered approach.

2. Achieves increased Return of Investment (ROI) on projects.

3. Changes the way management functions or approaches towards any issue.

Six Sigma is not just a quality initiative but it’s a business initiative.

Fundamentally, six sigma is about primarily taking care of end customers need, managing through data and fact driven methods in predicting the outcome, continuously improving, and creating involving environment for employees through top down drive and bottom up involvement.

The goal of Six Sigma is

a. Improving Customer satisfaction.

b. Reduce cycle time.

c. Reduce the number of Defects.

Effectively working towards improving customer satisfaction makes any organization to fulfill the needs of customer and help I retaining the customers there by increasing the market share. It helps in capturing new markets and new customer through providing quality products or service. Reduce the time to market and reap more profits. Its not only meant for product design companies but also used in many service based companies effectively.

History of Indian IT industry

We will be looking at the IT industry from 1991 post-liberalization to till date and the factors contributing for the significant growth. India did not see a development in IT industry during mid 70’s and this period was not so effective due to restricting imports of computer peripherals, high import tax, strict Foreign Exchange and Regulation Act limiting its allocation.

A notable turning point in the Indian software and IT industries policy environment was when Shri Rajiv Gandhi became PM in 1984. The major policy reforms were to recognize software as an industry to invest and make it eligible for incentives as other domestic industries, reducing import tariffs and announcement of CSDT policy which liberalizes exposure to the latest technologies to compete globally and to capture a share of global software exports.

In 1986 when all state-owned banks were standardizing banking process, there came a need of using UNIX over MS-DOS and which created a puzzle for local vendors to shift towards UNIX based platforms and made India become “Unix country”.

Another important event in mid 80’s was when GE’s chairman Jack Welch visited India in 1989 which led to GE’s technology partnership with India. Till this period policies were able to remove the barriers in IT industry but not completely.

In 1990, Department of Electronics (DoE) introduced the concept of Software Technology Park (STP’s) in India. STP’s were allowed with basic infrastructure, dependable power supply, tax exemptions and also given 100% ownership for the foreign firms. 1990’s development was mainly because of STP’s. MRTP Act was replaced de-facto in 1991 which allowed unbiased trade practices there after.

During this period India saw dramatic changes in heavy investments on higher education and booming privately funding engineering colleges which made India ready with technical manpower resources.

South Indian states saw drastic changes in higher education after 1983, where liberalization made a major impact on privately funded colleges. This created IT clusters to form in and around Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, New Delhi, Mumbai and Calcutta.

A significant break through factor in IT industry development was by Y2K. Indians were already gained expertise in converting mainframes and DOS PC’s into UNIX platform. Y2K created a battle ground for Indian software professionals and which prepared them to compete and show their talent globally.

High investments in higher education and formation of prestigious engineering colleges, policy reforms to allow foreign investments in 1991 enabled for significant growth in development. From just programming and documentation work India emerged to implementation, R&D, out sourcing and diversified itself to hidden depths of IT industry to become a global hub for software and IT enabled services.