Management Decision!

A Really Nice One. Don't Miss the Moral

Once PVNR (PV Narasimha Rao), L.K.Advani and Laloo Prasad Yadav were travelling in an autorickshaw. They met with an accident and all three of them died.

Yama Raja was waiting for this moment at the doorstep of death. He asks PVNR and Advani to go to HEAVEN. But, for Laloo, Yama had already decided that he should be sent to HELL.

Laloo is not at all happy with this decision. He asks Yama as to why this discrimination is being made. All the three of them had served the public. Similarly, all took bribes, all misused public positions, etc. Then why the differential treatment? He felt that there should be a formal test or an objective evaluation before a decision is made; and should not be just based on opinion or pre conceived notions.

Yama agrees to this and asks all the three of them to appear for an English test.

PVNR is asked to spell "INDIA" and he does it correctly.

Advani is asked to spell "ENGLAND" and he too passes.

It is Laloo's turn and he is asked to spell "CZECHOSLOVAKIA".

Laloo protests that he doesn't know English. He says this is not fair and that he was given a tough question and thus forced to fail with false intent.

Yama then agrees to conduct a written test in Hindi (to give another chance assuming that Laloo should at least feel that Hindi would provide an equal platform for all three). PVNR is asked to write "KUTTA BOLA BHOW BHOW". He writes it easily and passes. Advani is asked to write "! BILLY BOLI MYAUN MYAUN". He too passes.

Laloo is asked to write "BANDAR BOLA GURRRRRR....." Tough one. He fails again.

Laloo is extremely unhappy. Having been a student of history (which the other two weren't), he now requested for all the 3 to be subjected to a  test in history Yama says OK but this would be the last chance and that he would not take any more tests. PVNR is asked: "When did India get Independence?". He replied "1947" and passed. Advani is asked "How many people died during the independence struggle? ". He gets nervous. Yama asked him to choose from 3 options: 100,000 or 200,000 or 300,000. Advani catches it and says 200,000 and passes.

It's Laloo's turn now. Yama asks him to give the Name and Address of each of the 200,000 who died in the struggle. Laloo accepts defeat and agrees to go to HELL.

Moral of the story : IF YOUR MANAGEMENT HAS DECIDED TO SCREW YOU, THERE IS NO ESCAPE.

LETTER OF THE EDITOR OF "THE TIMES OF INDIA " TO THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA

I am born and brought up in Mumbai for last fifty eight years. Believe
me, corruption in Maharashtra is worse than that in Bihar . Look at
all the politicians, Sharad Pawar, Chagan Bhujbal, Narayan Rane, Bal
Thackray , Gopinath Munde, Raj Thackray, Vilasrao Deshmukh all are
rolling in money. Vilasrao Deshmukh is one of the worst Chief
ministers I have seen. His only business is to increase the FSI every
other day, make money and send it to Delhi , so Congress can fight
next election. Now the clown has found new way and will increase FSI
for fishermen, so they can build concrete houses right on sea shore.
Next time terrorists can comfortably live in those houses, enjoy the
beauty of the sea and then attack our Mumbai at their will.

Recently, I had to purchase a house in Mumbai. I met about two dozen
builders. Everybody wanted about 30% in black. A common person like me
knows this and with all your intelligence agency & CBI, you and your
finance ministers are not aware of it. Where all the black money goes?
To the underworld, isn't it? Our politicians take help of these
goondas to vacate people by force. I myself was victim of it. If you
have time please come to me, I will tell you everything.

If this has been a land of fools, idiots, then I would not have ever
cared to write to you this letter. Just see the tragedy. On one side
we are reaching moon, people are so intelligent; and on the other
side, you politicians have converted nectar into deadly poison.I am
everything - Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Scheduled Caste, OBC, Muslim
OBC, Christian Scheduled Caste, and Creamy Scheduled Caste; only what
I am not is INDIAN. You politicians have raped every part of Mother
India by your policy of divide and rule.

Take example of our Former President Abdul Kalam. Such an intelligent
person; such a fine human being. But you politician didn't even spare
him and instead choose a worthless lady who had corruption charges and
insignificant local polititian of Jalgaon WHO'S NAME ENTIRE COUNTRY
HAD NOT HEARD BEFORE. Its simple logic your party just wanted a rubber
stamp in the name of president. Imagine SHE IS SUPREME COMMANDER OF
INDIA 'S THREE DEFENCE FORCES. What morale you will expect from our
defence forces? Your party along with opposition joined hands, because
politicians feel they are supreme and there is no place for a good
person.

Dear Mr Prime minister, you are one of the most intelligent person, a
most learned person. Just wake up, be a real SARDAR. First and
foremost, expose all selfish politicians. Ask Swiss banks to give
names of all Indian account holders. Give reins of CBI to independent
agency. Let them find wolves among us. There will be political
upheaval, but that will be better than dance of death which we are
witnessing every day. Just give us ambience where we can work honestly
and without fear. Let there be rule of law. Everything else will be
taken care of.

Choice is yours Mr. Prime Minister. Do you want to be lead by one
person, or you want to lead the nation of 100 Crore people?


Prakash B. Bajaj
Editor Mumbai-Times of India

The 99'club

Once upon a time......there lived a King who.....despite his luxurious lifestyle.....was neither happy nor content. One day, the King came upon a servant who was singing happily while he worked. This fascinated the King; why was he......the Supreme Ruler of the Land..........unhappy and gloomy, while a lowly servant had so much joy.

The King asked the servant, How come you are so happy?"

The man replied, Your Majesty, I am nothing but a servant, but my family and I don't need too much........ ....just a roof over our heads and warm food to fill our tummies."

The king was not satisfied with that reply. Later in the day, he sought the advice of his most trusted advisor. After hearing the King's woes and the servant's story, the advisor said, Your Majesty, I believe that the servant has not been made part of the 99 Club."

The 99 Club? And what exactly is that?" the King inquired.

The advisor replied, "Your Majesty, to truly know what The 99 Club is...........place 99 Gold coins in a bag and leave it at this servant's doorstep."

When the servant saw the bag.......he took it into his house. When he opened the bag, he let out a great shout of joy....... Wow....so many gold coins!

He began to count them. After several counts.....he was at last convinced that there were 99 coins. He wondered, "What could've happened to that last gold coin? Surely, no one would leave 99 coins! "

He looked everywhere he could..... But that last coin was elusive. Finally, exhausted, he decided that he was going to have to work harder than ever to earn that gold coin and complete his collection.

From that day....the servant's life changed. He was overworked, horribly grumpy, and castigated his family for not helping him make that 100th gold coin. He felt so unhappy all the time.... He Stopped singing while he worked.

Witnessing this drastic transformation. ...the King was puzzled. When he sought his adviser's help, The advisor said, Your Majesty, the servant has now officially joined The 99 Club."

He continued, " The 99 Club is a name given to those people who have enough to be happy but are never contented... ....because they're always yearning and striving for that extra 1.......telling themselves: "Let me get that one final thing and then I will be happy for life ."

We too can be happy with very little in our lives....... But the minute we're given something bigger and better...... We need to watch out for our monkey minds ........which may want even more!

We lose our sleep........our happiness... ...we hurt the people around us.......all these as a price for our growing needs and desires.

Enjoy your club membership if you are already a member ! I just resigned from this club ….

An interesting read this morning!!!

Warren BUFFET, please pass on to Youngsters. "I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute" Warren Buffett

Your Browser in five years

Just happened to read this post recently

http://www.pcworld.com/article/199071/your_web_browser_in_five_years.html?tk=rss_news

I believe the browser applications would go a long way than just as mentioned here in the next five years.

Here are some more that could be possible in the coming years

1. Browser Watch: We already have a watch phone (from LG i guess). But a simple electronic strap with connectivity solutions with customized browser can do wonders than just being a watch on your wrist. Of course it would have its limitations, but certainly it would have its space to score as well.

2. Web Assist: With more of Could Computing, SOA, Web Services, Social Media inputting the internet with loads of information, browser assisting to grab the rite information. Know that we have lots of toolbars, sidewiki's etc plugged into the browser, but a real all in all assistant would be real welcome in this space. Rather than doing a mere search or reading a news or tweeting the status, this assistant would be a good companion to be online, stay online and make use of being online.

3. Browser Tagging: An interesting piece to watch for. Your browser need not just stop at showing you pages, it can go further and send you info to the place you are in the format you want. If for some reason your mobile browser cranks, you can start the browser in your machine through a call/sms/tweet and have it scan the web for the info you want and send it to you by sms/IVRS call. You might wonder if this is something a browser should do. But if you have all the tools / assisting entities tagged to your browser wouldn't this be the next logical step for your browser???

cheerz,

Sadagopan.

Three IT Musketeers of this decade

Cloud Computing, Mobile Applications & Tablets

Mobility of computing with professionals more than ever before, availability of innovative products for supporting that cause shall be the IT order in this decade. Most of the innovations, products and applications shall be centered around this for this decade and if possible more than that (but I believe something more shall take center stage in the later half of the decade, would be too early to predict that given that consumers haven't got hold of the latest technovations that predicted for them yet). Its not troo hard to understand that technovations mean technological innovations.

Through cloud computing the industry shall deliver over the air service that requisite individuals or corporates or SMEs can grab and take advantage of. Mobile applications that are standalone or that which make use of the cloud or a combination of both shall be available more in number as we progress through this decade. Tablets which can act as mini computers strong enough to wield cloud & mobile applications that are for office/individual use shall be available in different forms based on different needs. Thus the availability of a public/private infrastructure thats more or less tailor made and to an extent customizable shall provide more decisive power to the consumer in what he wants to suffice his needs of business.

Locally maintained data centers shall be out of fashion while on demand or hosted data centers shall regain market space. Unlike in the past wherein few providers got together in providing data centers and applications, the order of the future would be lot many providers shall come together on a need basis and accordingly serve the needy. There shall be lot many umbrella providers as well who take pre customized sets from existing set of providers and market them to needy business houses or individuals. Thus the layer of implementation and consultancy shall grow. Though this might look like the customer is distanced from the product company, in reality it won't be. Because customers shall be getting to be more aware of which production house provides what product that could be an advantage to the company's business /individuals requirements. Product companies can still maintain their relationship with the customer.

Product companies can now have more inputs from more sectors unlike customer and customer groups, customer implementation groups would also play a major role in cloud implementation. The range of solutions shall vary based on these inputs. Incidentally there will be limited products that are of one size fits all thing. Instead there would be a variety of size offerings from product company's that could be altered or used as it is by implementation partners.

Another significant thing to note would be whoever gets to know the business info earlier shall be in a position to build a product on that. The earlier design cycles for product development maintained by huge corporate houses shall be altered by this. Companies have to get the product as early as possible when the requirements are found out. Digging out for requirements shall be passe and that customers shall be more knowledgeable in asking for requirements and if companies don't oblige then there would be others to do that. Hence sooner the better.

The cloud shall remain heterogeneous with different applications talking to several different platforms owned by different vendors. Stability and reliability of open source communities shall be tested to the fullest and that there would lot more freelancers in that category whose services corporates, SMEs and individuals shall take advantage of. There is a necessity for Implementation communities to share their knowledge more in this decade which shall eventually happen even if they didn't want to through lot many freelancers. In this decade lot many IT SMEs shall see their light through personal or VC fundings. VC fudnings shall become more diverse and precise in nature during this decade with respect to IT investments.

signing off for now...

cheerz,

Sadagopan.

Cloud Computing (lateral thinking) contd...

Cloud computing will do to businesses what java & linux had done for open source. It will open the gates of a new world that not many had ventured into. And those who had ventured into it haven't seen the best or most of it. Its an untrodden forest if I may call it. Cloud computing shall redefine several business models and there could also be several new business models that could computing can throw open to. Nobody imagined a java based mobile application the day when when java was unleashed to the world. As and when more and more people got to know java, they looked at it in different different perspectives and took it to places it hasn't been dreamed of. And today we have a linux based mobile OS on top which there could java based applications all of which are from open source.  In similar way, Cloud computing shall go places and I wouldn't say "before settling down" because I don't see any place where things like java and cloud computing can settle. Its a constant endeavor in redefining itself.

Cloud computing as I see it shall be embraced by SME's more in the initial stage and by their ability to pace up and adapt more quicker than corporations shall be the guiding force for future evolutions. Interoperability shall be the key for could computing. More and more office, social and communication tools shall emerge (though they could be called by the existing familiar names for relevance sake) which shall inter operate in the cloud thereby reducing the IT infrastructure for individuals and companies altogether. In early days when transport system evolved people used more of their own personal transport facilities. But as and when need arose, public transport system had evolved and had been there to serve the needy. Likewise, when IT had emerged as desktops, it was consumed on need based by individuals and corporates, SMEs. Now it had reached a point wherein most of this IT infrastructure can be made public thereby reducing the burden on individuals & corporates. Business would now have the flexibility of not carrying the data center load for running their businesses. Instead they could source it from an vendor and have their or vendor(s) cloud for managing the software part of their business. This would enable them to focus on their core competency without the loss of technology. And technologies could flourish without the aberration of affecting businesses in real time.

Corporates are looking to have the early mover advantage by moving or up taking could services or providing them. But instead as always it had been, consumer interest will be the driving force of what a business would approach to and shall remain that way. Since many couldn't predict consumer behavior in this spot, people having better knowledge of it shall thrive in it, rest shall thrive based on trial-error funda. Consumers exposure to cloud computing had been limited in one context and considerable in one context. If you look at web based social networking & communication consumer awareness to what they want is remarkable in the cloud computing space. But when it comes to B2B/B2C, their exposure had been limited to few like banking, auctioning, education, etc its limited. But this limitation is shrinking fast as the consumer will be experiencing more and more exposure to these in coming days. Given that exposure, whoever gets to understand it shall be leading the change in cloud computing.

cheerz,

Sadagopan.