The news media is going to be history ....
The initial phase of Media was reporting News
Then it transformed to reporting news Live
Then it quantum-jumped to creating news
Now it shall be going back to "Consolidating news"
The chief reason behind this claim is LALU prasad's BLOG ...
I shall wait the next few minutes for this thought to actually sink into your mind (of Mr.laloo prasad yadav sitting in front of the computer and asking "Arrey Babua Yeh kya Hui Gava")
Now, let me explain the funda ... Blogging as the term would imply has provided access for celebrities such as the Khans, Bachhans and the Lalu's to actually showcase their part of the world to us; and the best part about such a medium is that these celebrities would have total control over the story and can easily employ amazing spin-doctors to synthesize a jesus-is-born version whenever they want it...
Considering the Impact on the News Media, this would dry up the vast reservoir for News Channels, who until yesterday thought of a "Celebrity-Bashing per day for 365 days" concept as the Mona-lisa of reporting;
just to add to their active discomfort their customers (prime TRP boosting junta) would actually log onto the internet and get their fair share of bollywood & politi-wood gossip and latest raving pics (which right now they discover can also be put up as screen-savers, much akin to the various posters hanging on their walls) and the only strategy they can do to counter this decline in their revenues would be to wait for the next india-pakistan Battle; and until then they should be happy with reporting "John Abraham has a new girl-friend online" kinda news....
And as Lalu puts his final key-strokes to his next article; little would he realize that this in-fact would be the final Strokes of Indian News Media (as we know it)
IT BUG BITES LALU (Economic Times)
13 June 2008
12 June 2008
News at the Top Companies
It's live playing cards in action, when one topples over the rest just follow in quick succession ....
I am really not so sure of what to imply that.. first it was Microsoft India and then later it was Oracle; in fact i had couple of news from HP that things were a bit down-ward too in the future; it just looks like all of the companies have bitten the Asian Flu.
Somehow for the past few days, i have been hearing only news of bad omen, even the stock markets no matter how deep they are sinking are just crossing newer thresholds of bottom-stocks.... suddenly it just sends deep shivers down the throat of a yet-to-be-placed MBA grad
Couple of Stories which you can read as get-well-soon stories for the indian corporate grounds
Oracle top India Execs exit
Whats up with Microsoft (remember this one is the development center and not the sales division.. or i hope not)
Talking about cards, i totally recommend watching of "21"
I am really not so sure of what to imply that.. first it was Microsoft India and then later it was Oracle; in fact i had couple of news from HP that things were a bit down-ward too in the future; it just looks like all of the companies have bitten the Asian Flu.
Somehow for the past few days, i have been hearing only news of bad omen, even the stock markets no matter how deep they are sinking are just crossing newer thresholds of bottom-stocks.... suddenly it just sends deep shivers down the throat of a yet-to-be-placed MBA grad
Couple of Stories which you can read as get-well-soon stories for the indian corporate grounds
Oracle top India Execs exit
Whats up with Microsoft (remember this one is the development center and not the sales division.. or i hope not)
Talking about cards, i totally recommend watching of "21"
11 June 2008
Change Management
5 Steps for a Manager to counter poor quarterly results :
1) Reach Down below
2) Noooo.. I meant below your seat
3) If you see/feel a RED SHINY BUTTON, then press it damn hard
4) yell "CHANGE MANAGEMENT"
5) Go back to sleep
Listed among the top 30 Management jargons which can be reeled off during any opportune moment, "Change Management" is the next hottest thing after "KHALI - pehelwan, bhudhiwan & bhagwan"
In the evolutionary process of key words i suppose Change Management(CM) would be considered as the great grandson of "centralization", nephew of "de-centralization" and half-brother of "Mergers & Aquisition".. in fact it took IBM to connote an evil-jedi other half of Change Management which exists in the parallel universe of IT (IT- the evolutionary process of this management term itself can be detailed after much chutzpah)
Almost every other Management course/chapter/page has a small offering dedicated to CM and case studies of prominent business entities such as Wall-mart, Microsoft, South-west Airlines, Hersheys and even our local pan-baniya have registered their process as trade-marked CM.
But, the question we must ask ..... Does it hold any GAS ?
During my 3 years of work-experience at prominent software industry which is labelled as the pinnacles of CM i rarely found an example where people actually looked joined together to implement any prescribed process or technology for CM. In fact, there was always open-resistance to even the word CM, which was viewed as much a extra-burden as would VAT to our shop-keepers (they would always shift the burden on the other person).
And if this is the situation in a IT firm, then imagine automobile work-shops, or the textile industry or even the pristine oil-gas firms (whose processes are as old as the Crude they extract).
In fact, the more i read about CM the more examples i have found of it's failures (Primarily due to human incompetence to adapt rather than technological failures) than successful implementation.
Judgement :
CM according to ME is nothing more than plain survival instincts
of course, the only Change management worth it's effort would be "CHANGE" management
p.s: The last joked is based upon my senior's comments
1) Reach Down below
2) Noooo.. I meant below your seat
3) If you see/feel a RED SHINY BUTTON, then press it damn hard
4) yell "CHANGE MANAGEMENT"
5) Go back to sleep
Listed among the top 30 Management jargons which can be reeled off during any opportune moment, "Change Management" is the next hottest thing after "KHALI - pehelwan, bhudhiwan & bhagwan"
In the evolutionary process of key words i suppose Change Management(CM) would be considered as the great grandson of "centralization", nephew of "de-centralization" and half-brother of "Mergers & Aquisition".. in fact it took IBM to connote an evil-jedi other half of Change Management which exists in the parallel universe of IT (IT- the evolutionary process of this management term itself can be detailed after much chutzpah)
Almost every other Management course/chapter/page has a small offering dedicated to CM and case studies of prominent business entities such as Wall-mart, Microsoft, South-west Airlines, Hersheys and even our local pan-baniya have registered their process as trade-marked CM.
But, the question we must ask ..... Does it hold any GAS ?
During my 3 years of work-experience at prominent software industry which is labelled as the pinnacles of CM i rarely found an example where people actually looked joined together to implement any prescribed process or technology for CM. In fact, there was always open-resistance to even the word CM, which was viewed as much a extra-burden as would VAT to our shop-keepers (they would always shift the burden on the other person).
And if this is the situation in a IT firm, then imagine automobile work-shops, or the textile industry or even the pristine oil-gas firms (whose processes are as old as the Crude they extract).
In fact, the more i read about CM the more examples i have found of it's failures (Primarily due to human incompetence to adapt rather than technological failures) than successful implementation.
Judgement :
CM according to ME is nothing more than plain survival instincts
of course, the only Change management worth it's effort would be "CHANGE" management
p.s: The last joked is based upon my senior's comments
09 June 2008
07 June 2008
It's all about Money.....Honey
"Ingenuity is perhaps the name of the game, but what is more important is sustaining momentum"
During our first year course at SPJIMR, there was a sudden announcement of a "Practical Workshop"; just before i assume that it was just another run-of-the-mill stuff such as a guest-lecture or something.. the following instructions followed
Students are requested to take not more than Rs 50/- and access to mobile phones would be restricted; you would have to dedicate an entire day for the work-shop
Things were getting interesting. When we all assembled at 3 PM, the task was laid out as follows
During our first year course at SPJIMR, there was a sudden announcement of a "Practical Workshop"; just before i assume that it was just another run-of-the-mill stuff such as a guest-lecture or something.. the following instructions followed
Students are requested to take not more than Rs 50/- and access to mobile phones would be restricted; you would have to dedicate an entire day for the work-shop
Things were getting interesting. When we all assembled at 3 PM, the task was laid out as follows
GO OUT AND EARN MONEY..... (be back by 10 pm)
Crisp as a 500 Rupee note, we all got up and left the campus (after enduring the initial shock)... not knowing what to do and with a zest to explore Mumbai i thought of Plan A
PLAN A : Go over to Gateway of India, rent a Camera and try to earn money.
Almost all my other plans were replete with "Go to
Settling with my friends we decided to go over to MacDonald to see if we can get some job for 5 Hours... only to return back after speaking to the head of MacDonald in Mumbai who mentioned the two facts (Sunday and no-temporary employment).
Just as we were to lose hope, i just saw a huge building which housed many training institutes.... The three of us decided to pitch in individually, but just as we were destined all of us ended in front of the one last company in which we had not been rejected by "STG" which offers red-hat Linux training.
Maybe it was utter desperation or pure conviction that showed in our eyes, as i made a pitch of technical competence (I myself was a red-hat certified) the manager relented and gave us an entire batch to train on both technical and skill-building.
The rest of the day was perhaps a bit too magical, we started off with a half hour long session but instead kept an entire class in rapture for 2 hours (even the manager and their instructor joined in on the fun)
Of course we also did earn our tution fee.. but i guess nothing really encompasses the experience we had interacting with all these students and making ourselves seem worthwhile to others.
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