Data Conversion

These are really tough times for US and the world in general. Other parts of the world are not impacted so severly as US since they had not much to loose. US economy has lost few million jobs, hundreds of thousands of businesses, Trillion's of dollars from stock market and above all the basic faith and the American Dream. I think we can blame no one but just us.

If you have a yes man working for you, one of you is redundant. It’s not the big that eat smal, it’s the fast that eat the slow. Being responsible sometimes means pissing pissing off. Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.

After four days of being enclosed in a conference/training room, debating on merits of planning, strategies and roadmaps, Architectures, Enterprises, Enterprise Architectures, and the meaning of life in General with a group of EAs from organizations in Toronto, moderated by a British trainer, I qualify to be a "TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect"….and still

In one of my avtars as a columnist for Express Computers' I had written a column on Pre-sales in software service organizations (Re: “Pre-sales support is a necessary evil"). Though it has been nearly two years since it was published, I continue to receive comments on the article, perhaps because of the relevance of the topic. I

Here is an intersting article from CIO magazine that talks about how Indian IT Services companies are seeking U.S. Staff. The author says "In the 1990s, Japanese carmakers including Honda, Nissan and Toyota rapidly added American employees to their workforce. Now Indian IT services companies are following suit in order to hire top talent

The jobs in the "Workforce Boredom Index" ranked as follows - (on a scale of 10): 1 - Administrative/secretarial 10 2 - Manufacturing 8.1 3 - Sales 7.8 4 - Marketing/advertising 7.7 5 - IT/telecommunications 7.5 6 - Science research/development 7.3 7 - Media 7.1 8 - Law 6.9 8 - Engineering 6.9 10 - Banking/finance 6.6 10 - Human resources 6.6 12 - Accountancy 6.3 13 - Hospitality/travel 5.3 14 - Healthcare

The four headed CRM monster In my earlier blogticle I explained the term Internet as a monster...In this blog I will try to explain CRM as a monster with four heads and each head serving a very distinct purpose. But, before we do that let us try to understand what the heck is CRM? CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. I believe it is self explainatory but just to put some more visible

I want to be a CEO. Many times I have wondered what it will take, for me to become a CEO of a midsize to a large corporation. Why? Well one reason is quite obvious; an average CEO makes more money… how much? On an average 500 times more than the lowest paid worker in an organization. So if the average salary of a lowest paid worker in an organization is $20,000/-, average salary of a CEO would be

Lovely article in the New York Times business section on Sunday. Rite-Solutions, a software company, has built an internal marketplace to allow everyone in the company to invest in good ideas. At Rite-Solutions,

500 words. That's all I'm giving myself to make my point. Here it is: constraints can be your friend. Limits on time, money, people, resources can channel your creative energy, drive innovation and focus. The seed: I've been listening to podcasts about entrepreneurship (Venture Voice, Entrepreneurial