Bangladesh Corporate Blog

Lionel Messi and scoring goals with your CV

noreply@blogger.com (Shehzaad Shams) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:41:00 +0000

Imagine if Lionel Messi will ever have the misfortune to apply for a job through bdjobs.com what would be key strength of this CV? If you and I are singing from the same hymn sheet then we are right to say that it will be number of goals that he has scored throughout his career as the world’s best footballer. Same goes for your CV too. The more CVs I receive and get asked by people I know for a quick glance makes me want to reiterate the fact that what you have achieved in your previous work experiences is more important than what you have actually done, the processes you have followed to achieve those results. In other words, results in a CV stand out than mere blabbering about processes and description of your role. Coming back to Messi, may be it is of less importance how many games he appeared in or may be how many times he helped setup a goal which got scored by his teammates in Barcelona or Argentina. Even less important would be how many times Messi appeared in the...

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Talent Haat

noreply@blogger.com (Sabih Ahmed) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:26:00 +0000

Where's my haat? Thanks to my dad's overly hopping career (unlike the majority who's reading this) I've had the privilege to experience what the gram bangla'r haat is, first hand. From the Sunday haats in my village home to other weekly haats in various towns across Bangladesh, they have always been appealing in their own ways. Its a must visit for all who cherishes the famed picturesque Bangladesh. Since that day is not far when we might actually have to re-live the haat experience through word of mouth alone. But I am not a policymaker nor am I the golden son of the soil who stands up to a "haat bachao" movement. If anything, I am the geek who resorts to a blogging platform and power of words to use haats to get reader's attention to my demeaning diary. To us, the masses... the aspiration to go digital by 2021 was an ambitious dream by the Government. But a good dream, indeed. I mean at least through that our policymakers and citizens could at least go to...

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Happy new year of customisation dear customers!

noreply@blogger.com (Shehzaad Shams) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:55:00 +0000

A very happy, prosperous, fruitful and personalised new year for you dear readers! Yes, did you notice that? It is all going to be about personalisation and customisation of your choices as a consumer, that is what I predict and sincerely hope for 2012. If the Times magazine can dedicate the cover page for the person of the year to the 'Protester', what holds us back from claiming business products and services exactly the way we want them to be? Remember technology is bringing down barriers and mobile phones are small devices with big powers in our hands, so don't be shy to consume a product or service from a business in Bangladesh the way it suits you, your family and your needs. Hell with economies of scale, if I am going to spend my money on your product and services, I very well demand it to be as per my name on it, to suit my moods and needs - on demand ! Otherwise, I am just a click away to tell the whole world what your business is truly is all about. Happy new...

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How to Globalize your Market - Guest blog by Carolyn Knight

noreply@blogger.com (Shehzaad Shams) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:53:00 +0000

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Can you select all (CTRL+A) to be a Bangladeshi adult?

noreply@blogger.com (Shehzaad Shams) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:20:00 +0000

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Jolkona - how micro-donations can lead to macro impacts

noreply@blogger.com (Shehzaad Shams) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:36:00 +0000

In a country where we have 26,000+ NGOs, it is always expected that innovative solutions to alleviating poverty will come from within the country first rather than only from foreign aid, foreign know-how and foreign goodwill. If necessity is the mother of all inventions, then it has really produced inventions such as micro-credit and luminaries like Dr. Yunus and Sir Abed. While it is appreciated what esteemed individuals like these have contributed to the world and to the fight against poverty, let us also look around and see what a relatively younger generation, with less grey hair than Yunus-Abed, is doing in relation to fundraising, poverty alleviation and technology. Jolkona Foundation is such an organisation which I have been following for a while now. Assuming you have checked out what they are all about, let me delve straight into my thoughts about their venture. The Bangla link With due respect to the globalised team they have, we can take pride in the...

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Dhaka Tweetup and Bloggers Meetup Featuring Mark Hillary with ITC and BASIS

noreply@blogger.com (Asif Anwar) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:53:00 +0000

Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) and International Trade Centre (ITC) jointly organizing the first ever Tweetup for bloggers, microbloggers, and tweeters in Bangladesh featuring Mark Hillary. This might turn out to be a great event for all bloggers and tweeters in Bangladesh. About Mark Hillary Mark Hillary is a British Blogger running his IT Research Company in São Paulo, Brazil. Being a part of the generation when Brazil was a developing country, he has been widely experienced in technology, outsourcing, and globalization. He blogs for Reuters and the Huffington Post from UK. Mark has authored a new book on Twitter Features Interviews, which includes case studies that includes many social media elites - including David Cameron, the British Prime Minister. He is shortlisted as the "Blogger of the year" by Computer Weekly, UK's leading technology magazine. However, the results for...

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What else to do in a Barista in Dhaka?

noreply@blogger.com (Shehzaad Shams) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:45:00 +0000

Pretty much like aggressively growing mushrooms, I was not surprised to see Barista coffee shops in happening locations in Dhaka. Having walked into the shops in Uttara and Gulshan on two different occasions, it reminded me of my good old days of under-graduate studies in Delhi, India, when hanging out in Baristas with my yaars during 2000-2003 was a cool thing to do. Other than the great coffee experience and checking out coffee lovers of the fairer sex, there were also that acoustic guitar waiting patiently round the corner for a gentle strum, board-games such as chess and Scrabble for people to play and pass away their time sipping over great blends of coffee. I wonder why I only found guitars in the Barista outlets in Dhaka. There were no board games made available. Is it because that the Barista franchisers think that the Bangladeshi customers should only be limited to doing a karaoke-harikiri of themselves at their premises and limit the damages? Or is it because they are...

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Why Mahfuz Anam's job is easy?

noreply@blogger.com (Shehzaad Shams) — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:15:00 +0000

In a bid to encourage me to learn better English, my late grandfather used to urge me to read the Daily Star on a regular basis from when I was as young as 15. So having read the leading English daily of Bangladesh for an ardent 17 years, I have now realised that the job of the editor Mr. Mahfuz Anam has been very easy – almost tantamount to a walk in the park (Ramna, Chandrima etc.). A few hypotheses to support my assumptions are here. Use of copy-paste, find-replace I am sure the Daily Star editor makes use of these computer functions since their establishment in 1991. It seems that nothing much have changed to report differently regarding the following issues from 1991 till 2011. So what Mahfuz Sir does is simply have a cycle of these stories to appear on his prestigious daily on a programmed basis, changing the names of actor involved, dates, locations as they happen– Political accusations and counter accusations by Bangladeshi polishitians*, Allegations ...

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Four 'how cow' business tips for this Eid

noreply@blogger.com (Shehzaad Shams) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:38:00 +0000

Eid Mubarak! Now that the major part of day’s Qurbani related activities are done- it is time to reflect on a few ‘how cow’ business tips which could have been really interesting to realise as a run up to Eid ul Azha –as it is celebrated in Bangladesh. #1 Let it not go to waste In my opinion, waste management, environmental and recycling services should be next big business in Bangladesh where to both make money and preserve the nature at the same time. Having a few trips around Dhaka in a few cattle markets and noticing the immeasurable shit being literally wasted – both at the ‘haat’ premises and during the walking from the ‘haat’ to home – is really a big waste. Since all the ‘haats’ being built as a run up to Eid ul Azha are make-shifts, little planning could have made sure to have some sort of a raised platform to keep the cattle to safely dispose cattle waste, accumulate them or drain them to a storage for turning into compost or natural fertiliser, bio-fuel etc. Cows...

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Nine trends to prove that we are emerging

noreply@blogger.com (Shehzaad Shams) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:54:00 +0000

Immediately after returning to Dhaka for a short visit this time, I was welcome by a surprisingly blasphemous joke from none other than my seventy year old nani about the ongoing progress around. She said proudly and with conviction that it was on the newspapers recently that a Christian foreigner had recently converted to the most common religious belief in Bangladesh. I honestly didn’t see what the big deal in the comment was – so I asked still being intrigued. Nani said that the convert was convinced of the omnipresence of the God almighty in Bangladesh as he, along with many government ministers, are confirmed that things here are still in place and going on somewhat smoothly just because its Him who he is running this country – not political parties, the police or the military. Jokes aside, I became conscious of the city where I was born and grew up in and spotted nine trends in Dhaka to prove or be proud that we are indeed coming up as an emerging force. #1. We have...

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Oh! (my God) Calcutta

noreply@blogger.com (Shehzaad Shams) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:10:00 +0000

Upon returning to Dhaka after nearly three years, I didn’t make any delay to visit one of the supposedly hip and happening food outlets in town – Oh! Calcutta at Banani Road 11. I have been hearing tales of movers and shakers visiting the premises, great reviews about food quality while horror stories about prices though. So it was kind of on top of my list of things to visit during this trip of mine. All thanks to Rumi for the company. Coming straight to the point – I do think the food was awesome and the prices were a bit on the awful side. For apparently two oversized khadoks (me and Rumi) I think it was justified to order Murshidabadi Murg, cauliflower in mustard paste, king prawns malai curry, bhaja moong dal, rice, doi, bhapa shondesh and lassi! First some observations about the ambience – while I did like the roof and the window panes resembling the Victorian buildings in Kolkata, I think the interior cried for some more Calcutta flavour. Installing a real Tanga at the...

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Inflation of MBAs

noreply@blogger.com (Sabih Ahmed) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:56:00 +0000

I am just a BBA graduate. With a not so mentionable CGPA. Just had to state the facts before I get into fiction mode... Flipping through the weekend newspapers (The Daily Star, Banik Barta and Shomokal for the record), my lazy sleepy eyes roamed across the pages looking for something different, a not so news material. I tend to forget at times, the dramatization that exists in our news presentation in general and how we usually have to downplay the actual publication to get a closer estimate of whats actual. Thanks to loyalty, stupidity or being a 3rd generation service holder... I've been sticking around the same job for a little over last four years. Which in turn makes me not too keen on the job circulars or employment notices in the dailies, let alone bdjobs.com. However, today was different... I was plain bored and couldn't find anything better than to check out whats in offer in the markets!!!! Who knew, I was in for a ride... Unlike most of my fellow mates out of...

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To have a website or a Facebook page?

noreply@blogger.com (Shehzaad Shams) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:18:00 +0000

An interesting development is taking place when your brand is reviewing its online presence – whether to have a website only or have a website and a Facebook page or only a Facebook page or may be none? Keeping in view the time consumers are spending online and especially in social networks many brands have started preferring their pages on Facebook as an invite to potential customers to go online and know more. So for example even if Nokia has its global websites, for certain promotions and targeted activities – they may ask customers to go visit www.facebook.com/nokiarocks . While it all sounds very much in vogue to do something like that but make sure you take care of the following four points before jumping into the band wagon. 1. What does your business really need? Depending on the industry your business belongs to, the size and vision you have, you might not require an online presence in the first place, but true that the number of such businesses may be very few. So...

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What's in a name? Part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Shehzaad Shams) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:39:00 +0000

Statutory Warning - All names used in this blogpost are purely fictional and are result of the blogger's fertile but idle brain. Any similarity or resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental and out of pure luck. It is not true that only women change their names in Bangladesh when they get married and append their husbands' surnames. In some instances, some men also do change their names when they get married - not to their wives - but to their professions in some cases. They become so infatuated with their profession that they not only reflect the change in their names as surnames but as forenames - above and before everything they are eventually called as. It is interesting how military ranks of people working in the armed forces become a part of their names and gets written almost everywhere - visiting cards, name plates even on epitaphs. So Mr. Robiul Islam becomes Major Robiul Islam and carries the designation as part of his name...

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The Baffling Buffet Effect

noreply@blogger.com (Shehzaad Shams) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:18:00 +0000

How do you react in a buffet? What do you feel like doing when your sense of smell and sight are allured or literally challenged with a vast array of gastronomic delights within the easy reach of your hands and mouth? Think about it as I share my own experiences. Just last night I went for a dinner with a few friends and my wife to celebrate her birthday at Masala Zone, an Indian restaurant at Covent Garden. Among the wide range of options, pretty much certainly, we opted for a ‘grand chicken thali’ and a ‘prawn thali’. For those not aware with the concept of ‘thali’ – it is a combination of different food items served in small steel bowls on a big tray or ‘thali’ as it is termed in Hindi. I would confess that I eat first with my eyes – so I prefer to see a sizeable quantity of food on my plate to stir up my appetite. So the usually small size of items presented on thali doesn’t enlighten me readily and I always become skeptic at first whether it would be enough to fill me up....

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Because We Can, We Must

noreply@blogger.com (Sabih Ahmed) — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:56:00 +0000

Around half a century back Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream, where he envisioned a world (America) free of racial discrimination and inequality once and for all. He didn't however live to see his dream turn to reality (I wonder whether we have?). But when Barack Obama said, "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek" the words of Luther King echoed across the American people. For good or for bad they (Americans) had leaders who shared the same dream, 50 years apart!!! If we look further back, there is the great Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) who believed in ahimsa (total non-violence) and preached, "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." He was a living legend indeed. In fact Martin Luther King, Jr. himself had once said, "Christ gave us the goals and Mahatma Gandhi the tactics." Such is the acceptance of this Brahmachari that even at...

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Slogans in Advertising!

noreply@blogger.com (Muntasir Tahmeed) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:40:00 +0000

When well used and off repeated; a slogan can become a part of the fabric of a brand.But , how do You build a strong connection between slogan and brand?It's not simply a matter of tagging a slogan onto an ad,because an ad with a slogan isn't necessarily more effective than an ad without one.A slogan that is merely an end line or sign off to an ad; is unlikely to make a contribution to the success of the brand.The creative must integrate the brand and the slogan in such a way that the slogan can strengthen branding,or have some positive effect. Lets think about Bangladeshi Advertising arena . As we all know, Bangladeshi ad industry is mostly dominated by Mobile operator companies.so first have a quick recap of those particular ads. ....kache thakun..Stay Closer ; current market leader GP has got this slogan and probably most of their creative materials , be it TVCs, be it Printing Campaigns; have an attachment to this motto or slogan.Think , say for example, duniya kapano 30...

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Honey and The Money

noreply@blogger.com (Sabih Ahmed) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:19:00 +0000

50 Cent made the autobiographical Get Rich of Die Tryin' based on his rather troubled life (try getting shot nine times and survive to make a movie on it). Fortunately for a commoner, life is usually devoid of such extremities. We aspire and strive for what most want us to be and at times (very sporadically though) fantasize what we could have been. In this crude capitalist world of ours, we are constantly faced with questions that often end with answers that necessarily aren't what we signed up for. Take career for example... for a man who wasn't born an Arab Sheikh or a Mogul Emperor, making something out of thyself has been a top priority ever since I developed a sense of life. As opposed to some who can just snore thinking life happens to you while you are busy making other plans, the question I've faced all my life is what? by when? instead of a more vague and casual let's see. The core philosophy during the schooling years it...

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I thought I was starting to love QUBEE

noreply@blogger.com (Saeed Rouf) — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:14:00 +0000

Qubee is cutting corners! When I got connected to Qubee last year I was surprised how you can avail good internet service with low prices. I could play games online with friends living in Australia & the US. Qubee really meant business. The downloads would be done before I could think of others stuffs to download! I started thinking, hmm… this could be the dawn of quality-internet-service in Bangladesh, after all. But guess what?... I was wrong, very wrong. Before Qubee was flooded with hifi-hispeed-wireless internet loving customers who’d have the privilege to have an active internet connection almost anywhere in Dhaka and in most of Chittagong, it was actually going pretty good. However, now that it has more customers than it can accommodate in their fancy-sophisticated servers, it has started to cut corners. Let me give you an example. I was using one of Qubee’s 512kbps unlimited internet connection (I honestly don’t understand the gravity of that since I’m not one of those...

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Having the PA factor

noreply@blogger.com (Shehzaad Shams) — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:20:00 +0000

I am not sure if there exists any empirical human resource research on the skills and expertise of PAs (Personal Assistants) to the company chiefs in multinational organisations in Bangladesh or elsewhere. If there were any, I would have tried to find out if my assumptions regarding the skill-set of PAs are correct or not. Due to popular beliefs or simple stereotypes of this being a clerical job, hardly any job seeker actively pursues the job of a personal assistant or prefers to keep this option lower in the priority list. Some also assume that this job is exclusively for female job seekers only and in a lot of instances, companies actively look out for all female applicants for such a position to aid the day to day work schedule of the head of the organisation. I believe very few PAs realise before they take up the job what kind of exposures they will get in the course of the assignment and the opportunities to develop their professional skills. PAs seem to be the most privileged...

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My Bengal of Gold

noreply@blogger.com (Sabih Ahmed) — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:54:00 +0000

Just in case you were wondering, the title is from the famous song by Tagore "Aamar Shonar Bangla". Aside from being the national anthem of Bangladesh, the song is one of the better ones out there encapsulating the true beauty of Bengal. Representing the branding/communications fraternity of Bangladesh, it gives me no pleasure knowing we have achieved almost "zero growth" in increasing the value of "Brand Bangladesh". While different bodies have been mobilized and some been rather proactive (i.e. Bangladesh Brand Forum) to make amends, the end-results are yet to materialize (or far from being sufficient). The government on its part, has done little to make any sizable impact except coining words like "Digital Bangladesh" (which is more fallacy than facts) as well as incorporating "Beautiful Bangladesh" (a stop-gap measure that none seem to approve of). The BPC (Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation) has been a playing catch-up ever since its inception. Which makes it not surprising that...

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What do you exactly do in one line?

noreply@blogger.com (Shehzaad Shams) — Sun, 01 May 2011 21:26:00 +0000

শিক্ষিকা: পিন্টু তোমার আম্মু আব্বু কি করে বল তো?পিন্টু: আমার আব্বু আম্মু? উমমম......আমার আম্মু বাসায় কাজ করে আর আমার আব্বু চানাচুর বিক্রি করে... Teacher: Pintu tomar ammu abbu ki kore bolo to?Pintu: amar abbu ammu? Ummm…amar ammu bashay kaj kore ar amar abbu chanachur bikri kore… One might wonder that Pintu might be an underprivileged young school boy whose mother must be working as a maid from house to house in the affluent neighbourhoods in Dhaka and whose father must be trying hard to meet his ends by selling crisps and light-bites under the scorching sun in Dhaka city. Where in reality, Pintu’s mom works as a full time housewife taking care of Pintu and his father actually works in Pran Foods in Bangladesh which produces, among other things, tasty and very popular chanachur. Interesting perspectives from a child on how simplicity is applied to describe job descriptions- which might be often misleading and funny too. Can you say in one line what you do? I mean away from your...

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Digital Bangladesh - Get the crowd involved through crowdmaps

noreply@blogger.com (Shehzaad Shams) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:02:00 +0000

Initiatives related with Digital Bangladesh will be truly successful when UNDP in Bangladesh and the Access to Information Programme at the Prime Minister’s Office start relying more on the ‘crowd’ for feedback and service improvement requests across a variety of services on offer such as information, market price, human rights etc. To this extent, I share my inclination towards ‘crowdmaps’ – which is open source, integrated with a range of technology channels such as phone, Twitter, emails, SMS, web, which is free or at minimal cost, customisable, supports a variety of languages and truly inclusive by involving the ultimate beneficiaries in the full value chain process. ‘Crowdmap’ is based on the ‘ushahidi’ platform, the Kenya based technology for development start up which was first used during the post-election violence in Kenya in 2007. Since then, it has been used increasingly after the earthquakes in Haiti, New Zealand, Japan, during the crisis in Egypt, Libya etc. Other...

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Ipadio - connecting telephony to the internet, without accessing internet

noreply@blogger.com (Shehzaad Shams) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:37:00 +0000

One of the technologies I have been simply in love with is ‘ipadio’ at www.ipadio.com. When I met these guys at a technology conference in London last year, I knew immediately that this is it, the simplicity of the technology and its potential to reach to the last mile simply made me an ardent advocate. If you check out the website, you will see that it just connects simple telephony to the internet – means you only need a landline or a mobile phone to connect to the internet, by leaving an audio message. That’s it. During my forming years of working at Swisscontact Katalyst, I learnt a lot about how ICT is being used by rural farmers and small businesses in Bangladesh. Amidst all the fanfare and festivity about the power of ICT in Bangladesh, the reliance on internet and the need to access a desktop computer in a village or union parishad, provided that electricity is intact – always posed significant challenge till now – in implementing seamless access to information. I wonder in a...

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