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India's Republic Day - Finnair Style

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:47:00 +0000

Simply loved the "Bollywood Style" surprise that the passenger of FinnAir bound from Helsinki to New Delhi experienced on 26th Jan, 12 - A Bollywood jig by a foreign crew, all dressed in dazzling salwar kameez and traditional Indian attires .....and one of the first comments at Youtube - " If only all communities were so thoughtful of the others, this world would be a better place"..

Great Stuff...I am flying next time Finnair for Sure.....:)

Transactions and Complex Selling: Strong Catalysts of Cloud Computing Growth

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:44:00 +0000

Enterprise software vendors need to challenge themselves to deliver significantly more value if the potential for cloud computing is going to be achieved .

Instead of just going for the low-end, easily customized processes within analytics, CRM, supply chain management, ERP, pricing or service, vendors need to take on the more challenging, complex hard-to-solve problems enterprises have.

As I am completing more research on personas, I’m finding what CIOs really look for in SaaS apps. Flexibility and ease of workflow support, intuitive user interface design without sacrificing functionality, and support for analytics, business intelligence and knowledge management systems integration are all mentioned often.

Nearly all of them also mention that the existing generation SaaS applications on the sell-side, from CRM to order capture and order management aren’t taking on the more challenging areas of their strategies. The result is the CIOs are still relying on legacy, on-premise apps in areas of their companies that are ready for change to SaaS-based applications. Cloud platforms are taking on these more complex, challenging problem areas, yet innovation still lags the needs in the market.

Transactions Are The Fuel of Cloud Infrastructure Growth

CIOs are focusing on how to exceed the expectations of their internal customers at the workflow and interface level while infusing SaaS apps with analytics, business intelligence and knowledge management support. What’s missing is the killer transaction platform layer and transaction-based applications. Gartner’s report, A Workforce Without Humans: Three Ways Technology Will Eliminate Skilled Jobs in the U.S. Through 2020 by Kenneth F. Brant by Johan Jacobs has the following graphic which shows CIO’s estimates of migration to cloud-based IT infrastructure and applications which supports this point.

Source: Maverick Research: A Workforce Without Humans: Three Ways Technology Will Eliminate Skilled Jobs in the U.S. Through 2020 by Kenneth F. Brant by Johan Jacobs

Much of the report is based on the results of Gartner’s 2011 survey of U.S. CIOs. Additional insights from the survey include the following:

Virtualization and cloud computing are the two top-ranked U.S. CIO technology priorities for 2011.
83% of U.S. CIOs estimated that more than half of their transactions would be conducted on a cloud infrastructure by 2020.
79% of the respondents predicted that more than half of their transactions would be completed on applications leased using the SaaS platform by 2020.

For cloud infrastructure platforms and SaaS applications to deliver that level of transaction volume and support, there needs to be a major shift in how enterprise vendors develop software. Making better use of analytics, business intelligence and knowledge in the enterprise is key. Designing applications that make information and knowledge sharing intuitive is critical.

The following figure from the same report cited earlier shows the relationship of technologies to potential business value. Many CRM and sell-side vendors tend to focus on being a substitute or just barely delivering increases in human productivity.

Going after the hard work of optimizing pricing strategies, call centers, making multichannel selling strategies profitable and getting the most out of social networks to make the customer experience exceptional will deliver major gains in productivity. It’s been my experience during the persona interviews that for any SaaS vendor to really excel here they need to get beyond human productivity and make it possible for enterprises to deliver exceptional customer experiences daily.

Creating SaaS applications that take on real complexity earns trust too, which no amount of pure efficiency can compete with.

Source: Maverick Research: A Workforce Without Humans: Three Ways Technology Will Eliminate Skilled Jobs in the U.S. Through 2020 by Kenneth F. Brant by Johan Jacobs

An Example: SaaS in Manufacturing

The following table compares the strategies and systems used in a typical manufacturing company. Enterprise apps vendors for the most part are focused on make-to-stock and assemble-to-order automation and efficiency (SAP ByDesign for example).

As the continuums move from left to right, the process, systems and strategy challenges exponentially increase. As a result there are only a few vendors who can manage the more complex engineer-to-order requirements in manufacturing for example. Transactions there are very small in number, yet orders of magnitude more profitable. This is just an example of many areas in enterprises that need major improvement.

Instead of just focusing on the easy processes and strategies on the left, vendors need to go after the more difficult, complex selling and transaction challenges on the right. This is why CIOs want SaaS applications that are easy to customize from a user interface and workflow standpoint, while at the same time supporting analytics, BI and knowledge management. The goal is to slot them into these more challenging areas of their business and transform their company’s intelligence and expertise into profitable growth.

Bottom line: The true catalyst of cloud computing growth isn’t just SaaS economics; it’s how effectively enterprise software vendors address the very difficult transaction, order management and selling challenges their potential customers face all the time. When that happens, the many optimistic forecasts of cloud adoption in the enterprise will take a step closer to being fulfilled.

Courtesy – Louis Columbus

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India–A Republic

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:02:00 +0000

26th January 1950 is one of the most important days in Indian history as it was on this day the constitution of India came into force and India became a truly sovereign state. As we celebrate our Republic Day would like to share some interesting fact about India

The famous board game, called Chess, was invented in India.
In India's 100,000 years of history, it has never invaded any other country.
India is the 7th largest country in the world, the largest democracy and one of the oldest civilizations.
India was one of the richest countries in the world before the British invasion in 17th century.
The value of "pi" used in mathematics was first calculated by the Indian mathematician Budhayana in 6th century.
India is one of the largest exporter of computer software products. It exports software to over 90 countries.
India is home to the world's largest pilgrimage destination called the Vishnu Temple. The temple is located in the city of Tirupati. About an average of 30,000 people visit this temple donating about $6 million US dollars, everyday.
India originated Yoga about 5,000 years ago.
India has the most number of mosques. It has 300,000 mosques which is much more than the Muslim world.
Christians and Jews have been living in India since 52 A.D. and 200 B.C. respectively.

And for now is the turn of some Unusual facts about India

India has the highest bridge in the world . It is called Bailey Bridge and is located in Ladakh between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayas.
Before 1986, India was the only place in the world where Diamonds could be found.
The world's first University was established in India . The University was established in 700 B.C. at the place of Taxila.
The biggest and the largest employer in the world is Indian Railways which employs over a million people.
India has the highest cricket ground in the world. It is located in the northern state of India called Himachal Pradesh. The cricket ground is 2444 meters above the sea level and was built in 1893.
Most important studies of Mathematics like calculus, trigonometry and algebra were originated in India.
Taj Mahal which is among the seven wonders of the world is in India. Taj Mahal was built over a long period of 11 years.
India has the most number of post offices in the world.

Also a brief Video to Introduce the country where I am born and a proud citizen - India

Happy Republic Day!!!!

Information Courtesy - Fun Facts India

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The load or the “Over”load of Emails….

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:16:00 +0000

The picture tells us much more than the words, and one such picture is below. This show a battle that we take every morning when we switch into the world of information through the button known as the INBOX.

Booommmmmm……We are loaded or rather overloaded with very important or termed as very important mails that make us feel ineffective to manage ourselves. And somehow this inability to effectively manage communication means lost information, and reduced responsiveness. For some its a negative outcomes for both individuals and corporate productivity.
Email is one of the most successful computer application yet devised. However, interestingly, email applications were originally designed for asynchronous communication, but we all know, email has evolved to a point where it is now used for multiple purpose: document delivery and archiving; work task delegation; and task tracking. It is also used for storing personal names and addresses,, for sending reminders, asking for assistance, scheduling appointments, and for handling technical support queries. We use the term email overload to describe the use of email for function that it was not designed for.
And, one more thing it does the best for few people – it just simply takes a very large portion of their actual productive time.
Nick Mehta rightly argues in his article – “4 Reasons that why email overload is our own fault”, that the problems we have with email aren’t about the technology at all — they are about us. So we’d better own up to our core issues, because they’ll follow us no matter which communication medium we use.

1. Loneliness

It’s Saturday morning in your neighborhood, and you’re in line at Starbucks with your family. Why are you checking email on your iPhone?
As much as emails can be annoying, they do make us feel important. Someone wants to talk to us. Remember the Peanuts specials when Charlie Brown would go to his mailbox every day to see if someone sent him a letter?

2. Vanity

Although we’ve all been faced with colleagues who use the “CC” option far too often, are we blameless ourselves?
Perhaps we just want to demonstrate that we’re actually getting things done, or that we are indeed in the know about what’s going on. Whatever the reason, do we consider the effect our message will have on the recipients before thoughtlessly adding to the CC line?

3. Paranoia

And then there’s paranoia.
“I don’t want to be left out.”
“Why was I not copied on that email that I should have known about?”
This aversion to missing out on conversations others are having reinforces our CC addiction.

4. False Productivity

Often, email can be a mindless activity. Answering it gives you quick gratification.
Writing back to people with “thanks” and “great job” is much easier than creating something original from scratch. It’s a way to “get things done” without actually doing anything. This false productivity can be consuming and drain time away from things that actually matter.
But, then we also need to understand on how actually we can handle or battle with tons of mails that we receive daily. I am sharing few simple yet magical practices that I would have loved to put my name on, but I am glad that these practices are coming from someone who easily get over 000’s of mail daily. Yes, you read it correct.
It works for him, and it magically worked for me as my unread mails plummet from over 100’s to less than 5 at any given point of time. So here is the magic.

Color code my inbox automatically. Messages sent just to me show up in red (because someone likely wants a response), messages sent to me and someone else on the To: line are colored green (likely a bit less important), messages for which I am only on the CC: line are colored in blue, and messages for which I am not on the addressee list (because it is a distribution list) are colored in black. This way, I can focus in on messages that are possibly (but not always) the most important first
Make use of macros / quick steps in Outlook. For example, I can respond to a customer complaint and have it logged with the right people in support organization with a single click.
Use “unread” marks as my primary organizer. If I have dealt with a message, it is left as read. If I have not read or dealt with a message, it remains unread. From all of my devices, I then only look at unread messages
I try to clear or minimize my inbox every day no matter what. At the end of a day, there are typically fewer than 10 unread messages (and typically those are heavier messages that are best dealt with after a good night’s sleep)
I do not do any filing of email messages. I just let them accumulate in my inbox, and archive them once a quarter. I use full text searching to find all messages that I need to find, and don’t waste anytime with the filing.
I use Conversation View, so that related messages are all clustered together.
Create a threshold or limit of unread mails. If its 5, 6, 7 or 10 don’t let it go beyond it.

Equally, you can use tools like Xobni that enables effective email management and links to social presence of sender.

Roundup of Cloud Computing Forecasts and Market Estimates, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:31:00 +0000

The latest round of cloud computing forecasts released by Cisco, Deloitte, IDC, Forrester, Gartner, The 451 Group and others show how rapidly cloud computing’s adoption in enterprises is happening. The better forecasts quantify just how and where adoption is and isn’t occurring and why.

Overall, this year’s forecasts have taken into account enterprise constraints more realistically than prior years, yielding a more reasonable set of market estimates. There still is much hype surrounding cloud computing forecasts as can be seen from some of the huge growth rates and market size estimates. With the direction of forecasting by vertical market and process area however, constraints are making the market estimates more realistic.

I’ve summarized the links below for your reference:

According to IDC, by 2015, about 24% of all new business software purchases will be of service-enabled software with SaaS delivery being 13.1% of worldwide software spending. IDC further predicts that 14.4% of applications spending will be SaaS-based in the same time period. Source: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=232239

Mobile SaaS Market will reach $1.2 billion in 2011 and grow to $3.7 billion by 2016, with a five-year compound growth rate (CAGR) of 25.8 percent. The ability to integrate business applications on smartphones, tablets and other wireless devices is predicted to accelerate SaaS adoption in the corporate business environment. Source:http://www.analytics-magazine.org/special-articles/454-corporate-mobile-software-as-a-service-forecast-

The cloud computing marketplace will reach $16.7B in revenue by 2013, according to a new report from the 451 Market Monitor, a market-sizing and forecasting service from The 451 Group. Including the large and well-established software-as-a-service (SaaS) category, cloud computing will grow from revenue of $8.7B 2010 to $16.7B in 2013, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24%. https://451research.com/

The US cloud computing market for medical imagery was at $56.5M in 2010 and is forecast to grow at a Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 27% during 2010-2018. Link: http://www.medicaldevice-network.com/features/featuresnapshot-the-us-cloud-computing-market-for-medical-imaging/

The U.S. Federal Government cloud computing market enters into double-digit growth phase – at about 16% CAGR over the period 2013-2018, with annual federal cloud computing market to hit $10 billion landmark by 2018. Link:http://www.marketresearchmedia.com/2009/05/20/us-federal-cloud-computing-market-forecast-2010-2015/

Forrester forecasts that the global market for cloud computing will grow from $40.7 billion in 2011 to more than $241 billion in 2020. The total size of the public cloud market will grow from $25.5 billion in 2011 to $159.3 billion in 2020. Link to report excerpt is here.

Deloitte is predicting cloud-based applications will replace 2.34% of enterprise IT spending in 2014 rising 14.49% in 2020. The slide below is from an excellent presentation by Deloitte titled Cloud Computing Forecast Change downloadable from this link.

Cisco predicts that Global cloud IP traffic will increase twelvefold over the next 5 years, accounting for more than one-third (34 percent) of total data center traffic by 2015. Source: Cisco Global Cloud Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2010–2015. The following graphic is from the analysis:

Gartner predicts Small & Medium Business (SMB) in the insurance industry will have a higher rate of cloud adoption (34%) compared to their enterprise counterparts (27%). Gartner cites that insurance industry’s opportunity to significant improve core process areas through the use of technology. The following figure from the report, 2011 SMB Versus Enterprise Software Budget Allocation to Annual Subscriptionsindicates the differences in software budget allocation for annual subscriptions by vertical market from the report:

2011 SMB Versus Enterprise Software Budget Allocation to Annual Subscriptions

Gartner is predicting that the cloud system infrastructure (cloud IaaS) market to grow by 47.8% through 2015. The research firm advises outsourcers not moving in that direction that consolidation and cannibalization will occur in the 2013 – 2014 timeframe The providers named most often by respondents were Amazon (34%), SunGard (30%) and Verizon Business (30%). Of the global top 10 IT outsourcing market leaders, only CSC appears on the list. Source: User Survey Analysis: Infrastructure as a Service, the 2011 Uptake Claudio Da Rold, Allie Young.

External Service Providers Being Considered for IaaS (or Cloud IaaS)

Courtesy - Louis Columbus

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Best Motivational Video Ever - See it...

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:54:00 +0000

The Story Behind BATMAN: Rejection, Perseverance, Pave the Path to $2.6 Billion Film Franchise

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:25:00 +0000

My mentor, teacher and PR Guru Steve Kayser shares a great story behind the popular franchise of what we know as – The Batman. Though, I can’t stop to add about my favorite character -the Joker in “The Dark Knight” who seems to me had agreed to the Devil’s Deal.

He did the best ever performance, and many known to me just went to watch him playing the Joker. For me, well he was the one who shouldn’t have waited for the final call of the Oscar but should have started reading the winning speech at the time of Nominations itself. He was the best ever who played the role. But then devil who agreed to give him that success quietly took him away with his unfortunate demise.

But then all this characters could have seen the light at celluloid had it been not for the the dream or more importantly the determination to fulfill the dream by a person known as Mr. Michael Uslan.

He’s generated $2.6 billion in worldwide box office grosses, countless millions in toy and merchandise sales and survived not one, but two battles with a homicidal maniac.

What’s more, he’s not done yet.

Batman is one of the world’s most dependable film properties, with even the worst entry in the franchise’s history still charting $238 million in receipts.

As the trailer for the next installment of the franchise, The Dark Knight Rises, debuts online and with the release of the blockbuster Harry Potter film conclusion, millions have already started the countdown until July 2012, when the new film opens.

But if it weren’t for the perseverance of one man who toiled nearly 10 years to make the franchise’s first entry in 1989, it would not have happened at all.

“When I bought the film rights to Batman in 1977, no one wanted to make a Batman movie,”said Michael Uslan, executive producer – along with partner Benjamin Melnicker — of the modern Batman film franchise.

“Well, not a good one, anyway. First, the president of DC Comics tried to convince me not to buy the film rights. He told me that no one wanted to make a Batman movie, but I made the deal, anyway. Who knew that he was actually on the money?

I was rejected by every studio in town, multiple times, before I was able to convince people that Batman would be viable as a serious interpretation and not as a comedy.”

Uslan was the executive producer of films such as Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Constantine, The Spirit, Batman Begins, and the second highest grossing film of all time, The Dark Knight. As a producer, he is one of the highest-grossing movie producers of all time, with The Dark Knight alone having already passed the $1 billion mark.

With all that success – you might think it was easy. Not. Uslan was shut down early and often by studio heads, for seemingly ridiculous reasons, too.

“Most of the studio executives I pitched swore up and down that Batman could never work as a movie,” said Uslan, who tells the story in his new memoir The Boy Who Loved Batman.

“One complained that it wouldn’t make money because Annie – the musical version of Little Orphan Annie – didn’t make money. I asked him what Annie had to do with Batman, and he replied, ‘Oh come on, Michael, they’re both from the funny pages.’

One guy even told me that Batman and Robin wouldn’t work because a Sean Connery movie about an aging Robin Hood and Maid Marian – called Robin and Marian – didn’t work. I didn’t bother to press him, but I’m assuming he felt that having the name ‘Robin’ in the title was somehow box office poison. At the end of the day, it was clear that the studio bosses in the 1970s and 1980s felt that comic books weren’t worthy of being translated into movies. Their view was that comic books were just cheap, disposable entertainment for kids.”

Of course, since 1989’s Batman, comic books have been rich fodder for studios, with Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man and others bringing in billions of dollars in box office and licensing revenue.

“What we showed with Batman was that you could make a good, dark and serious comic book movie,” Uslan said.

“What we proved with the Dark Knight was that we could use comic book-based material to transcend the genre and simply make a good movie, period.

The bottom line is that Batman changed the industry, and if I didn’t bloody my knuckles for close to ten years on doors that were repeatedly slammed in my face, comic book related films might not be enjoying the success they are having today.”

Rejection. Perseverance. Bloody knuckles. That’s what it takes to succeed when you believe in your vision – and yourself.

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How Cloud Computing And ERP Mobility Are Reordering Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ERP

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:34:00 +0000

A good friend of mine recently became CIO of a financial services firm and was given his first major project last month: make the complete accounting, financial, and loan provider data and applications available 24/7 on any iPad or Android-based tablet from any office, at any time.

The majority of loan provider applications are cloud-based and his company is running NetSuite. His corporate office is in Asia and cloud-based applications made it possible for the company to launch and operate in California within months. He’s been given six months to transform this mobile vision into reality.

Another CIO of a major A&D manufacturer I recently visited wants vendors to challenge him more to get greater value from his investments in legacy data and ERP systems. Using ERP to run batch reports alone has nearly caused project schedules to slip, so the focus internally is on real-time system integration of project management and accounting systems. He’s also been given the task of revamping accounting and financial systems by October, 2012, and they just started late last year.

Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ERP

Considering these two extremes in the context of the Gartner Hype Cycle for ERP (shown below) and the recent report SaaS and Cloud ERP Trends, Observations, and Performance 2011 (free for download until January 9, 2012) published by Aberdeen last month several take-aways emerge.

CIOs are under increasing pressure in 2012 to enhance, modify even replace existing ERP systems while standardizing technology across the enterprise at the same time. The most risk-averse way around this is to add applications to single instance ERP backbone systems, with analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) being the among the most in demand.

Cloud-based ERP in the Enterprise and Small & Medium Businesses (SMB) are accelerating along the Hype Cycle faster than Gartner indicates. Enterprises are using Cloud-based ERP systems as part of their two-tier ERP system strategies due to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and time-to-deploy advantages, and the flexibility of tailoring everything from user interfaces to workflows to their specific requirements. Highly specialized Cloud-based ERP suites including those from Plex Systems are gaining traction due to their expertise in specific industries and the compliance-related challenges inherent within them. In SMBs, the cost and time-to-deploy are two major drivers with concerns over security being the biggest impediment to growth. Gartner reports that they are seeing Cloud-based ERP adoption fastest in companies with fewer than 200 users overall.

Cloud-based ERP systems most often considered in industries that have high variable costs, rapid transaction cycles and tend towards higher Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Based on the research SaaS and Cloud ERP Trends, Observations, and Performance 2011 the industries who are the most willing to consider Cloud-based ERP versus on-premise are Financial Services (22% SaaS versus 44% on-premise); Healthcare (42% SaaS versus 58% on-premise); and Professional Services (56% SaaS versus 58% on-premise).

Large companies (over $500M in annual revenue) using Cloud-based ERP systems are opting for hosted deployments managed by their ERP vendor (10%) or an independent 3^rd party (11%), with just 2% relying on a SaaS platform. Aberdeen defined small organizations as those with annual sales under $50M, midsize organizations having annual sales of $50M – $500M. The following is from SaaS and Cloud ERP Trends, Observations, and Performance 2011:

ERP mobility will be a dominant force from the shop floor to each sales call where quotes, orders and contracts deliver real-time order and pricing updates. How a given manufacturer chooses to sell is even more important than what they sell in many industries. Equipping manufacturing, quality assurance, production scheduling, procurement and sales to have immediate data on what’s going on with orders, customers and suppliers is critical. For the sales and service teams, real-time data is the fuel they run on. There’s a chronic time shortage in many, many companies right now, and bringing greater ERP mobility from the shop floor to the sales call will increasingly be seen as a means to lessen the time crunch. 2012 is the year where mobility gets real across the enterprise with solid performance numbers being generated as a result. For companies with large sales forces and service organizations, integrating to key ERP systems to gain real-time data will quickly lead to increased sales and higher gross margins on service and warranty repairs.

Gartner predicts that by 2015 enterprises who are successfully using extreme information management strategies (Big Data) will outperform competitors in their industry sectors by 20% in every available financial metric. The following is the Priority Matrix for ERP, 2011 showing what Gartner believes to be transformational technologies and strategies in ERP.

Courtesy – Louis Columbus

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Helsinki Flash Mob - Bollywood Style

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:44:00 +0000

How Stockmarket works…..

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:41:00 +0000

With the erratic behavior witnessed in the Stock Market someone shared a simple story that looks how it works.

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs. 10/-

The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at Rs. 10/- and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at Rs. 20/- This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer rate increased to Rs. 25/- and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at Rs50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at Rs35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell it to him for Rs. 50/-

The villagers squeezed up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys.

Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!!!

Welcome to the 'Stock' Market!!!!!

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Kindness

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:42:00 +0000

Kindness know no boundaries.....provided you don't define or create one. You move people's | person's attitude tremendously through the unspoken words of kindness, and mind it, it does have a viral effect, just like shown in the video.

Its equally important not to restrain your kindness based what caste, creed, financial status, young or old, etc the person or individual belong. It should be more like the the child's smile. If you smile to a child, the child smiles back....he/she doesn't have any inhibitions about the person to reciprocate the smile.

So let the kindness flow the way it should be.....Please don't dampened by creating internal dam(s)....let it flow...

Enjoy the video if not already seen.

I See...

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:56:00 +0000

A few lines that I dedicate to an old Man whom I met today who have no eyes but have a sight....who showed me the way to have a life of smiles….

I See..

People Walking

People Talking

People Mumbling

People Crumbling

I See...

Kids with Dreams

Who seems to have different themes

Who are sometimes extremes

But yet seems to be in the same team

I See...

People with different style

Or being versatile

With A lovely Smile

I hope it’s for something worthwhile

I See...

I See Places

Few being dull while others have beautiful faces

With a history of traces

But moves at its own paces

I See...

I See rain

This tickles my brain

Takes all the pain

& life seems to have not complain

I See...

To feel the Wind

To unwind

To enjoy my mind

And Leave the Worries behind

I See...

There are many eyes

Some are surprise

Some are Happy while others have seen their cries

Some with replies while others waiting for their next sunrise

Then…I See...

A Man Old

Sitting in Cold

Having his life on Hold

While Warmth being Withhold

Seems to be a Story Unsold

I See...

He…with no eyes

Who’s vision dies

But to my surprise

He simply unceasingly smiles……

I pledge to donate my eyes soon so that when I am not there I can still see.....

I See...

Even if I am Dead

Through A Thread

That gets embed

In Someone's Head

I See and Will See….

Donate Eyes!!!!

The Growth of Social Media: An Infographic

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:07:00 +0000

Social Media, as we all know has become an integral parts of our daily working life. Its ability to attract people from various walks of life, has fueled its growth. Of course there is no end to it anytime soon. It will be growing further and as expected with the emergence of better and sophisticated mobile technology that will enable the integration or marry your Social Information to your location, something that will disrupt soon the way we are engaging on Social Media.

In view of the same I will like to share a a great work by Jenise Uehara Henrikson where she provides an interesting insight into the steep curve of the user growth rate in all age ranges and demographics. Further she opines that the continuing pervasiveness of social networking into every facet of work, play and life in general. It’s hard to argue that social media hasn’t changed forever how we interact and connect online.

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The Social Media Revolution 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:29:00 +0000

Coke - Reasons to Believe

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:21:00 +0000

Loved the New Coke Ad that highlights the reason to believe....of course there are many reasons to believe but the first think is to start believing.....

As we know......

. A small dot can stop a big sentence. But few more dots can give continuity.....

Amazing but true"every ending can be a new beginning".....

Even the most Powerful person is weaker in front of the most Happiest person in the world ". Life is a great Checker Board.

The player opposite is Time.

If u hesitate, u will be wiped off,

But if u keep moving, u may Win.

Enjoy the Ad....

Pen drive...go crazy!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:58:00 +0000

The Future of Online Digital Marketing 2012 -2015

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:05:00 +0000

Analytics, Cloud Computing Challenge Flat Growth in Forrester’s Tech Market Outlook for 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:56:00 +0000

It’s time to strip away the hype surrounding analytics, big data and cloud computing by asking how these technologies contribute to excellent customer experiences and greater customer engagement. Those are the real catalysts of market growth and the greatest disruptive forces at work in enterprise software today.

Filtering forecasts of future technology adoption with a customer experience and engagement mindset is essential for separating hype from reality. Two excellent blog posts were published recently that provide useful insights for doing this. Ray Wang’s Monday’s Musings: 10 Mega Business Trends To Watch For In 2012 provides pragmatic, insightful analysis of the progression going on from transactional to personal fulfillment systems. Many of the CIOs I’ve met with in the last two months are saying exactly what Ray has written regarding this transition. Paul Greenberg’s CRM 2012 Forecast – The Era of Customer Engagement – Part I delivers more insight than any of the financial or industry analyst reports I’ve read in the last twelve months on CRM and its intersection to social networks. He has defined customer engagement so thoroughly I am sure this post will be a classic, referenced for years to come. Both posts provide an excellent framework to evaluate the upcoming wave of new forecasts due out from research firms at the start of 2012.

Having recently read Forrester’s US Tech Market Outlook For 2012 and applying the concepts Ray Wang and Paul Greenberg discuss, here are several take-aways from that report:

Total U.S. ICT market in 2011 was $962B with the majority being generated from software sales ($208B) followed by Telecom Services ($199B) and IT Consulting and Systems Integration Services ($188B). The following graphic illustrates the purchase of ICT product and services in the U.S. during 2011. As enterprise software companies are striving to deliver what Ray Wang is calling Experiential Systems, the majority of their core Intellectual Property (IP) was obtained from building Transactional Systems. Despite this conflict, software development methodologies including Agile give the industry a fighting chance at growth in 2012. The following graphic show the U.S. ICT market for 2011.

Software continues to dominate both in total revenue ($208B) and growth rate, with 8.2% growth projected for 2012. In addition to analytics and Business Intelligence (BI), Forrester is predicting an increase in ERP, Middleware and SaaS-based application growth. The following graphic breaks out US software spending by category, 2012.

Forrester is most optimistic in their forecasts for analytics, BI, Cloud Computing and Smart Computing. Cloud Computing forecasts at Forrester are indexed to sales levels of NetSuite, RightNow Technologies (Oracle), Salesforce.com, and Ultimate Software. Forrester is claiming these four vendors will generate a 23% increase in revenues in calendar Q1, 2012 over Q1, 2011, increasing and staying constant at 24% year-over-year growth from Q2 to Q4, 2012 relative to Q2 to Q4, 2011. Salesforce.com could accomplish this level of growth through acquisitions alone. They’re showing they can integrate newly acquired companies faster than Oracle, who they are challenging for global CRM market leadership in the 2012 – 2013 timeframe. When customer experience and engagement is taken into account, the forecast seems high. Salesforce knows how to translate trial users into customers. The question is can they do this fast enough in 2012 throughout the enterprise and mid-tier accounts to keep up their sales growth on track while reducing churn and increasing profitability.

Smart Computing is defined by Forrester as platform technologies including specialized analytics, BI, service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure, virtualization software, rules engines, and awareness-based technologies. Forrester is very optimistic about this area with a growth rate second only to cloud computing. Its index of the market is based on Informatica, Pegasystems, and Tibco Software. Forrester is predicting in calendar Q1, 2012 there will be 16% growth over Q1, 2011, followed by consistent 13% growth year-over-year for Q2 to Q4, 2012 relative to 2011. The following graphic compares growth of both Cloud Computing and Smart Computing.

The inflexion point of Smart Computing will happen when analytics, BI and awareness-based technologies including RFID can be used to make customer experiences consistently positive and drive cultural change throughout a business to center on customers’ expectations. Paul Greenberg refers to this area of customer engagement in his blog post. I agree with him and see the real value of analytics not for reporting, but for being a barometer of just how customer-centric and focused on delivering exceptional customer experiences a company is becoming.

In 2012, financial services, professional services, and manufacturing will be the three industries that dominate software purchases. Financial services (19%), professional services (15%) and manufacturing (14%) will be the largest buyers of enterprise software. Forrester believes that ERP replacements, supply chain management (SCM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) will all be proprieties in the coming twelve months.

Bottom line: Critiquing high growth technologies based on their contribution to customer experience, engagement and the creation of Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) is what matter most. Hopefully the new wave of forecasts for 2012 and beyond will take the customer – not just technology and statistical extrapolations – into account.

Courtesy – Louis Columbus

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2012: The Year to 'Go Mobile'

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:17:00 +0000

How to Tap the Power of 'Thank You'

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:06:00 +0000

Sharing at articulation by JOEY FAUCETTE that suggests to go old school with your “Thank You”, and how the power of these two simple words can change the facets of your daily life's…It also facilitates a change in ones behavior while he/she is dealing with customer, employee, peers or even family….

There may be only one day a year devoted to giving thanks. But expressing thanks regularly -- year round -- and doing it well is one of the most profitable business strategies you can have.

Study after study reveals that when you say "Thank you" to your customers, they both spend more money and tell their friends about the exceptional service and products you deliver, increasing your profits. Volumes chronicle how employee productivity zooms when appreciation is expressed, raising your margins. Vendors go the extra mile to extend credit and deliver "just in time" when they hear gratitude regularly, not just in November, and keep your cash flowing.

Giving thanks works in business. But you're already doing more with less and the last thing you want is another item on your to-do list. So what are the most effective and efficient ways for you to express gratitude to these important players in your business' success?

Here are some tips you can use to develop the profitable habit of saying "Thank you" to your customers, employees, and vendors not just in November, but year-round:

Be specific in your thanks. It's one thing to say, "I appreciate what you did today. Thanks a lot." That's a soap-bubble comment. Pretty while it lasts, but gone in seconds. It's general and vague. When you thank them for something specific, that's Velcro. That's a thanks they remember because it sticks. You hook your gratitude to something the employee did. For instance, an employee just handled a difficult phone call with a customer really well. Thank them for that specific activity.
Appreciate the process. Target your appreciation on what the employee or vendor did. Let's go back to the worker who took the phone call. Avoid telling the employee, "Thanks for helping me keep that customer." That's just an outcome that benefits you. Say, "I like how you hung in there when that customer was being difficult. You were really patient and respectful." The same type of strategy goes for vendors. Give thanks for doing something that was an extra-mile effort for them, recognizing the above-and-beyond work.
It's about them, not you. Showing that you know something about them, and that you're able to place yourself in their shoes, is incredibly valuable. Connect your gift-giving with life beyond the business walls. If a vendor became a grandpa, give him a copy of "Goodnight, Moon" to read to the little one. If an employee's mother died of breast cancer this year, make an end-of -the-year donation to Race for the Cure in her name. Such intimacy breaks the relationship ice in a transformational, not just transactional, direction which is the game-changing pathway to greater profits.
Go old school with your thanks. In this pixelated world of emails and texts, Facebook and Twitter, the simple and quick act of writing a handwritten expression of gratitude can go a long way. There's something special today about a handwritten note. I keep a stack of cards and envelopes with me to write thank you notes on a flight when returning from a workshop or coaching session. It takes about three minutes per card. You create return business when you take pen in hand and write, "Thank you," to your customers. Just say, "I know you could do business with others, but you chose us. Thank you! We treasure our relationship."

Implement these tips, and your business will likely say "Thank you" back to you as you increase your profits year-round.

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30 Ideas for Your 2012 Social Media Plan

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:31:00 +0000

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Some Inspiration this Christmas…

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:00:00 +0000

Wishing all the readers a Merry Christmas…..and sharing some inspirational videos to keep you smiling and inspired this Christmas……

And below could be treated as the summary…….

And in case YOU Want Something…Go Get it. PERIOD….

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Making Fun of Your Problems…

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:18:00 +0000

Thinks are not always serious as they look, or its not necessary that serious situation can’t be funny. Believe me, even a worst situation can turn funny. Isn’t it??? Then why do we laugh on bloopers, and if you see closely all the bloopers are actually serious situations with a pinch of funny music, which makes us laugh like crazy.

So as they say – Make Fun of your problems and you never know when the problems will get annoy and leave you….

Sharing one such interesting situation which I got today in my Inbox, and it goes like this -

After Getting all of Pope Benedict's luggage loaded into the limo, (and he doesn't travel light), the driver notices the Pope is still standing on the curb.

'Excuse me, Your Holiness,' says the driver, 'Would you please take your seat so we can leave?'

'Well, to tell you the truth,' says the Pope, 'they never let me drive at the Vatican , and I'd really like to drive today..'

'I'm sorry, Your Holiness, but I cannot let you do that. I'd lose my job! What if something should happen?' protests the driver, wishing he'd never gone to work that morning..

'Who's going to tell?' says the Pope with a smile.

Reluctantly, the driver gets in the back as the Pope climbs in behind the wheel. The driver quickly regrets his decision when, after exiting the airport, the Pontiff floors it, accelerating the limo to 205 kms.. (Remember, the Pope is German..)

'Please slow down, Your Holiness!' pleads the worried driver, but the Pope keeps the pedal to the metal until they hear sirens.

'Oh, dear God, I'm going to lose my license -- and my job!' moans the driver.

The Pope pulls over and rolls down the window as the cop approaches, but the cop takes one look at him, goes back to his motorcycle, and gets on the radio.

'I need to talk to the Chief,' he says to the dispatcher.
The Chief gets on the radio and the cop tells him that he's stopped a limo going 205 kph.

'So bust him,' says the Chief.

'I don't think we want to do that, he's really important,' said the cop.
The Chief exclaimed,' All the more reason!'

'No, I mean really important,' said the cop with a bit of persistence.
The Chief then asked, 'Who do you have there, the mayor?'

Cop: 'Bigger.'

Chief: 'A senator?'

Cop: 'Bigger.'

Chief: 'The Prime Minister?'

Cop: 'Bigger.'

'Well,' said the Chief, 'who is it?'

Cop: 'I think it's God!'

The Chief is even more puzzled and curious, 'What makes you think it's God?'

Cop: 'His chauffeur is the Pope!'

What Is Executive Toughness?

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:22:00 +0000

What is executive toughness?

Does it require you to develop a thicker skin than others?

Be less compassionate?

Be more competitive?

Can it be taught or modeled?

Answer by Dr. Jason Selk, Director of Mental Training for the St.Louis Cardinals – 2011 World Series Champions.

When doing the research for my book “Executive Toughness, The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance,” I had the rare good fortune to meet and spend in-depth time with individuals who are some of the most mentally tough individuals on earth, whether it be an athlete, a coach, or a businessperson.

One of those people was Nando Parrado. If you don’t recognize the name, he was one of the survivors from the plane crash in the Andes in 1972, a famous book and movie Alive was made about his story.

What you have is an individual who gets on a plane to go to an international rugby match and seven hours after departure the plane crashes into the Andes Mountains. Several of his teammates are killed and they’re left stranded on the mountain. They have to do whatever they can do on that mountain to stay alive.

I think the normal course of action for human beings might be to get caught up in all the problems, and rightfully so, especially in that situation. In the book I write about the 10 mental toughness fundamentals, one of which is a relentless solution focus (RSF). Nando is the perfect illustration of RSF. He refused to let his mind focus on the direness of the situation. Instead he was maniacally relentless about identifying solutions. In the end this relentless solution focus is what put him in a position to save himself and 16 of the other teammates that survived. It’s an amazing story.

What I did for the book was to look for patterns in people that had exhibited mental toughness in many facets of life. Toughness can be taught. Toughness can be modeled.

Human beings are made up of thoughts, feelings and behaviors. What we found is that what goes on in your head, the thoughts, are literally what controls the way you feel and behave.

And so, if you kind of look at the key to the entire human organism’s success, it really is what I coin that “mental toughness.” If you can learn to get the right thoughts in your head, then you are going to not only control your thinking but you are going to control the way you act, the way you behave and the way you feel. That’s the whole kit and caboodle. That’s what we are really looking for.

That mental toughness, going back to Nando, is the mind’s ability to stay focused on solutions, especially in the face of adversity. I am going to say it again. The mind’s ability to stay focused on solutions, especially in the face of adversity. When things are going well, when the cash register and the phone is ringing, and you are winning games, mental toughness really isn’t necessary. It’s when times are difficult, when you are losing on the scoreboard or when the economy is down, as it has been for the last several years, that’s when people really need to get in control of those thoughts.

The first step to mental toughness is to identify,

“Okay, what is going on in my head?”

The second step is,

“What really should be going on in my head?”

The third step is to train yourself to control your thoughts in a way to produce an increased level of health, happiness and success.

That’s really where mental toughness begins.

Let’s take baseball players. Like the St.Louis Cardinals, since I know a little about them. At the beginning of a season I teach a mental training plan from my first book, which is a sports psychology book written just primarily for athletes and coaches. It’s all about being accountable. Doing the work. Both physical and mental. I work with the players throughout the season who was for additional help, making sure that they are doing the right things; they are staying accountable, doing the work. And if they do you cannot help but become more mentally tough.

You get that? The 2011 World Series Champs have a psychological mental training plan.

If people can improve their mental toughness they are going to put themselves in a position to increase their ability to be in control of their lives, be happier, healthier and more successful.

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This article is an excerpt from the Expert Access Radio interview with Dr. Jason Selk. Courtesy – Expert Access

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The Art of Letting Go

noreply@blogger.com (Shiraz Datta) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:41:00 +0000

Quote -If your are not willing to risk the unusual ,you will have to settle for the ordinary .

Check out the Video below and sometime the best is to let it go…let Go of your ego, your hardship, your agony, your anger and anything else that weighs heavy on you and stop you to move on in your life.

Well I am practicing it but still not able to give it, but then when I see something like this, I wonders that the best is to let it go……

The Video is in Koren but you can read the Subtitle….

So if you like the Video you can read the rest of the long article or may be Let it go.

THE ART OF LETTING GO

Sooner or later, everyone you know will disappoint you in some way. They'll say something or fail to say something that will hurt you. And they'll do something or fail to do something that will anger you. It's inevitable.

Unfortunately, you make things worse when you stew over someone's words and deeds. When you dwell on a rude remark or an insensitive action made by another person, you're headed for deeper problems.
In fact, the more you dwell on these things, the more bitter you'll get.

You'll find your joy, peace and happiness slipping away. And you'll find your productivity slowing down as you spend more and more time thinking about the slight or telling others about it. Eventually, if you don't stop doing it, you'll even get sick.

So what should you do the next time someone betrays you? TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR FEELINGS. Even though the other person may be at fault, even though the other person wronged you, you are still responsible for your own feelings.

In other words, other people do not "cause" your feelings. You choose them.

For example, two different people could be told that their suggestions made at the staff meeting were "stupid and idiotic." One person may "choose" to feel so hurt that he never speaks up at any other meeting again. The other person may "choose" to feel sorry for the critic, sorry that the critic couldn't see the wisdom and necessity of her suggestions.

As long as you blame other people for your feelings, as long as you believe other people caused your feelings, you're stuck. You're a helpless victim . But if you recognize the fact that you choose your feelings and you are responsible for your feelings, there's hope. You can take some time to think about your feelings. And you can decide what is the best thing to say or do.

Then, you've got to learn to WALK AWAY FROM DISAPPOINTMENT. It's difficult to do, but it's possible. The famous 19th century Scottish historian, Thomas Carlyle, proved that.
After working on his multi-volume set of books on "The French Revolution" for six years, Carlyle completed the manuscript and took volume one to his friend John Stuart Mill. He asked Mill to read it.
Five days later, Mill's maid accidentally threw the manuscript into the fire. In agony, Mill went to Carlyle's house to tell him that his work had been destroyed.

Carlyle did not flinch. With a smile, he said, "That's all right, Mill.
These things happen. It is a part of life. I will start over. I can remember most of it, I am sure. Don't worry. It's all here in my mind. Go,my friend! Do not feel bad."

As Mill left, Carlyle watched him from the window. Carlyle turned to his wife and said, "I did not want him to see how crushed I am by this misfortune." And with a heavy sigh, he added, "Well the manuscript is gone, so I had better start writing again."

Carlyle finally completed the work, which ranks as one of the great classics of all time. He had learned to walk away from his disappointment.

After all, what could Carlyle have done about his burnt manuscript?
Nothing. Nothing would have resurrected the manuscript. All Carlyle could do was to get bitter or get started. And what can you do about anything once it is over? Not much. You can try to correct it if it is possible, or you can walk away from it if it isn't. Those are your only two choices.

Sometimes you've just got to shake it off and step up. It's like the farmer who had an old mule who fell into a deep dry well. As he assessed the situation, he knew it would be difficult, if not impossible, to lift the heavy mule out of the deep well.

So the farmer decided to bury the mule in the well.

After all, the mule was old and the well was dry, so he could solve two problems at once. He could put the old mule out of his misery and have his well filled.

The farmer asked his neighbors to help him with the shoveling. To work they went. As they threw shovel-full of dirt after shovel-full of dirt on the mule's back, the mule became frightened.

Then all of a sudden an idea came to the mule. Each time they would throw a shovel-full of dirt on his back, he would shake it off and step up.

Shovel-full after shovel-full, the mule would shake it off and step up. In not too long a time, the exhausted and dirty mule stepped over the top of the well and through the crowd.

That's the same approach we all need to take. We need to shake it off and step up.

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