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noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 05:50:00 +0000

Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin, is poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation. ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible before he can strike again.

Home (Myron Bolitar #11) by Harlan Coben

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 16:47:00 +0000

Ten years after the high-profile kidnapping of two young boys, only one returns home in Harlan Coben’s new thriller, published in September 2016.

ABOUT HARLAN COBEN

With over 60 million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben’s last seven consecutive novels, MISSING YOU, SIX YEARS, STAY CLOSE, LIVE WIRE, CAUGHT, LONG LOST and HOLD TIGHT all debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and lists around the world. His books are published in 43 languages around the globe.

My Rating: 2.5/5

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noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Sat, 28 May 2016 11:47:00 +0000

Eco-Cooler: The Zero Electricity Air Cooler

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Fri, 13 May 2016 05:03:00 +0000

The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 13:11:00 +0000

After long time, got very good book…refreshed my reading pattern…really enjoyed the it. Set in 1830’s winter of Boston city, story revolves around Medical Institution, its student and professors. With unflagging suspense and pitch-perfect period details this book is a must read book! This page turner thrilling historical fiction keep you captivated…after long time got 5-STAR book….

About Author:-

Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D.

While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction.

Customer life time value

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 04:03:00 +0000

Two days back I got a call from one of my customer who was in need of service support. I forwarded this request to my service head and I got a reply that I should not entertain this specific case as lot of free services have already been given and at this moment we could not be able to afford giving free services, when business is slow and economy is weak. I was not surprised, it was absolutely correct and I agreed to that.

I said- Okay, then in that case we need to share this with customer and ask them to help us out. We need to talk to them with proper fact and figures and seek their opinion on the issue.

When all this was happening, I was thinking how to judge whether we are over investing on some customer and under investing on others. How to decide this? There are so many factors which drive this decision and most important of them is customer life time value and customer centricity.

Customer centricity reveals how to increase profits from your best customers, finding more like them and avoid over-investing in the rest. Learn where customer relationship management went wrong and how to fix it.

Knowing what your customers are worth is the secret to focusing your time and money, where it makes the most difference. You can’t provide all the things to all of your customers, so you need to learn to find out who really matters to your success and there comes in – CUSTOMER LIFE TIME VALUE (CLV). CLV is the present value of the future cash flows associated with a particular customer. It’s a forward looking concept, we should not confuse with customer’s past profitability. Here one more thing I would like to add – concept of Recency & Frequency. Recency indicates how customer has done business with us recently and frequency indicates how frequently they are doing business with us.

Let me ask you one question. I have Customer-A who had purchased 10 machines from me in 2008 and after that he doesn’t have any business with us. I have another customer, Customer-B who has purchased 3 machines from me in 2015. In your view whose probability of buying machine in next two years is more?

Pilots of Organisation

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 14:07:00 +0000

In today’s organisation majority of teams are quite young in age – they are hard worker, fast, agile and ready to take risk. But most of the time we found that this young team cannot achieve the desired results to the level which they could actually achieve. What may be the problem? In 95% cases it is found that week communication, co-ordination among team members and trust deficit creates major problem which lead to rework, confusion and financial losses. Especially in manufacturing industry it has been indentified and established that most financial losses are due to some or other kind of communication gap among team members. A proposal engineer places the proposal without disclosing risk associated with it. Sales guys booking the orders with short delivery time without taking project manager into confidence. Performance of any organisation depends upon how team performs. Team need to be really strong, member should have strong bonding among themselves.

For a moment consider that you are pilot. You are either captain or first officer, how will you work? Will you hide any information from your partner while flying the air craft? Will your ego comes in between while help or giving guidance or in sharing doubts? No it will not. You will not jeopardize your and some odd 200 passenger’s life.

Plane crashes rarely happen in real life. Plane crashes are much more likely to be the result of an accumulation of minor difficulties and seemingly small malfunctioning. Do you know? The typical accident involves seven consecutive human errors. One of the pilots does something wrong that by itself is not an problem. Then one of them makes another error on top of that, which combine with first error, still this does not amount to catastrophe. But then they make a third error on the top of that, and then another and another and another, and it is the combination of all those errors that leads to disaster.

Above seven errors, furthermore, are rarely problems of knowledge or flying skill. It’s not that the pilot has to negotiate some critical technical manoeuvre and fails. The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communications. One pilot knows something important and somehow doesn’t tell the other pilot. One pilot does something wrong, and other doesn’t catch the error. In 40% of the time, the two pilots have never flown together before, so they are not comfortable with each other.

So when you are working in a team, work like pilots. Don’t hide anything from your colleague, reply to their mails in time; please pick-up the calls – your colleague may have to discuss or inform you something urgent. It’s like a plan – if its crashes everyone will be killed. Your organisation may not grow; you may not get increments, management will not be happy with your team and at the end of the day it will impact your family life as well. Please remember you are pilots of your organisation, if you fail your organisation too will crash.

The Martian by Andy Weir

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:19:00 +0000

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The Martian, a science fiction novel, is the first published novel by American author Andy Weir. It was originally self-published in 2011 after which Crown Publishing purchased the rights and re-released it in 2014.

ANDY WEIR was first hired as a programmer for a national laboratory at age fifteen and has been working as a software engineer ever since. He is also a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects like relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. The Martian is his first novel.

I will be posting it's complete review soon... But one thing to I have to say...

This book is more science than fiction!

Killing Floor by Lee Child

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 05:54:00 +0000

After reading a Si-Fi, I was searching for a thriller novel and found this one. This book has presence in almost all top list for thriller-fiction. This is my first book from Reacher series. Liked the language, it is easy, crisp and simple. One best thing I liked most- no big and complicated sentences, which make it fast and easy to read. Starting is impressive, high impact plot and situations. You will like the way these guys - Reacher and Finlay interact - it is awesome. Sometimes Reacher had an edge over Finlay sometimes other way round, I enjoyed this happening.

Twist and turns are delicacies of this book. I don't know how Lee has managed this to do it in his very first book. Every chapter ends with horrifying turns...literally 360 degree turn. Unimaginable plot. It's about crime going on in America which is dangerous for its economy and currency. Story is so well crafted that it will compel you to guess and your each guess will went wrong. After some time you will stop thinking and just go along with flow of book.

Even after finishing 70% of the book, I was not able to say with 100% confidence who is behind all the crime; who is culprit & villain in this novel.

Zoo (James Patterson novel)

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 05:52:00 +0000

This book is about human animal conflict...idea is new and author has explained the concept very well. Story starts from Botswana and cover entire part of world. A PhD dropout scientist working on theory of human animal conflicts tries to convince the world about his theory and warns the world about its serious repercussions, if something is not done in time. Author has given very good description of Lion attack in zoo and logic behind the HAC, however I did not like the part wherein one incident from India was written. While reading the indian part, I felt that author had not visited the place personally and had just Google out something to write. I enjoyed the zoo part and Botswana forest very much. (My Rating: 2/5)

The Girl on the Train - Book by Paula Hawkins

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 13:37:00 +0000

Paula Hawkins

Gray Mountain

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:11:00 +0000

Just Finished Reading...

Unfortunately I found this book not so exciting and compelling. There is crunch of strong characters, however there was one; you will predict around whom the story will revolve, but this character was killed in the middle of story and it gives you a surprise and reason to read book further. Details mentioned about coal miner’s pneumonia were astonishing, something new that I learned. This story revolves around Coal Mining Companies and Legal Firm.

My rating: 2 of 5

Advise: I will not pressurise you to buy this book

Darmstadt (Germany) tour

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 12:40:00 +0000

Holi

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 16:54:00 +0000

All Season Beer for beer lovers.....cheers!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:06:00 +0000

Hey you beer lovers out there!!!

I am sure you all know all the brands of beer and if not this blog will give you information about a specific beer called KINGFISHER RED .Until now, beer lovers like you couldn’t drink beer 365 days of the year. No matter how much you wished, there have been occasions when you felt like having a beer but not something chilled.

Kingfisher, India’s largest selling beer brand brings to you India’s 1st ‘ALL SEASON’ beer - KINGFISHER RED. I happen to stumble upon it while on my tour in south India.

Kingfisher Red, a Premium Gravity beer, is specially brewed to give you a distinctive taste with an oaky woody flavor, which tastes great when chilled and even better when not chilled. It is an artistically crafted beer inspired by the traditional brewing practices of medieval European monks. The monks followed a typical process for making their beer & then matured it in oak barrels.

Kingfisher Red is so developed following a unique process whereby the beer is golden light oaky brown and can be consumed even at 14 to 17 ^oC, without any change in the taste of the beer! The beer is clean & smooth and gives extra warmth & energy that no other beer can give.

Hope you will try this…

Safe and Happy drinking...

Guest Post by Manisha, New Delhi

Garnier Pure Active Neem

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 06:51:00 +0000

“Aaaahhaaaaaaa “ (howling)that is how one day I woke up in the morning from my sleep!!Besides me was my pretty wife hovering above my face with a cotton ball in her hand and a wide satisfied smile on her face!! I instantly realised that she has accomplished her mission….mission of bursting and cleaning any pimple that happily sprouts on my face, she does not care whether we are in a train, or in a flight, whether we are on holiday or going to office, whether we are at a restaurant or at the local cinema hall.

All that she cares is that my face should be squeaky clean and at no point of time should have any pimples as she feels that that is completely undesirable. No amount of pleading with her would help and no amount of bribe would dissuade her (if you leave my pimple alone…I will buy you a new dress, I will buy you your favorite chocolate…nothing ,nothing seems to have helped).

Ultimately I have to give in for the torture, she has a ritual that she religiously follows …first wait for the pimple to grow (which itself is an unbearable pain), everyday apply some saliva on it, then when it is completely ripe ,press and clean till blood oozes out ,then clean it with Dettol and apply antiseptic cream. By the time this ritual is over I would have cried my life out like a little baby…you don’t believe me..seriously you can try it for yourself.

Thank God….now this product has been launched…I have not used it, however I hope it helps us lesser mortals “Men” as well…most of the beauty products are targeted towards women and women related problems. There should be some product which would help men to avoid a pimply face, especially because we travel a lot, are exposed to different water and whether conditions in different cities, people like me who have to visit various plants across the country are also exposed to a lot of chemicals aswell.

I wish Garnier team great success with this product…I am going to buy one for myself today. For more information you can explore more on following links:

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Satkosia Tiger Reserve, Orissa

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:30:00 +0000

Satkosia spreads along the magnificent gorge over the mighty river Mahanadi in Orissa. Established in 1976 as a wildlife sanctuary, Satkosia is a paradise of immense scenic charm. It is one of the best ecosystems in the country, representing a diverse floral and faunal extravaganza.

The name Satkosia originates from two words; sat meaning seven and kosk meaning two miles, indicating the length of the gorge as 14 miles or 22 km.

The area was declared as Satkosia Tiger Reserve in 2007, comprising two adjoining wildlife sanctuaries; the Satkosia Gorge sanctuary and Baisipalli sanctuary. The reserve is spread over 4 districts; Angul, Cuttack, Nayagarh and Boudh.

The reserve has an area of 964 sq km with 524 sq km as core area. The area is also a part of the Mahanadi elephant reserve. Satkosia is the meeting point of two bio-geographic regions of India; the Deccan Peninsula and the Eastern Ghats, contributing immense biodiversity.

The Goal - a management-oriented novel by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:49:00 +0000

The Goal is a management-oriented novel by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt, a business consultant whose Theory of Constraints has become a model for systems management.

Summary of The Goal

1. Problems such as late delivery, low throughput, high inventory & WIP are faced by many factories which are into manufacturing of multiple products.

2. End product or finish good is assembly of different items either manufactured in house or bought out from vendors.

3. Bottlenecks as mentioned in this book may be due to in house component or it can be because of bought out components.

4. Bottlenecks are those resource or work station which has capacity of delivering less than market demand. There can be more than one Bottleneck in an entire system, even human being or services or information can be a bottleneck.

5. Time lost at Bottleneck is time lost forever. Throughput for entire plant will be lower by the amount for which Bottleneck resource is idle.

6. Cost of an hour lost at Bottleneck is equivalent to the cost of entire system for an hour.

7. Material release to Bottleneck is a critical issue- Bottleneck should not work on inventory that won’t increase the throughput. Avoid feeding faulty & scrap parts into the Bottleneck through pre-quality check inspection.

8. It is not necessary that downstream machines manufacturing non-bottleneck part should work continuously. If they are operating above the market demand, inventory and WIP will pile-up.

9. Production planning should be done in such a way that queue time and wait time for any intermediate component should be minimum, for which proper information channels need to developed.

10. It is not always true that Economic batch size is most economical and efficient one. Based on the capacity of downstream and upstream process it should be designed.

11. In case of Alex, it was found that by reducing batch size by half they have significantly reduced the queue & waiting time which lead to reduction in inventory & WIP thereby improved cash flow for the organisation.

12. Book also raised the doubt about showing WIP/inventory under head assets – whereas logically it should be a liability, as WIP need to be converted into end product and sales has to be done.

13. Finally, book also demonstrate how factory people can re-engineer the sales and finalise a win-win deal with support of sufficient data and homework.

Yemen accession to the WTO: Only way-out for sinking economy

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 14:37:00 +0000

For next few weeks I would be writing on Impact of WTO membership on Yemen’s economy and its impact on Global trade with in-depth focus on wheat & rice traders based at Yemenis ports.

Part 1

Today morning I received call from my friend who is a coffee trader in Sana’a – capital of Yemen, he informed me that after 11 long rounds of negotiation, finally WTO has accepted Yemen as a member country. Yemen approached WTO to join in 2000, and now after 13 years Yemen deposited its “Instrument of Acceptance” on 27 May 2014 with Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, confirming its membership terms. Yemen’s WTO membership will be effective from 26th June 2014. After becoming member, Yemen’s has to adhere to WTO provisions in the areas of rules of origin, pre-shipment inspection, anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard measures, export restrictions, subsidies, trade-related investment measures, free zones and preferential trade under bilateral, regional and other agreements. It has to bind agricultural export subsidies at zero upon accession (agricultural export subsidies in Yemen has no meaning??).

Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world. Its economy depends on foreign aid and remittances from workers in neighbouring gulf countries. The most important sector of the economy is dwindling oil extraction, it accounts for around 70 percent of government revenue and 25 percent of GDP. Agriculture is also very important as it employs over 50 percent of the population. In recent years, the government has engaged in efforts to diversify the economy from dependency on oil. After taking over the WTO membership, any natural or legal person of a WTO member country would have the right to import from Yemen, regardless of physical presence or investment in Yemen, it means that now a coffee processor from India can import coffee beans from Yemen without any problem. WTO also requires that all the state enterprises of Yemen who are directly or indirectly related to import-export jobs would notify any international transactions to WTO in prescribed format.

I feel that membership to WTO will be most beneficial to fish processing industry of Yemen. Yemen is blessed with lot of sea wealth as it has lot of area for fishing in Red sea and Arabian Sea. Frozen fish and cod liver oils from Yemen have good demand in lot of countries.

We as Indian are always supporter of Yemen. Back in 1962, India actively supported Yemen’s independence from British. India’s relationship with Yemen goes back to many centuries – Aden, Mocha and Kamran island were transit point for Haj Pilgrims.India has long relation with Yemenis acting as a intermediaries in trade with Romans. Presently India exports tea, rice, wheat, cereals, spices, tobacco, meat and meat products, pharma, hand tools, chemicals etc to Yemen. On the other hand, India imports crude oil, metal scrap, hide skin and limestone from Yemen. Yemen is a virgin land, commodity rich and is endowed with excellent prospects for prospecting iron ore, silver, gold, nickel, copper, zinc, cobalt etc. Indian private entity should tap the potential and try to get entry in this segment of Yemen.

Yemen’s exports face low tariff‐related barriers in relation to the rest of the world. Due to its least‐developed country (LDC) status, most of its export markets provide either duty‐free or preferential access to most of its products, including under the European Union’s “Everything But Arms” Initiative. Oil accounts for around 85 percent of Yemen's exports. Other exports include fish, naphthalene, cigarettes, fruits, soap and animal hides. Yemen's main exports partners are China, India, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, South Africa and Japan.

Customs duties on imported commodities do not exceed 5%. Yemen mostly imports fuels, wheat and corn, rice, meat, pharmaceutical products, sugar and vehicles. Yemen's main imports partners are the United Arab Emirates, China, Saudi Arabia, the United States, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Australia , Brazil, India, Thailand and Germany.

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Few flowers from my Garden

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Sat, 31 May 2014 17:01:00 +0000

Nainital (Uttarakhand) Trip

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Sat, 10 May 2014 15:25:00 +0000

The Valmiki Syndrome

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:43:00 +0000

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Sometimes we don’t take charge to change the situation; we don’t want to leave our comfort zone and keep on living same life which we really wish to change but do not take any action. Why so? What is stopping us from taking that initial step? The Valmiki Syndrome is all about this puzzle. Book addresses three major questions:

1. Who I am?

2. What I want to be?

3. How to achieve it?

Through three characters – Ratnakarana, Shalini and Sara author has explained the life learning concept of work life balance. This is not a traditional management book giving you the concept of time management & effective work life balance. It is far ahead than it. Book will guide you to get out of your perceived syndrome- a mental block which hold you back to control or change the situation. You cannot change the situation all the time, some time you have to change yourself. If got the boss who is a stress monkey – making your life miserable but the fat pay cheque and fear of not adjusting in new company is hold you back than you are victim of Valmiki Syndrome. Read this book it will clear your mind and help you out.

Beyond Eggs

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:26:00 +0000

Hampton Creek Foods has developed a plant-based egg substitute for baked and processed foods. Called Beyond Eggs, it uses peas, sorghum, beans, and other plants to make a product that tastes like eggs and has the same nutritional properties. The company says its process is already nearly 20 percent less expensive than the production of eggs, and costs will fall as scale increases. Hampton Creek also says its product will suffer less from drought. At the moment, about 70 percent of an egg’s cost comes from corn, a crop susceptible to drought and increasingly linked to the price of oil, while Hampton Creek uses hardier crops and therefore does not compete with biofuels (or risk salmonella infections). So, Hampton Creek’s egg substitute may cut costs and risks for major food producers.

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Planning & Reality

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:44:00 +0000

The Differences Between Successful and Unsuccessful People

noreply@blogger.com (Aniruddha Nandanwar) — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 05:14:00 +0000