This category attempts to bring about articles that help us become more productive in the workplace.
Lord Ganesha’s Laptop: Building a radically adaptive IT Organisation in India: An expat’s story is an engrossing story of how the return ticket for an International trip got extended from 6 months to 18 long years. This is the story of an aspiring engineer who spent the prime of his career in a foreign country building an Agile enterprise from scratch. This is the …
It was a designed silence on online platforms over the last two months. I was transitioning into my new role in the last two months. During this period, I had planned to set aside some time to retrospect, reflect & reset certain aspects of my life. I wanted to share one such thought today in this post. One interesting reflection that emanated from having …
When a Digital Transformation Project ends up “successfully” but customer feels like he did not achieve what he actually needed, it is nothing less than a debacle, considering the time, money and the effort involved in the implementation of the same.
This is one of the top 5 reasons listed as barriers to success in Digital Transformation journey in recently commissioned Wipro Digital Transformation Survey 2019.
In this article, I explore what enterprises can do to avoid getting into this zone. Read on and share your views. Would love to have a conversation on this…
In building products we often come across constraints. Whether it is technical constraint, a business constraint, a statutory constraint or financial constraint, it impedes our activity. It is often these constraints that leads to innovation. When the vision is sacrosanct, and achieving the goal is the only option, innovation appears, disguised as constraints. When the vision is sacrosanct, and achieving the goal is the …
Back in 2007, one Friday afternoon, my manager called me in to his office, just as I was about to call it a week. He had just returned from a certification course that he was participating for a week. He wanted my team to embrace Scrum and run the pilot in our team. Initially, I did put up a strong resistance to this. But …
This is the second of a series of my posts on the key take ways from the recently concluded Project Management National Conference 2014 in Hyderabad, India. This post talks about how Alyque Padamsee kept his presentation very simple and made his point effectively.
This is the first of a series of my posts on the key take ways from the recently concluded Project Management National Conference 2014 in Hyderabad, India. This is my interpretation of the concepts presented in the conference. Every time in the gym, when I am lifting weights and I find the last 3 or 4 of the 20 repetitions to be the most toughest …
When I bought a new car a couple of years back, I was very possessive about it. I did not like even a speck of dirt or a single scratch on it. The time for the first service came and the Service center promptly sent out a driver to pick up the car. Although it was me who requested for a pick up, I …
The moment you grab the news paper in the morning, you are welcomed with full paged adverts of exciting offers on the latest and the greatest smartphone. The deals are so enticing that you would just want to login to you favorite online store and order one immediately. I am no stranger to this situation. I already own a Samsung Galaxy Note from the …
Today I learnt a very important lesson. Its actually Sales guru, Zig Zigler’s wisdom. His concept says when you encounter a bad treatment while trying to make a sale, instead of treating it as an experience, treat it as an experiment. We can extend this to any other, not just sales. Experiences tend to leave a scar, which will influence our upcoming endeavors, but …
