Happy New Year!

Wish You All a Great and Prosperous New Year! 2006. When sun rises tomorrow morning, wish its rays fills this world with peace and love. Wish 2006 be a Year of peace and love 

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Texera!

We had a brand name competition in my co. for the mobile phone. I won the second runner-up on the event. (Time to boast! ) ;) .Here is the list of winners as announced by my co. product manager (with brand name suggestions)

Winner: DGB Mobile - Mahantesh
1st Runner up: Genie - Pawan Bishnoi
2nd Runner up: Texera - Satheesh (Its me!!)

Wish to see our mobile hit the market soon and make a stunning start! Best wishes Digibee Team! btw Texera means Telecommunication(Tex) Era!

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Value driven life!

Today i felt like giving sermons ;) Thats why secong blog too on philosphy! The values which drive my life and the value which i offer for fellow human beings.....

In journey called life

* Other people's need and request should be attended immediately, irrespetive of thy work * Help others to maximum extent * Smile, be calm and composed. * Take feedbacks without being defensive * Believe thy friends * Help others succeed in life * love all, hate none

At work

* Believe thy team-mate * When approached with problem, listen and help them lead to solution * Never judge others * Never badmouth about the thirdperson to others * Be value driven, never prejudice for known people

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What Motivates Me?

Human is the only creature who can think about himself and his thoughts. He can sit away from his thoughts and visualize whats happening around him. I love doing self-introspection. This 'what motivates me?' strike me when i went for walking with my uncle today morning. The main paradigm which i give consider important is " Independence". In nutshell, big responsibility, freedom to execute and made responsible for big action motivates me. When others believe me i can do that work, I really rise to the occasion.

During college days, when everybody believed that I could conduct 'Harmony' (my college's inter-college cultural meet), I was very happy. Indeed till then, i was never in foreground for any organising club activities. Just belief made the magic then. The other incident which is still green in my memory is leading a full length project in this co here. My manager believed me that I could lead the whole implementation, that really kindled me to perform. Different people has different breaking edge, basically all can perform anything in this world. Its time and identifying your strength does the magic and show you your true potential! Gung-Ho!

Feel free to share your motivation tipping point!

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Whats there in a VCD, DVD?

Digital video knocks you in different forms day-in and day-out. You have a VCD player, DVD player, DVD combo drive in PC, blah,blah, so many digital gizmos are available around us. Whats driving this industry? Lets take old days video, where we capture an image sequence in casette. Play it with VCR player. No trouble in it. Quality OK! Then came this new world, where contents are required to be available in all gizmos including ur tiny mobiles. So moving from analog to digital domain become inevitable. Suddenly all headaches arises. An analog image say a frame, when converted to digital domain, takes huge space. For example, your computer screen size image takes 460 KBytes (Dont get whats bytes measure all about, forget it). You can save 3 such frames in one floppy or 1500 frames in a CD. But you know what- 30 frames of image is required to be played in a screen to make it look like a real movie. (TV frame rate is 30). With 1500 frames which we stored in a CD, we can play it back for just 50 secons (not even a minute!!!). So....... how is that we can able to see a movie of 3 hrs duration stored in 2 VCDs or in one DVD. This magic is done by what we call coding and decoding. Video coding is logical science, can be picked up by any new entrant. Lets see an image sequence, you can see the adjacent frames of images dont change much other than few movements here and there. (Take for example, sequence of images of bird flying....most of the frames, the background gonna be sky, which remains almost stable, whereas the small bird alone change its position in continous frame). Got the place where we gonna hit the video codec?! This tells me that I need not transmit all background data again and again, I can post only the data which changes across frame. ( Wow, looks simple. Isnt it?) Video codecs born out of this simple catch. Now it has devolped into many generations. VCDs are first generation aka MPEG1, DVDs are second generation, aka MPEG2.....(btw, I am working in 4th generation and latest video codes in industry ;)) Most of the business in this industry revolves around the different algorithms implementation for different embedded devices. Electronic device makers buy different implementation from small players to big ones. [+] check this wiki entry

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My gal Where are you?

Humans evolve from their deeds. We are not sweet always for all. We tend to mess up frenships and relationships often. I always found myself in this self-digged hole lot of times. Emotional faux pas. Till now, left it to time to save my soul. Time has magical powers of healing all wounds. Indeed it had solved few of my long time fights too. Everybody has so much expectation for their gal! Me too, no different. I wish my gal to be an extrovert and very affable. She has a important role to play in my life. She should patch up all messes, i made in life. My gal Where are you?

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Yep, The World does revolve around me!

Have you ever listened to larger-than-life egos on our Politicians and GodMen. [+] Saddam plan to kill my dear dad- says Bush Jr. So lemme take revenge on him and save Iraq. [+] Bihar has bright future only if me and wife dons the goverment mantle - By our beloved Laloo ji [+] Tsunami attacked tamilnadu, cause Jaya arrested me in falsification case! By kanchi seer. [+] In my dream, God has asked me to kill saddam and save Iraqis from anarchy - By who else? our Bush Jr. [+] I have key to Mokshaa. Worship me and my wife and pay Rs.25000 donation, I will take you to heaven after your death. I Will grant you Mokshaa if you worship me! - By our dear Kalki baghavan. hahaha... As a matter of fact, The world does revolve around this ego!

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A lot can happen over a coffee

India's coffee day opened its 250th outlet in Goa. [+] StarBucks, wow- this name reminds me of caffine attraction. These guys evolve along with coffee mania in USA. I wasnt coffee buff always. After reading "pouring your heart into it" by Star bucks CEO, I go fida with Coffee. [+] Starbucks is big coffee retailer in USA, with annual revenue crossing US$ 4B. One of fortune 500 companies. [+] India's Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) is modelled on Starbucks in all ways. CCD has garnered majority chunk in Indian coffee market, a clear market leader. [+] Starbucks has no franchise and all outlets are company owned. They started it, reason it on the line- coffee business lies in quality and purity, dont wanna mess this with profit motive of franchise model. India's CCD too follows it. All CCD outlets are company owned. [+] All cafe outlets in India are modelled as hangout for Teenagers and youths. This is different from starbucks model. Starbucks cover all market ranges and have different ways to reach different segments of people. A lot can happen over a coffee- cachy line of coffee day. Kewl!

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Seven, 7 and more....

Gp tagged me to 7 stuffs. Found this an interesting chain. So here is mine... ( Hey, I am off the current format too.) 7 things I can do

1. work smartly (my Team leader may laugh at this... :)) ...)
2. race in my bike and ofcourse crusing in chennai traffic line made my frens fuss about it
3. spend lot of time with books (i am choosy about the books i read , those are mostly non-fictional)
4. spend a lot of time with kids (my nieces Harini and Sakthi brought in a new world of change in my life)
5. cook, but when someone volunteer to cook, i will take a backseat. Why to trouble my bumm unnecessarily??!
6. concentrate and meditate, atleast one best thing about me
7. Execute ideas into actions

7 things I cannot do

1. hard work for exams, laziest bummmmmm
2. do work as per schedule, burning midnight oil from chilhood
3. live in mediocre lifestyle. Cant do da.... cant think about that too... always treat my soul with luxury
4. let down my ego.
5. live and perish as an aam admi, more repitition of #3
6. be talkative, will pray to god to make me talkative atleast in next birth. I tried hard, but cant do...
7. keep my place unorganized. dirty office sucks da.

7 things that attracts me to another person,

1. Smile, the best attractor
2. Motivation, this is one thing which i catches my attn
3. Dressing style, great dress switches me ON.
4. Confidence
5. who speaks a lot, chatterbox
6. extrovert & social
7. last world's freak attitude

7 people who inspired me most

1. Premnath, my cousin, scientist in NCL, Btech from IIT Bombay, MS and PhD from MIT
2. Angana Jacob, my CAT training batchmate. Great gal with lots and lots of confidence. You deserve IIM- A admission buddy! Best wishes
3. Gp, interesting blogger fren with lot of influence. chk what he did. earth2050
4. Sam Walton, his life is very interesting
5. My fren Venkat Prasad, the guy who taught me how to be an extrovert.
6. Mahatma Gandhi, the great Indian hero.
7. My Dad, i found a lot of my good character is inherited from him. thanx dad for making me a good human.

7 things I plan to do before I die, i tried hard to fill in this with non-biz stuff.

1. Own a cute ferrari two seater
2. travel extensively in European nations, swiz, france, italy, germany....
3. Write columns like writer sujatha
4. Teach kids
5. Date Isha Koppikar
6. learn flute and guitar
7. speak to Mittalica fame LN Mittal

7 souls who has lots of other important things to do but I still want to tag them...

1. Gawli
2. Jayan
3. Redi
4. Segu
5. Krishna
6. Veera
7. Karthik

Satheesh

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This personality test results summarises me better! Found it interesting 

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CANSLIM strategy!

William J. O'Neil, the global investment guru invented a strategy 'CANSLIM'. This is an acronym to identify the star stocks. When i came across this concept in Brand Quest quiz, I wasn't surprised. Management field is always flushed with acronyms and acronyms :-P . But the idea looks very simple. This is to analyse Penny stocks

[+] C -  current earnings growth,
Screening Parameter: EPS Growth Qtr vs. Qtr >= 18%

[+] A - Annual growth
Screening Parameter: EPS Growth Year vs. Year >= 25%
Screening Parameter: 12-Month EPS: Cont. Ops. >= 1.00
Screening Parameter: Latest Fiscal EPS >= $0.50
Screening Parameter: ROE 5-year average >= 5%

[+] N - New high,
Screening Parameter: Last Price >= 0.9*52-Week High
Screening Parameter: Last Price >= 0.8*5-Year High

[+]  S - Supply and demand of stocks
Screening Parameter: Shares Outstanding <= 25 million

[+]  L - Leader in industry
Screening Parameter: 12-Month Relative Strength >= 80

[+] I - Institutional ownerships
Screening Parameter: % Institutional Ownership >= 5%
Screening Parameter: % Institutional Ownership <= 35%

[+] M - Market direction
Dont play in a weak market (Best of the world advice... :-) )

Here in India, few people give investment advice based on CANSLIM.

• CupWatch - offering CANSLIM and cup-with-handle stock market research, charts, and economic indicators used as guides and advice for investors with business daily updates.
• Amateur Investors - offers stock market information, quotes, 401k retirement plans, and penny stock lists using CANSLIM strategies.

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Watch these!

Few business deals which caught my attention. These are worth to watch out for its success in future.

[+] Sivasankaran (Aircel) bought 65.4 percent equity stake in Barista, the coffee-pub chain from Turner Morrison for mere Rs.30 crores. He exits ISP field with no-profit, no-loss. He sold Dishnet DSL for Rs.270.

[+] Deccan chronicle bought the odyssey, the retail chain in chennai. Odyssey has three stores here. They are onto life style retailing. Now odyssey has included cafe in their units and expanding rapidly in chennai

[+] RPG group to launch Spencers hypermarket stores. Hypermarkets are similar to Sam's club (WAL- MART). RPG re-introduced spencers brand for these ventures. You might be aware RPG has Food world chain of retail stores in India. RPG's organized retailing started with one-store in one-city style. Foodworld opened a center in chennai. Now it has 89 stores. Revenue estimates are at Rs.750 crores. I heard about few RPG ventures, but the list is surprising. Few great brands are part of RPG kit. Ceat tyres (flagship co.), RPG, Zensar Technologies, Food world, spencers', Music world, Health & Glow, sare-gama, ... http://www.rpggroup.com/

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Blue ocean!

The first step in business could be a specialised product in unexplored market. This is principal of entrepreneurship driven business model. Identify a concept and believe in its potential. Live through this vision.

[+] Recently I heard about a business on domestic and industrial spike and lightning arrestors. Work includes design and installation. Market varies from all major industries. Surge protectors are mandatory in Telecom & IT. Concept in unheard of and unexplored. Few market leaders in world and it is near monopoly market in India. Revenue will be of few crores.

[+] My uncle is onto Fire alarm panel design. Well, he is one of early bird in the market. Now his fire alarm design are widely used all across India. Indian standards for fire alarm panel are recently framed with major inputs from him. Wow! what a way to lead an industry!

[+] Early birds always get a untold advantage in industry. Telecom in India saw a consolation phase where all early birds exit the business with high returns. This paved way for Airtel, Idea, Hutch market leadership. Sivasankaran (Aircel) comes to my mind when i think about winner of telecom race.

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Mindmap on business thoughts! I believe in speaking more on vision makes things happen. This is my first attempt to conceptualise the sublimed thoughts on building business empire! 

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Bleak chance in CAT!

Excited to see answer keys given by T.I.M.E today evening. My revised scores as per this key is quans 7 // Verbal 16.67 // DI 16.67 Total 40.33

But my scores as per IMS answer key still stands same Quans 7 // Verbal 4 // DI 16.67 Total 27.67

Dunno what to comment about this discrepancy?!! Verbal section was tricky this time, that even answer keys produced by 2 centres are not consistent.....What will be my final score? Today i have slight hope of CAT!

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Wow. What a CAT.

And now this. Just 90 questions. While questions have been heading southward, no one expected a sub-100 number of questions. What next ?? Just 10 question in CAT ? This, in our opinion, was not a test for the weak hearted. Hole your hears, the cut-offs would not be very high. List of surprises: 1. 60 two markers ????? 2. Negative marking scheme declared. 3. Just 90 questions. Looking at 90 questions only, it was obvious tat the paper will not be easy. And definitely not Verbal and RC. Section wise Analysis: Quantitative Section : The overall pattern was fairly interesting, with 6-7 relatively easy questions in the 1 marker variety and another 6-7 in the 2 markers. 16-17 for a 98 plus percentile. 14 – 15 for a 93 plus percentile, which would also be the cutoff for most IIMs. A score of around 12 would get you 85 + percentile, which would be for calls from other B-schools. Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension : What a VA and RC. Just 30 questions would make people feel that they would attempt them all. But the answer options in RC were very close and some of the verbal questions were unanswerable. A score of 25 + would be good. Most people would attempt around 35-38 marks worth of questions and hence the cutoff is likely to stand at last years level. Cut-off would be around 22 + and a score of 25 will be 98 plus percentile, and 22 at 93 percentile, sufficient for call from the.for IIMs and a score of around 18 would give you a 85 plus percentile. Data Interpretation : A blood bath must have ensued in DI. The ten 1-markers alone would have taken 20 minutes to answer, as one of them was calculation intensive (area under cultivation) and the other was very logical (average ages). If a student answers these 10 and manages to attempt a few 2 markers, he would sail through. Our expectation is that the cut-off in DI would be very low. So a 15 would get you 98 plus percentile, and 12 would get you a 92 plus percentile, which would be sufficient for IIM cut-offs. A score of 10 would be required for 85 percentile. Overall: Not a great paper by any standards. A huge let-down. The IIMs could have done much better. A very intimidating paper. Overall Cut-offs 55 plus for all 6 IIM calls, given sectional cut-offs are met. 50 plus for 1-2 IIM calls, maybe more. This would correspond to 98 percentile. A score of around 42-43 would be sufficient to get 90 percentile, and get calls from top B-schools affiliated to CAT. Keys available in few links Career Forum TIME IMS TCY Online My Approx score Quans 7 DI 16.67 Verbal 4(as per IMS Key) 13.33(as per TIME key) Dunno!! Courtesy- Career Avenues & PaGaLGuY.com Present CAT-2005 Analysis By PaGaLGuY.com News Service Published: November 20, 2005

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Nov 20 is CAT day!

Tommorrow (November 20th) is CAT exam day ( for PGDM in IIM, India). [+] I extend my best wishes and greetings for all those who appearing for CAT this year [+] to look for: CAT always has a element of surprise in pattern of test. It is not a static exam, always evolving YOY. [-] CAT is one which always comes with a debate " Is competition exams are necessary evil"? CAT is one of interesting and tuffest exams in India. [+] I would write tons and tons of article on CAT, as i have read many for past 7 months. I started CAT prep on april 2005. This is my first and hopefully final attempt on CAT. I did full time CAT training in IMS India. The SIMCATs are mock CAT exams conducted by IMS. Refer my previous blog for my performance in those SIMCATs [+] For starters, CAT is an aptitude test evaluates the candiate on Verbal ability, Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning and Quantitative Ability. CAT is the first phase in MBA admissions in India. IIM, the presitigious managment institutes in India are conducting CAT exam each year. Always scheduled on November 3rd sunday. Its test on time management skills.

Again Best Wishes and Prayers for all those appearing for CAT this year! Lets bell the CAT!

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My SIMCAT performance 

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SIMCAT scores 

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Ogilvy & Ogilvyism

David ogilvy, father of advertisement world, dont require an introduction. Started with no clients in 1948,ogilvy adagecny has now worldwide presence. Truly impressive! Here are few Ogilvyism on Hardwork Hard Work I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do. I believe in the Scottish proverb: "Hard work never killed a man." Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work. Agencies which frequently work nights and weekends are more stimulating, more successful - and more profitable. A tight ship is a happy ship - provided it is an informal ship. Ogilvy's latest SBI ads with "surprisingly SBI" caught my attention. Which bank has largest number of ATMs? which bank has more customers than population of Australia? blah..blah... Creative ads to promote the Big daddy of Indian Banking- State Bank of India.

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Tetra Pak

Dr.Ruben Rausing made his people to look beyond the obvious. It brought out an idea which changed the food processing world upside down. The perishables like milk are now pakced with by hygenic tetra pak than glass bottles or cheap packaing. The first packages are in tetra-hedron shape, hence named as Tetra-pak. These are called Tetra classic now. (Tetrapak classic is market leader in Mexico). Facts & Figures Revenue about US $ 8.8B 1- presence in 165 countries 2- packages delivered 160Billion 3- >20K employees TetraPak Research Labs Estd 1951 Product: Tetrabrik 1959 Carton and Plastic coating ManufacturerL Tetra Pak, Sweden The above two tetra pak designs are exhibited in Museum of Modern Art, NY with title " Inspired design that make life easier, safer and more fulfilling"

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Rajat Gupta on Creating Indian Entrepreneurs

Rajat Gupta's article on Need for Indian Entrepreuners, The issues addressed are Right environment, skills include management knowledge/talent, availability of seed fund, social sharing. Having a killer idea is the starter for Entrepreuner driven business model. Sabeer bhatia and host of other indians in silicon valley proven this. The nurturing environment like silicon valley is necessary. VCs gets attracted to placed where entrepreuship sustains. Entrepreuners wants a place with abudance of financial support from VCs. Its a classical chicken-and-egg problem. This is a yet to reach a tipping point. Host of silicon valley banks are working as consortium to bangalore to develop entrepreunrs in IT. I am still looking for club or website where entrepreurship thinktank exists. If you know any one, do keep me posted.

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Outsourcing- Bitter fruit?

UK's food retailer sainsbury brought its outsourced IT operation from Accenture to back-in house. Earlier,Sears Roebuck & co broke the US$1B IT contract with Computer science corp. Last year, JP Morgan chase and IBM part away with IT outsourcing deal. Deloitte consulting's recent survey indicated two third of respondents said that they have brought some outsourced IT work back in-house. The reason for this: Companies started viewing IT as strategy to regain control. sainsury wanted its IT back for gaining competitive advantage and JP Morgan too had similar reason. The Channel Insider

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Who gonna win sub-2k band Telecom market?

In India, Mobile phone garners 70Million subscribers. And a crazy sum of 3 Million new subscribers gets added every month. The current telecom growth is from rural sector rather than urban population. The sub-2k band mobile is the necessary tipping point to keep this growth rate. Nokia is a market leader with a whopping 75% market share, way ahead of motorola, samsung, sony ericsson. In sub-2k band, none are yet to emerge as clear leader. Nokia has 3 models below 3000, samsung boss and Motorola C138 are also in fray. The next 6-12 months will answer the question "Who gonna win sub-2k band telecom market". Infineon came up with <1000 Rs single chip solution for mobile phone. Nokia's mobile phone with this chip is expected to be afloat within a year. This is expected to bring down the minimum cost phone to Rs.1500-1600. Worth watching out!

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Inspiration!

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Identify!

She is a journalist, spear headed efforts to bring out 1992 Harshad mehta Capital market scam She worked with Indian Express. Identify Her!

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What's to stop India and China?

India and China governments are loved by Economists around the world. The growth rate in GDP are high. India shows 7% growth YOY and China shows 9% growth for past three decades. This time, both goverments got brickbats from this Economist article. In India, Manmohan goverment is termed as puppet government, left aligned and non-reform oriented. In china, the new goverment's agenda on rural reform is a forced one. Banking sector is in bad state in china. Non-performable assets and defaulters rate in china comes to 50% in banking sector. while India has done commendable work in that field.

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A professor at IIM was explaining marketing concepts

A professor at IIM was explaining marketing concepts: 1. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: "I am very rich. Marry me!" - That's Direct Marketing 2. You're at a party with a bunch of friends and see a gorgeous girl. One of your friends goes up to her and pointing at you says: "He's very rich. Marry him." - That's Advertising. 3. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and get her telephone number. The next day, you call and say: "Hi, I'm very rich. Marry me." - That's Telemarketing. 4. You're at a party and see gorgeous girl. You get up and straighten your tie, you walk up to her and pour her a drink, you open the door (of the car)for her, pick up her bag after she drops it, offer her ride and then say:"By the way, I'm rich. Will you marry me?" - That's Public Relations 5. You're! at a party and see gorgeous girl. She walks up to you and says: "You are very rich! Can you marry ! me?" - That's Brand Recognition. 6. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: "I am very rich. Marry me!" She gives you a nice hard slap on your face. - That's Customer Feedback. 7. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: "I am very rich. Marry me!" And she introduces you to her husband. - That's demand and supply gap. 8. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and before you say anything, another person come and tell her: "I'm rich. Will you marry me?" and she goes with him - That's competition eating into your market share. 9. You see and gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and before you say: "I'm rich Marry me!" your wi fe arrives. - That's restriction for entering new markets.

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Airtel- Vodafone Deal

This strategic partnership caught my eyes today. India is well connotated as fastest developing telecommunication market. Vodafone interests in Bharti will be a symbiotic one. while bharti can establish 3G space with the help of vodafone, the latter got a sizable pie in India's telecom share. Sunil Mittal's turnaround story is an impressive one. (Will blog about his rags to riches story soon). He is great role model for all first generation entrepreuners. His business moves are closely watched by world Telcos. Bharti is first co to outsource the core teleco activities like switches maintanence and billing. Sunil always says about exiting Telecom field in his age of 50. Bharti is venturing to fresh vegetables market, infrastructure field. Its on diversifying spree. P/E of Bharti Televentures is around 150+, while rest of sensex shares are on industry average (17-20). Yesterday when Airtel-Vodafone deal was announced in the market, BTV's share rose among the free fall in prices of other sensex shares. (Sensex is in corrective mode now, due to "Foreign funds exodus" -courtesy ET).

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Retailer Watch - 1 : Casas Bahia

        World's top revenue earning company is a retailing firm (Wal-Mart). The revenue and growth potential even beats the petrochemicals industry. Last year, I read Sam Walton's "Made in America". The inspiration and management philosphies followed in retailing firm are very attractive. Growth potential is limitless;Your thoughts are your only limit. In Indian scenario, FoodWorld and Pantaloon's success shows the hidden potential of retailer market. In India, regional players and local players dominate the scene in their market. I wish to write a series of blogs on top world retail leaders' business strategy. This is about CASAS BAHIA, Brazilian.

        Heard about Casas Bahia from "Fortunes at BOP" book by CK Prahalad. Casa Bahia's business model revolves around easy financing. They are market leaders in Brazilian retailer market. Its finance arm extends credits to all commoners, not based on their earning potential. BOP customers see casas bahia as way to achieve their aim and not as a capitalist icon. (Lucky!). Passbook and EMI schemes are used extensively. The credit history decides their buying limit. Cross-selling for existing customers when they checkin for EMI payment also adds up revenue. Same kind of business plan is emplyed by retailers in Indian local market too with lesser scale. Wal-mart style discount shops with Casas Bahia style easy financing will be sur-shot business model for retailer in India.

 

   

 

 

 

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Humanity will NEVER die!

This happened when I was commuting to office today morning. In busy traffic signal, a school boy in bike hit the lady in bike before him. Accident happened in the busy office hours. Luckily none got seriously hurt. Before clock tick even few seconds, 3-4 people came to their rescue. Impulse with which people reacted and came to rescue is commendable. Showing compassion to fellow human beings only can nourish the Human spirit in world. Thanks chennaites for proving the " Humanity will NEVER die! ".

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AutoGiants Restructuring Strategy!

"Our industry is beginning a dramatic restructuring which is sorely needed." - Bill Ford

GM shown $1.5B losses in third Quarter 2005. Ford comes up with $284M losses.

GM The top line growth fall added up wih unavoidable bottom line economic crisis added to the woes. This year GM payed $2B to Fiat Auto to extricate itself from the deal to buy Fiat. Delphi, car-parts biz of GM, filed chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. GM is faced with high labour costs, it says $1500 in price of every new vehicle goes towards health care for past and present employees. Leading credit agencies downgrade its debts to "Junk" status.

Ford Motors Ford is also facing problems with intransigent unions. Ford plans to shutdown NorthAmerican factories in the January restructuring plan. Bill Ford has to tackle labour union leaders to go ahead with the restructuring plans.

However the detroit carmakers are circumventing the main problem: American market tilt towards japense automakers. In past, GM's sale has fall down by 25% and Gord by 20%

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This is how stock markets work!!!

It was autumn, and the Red Indians on the remote reservation asked their New Chief if the winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was a Red Indian chief in a modern society, he couldn't tell what the weather was Going to be. Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he replied to his Tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect wood to be prepared. But also being a practical leader, after several days he got an idea. He Went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked "Is the coming winter going to be cold?" "It looks like this winter is Going to be quite cold indeed," the meteorologist at the weather service Responded. So the Chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more Wood. A week later, he called the National Weather Service again. "Is it Going to be a very cold winter?" "Yes," the man at National Weather Service again replied, "It's definitely going to be a very cold winter." The Chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect Every scrap of wood they could find. Two weeks later, he called the National Weather Service again. "Are you Absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?" "Absolutely," The Man replied. "It's going to be one of the coldest winters ever." "How can you be so sure?" the Chief asked. The weatherman replied, "The Red Indians are collecting wood like Crazy." This is how stock markets work!!!

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W. Chan Kim and Mauborgne's Blue Ocean Strategy

Eagerly waiting to read this book on corporate strategy Here’s the editorial review from Publisher’s Weekly, which I grabbed from Amazon.com: “Kim and Mauborgne's blue ocean metaphor elegantly summarizes their vision of the kind of expanding, competitor-free markets that innovative companies can navigate. Unlike ‘red oceans,’ which are well explored and crowded with competitors, ‘blue oceans’ represent ‘untapped market space’ and the ‘opportunity for highly profitable growth.’ The only reason more big companies don't set sail for them, they suggest, is that ‘the dominant focus of strategy work over the past twenty-five years has been on competition-based red ocean strategies’ - i.e., finding new ways to cut costs and grow revenue by taking away market share from the competition. With this groundbreaking book, Kim and Mauborgne-both professors at France's Insead, the second largest business school in the world, aim to repair that bias. Using dozens of examples-from Southwest Airlines and the Cirque du Soleil to Curves and Starbucks-they present the tools and frameworks they've developed specifically for the task of analyzing blue oceans. They urge companies to ‘value innovation’ that focuses on ‘utility, price, and cost positions,’ to ‘create and capture new demand’ and to ‘focus on the big picture, not the numbers.’ And while their heavyweight analytical tools may be of real use only to serious strategy planners, their overall vision will inspire entrepreneurs of all stripes, and most of their ideas are presented in a direct, jargon-free manner. Theirs is not the typical business management book's vague call to action; it is a precise, actionable plan for changing the way companies do business with one resounding piece of advice: swim for open waters.”

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A FRIEND IN ME

Here is one classic poem from my cousin. Tht it to be a good one to publish in my blog. A FRIEND IN ME - By Prassana As yet another day of life shall dawn I am fuelled up and gather my brawn All alone at work with no one to blend So in me, I call upon a very old friend! Hours pass us by as we work and sweat In each other’s presence time is unfelt I share with you things under my mask It is the light of truth in which we bask! Our scape of the world is very colorful Yet, the integrity of ethos is beautiful My perception is illusive and aritificial Your divinity penetrates the superficial! I lose control in the clutches of impulse You strengthen me as all ill you repulse In state of perplexity my path becomes hazy But you are my sunlight and I am your daisy! One morning I set to bring you into my life Because the reasons I need you are rife And my exploration unraveled the mystery That you my dear friend is GOD in me !!!

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Contact Lens Industry - overivew

OptiStock MarketWatch - Contact Lens Report - November 2002: "Robert Baird & Co" Nice article to read about optical lens industry and its market!

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Fortune 500 in 2004

List of Fortune 500 companies in 2004. 1. Ofocurse WALMART with US $ 260B. .... 14. Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Omaha, 28, $63.859 ... 46. Microsoft, US $46B ... 425.Starbucks Corp., Seattle, $4.0755

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About Lenovo - India

About Lenovo - India Lenova- IBM's PC Merger partner! One more rags to riches story and first generation entrepreuners to get world market with surprise!! Kudos!

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Enigma

Dream of the Dolphin In every colour there's the light. In every stone sleeps a crystal. Remember the Shaman, when he used to say: Man is the dream of the dolphin. -- Engima (Cross of Changes)

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Respond instead of reacting: Azim Premji

Respond instead of reacting: Azim Premji Nice piece of writing from Corporate Honcho Azim! worth spending few mins on it!

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India likely to miss bus on 250m phone users by '08 - The Economic Times

India likely to miss bus on 250m phone users by '08 - The Economic Times MUMBAI: As India greets yet another World Telecom Day, telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran’s target of achieving 250m telecom subscribers by ’08 increasingly appears to be a mirage, rather than a vision. Industry observers are sceptical of meeting the minister’s target within the given period. The scepticism is based on hard numbers. The current total subscriber base is about 100.15m, of which mobile users accounted for 53.65m as of April ’05. To reach a target of 250m within the next 36 months, India needs to add 5.5-6m subscribers per month. Currently, India adds less than 2m subscribers per month, except for the addition of 2.03m users during April ’05. Industry officials are not sure whether the remaining month-on-month customer target of 3m will be met in the next three years. ”The market is not looking as big as before. I think there is a lot of hype around. We are over-estimating India’s demand,’’ an official at a telecom company said. Going by the current trend, the growth in the telecom subscriber base depends solely on mobile telephony. The mobile subscriber base has exceeded the fixed line base of 46m. The teledensity of the country as of April ’05 stands at 9.26m. The 55% year-on-year growth in the mobile subscriber base over the March ’04 numbers of 33.6m makes India one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. ”But we need a higher growth rate to reach the ambitious target set by the minister,” say industry officials. As growth rates in the saturated urban markets slows down, the rural market is being touted as the new engine of growth. Reliance Infocomm and Bharti Tele-Ventures are moving into the hinterland with a target of setting up infrastructure across 5,000 towns in the current fiscal. The idea is to match the presence of Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL), which tapped into the latent potential for communications in rural areas to become one of the top three mobile players in the country. ”It’s okay for BSNL to go rural since they are not concerned about profit and loss. A private player needs to first check on the return on investments,’’ industry sources said. However, Kamal Nanavaty, COO, Reliance Infocomm’s wireless business, feels that the target of 250m by ’08 is achievable, provided handsets are available at Rs 1,000 or less. “Give me a handset that is affordable, and we can achieve the target,” he says. His rivals in other cellular companies do not share the same confidence. “Are you saying that once the subscriber gets a handset of around Rs 1,000, then about 50% of the population will go mobile? The price elasticity is not endless,” he said. Another operator feels that India may be able to meet the target by ’09, rather than ’08. “Of course, this is subject to the fact that all the problems that plague the sector today, such as scarcity of spectrum and high taxes, are sorted out,” he said. As one industry observer puts it, ”The government better come out with a more concrete plan to achieve the target.”

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The Hindu : Business : Kingfisher Airlines takes delivery of first Airbus

The Hindu : Business : Kingfisher Airlines takes delivery of first Airbus Check out the Auspicious date Kingfisher chosen to Launch its airlines! May -9 ....Its my DOB ;))

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BYODKM.net - A Mac Mini Enthusiast Network

BYODKM.net - A Mac Mini Enthusiast Network BYODKM -Bring your own display, keyboard and Mouse. Mac Mini is a BYODKM -Steve Jobs,CEO, Apple Inc Quite interesting computer! 2 inches high- similar to Laptop. Open firmware to allow any keyboard , display and mouse. Great!

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Coimbatore Institute of Technology

CIT Coimbatore Institute of Technology Official website of my Almamater CIT

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Advanced IP Pipeline | U.S. Telecom Spending Hits $784 B In 2004

Advanced IP Pipeline | U.S. Telecom Spending Hits $784 B In 2004 Revival of Telecom??!! Great to see this report! World Telecom market is US $ 2 Trillion by the year 2005.

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SBC Acquiring AT&T For $16 Billion

Advanced IP Pipeline | SBC Acquiring AT&T For $16 Billion Is it Acquisition season? US $16B is not a high price of AT&T. Is such a big company like AT&T worth only $16B. Need to read more on AT&T!

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SiliconStrategies.com - Silicon Strategies' 20 Executives to Watch in 2005

SiliconStrategies.com - Silicon Strategies' 20 Executives to Watch in 2005 Here is current list of "Executives to Watch in 2005" w.r.t silicon strategies VLSI, ASICs... — stay tuned for the updates: Elke Eckstein, chief executive officer of Altis Semiconductor Boaz Eitan, chairman and CEO of Saifun Semiconductor Nabeel Gareeb, president and CEO, MEMC Electronic Materials Eli Harari, chairman, CEO and president of SanDisk David Milne, chief executive officer, Wolfson Microelectronics Hiroshi Oura, chairman and CEO of Advantest Corp. Hector Ruiz, chairman and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Michael Splinter, president and CEO of Applied Materials Hiroshi Suzuki, president and CEO of Hoya Corp. Richard Templeton, president and CEO of Texas Instruments Definitely like to read about these impressive big bosses!

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