Adhipathy

Ask the following questions very often after starting the company…

adhipathy — Mon, 28 May 2007 08:45:30 +0000

In our day-to-day operations, are we differentiating between symptom and cause?
Actually, no. We are detecting symptom of something wrong and fix them. That gives a temporary relief. But, will that be sufficient for long run? Certainly no. So, when we taking any actions for correction, we should give more importance to identify the cause & correct it entirely rather than correcting for then.

Are we (executives of a company) tracking ourselves day-to-day with the growth of the industry and world?
This varies from person to person. But, majority of people are lagging in this. Nobody cares much about their personal career growth from time to time. They are measuring only about the monetary change and not about the knowledge growth.

Are we comparing our products/services with our competitors on regular basis and find the problems in our model?
Only on managing the company, these things are considered. But actually this has to be done at all levels. When a particular method is successful in a similar company, some consideration should be given at ALL Levels of the company.

What were considered with time while taking decisions?
Did the company decide,
  1. When to do something?
  2. How long to allow something to happen?
  3. What is the best sequence of moves?

Creativity and innovation

adhipathy — Mon, 28 May 2007 08:44:39 +0000

Yesterday, I went through few articles about creativity and innovation in Competition refresher January 07 edition. Very interesting articles.

What is creativity?

1. Doing somethign new product

2. Do something new by method or process

3. Enhance the existing method

What is the road to creativity?

1. Thinking.

2. More thinking.

3. Lateral thinking.

Some characteristics of Creative/innovators:

1. Absence minded – Thinking about something always.

2. Different sense of humour – Whay they seem as humour may not be humour for others. Becuase, thier view of seeing things are totally different from others.

3. Less social – They won’t much mingle with social people.

and lot more.

Ask the following questions very often after starting the company

adhipathy — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:24:49 +0000

Risk Management – 4A’s.

adhipathy — Tue, 22 May 2007 04:53:53 +0000

In SearchCIO newsletter, I got something related to risk management in a firm.

4 A’s of risk management.

1. Availability - Keep systems always available.
2. Access - Give access only to the required people.
3. Accuracy - Produce your product accurately, such that it meets the standard or requirements.
4. Agility - Based on the market condition, change yourself.

Source: SearchCIO.com by Karen.

Good Project Managers

adhipathy — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:55:16 +0000

Just went through one article about project manager and here are few info from that;

Good Project Managers are,

· PMs are part artist, part administrator and part technician.· Good PM must constantly sell the project.· Keep all constituents in loop, deal with changing customer demands and report back to upper management.

IsNumieric Function in C# – To use in Excel..

adhipathy — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:16:01 +0000

Excel is a peculiar one. If you have any numbers or text like 32E22, it takes to exponent form. But there are so many logics by which it can be done. In C# one famous method is to have try & catch and by calling converting function, throw error. This is unethical method. You should not throw exception to proceed with your logic. So, I wrote the following code to capture that. Simple & straight forward.

strToCheck – String that needs to be checked.
boolDecimalConsideration – Whether period (.) has to be considered for validating

public static bool IsNumeric(string strToCheck, bool boolDecimalConsideration){

if(strToCheck == “”)return false;

char [] chArr = strToCheck.ToCharArray();char [] chSeperator = {‘E’};

bool boolRetVal = true;if(strToCheck.IndexOf(“E”) > 0){

string [] strArr = strToCheck.Split(chSeperator);

if (strArr.Length > 2)boolRetVal = false;

if (boolRetVal == true && IsNumeric(strArr[0], true) && IsNumeric(strArr[1], false))boolRetVal = true;else

boolRetVal = false;return boolRetVal;}

for(int i=0; i{

char ch = chArr[i];

int it = (int)ch;if( boolDecimalConsideration && ch == ‘.’)

continue;else if( (it >= 48 && it <= 57) )

continue;else

boolRetVal = false;}

return boolRetVal;}

The comedy of Errors – Review 1.

adhipathy — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:30:45 +0000

I read the book ‘Project Management – A comedy of errors’ by Prasanna Kumar last week. It’s quite an interesting book. This story is about a guy Saminathan (referred as Sam), an IT Professional, as usual with great expectations about his career and the sad side is as usual nothing got materialized. When he get a chance, he proves it and he learnt all management tactics & techniques from Bobby Reddy, manager for onsite (referred as Bob). There are lots of things that have been discussed and conveyed like a store form. As a gist, I am giving here few of them.

Something not related to Management, but would be used by managers:

· Do you know elephants don’t die of old age; they die due to the inability to eat?

Something related to Management

· Do you know 20% of our efforts produce 80% of our results?

· Spiderman syndrome – arriving uninvited and spinning a web of supplementary problems

· Rules to handle customers:

· Rule 1: Customer is always right.

· Rule 2: If customer is wrong, go back to rule 1.

· Boss responsibility to push work down and to pull results up.

Fatalist(!?)

adhipathy — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:43:12 +0000

Fatalist

When we see self efficacy, there is always a controversial topic about luck. The same is applicable for performance also. What is luck? When something favourable happens without expectation, that is luck. If it is unfavourable then it is fate. If somebody believes in luck and fate, they will accept the above. If there is somebody who doesn’t believe fate or luck, then what will they tell about this.

Let us take a person who believes in fate & luck. He is going in a bus and the bus break down. He thinks that as a fate. If he gets a good bus like volvo and reaches ahead of expected time, he thinks that as his luck.

Similarly, let us take a person who doesn’t believe in all these luck & fate. He believes himself. In the above situation, he puts blame on external factors or he blames on himself that he didn’t factor properly before starting, etc.

A stupid analysis on this:
Fate is considered as written in the head and that is within body. Luck is considered as some extra power, could be within or outside body. When we take the second case, when the person blames himself does that equal to an entity inside your body. Can we consider this as fate(?). Thinking is a process of brain, is in head. Luck could be outside and can be equated to external environment/circustances.

Paradox of Choice – View from Review.

adhipathy — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:58:20 +0000

I came across the review of the book “Paradox of choice“. I came across few interesting things in that review.

Problem with options:

Now-a-days, there are so much of options available in every domain and field. When somebody goes with a problem, he is in a position to exercise each of them and thus there are lots of chances for him to go an option which not an opt one, though it can solve the problem. It is better to go with lesser number of choices than varieties.

Freedom (from) to:

Political philosopher Isaiah Berlin says,
Negative liberty – “Freedom from” – Means freedom from constraint, freedom from being told what to do by others, etc.
Positive liberty – “Freedom to” – Opportunity to be the author for your life.

Lord Surya’s 7 Horses.

adhipathy — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:17:40 +0000

what does Lord Surya’s seven horses signify?
We should be proud of our ancestors who found that Lord Surya has 7 seven horses and each of them is representation of each colour from VIBGYOR.
This I came to know from the discourse of Sree Muralidhara Swamiji last week.