Yesterday, I was making a ppt for some operations related issues and came across a couple of articles on the web related to how manufacturing outsourcing is happening. While reading one of the articles I have realized a strange thing. It is, companies obcession with acronyms. So much so that they have acronyms like MOST [...]

My appointment with Dr. Lecter

Tomorrow is a global day. We have 3 classes starting with Strategic Planning and ending with a double whammy in the form of 2 HR classes. That means you can something like “That will have longterm strategic impact on the firm and place it in a competitively disadvantageous position vis-a-vis competitors and demotivate employees from [...]

Ideas … Infinite!

Well, it is not a T-shirt caption. Rather it is about the current term in the 2 year course i want to blog. When term3 kick started 10 days ago, I thought it would be another 30% content and 70% global term with more fundaes on various areas of management and understanding people. I couldnt [...]

c’est la vie

Deming and Juran make sure that you are never lazyZeitglow sees to it that you dont get cozy
your sleep curve is platykurtic on any dayand you work like a dog even on sunday
you do an extensive study of unemploymentjust to make sure that you get a better employment
you are an example of un-balanced score [...]

Kingsize weekend

After coming here the meaning of weekend blurred a lot. We have seen some crazy weeks in both the terms. Day before yesterday was different experience altogether.
Unlike weekends for most people living in India, certain sample of hazaar people celebrate it in a different way. Their weekend starts on Saturday afternoon and ends on Sunday [...]

Amazing reality of marketing surveys

Today we had Marketing Research (MR) as discussion topic in marketing class. After a couple of presentations and Q&A sessions the prof raised the question (in fact he did raise more than one question.) “When is the appropriate time to do MR?”despite the fact that this question was raised at 1:15 pm when half the [...]

Mission Statement of Group 7

Darn… you must be thinking that we are there. Well, cant really help having a mission statement for our project group when most of us are with global perspective.
After much o’ deliberation, certain musharraff in the group came up with this long and awkward sentence which disables management from thinking clearly.
We are a [...]