Category: Ideas

Ideas

3 Inspiring Videos

First video is an inspiring tale of someone who turned what many would assume to be a handicap into her strength and shows that if you really want to achieve something and are willing to pay the price, you can achieve anything in life. Second video is about a teacher who talks about the fact that every kid in this world needs someone who believes in the kid and what he/she can achieve. I believe this is true not only for the kids in school but for each of us at every stage in life. Third video is about how […]

Business Model, Ideas, Innovation

First Step in the Journey Towards Becoming a Real-time Business

There is a lot of talk about Real-time data and how real-time data can provide organizations to be able to respond in near real-time to business events. However, to realize such a vision, there is a lot that needs to change in the way we do business. One of the most basic thing that needs to change is how we run our business itself. Most organizations currently operate in the mode where the decision making sits at the top of the hierarchy. We have a C-Suite where we have the Chief Executives, who decide the strategy and roll-it out for […]

Ideas

Ideas for Budget Free Training and Development for Your Employees

Today, all organizations are under constant stress to reduce costs and maintain profitability. One of the casualties is the training budgets to train your employees. What might we do to continually improve the learning and development activities of the employees without much budgetary support? Free Training: As a team, decide what skills need to be developed. Then scout for an online course on platforms like coursera or VentureLab and participate in the learning activity as a team (most of these are free and hence no budget limitations). Alternately, create teams and assign each team to attend specific courses and then get […]

Ideas

How Children From a School Inspired a Nation (Video)

I came across the TED video of Kiran Bir Sethi, founder of the RiverSide School in Ahmedabad and her work with the children in her school. If those children can do what they have done, there is no reason for us to complain about things that we can change. We need to get up and change what we do not want! I CAN Enjoy the video!

Ideas, Leadership

Simple but not easy

The solution to most complex problems that you could ever encounter are almost always Simple, but not easy! You want to increasei your profits; Solution is to grow your sales and reduce your costs, together. Simple, but not easy. You want to increase your sales; Keep your existing customers happy so they buy more from you and keep adding more customers to the system. Simple, but not easy. You want to reduce your costs; reduce and eliminate all activities that do not contribute to either acquire or service a customer. Simple, but not easy. You want to transform yourself from […]