Posted on March 11, 2009 by kgaurav
One of the ways organisations can optimize their IT Infrastructure cost is aligning it to expected performance standards. Quite often in the past most of us have invested into Infrastructure which provisions for supreme performance.
For example a performance management system being hosted on a platform that gives 2 millisecond response time with 10,000 concurrent users. [...]
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Posted on March 7, 2009 by kgaurav
During recession or turbulent times firms need to adopt different strategies for competing or creating value for which consumers will be willing to pay. Most often when we think of effectiveness in very constrained fashion. whenever we talk of efficient operations we start looking at our own internal operations and start finding ways to optimize [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2009 by kgaurav
As the social networking grows more popular and web 2.0 starts making an impact on businesses world wide. I believe the corporates will have to change their thinking about their value propositions.
It will no longer be sufficient to be the most innovative product company or company that has the lowest cost of production. The demands [...]
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Posted on May 24, 2008 by kgaurav
While outsourcing the projects to offshore is typically a management decision, making it successful is more then often left to the execution team. The execution should establish strong policies and procedures for project monitoring and control to ensure that the distant team is integrated into their organization. There need to be mechanism for:
Progress Reporting [...]
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Posted on May 18, 2008 by kgaurav
This job is the best I’ve had and I’m very happy. I work from home when not on the client premise.
Typical travel time about 70% of the time but mostly 3-4 week trips
Opportunity to explore world along-with the joy of working
sometimes travel is with short-notice so it can be hard to plan
Sometime long hours would [...]
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Posted on May 18, 2008 by kgaurav
What differentiates a consultant….
AGILITY
WINNING MINDSET
SPEED
KNOWLEDGE & EXPERTISE
FUN LOVING
COMMITMENT
LISTENING ABILITIES
ANALYTICAL CAPABILITIES
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by kgaurav
I have created this group to get similar thinking people to form
“An eco-system that allows experts from consulting practices across organizations to engage and learn from each other”
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