Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Jan 7, 2012, 2:19 am
With Indian team loosing out against Australia without any fight, a weird thought came to my mind. Is it weird?!!!.. may not be,......... might be a strategic management, the need of the hour ... .. : ).   If corporates can has strategy to sell their products and so is the army having strat...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Dec 30, 2011, 9:12 am
As 2011 come to a close and a new year begins, wishing you all a very happy and prosperous new year! Looking back at 2011 from economic perspective, we have seen reports, that the world had not come out fully from recession and some even predicting a double dip recession. 'Gold' has out shin...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Dec 23, 2011, 5:47 am
To me, our Indian school education is more oriented towards testing memory power. No doubt, getting high marks in school is a significant achievement, but at times students and parents tend to overlook the importance of logical thinking or apt handling of situational problems, which arises from time...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Dec 17, 2011, 4:49 am
Read an article in a leading daily about Aadhaar card . To me, it looks like "Aadhaar"may hit a road block. Apart from cost, which is estimated to be very high, I had other thoughts, when I went to 'Aadhar' centre for getting enrolled about a month back. A. For each card, it took about 15 to 20 min...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Nov 26, 2011, 2:51 am
Couple of days back, India had given green signal to FDI investment retail sector. We are seeing a mixed response on its impact in media. I still remember early nineties when there used to be protest for introduction of computers in government sector and when a famous food joint opened its operatio...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Nov 10, 2011, 7:32 am
If its time to upgrade to next release of Oracle EBS, then depending upon the EBS footprint and complexity, the most likely question which comes up in one's mind is whether to upgrade or Re - implement. Before, I try to put my answers, lets look at, what is Upgrade Vs Re-implement. Upgrade : If you...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Nov 6, 2011, 3:04 am
This is in continuation of my part 1 and part 2 on cloud computing. As we progress, we would well be moving away from ‘Silos’ based computer system and application. Cloud computing infrastructure would be residing in data centre, this would call for efficient use of hardware and more over manpow...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Oct 27, 2011, 7:57 am
“Sow, whatever you wish to reap”. Sub conscious mind accepts what is impressed upon it or what you consciously believe. Your subconscious mind is like a bed of soil that accepts any kind of seed, good or bad. Your thoughts are active, they are the seed, so naturally negative or positive thoughts...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Oct 23, 2011, 9:40 am
About a year back, I had written in my blog about email Phishing A year later ATM card skimming seems to growing at alarming rate. If you are an ATM user, are you safe and a broader scale, how safe is India? Though, have been hearing about, ATM card skimming for some time now, was not really bother...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Oct 22, 2011, 6:41 am
This is in continuation of my part 1 on cloud computing. Organizations are not going to jump into cloud computing, they would evolve and move towards characteristic of cloud computing infrastructure over period of time as they feel confident about the same. As far as cloud computing is concerned, I...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Oct 22, 2011, 1:58 am
Wishing you all a very happy and eco-friendly Deepavali !!! For most of us, lighting of fireworks is the highlight of deepavali. For many of us, its not deepavali, if one does not ignite sparkling colour light OR hear deafening sound after shutting the ears. In fact, I have known communities where ...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Oct 16, 2011, 7:25 am
As the IT field evolves, it becomes more mature & the need to optimize cost naturally drives the innovation and creativity. The new concept coupled with technology, which is now doing rounds is ‘Cloud computing’. I had come across people, with limited IT knowledge enquiring me as what is ‘clo...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Oct 15, 2011, 8:29 am
Kodaikanal - This word bring a cool and pleasant feeling in everyone's mind. We’ve decided to have few days of vacation in first week of Oct. With about 2 to 3 days available, we got into planning to make a trip to Kodaikanal Or Munnar. After animated discussion with family members, we finally dec...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Sep 25, 2011, 1:52 am
From mobile telephony to web, counter sales to call centre, you find application & system to support customer & sales. However, this might keep creating discrete system, if there is no one source for master data. The new buzzword in IT industry is MDM, Let's briefly look as why MDM (Master data mana...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Sep 23, 2011, 6:42 am
In about a decade's time, the ERP market has become more mature. The major players in these market have consolidated their position. Though, its pretty difficult to compare what one had in ERP market about a decade back and what is now available, however, some feature worth noting are, Application...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Jul 24, 2011, 1:46 am
In the next few weeks, there are two issues watched closely. i. Raising of debt ceiling by US. ii. Bail out package for Greece. About two years back (2008-09), financial institution and banks were in trouble, which required to bail out and so was the Greece. Money had been pumped in to save them, b...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - May 25, 2011, 9:54 am
"What's real beauty ?", so if there is going to be a real beauty, it also mean there is going to be "not so" real beauty or temporary beauty or which cannot be beautiful as time progresses. Ideally, human being or even for that matter animals may look beautiful in prime, but loses out their charm as...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Apr 29, 2011, 8:20 am
Some time back, I had a opportunity to present to my peers in the organization about Six - Sigma, based on my knowledge. Many of you might be aware that large manufacturing companies do follow the six sigma methodologies towards continuous improvement of their operation. These companies use six sig...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Apr 16, 2011, 12:19 pm
Being a weekend was a beach, as I stroll past a group of senior citizen the discussion was around the politics, the 1960’s, 70’s, 80’s political scenario was flashing through their speech. The talk was about how simple the politician those days and how they were all glued to All India Radio wh...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Apr 14, 2011, 1:16 am
The post is continuation of my earlier post (Part 1) and (Part 2) on the same subject. We will now look at other few factors. Phase 3: Business Process Engineering or Re-engineering: An ERP system has to be configured to work as per expectation. The business processes have to be mapped to ERP pro...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Apr 8, 2011, 10:25 am
The post is continuation of my earlier post (Part 1) on the same subject The first 3 factors are can be considered as Phase1, the below mentioned factors can be towards Phase 2. ‘One Team’: Once it’s decided to go in for ERP, the next step is to have a steering committee, which will play an i...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Apr 2, 2011, 12:09 am
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system had evolved over the period of last two decades. By ERP, I wish to look at ERP system with user base of at least 200+ with more than a million dollars in investments. I believe Oracle Application, PeopleSoft, SAP, Baan, MFG PRO etc would qualify into this le...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Apr 1, 2011, 12:18 pm
If anyone is asked with a question as which are the richest countries, the answer would normally be any developed country like US, UK, Japan, Netherlands etc. Even, I was thinking in the same way till, I hit upon some articles which showed the public and external debt content in some of the develope...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Feb 27, 2011, 2:32 am
It would be a welcome change for any movie goer who watches Prakash Raj's 'Payanam' -tamil movie. One can rarely imagine an Indian movie being produced without the usual masala of fews songs, couple of heroic fights, romance, sentiments. Payanam is one such movie which would not have any of these, ...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Feb 26, 2011, 10:00 pm
I read with interest a recent news article in a leading daily about a cluster of garment making unit in Tirupur, India, predominantly SME joining together to go in for Enterprise Resource Planning through cloud computing. 'Cloud computing' is one where in the application is used over Internet, where...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Jan 28, 2011, 1:26 am
Some events in life causes emotion, the feeling depends on individual personality. Being an Indian the emotional bondings are much more. Hmm... do you think why say so?, otherwise, Indian film industry like Bollywood, Tollywood, Kolliwood would not have survived, there has always been a song sequen...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Jan 25, 2011, 8:41 am
I just completed my second anniversary in blogging. My first post was on 20th Jan 2009 and thought of an introspection as what I have achieved out of blogging. My total posting crossed more than 100, page view of approx 10,000. The page view in the last one month was in the range of 3000. Hmm, that...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Jan 22, 2011, 12:32 am
Last week had written about the excerpts of my discussion with Mr Rajshekar, the chief promoter of Apnacomplex venture in part 1. Now, for the rest of our discussion: iv. In the last couple of years, we are able to see few other similar web based application towards apartment management. How differ...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Jan 16, 2011, 3:24 am
In the last few year, apartment complex with more than 100 apartments in same complex is quite common and been accepted way of living particularly in Metro's. However, post handover woes are quite common and so is the maintenance being overlooked. Maintenance management, communication management, is...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Jan 15, 2011, 9:27 am
Hmm... Another round of petrol price increase and it will now be around Rs 63/lit at Chennai, but I fail to understand why?. Since Jan 2010, I lost count number of time fuel price was increased, if today increase if taken into account, it most likely to be the 5th since Jan 2010. I am wondering wha...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Jan 15, 2011, 12:49 am
In the last few year, apartment complex with more than 100 apartments in same complex is quite common and been accepted way of living particularly in Metro's. However, post handover woes are quite common and so is the maintenance being overlooked. Maintenance management, communication management, is...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Jan 1, 2011, 5:10 am
Whenever, one talks about country's economy, the two parameters GDP and inflation plays important role in determining country's economy. Before getting into the details, lets look at brief definition of GDP and Inflation. GDP: The gross domestic product (GDP) is the amount of goods and services pr...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Dec 28, 2010, 4:51 am
I would say this decade (2001 to 2010) saw some great technology innovation which made common man life much easier. If some one had asked me in year 1998 whether ATM, mobile technology, online banking etc would be used by common man or people of developing nation, I would have had my own doubts at t...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Dec 24, 2010, 10:03 pm
When you read through any Indian newspaper these days or view any TV channel, you would find all kinds of scams being reported..... the 2G scams, Commonwealth games scam, Adarsh housing and so on... The total value of these scam allegations are reported to be in the range of Rs 2,00,000 crores. N...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Dec 22, 2010, 12:19 am
I had earlier written about innovative E-commerce ventures Part 1. I now thought of providing few other innovative ventures which I came across. Food court at Home: In fact, few years before couple of my colleagues, discussed about this e-commerce venture, a website which can provide detailed listi...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Dec 19, 2010, 10:06 am
I had written about "WFH" (Work from Home) or telecommute Way of life few days back. It was interesting to see department of transportation promoting 'telecommute' or WFH at connecticut, US. They have an exclusive website towards telecommute. The website provides details as how to get the same star...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Dec 15, 2010, 10:20 pm
As part of indiblogger (network of bloggers) social network, I came across a note about blog contest towards Akshya Patra foundation which feed poor children. On going through the contest details, couple of thoughts cropped up in my mind and hence thought of sharing it. The 2 contest winner along wi...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Dec 11, 2010, 10:43 am
I was recollecting as how a normal weekday would start about a decade ago, would wake up at 6.30 AM, take a walk and get ready to office and leave to office by 9.00 AM, it would take about 45 minutes to travel to my office, park my vehicle and then complete my register signing formalities and by the...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Dec 11, 2010, 5:15 am
As we approach, the final quarter in the financial year, investment proof are to be produced. I used to ponder over, the reason behind asking for some of the investment declaration and associated proof required for them, always felt it can be made much more simpler. There is no proof required for co...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Nov 27, 2010, 11:10 am
Well, its my first blog article on Chennai, which is more related to railway infrastructure I happened to travel through Chennai MRTS from Velachery to light house today. Some of my thoughts which flashed on my mind, on which I do not have answers. Why are most of the station from Velachery to Beac...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Nov 27, 2010, 8:26 am
While browsing through some of the economy blogs, I hit upon this link, which details about rebalancing global economy The above link also offer free ebook and hence, nice to go through it when you find time. Some interesting points I found out, while reading it... The US, with a population of arou...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Nov 5, 2010, 4:10 am
Expectation seems to run high prior to Obama's India visit. But to me, it will not be like Clinton's 5 day visit to India in late 1990. When Clinton visited India, US was economically very strong, the dollar exchange rate were the best compared to any country, more importantly, they were looking fo...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Oct 30, 2010, 11:55 pm
I hit upon this website. It interested me, as it was inline with my earlier post, which appeared in trak.in. The only difference is in India, real estate price had continued to increase and looks to be heading beyond the reach of a common man with decent earnings. So, as far as India is concerned, ...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Oct 24, 2010, 3:14 am
"Small is beautiful" the famous book written by E.F. Schumacher in 1970's, not very sure whether this can be applicable after 3 decade are not, but interestingly, within India, we do have some E-commerce based start up, which was made name in matter of 3 to 4 years times. These start-up are born fr...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Oct 17, 2010, 3:31 am
As per a recent article in the leading news paper, "Global imbalance" is the cause for economic crisis. The US is running huge trade deficits whereas country such as China due to its vast exports across the globe had generated trade surplus. The surplus money had found its way into US and since the...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Oct 9, 2010, 6:41 am
World is turning out too materialistic, with many plastic card (credit cards) or finance option available it’s very easy to spend money. What’s not so easy to spend money wisely? Knowing the difference between “wants” and “needs” is an important part of learning to manage money. Wants a...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Sep 25, 2010, 6:14 am
There has been quite a lot of instance of misuse of credit card, in spite of it one is not sure about the security measure taken by the bank. Credit card is a flexible instrument and very handy in the sense that, one need not carry cash in the valet. But safety is always a question mark in one mind...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Sep 18, 2010, 11:48 pm
The last two decades, the heavy weight battle is gaining momentum, the trend shows its between USD Vs Gold, particularly when compared with India currency. The early ninties, India had balance of payment crisis, which made them to pleadge gold to IMF for a loan. I still remember, the exchange rate ...
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Sep 18, 2010, 1:36 am
Read this on Rediff, simple and straight. Its all about taking up the challenges or stumbling blocks into stepping stone towards the goal. Inspiring story of a self made entreprenuer
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Guha R. posted an article on My thoughts - Sep 1, 2010, 3:51 pm
Clearly this device cannot be described through text blogging. The feature I wish my smart phone had !, not just one feature but it has many.... Presenting to you, the future technology smart phone (click on link) . For best results, have your microphone handy. When I found this phone in the net, I...
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