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Managing High-Tech: Relationships and Networking
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Bridging academics with main-street. Tuesday, April 17, 2007. Relationships and networking with the right people is crucial to be successful. Jim Collins in his article “ View Point”. Talks about the need for managers to hire the right people. 8220; Too many companies spend too much time trying to motivate the right behaviors in the wrong people, rather than getting the right people in first place. He stressed on the point of having domain experts and choosing the right people for the right job. Work act...
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Managing High-Tech: Level 5 Leadership!
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Bridging academics with main-street. Monday, March 5, 2007. Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. Leaders carry out this process by applying their leadership attributes, such as beliefs, values, ethics, character, knowledge, and skills. Talks about Level 5 Leadership characteristics:. Humility and Will, Ambition, Compelling Modesty, Unwavering Resolve, etc. Labels: Good to great.
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Managing High-Tech: March 2007
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Bridging academics with main-street. Monday, March 5, 2007. Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. Leaders carry out this process by applying their leadership attributes, such as beliefs, values, ethics, character, knowledge, and skills. Talks about Level 5 Leadership characteristics:. Humility and Will, Ambition, Compelling Modesty, Unwavering Resolve, etc. Links to this post.
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Managing High-Tech: June 2007
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Bridging academics with main-street. Friday, June 1, 2007. Sales and Marketing (S&M) is probably the most important part of demand creation and revenue generation. According to Ajay Shah of Shah Capital, it is really important to be first-to-market, which not only means you get the first revenue, but also means you establish yourself as an innovator and the trend-setter. 8220; 90% of all marketing programs are based on communicating the essence of the better product or service. How will it help them?
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Managing High-Tech: Take risks and don't be afraid of failures
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Bridging academics with main-street. Friday, June 1, 2007. Take risks and don't be afraid of failures. This one is probably one of the most important lessons that I got out of my MBA, i.e. not to be afraid of risks and failures. In one seminar,. Mr Greg McNulty, CEO of Cranite Systems, shared his success stories and talked about how he has always followed his gut in selecting his next venture. He mentioned, “ When in doubt go with your gut. Posted by Rajeev Gupta. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Managing High-Tech: Sales & Marketing
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Bridging academics with main-street. Friday, June 1, 2007. Sales and Marketing (S&M) is probably the most important part of demand creation and revenue generation. According to Ajay Shah of Shah Capital, it is really important to be first-to-market, which not only means you get the first revenue, but also means you establish yourself as an innovator and the trend-setter. 8220; 90% of all marketing programs are based on communicating the essence of the better product or service. How will it help them?
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Quality: Risk Management: Data Strategy (DS)
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Application Life-Cycle Management (ALM) and beyond. Sunday, August 27, 2006. A lot of test automation engineers get confused when it comes to Data Driven Testing (DDT). How tests should be structured? What seed data to use? When and How to load Data? When to flush data? How to bind test scripts with test data? When and How to load Data? Well, it is imporant to understand data scope. Consider most of your data as "seed data" and load it upfront. Load data for every test case. Every test is independent...
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Quality: Risk Management: 08/01/2006 - 09/01/2006
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Application Life-Cycle Management (ALM) and beyond. Tuesday, August 29, 2006. Has two perspectives - Validation. In validation, we are checking Are we building the right thing? Basically, we are checking for conformance to customer requirements and quality attributes. In verification, we are checking Are we building the thing right? We are more concerned about the process conformance and quality activities. Verification is more on the TQM side. Automated unit, integration and functional testing. Well, th...
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Managing High-Tech: Creating value through people
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Bridging academics with main-street. Monday, March 5, 2007. Creating value through people. One point that most of the companies overlook these days is the importance of its people. 8220; Management through spreadsheet. 8221; is becoming more common these days. Costs are being managed quarterly in a rush to satisfy wall-street expectations and lay-offs have become a norm! This narrow focus on quarterly performance has put companies on a downward spiral. Creating Value Through People. Posted by Rajeev Gupta.
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Managing High-Tech: Moral Compass!
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Bridging academics with main-street. Saturday, April 14, 2007. Last quarter, I met. Robert Finocchio, former CEO of Informix, and Dennis Barsema from Benchmark Capital. I was very much intrigued by Robert's story of Informix. And how he weeded out the deep-rooted ethical problems by sticking to his moral character. Not only Robert, but also Dennis stressed on the importance of having a strong moral compass in life and in business. Sue Newell in her article on “ Business Ethics. A strong set of moral prin...
