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Time Log - Key to Time Management



23rd February 2008

Time Log - Key to Time Management

Time Log - the step towards effective Time Management
 

Holistically maintenance of a Time Log not only helps a person for effort analysis, but also forms the basis of Research and Analysis to plan better for a more efficient and effective utilization of time. This happens very oftenly with the IT professionals when the Project Management comes into play.

Activity Log and Deviation
 

If anybody studies any Activity Log that has maintained ethically, he can analyze that there is a great deviation from Objectives scheduled for Tomorrow.

The Basic reasons may be various. We can just estimate a few but it will much more appropriate, if you draw a graph on your own, as you must believe that no two persons’ problems can hardly be identical.

Some generic reasons for a delivery team are the interim calls for meeting and marketing which causes a major deviation. If one is the technical expert or a team leader then the situation becomes worse. It is highly pertinent to keep adequate provision for Problem Solving session as the juniors will surely seek your help when they are in trouble and who knows that how much time do you really need to solve it!

As flower blossoms, the fragnance is never left behind, a technical expert, in general, is even called accross the department for problem solving.

Refine To Do List
 

Perhaps the prevailing practice of mentioning only the head-points in the To Do lists are not adequate, where exigencies and deviations are routine affairs in any organisation.

Rather a further break-ups with an estimate of time duration may be more fruitful in future planning, failing which a continued backlog will be created and some important but NOT Urgent type of work can never be accomplished.

This may please be noted that any job, which does not have an urgency always is set backward, at least partially, because of the pressure of Urgent Jobs and at times even due to the procastination tendency, which is an obvious human nature.

A salient example may be like research on new technologies or competitive analysis. Remember, postponemen of such jobs may bring about a business disaster for your organization.

Control your distraction and remain focussed!

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19th February 2008

Nano - The Revolutionary Car

Nano - the dream of Ratan Tata has created a revolution in the Car Industry.

Such a low cost car like Nano may ignite the subdued desire of owning a car even among the lower middle class.

Let us delve into the socio economic ripple that Nano has generated.

 Let us first look into the causes which prompt an individual to buy a car.

  • Comfortable mode of conveyance
  • Self-controlled and timely arrival at the destination
  • Independence from public transport vehicles
  • A Social status symbol
  • Benchmark of well being
  • Luxury and hobby

People buy car for varied reasons. If we can club the reasons into two main categories, we will find that the people go for a car either out of Need Or to fulfil a Desire. A car like Tata Nano, which costs one lac INR, will definitely be the first choice for people in need.

The only problem is the launching of the car and the entire marketing policy have made one message vibrant, its the car for the poor.

So, people for whom their social status is the prime benchmark can still opt for various other available options first hand or second hand.

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14th February 2008

Jargons in Web World

Let us try to understand the entire web design scenario through a systematic approach. First of all, you must know, that you need a unique identifier in the cyberspace just like your postal address. This is called the Domain Name.

You select a name of your choice, check the availability and book the domain. If somebody has already occupied your desired domain you need to modify it a bit in order to keep it unique keeping the vision/ ideology in tact.

There are several extensions and restrictions, which we shall discuss later. Once you book the domain you need some web space where your web pages will reside and at which the domain name will point to. This is something like staying in a particular place on the earth and communicating with another place for attention. This space in the cyber world is called the Server space.

The obvious question comes up, whether you can host your website in your own Computer. Definitely yes, but can you guarantee a 24×7 uptime of your Computer? Remember your website may be visited by people from any corner of the world as per their convenient time zone.

In reality there are many companies, which allow you to share their hard disk space on a rental basis. Even there are sites like Yahoo Geocities, who provide hosting free of cost. The vendors offer you generally two types of hosting services namely dedicated and shared, which will be explored later. Nevertheless, the business ethics ensure privacy of your files and contents in the hosted server.

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7th February 2008

Colleges in West Bengal

The National Assessment and Accreditation Council certify that 210 colleges of West Bengal have been duly accredited by NAAC as on January 21, 2008, at a stage when NAAC accreditation has become a benchmark by all the government bodies and controlling authorities. The figure shown is surely not appreciable, when one compares the figure with some other states including Assam.

Here are some Findings:

  • The inherent opposition of some members of the college
  • The unawareness and fear of uncertainty
  • The conviction level of the top management
  • The confusing automation and modernization policies and approaches
  • The mind set of the people of the college

We may portray some incidents

  1. One Principal says, “What will your Internet give me, I have got a huge collection of data, which your internet cant even think of”
  2. The cashier of the College is creeping into the college at 11:30 and then he is taking his lavish time for fresh up
  3. The Accountant is raising questions about the process, when the date of renewal of domain name and hosting expires and that too after the website remain running for more than 2 years
  4. One Principal says, “Wait, let me first check whether the website is up, then will think of the renewal”
  5. One Principal wants that the website should have more focus of the environment of the city than the college and students’ activities

There are surely some exceptions, but a major chunk has got such problems. There are unions and associations at each level, like Staff Union, Principals’ association etc. We hope they will start focusing on these to get the ball rolling.

Can we remain at the age of nineteenth century, when the world is haunting much ahead?

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1st February 2008

Banking Service in India

Public sector banks in India have been observing the ever greatest threats from the foreign and private banks, which have been able to enter into the market much later.

The threat is not only to retain the customers, but today the bigget challenge has been in finding and retaining the efficient people in the banks.

Banking Services Recruitment Board (BSRB), had been the prime authority for recruitement of employess in the bank for long. Now the banks have got the freedom of rcruiting people on their own by publishing advertisements in the newspapers. The examination standard remains same, which is more popularly known as Probationary Officer recruitement standards. The entry level qualification mostly remains graduation with the age limit of 21 and 28 as lower and higher respectively.

There are instances, where the bank is recruiting the right person and after a couple of years, the person is opting out for private and foreign banks, who at times show interest in recruiting experienced people, and obviously experience in another bank adds sustainable value in their credential, when the apply for a change. Some people may want to join private banks and foreign banks for better salaries and perks, some even hop for better challenging enviroenment.

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