Do What Matters

Its time again  for students to find innovative projects. I am bombarded with emails from my students on this subject so here I am posting some of my ideas again. Feel free to discuss any with me. I also posted few in my last Post on the subject . Some of them may have been chosen by my past students. Project#1 - Measure productivity of your employees It has been found that within few years: workers will collaborate 80% of their time work will flow seamlessly, fluidly, across fully connected and visible processes agility will become key performance metrics workers will evolve to be more client focused pro-active capabilities will be strengthend with predictive capabilities work will not be centered on an organization but on a community of people  batch processing will be forgotten, real time will be the norm Create a tool/portal for employers to use various mathematical models to prduce some of the metrics discussed aove, so that employer can maximize produc...

"BigData" buzz will reach its pinnacle in 2013. Predictive analytics will become part of all applications, small or big. Small biz customer centric app will embrace these technology for their competitive advantages in big way. For IT professionals like us acquiring statistical and predictive modelling skills will be the key. Low power computing will emerge winner. The unprecedented success of tiny Raspberry pi (close to 1 million units sold)   is teaching kids all over the world fundamentals of computer sciences. Everybody should take a bite. I took a bite too. This was my Christmas treat to myself. ARM based computing is already giving powerhouse Intel run for their money.  Free online professional classes (Udacity/Coursera etc..) will go Freemium model. They might start offering a group of related courses as part of certificate programs and might tie up with local community colleges for classroom engagement to make them more effective. In any case, this m...

This is something I created on the first day of 2012 as well. Some of my goals worked, some stretched goals were partially achieved. I overachieved some. My mentors and coaches agree with me but at the same time I have received extremely valuable comments and feedback from them on some of my weakness I am more interested in finding what I can do better this time. I came across an HBR article on leadership which used a powerful metaphor to explain the effectiveness of the strategy. The gist of it is that if your pair up your strategy well, it will work more effectively that it will work alone. An obvious example is simply working on your technical expertise may not go very far if you do not work on improving your ability to communicate with your audiences. Here are some of the combination of skills that I plan to work on early next year: Implement organizational efficiencies by improving interpersonal skills. Bringing changes without boiling the ocean is something I am determined to...