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897 days ago
Puneet mentioned to me about Ideawicket yesterday (he probably read about it in BusinessToday). The portal does a great job in making the intent of the website clear in one line - "Provide ideas and innovations to corporations for new & improved products, processes & services." Basically it is a place where an individual can post his ideas of something that can help companies expand their business or better their processes by introducing efficiencies. So in case you say the sentence "they just don't know how to do business" a lot...may be this is the right platform to suggest some ideas and who knows some corporation might like your idea! Companies, on Ideawicket, can also initiate the discussions by holding innovation contests. Actually this idea is not a new one. As I had mentioned in my book review of Mavericks at Work, the book cites examples of 2 companies that have been formed to tap the R&D resources outside their research labs ...
899 days ago
Read this good news on HindustanTimes. Actually I feel that students in India need this the most. The education system, mostly, is pretty obsolete and students, specially in the rural colleges, don't know how they can shape their career during college or more importantly what all different opportunities lie ahead of them. When I was at school, we always used to talk about that we lack "exposure" to career options as they were only limited to engineering (if you were from Maths background) or doctors (if from biology background). We used to look up to the students in schools and colleges in metros in India with some sort of inferiority complex. And actually this feeling of lack of "exposure" was pretty valid too. There was surely a lot of information asymmetry. Internet, I feel, has the capability to do both...divide this information gap as well as fill it too (and that too quite easily). Therefore it is important that right from the student days, one is ...
902 days ago
I picked up this book at this book was authored by the editors of FastCompany magazine and I have been following FastCompany blog for quite some time now and have liked it a lot. And let me put it at the start itself - I loved this book! The book his divided into 4 sections: Rethinking Competition - Explains how it is extremely important for companies to have a cause for which they fight. As today it is very easy for other companies to copy what you are doing, it is this zeal to fight for a cause beneficial to the customers in your niche market that will matter the most. Reinventing Innovation - This primarily focus on the "Wisdom of Crowds" concept that is gaining momentum ever since the success of Wikipedia. This book has some superb examples to prove how it is extremely important for every the large R&D powerhouses to constantly look for and leverage the huge intellectual pool outside their research labs. Actually after reading Mavericks at Work and ...
903 days ago
So there are communities and networking websites on any theme possible. Yesterday I found EducatorsLog.in and found it pretty useful. It is basically a platform for educators in India to "connect, share and grow". If it reaches out to the right audience (i.e. the teachers and educators), it can certainly aim to raise the bar of education in India. And that's a bit "if" as internet penetration is still low in India and I am not too sure about how many people in the educational circle use internet pretty regularly. But the idea is a simple and useful and also there is some pretty nice content on the website right now. Any once the word spread around and people come to know that there exists a platform for them to learn more and spread what they have learnt, certainly EducatiorLog.in will grow and hopefully fulfil its aims. Actually today through this website, I got to know that ISRO has started its own institute for providing undergraduate and post graduate ...
903 days ago
So NDTVJobs seems to be first big job website in India to introduce referrals to help recruiters better search for candidates. Actually referrals are not totally new to job websites in India...the first I heard was MohanChoti. But NDTVJobs is the first big portal to take this bold step which is quite different from what other big players in the Indian job market like Monster.com, TimesJobs.com and Naukri.com are doing -- which is basically selling resumes and paid posting for job openings (the former contributing to a major portion). I have given thoughts to referrals quite a bit and I think this concept is pretty interesting and if implemented well by job portals, it can be very useful: Job seekers: Candidates will certainly be able to make themselves stand out based on exceptional hard work and commitment that they might have shown in previous projects compared to simply being lost in thousands of resumes and profiles of people with same/similar educational ...
