Monday, July 23, 2007

[Muzings] Culture of Accountability




@ Samsung i see what prolly no other handset maker might have(I presume).
Self-Started individuals.
Well maybe not all the people but some people(abt 40%) committed to get better bigger and eclectic products. When I mean products its just not about products such as iPhone or a Discman. Engineers try to refine the existing products to a T !.
It can be a CD player. Innovation and Better Engineering go hand in hand.

Thats why ;
Not just any other Semi conductor company can be Samsung;

Its people who execute without excuses who drive the wheels@SamsungIndia.

Though it happens to be a simple tried and tested Business Model.
The Marketing and Sales make sure the Engineers have enough on their hands.
The Engineers on their part make sure the end user has no blues and likens the product.


Essentially while the culture in the industry seems to be 10% appraisals year on year.
@Samsung its all about "Value For Money" approach. or "Money for Value" ;-)


Engineer executes without excuses as he has to account for the Salaries given out to him.
These days when the average indian salary is 1$ a day. THe IT Engineer is at a overly Skewed luxury that way.Unless VFM approach is adopted its hard to sustain his salarys year on year.
Luckily for Samsung India, Engineers have in grained this as part of their culture.


Which in other companys maybe by the way of Key Performance Indicators tighly coupled to the appraisal process.

So while the MFV approach is there but its mainly not built into the HR process and is at a sublime process and something between the Employer Samsung and its employees.

~P

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Cost of Bush!


The Iraq war costs American taxpayers $195 million per day
For the cost of fighting the war in Iraq one day,


HOMELAND SECURITY

i. One day in Iraq could provide 3.97 million households with an emergency readiness kit.

ii One day in Iraq could close the financing gap for interoperable communications in 41 small cities, 36 mid-sized cities, or 6 large cities so that federal, state and local first responders can talk to one another during an emergency.

iii One day in Iraq could purchase 780 fire trucks for improving local emergency response capabilities.

iv One day in Iraq could employ 4,919 fire fighters, 4,222 police patrol officers, or 7,052 paramedics and emergency medical technicians for one year each.

v One day in Iraq could double the federal budget for nuclear reactor safety and security inspections to ensure that these potential terrorist targets are adequately protected.

vi One day in Iraq could pay for 1,101 additional border patrol agents to better guard our borders against potential terrorists.

vii One day in Iraq could provide 9,750 port container inspection units to detect hazardous materials being trafficked into the country.

viii One day in Iraq could provide 1,332 explosive trace detection portals for airport screening of passengers, as recommended by the 9/11 Commission.

ix One day in Iraq could provide 6,290 local law enforcement agencies a bomb-detecting robot.

x One day in Iraq could provide 4,875 narcotics vapor and particle detectors.xi

EDUCATION

One day in Iraq could cover the full cost of attendance for one year at a public college for more than 17,100 students.

xii One day in Iraq could provide more than 79,000 needy college students with a Pell grant.

xiii One day in Iraq could enroll 27,000 more children in Head Start.xiv One day in Iraq could employ 4,269 elementary school teachers or 4,027 secondary school teachers for one year.

HEALTH CARE

xv One day in Iraq could provide health insurance coverage to 344,500 working Americans to give them a break from the rising cost of coverage.

xvi One day in Iraq could provide health insurance coverage for one year to 380,900 uninsured children in America.

xvii One day in Iraq could employ 3,597 additional registered nurses for one year.

xviii One day in Iraq could immunize every person over 65 in the U.S. against influenza 4.6 times over.

xix One day in Iraq could immunize every baby born in the U.S. last year against measles, mumps, and rubella 14.2 times.

xx LABOR One day in Iraq could provide unemployment benefits for almost 722,000 unemployed Americans for one week.

xxi One day in Iraq could fund Social Security retirement benefits for one day for over 6.75 million Americans.

xxii One day in Iraq could provide comprehensive safety and health training to 121,875 workers.xxiii One day in Iraq could pay for an increase of $3.34 per hour in the wages of every minimum wage worker in the country.xxiv One day in Iraq could provide paid sick leave to half a million workers for an entire year.

BASIC NEEDS

xxv One day in Iraq could buy 71.55 million gallons of unleaded regular gasoline.
xxvi One day in Iraq could pay for one year’s gasoline consumption for 97,500 Americans, even at today’s elevated prices.

xxvii One day in Iraq could buy 63.1 million gallons of fortified whole milk.

xxviii One day in Iraq could buy 166.6 million cartons of large Grade A Eggs sold by the dozen.

INTERNATIONAL

xxix One day in Iraq is equivalent to half of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country of East Timor.

xxx One day in Iraq could feed all of the starving children in the world today almost four and a half times over.

xxxi One day in Iraq could vaccinate three-quarters of the children in Africa for measles and give millions a lifetime protection from the disease.

xxxii One day in Iraq could build 5,571 AIDS clinics in Africa.

xxxiii One day in Iraq could provide 650,000 women in Africa living with HIV/AIDS antiretroviral treatment for one year to extend their lives and improve the lives of their children.

xxxiv One day in Iraq could provide one third of the aid needed for earthquake relief for the four million people affected in South Asia.


These are Excerpts from a US Daily.
Apalling statistics if true...
~Prasanna.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

7 wonders of the world ! eh what ?



Itz kind of funny there was a opinion poll to decide "Which are the Seven wonders of the world". Sometimes if u ask n noof people you get N opinions.


So that being the case opinion polls are sometimes a Farce.

But whats more startling is the world has a lot more to do than just vote on such meaningless polls. Taj mahal is a Marvel I agree but i don't need to tell someone its the best Monument I have seen. I know it in my heart. All this gimmick is for Tourism and 4 states which mainly survive on Tourism need to win in this game.

India need not !

Indians have been there done that....

From Vinod Khosla founded Sun Microsystems to Vinod Dhams Pentium Processor work.

All the good stuff these days has an indian hand though it might say "made in Xyz".

The only sad thing is dat Bangalore which accounts for a huge chunk of the export revenue and was the Catalyst for Economic revival in India is a mere badly wounded shadow of what it used to be.

Bangalore's name which is one of the recent wonders of the world in terms of technology has lost its sheen. Because of the terrorist incidents in UK.

I consider Bangalore home and some people have tarnished the image of it beyond repair.

chuck the poll, How to repair the image of bangalore is whats in my mind.

Well going by the people involved and how they managed to hoodwink authorities in getting fake driving license etc. I think India itself is not safe against its own people.

The BBC surpisingly has a strange stance on the Terror incidents.
On one hand it condemns moslems. On the other their talk shows are complete with people claiming moslems are a part of british culture and they are misled by foreigners.

This is an interesting view point. Because for one they cannot remove the entire moslem community from the UK. And on the other hand they cannot live with Terrorism. Their only hope lies in trying to make some understanding and try to contain the hatred.

I feel if the moslems in UK do gang up. We will have one more palestine and Israel cat fight on our hands. Only difference the agressors will be Moslems and Britain might lose its land.

Unless countries understand and reform their policies vis-a-vis terrorists and its supporters they cannot rest peacefully.

They need to stop this bowing to the pressure created by Terrorists and should not soften their stand. In India its a different and meaningless cause.
It is ruled by an Italian who has no sense of whats happening. The Reservations are increased to keep the Minority community voters happy.

Who cares about which bomb kills whom.
The italian Femme Fatale is out here to make a fast Buck and make hay while the sunshines.
The Country is really going to the dogs.

A Frustrated Bangalorean

~P

Thursday, July 05, 2007

[QOTM] July

“‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

-- Anonymouse
Looks like some people are taking it a bit too seriously going by the events in the UK.
And it seems above is changed like " every word that comes from the pages of a Book"