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Year: 2007 (Page 24 of 44)

Height of communication gap

Ack :- Parth Barot

Mr.Verma comes home one night, and his wife throws her arms around his neck: “I have great news: I’m a month overdue. I think we’re going to have a baby. The doctor gave me a test today, but until we find out for sure, we can’t tell anybody.”

The next day, Mrs.Verma receives a telephone call from AEC (Ahmedabad Electric Company) because the electricity bill has not been paid.

Am I speaking to Mrs.Verma ?
Yes…… speaking
AEC guy, You’re a month overdue, you know!
How do YOU know? stammers the young woman.
Well, ma’am, it’s in our files! says the AEC guy
What are you saying? It’s in your files …… HOW ?????
Yes ………… We have a system of finding out who’s overdue
GOD !!!!!!……… this is too much……….
Madam, I am sorry…… I am following orders…. I have to inform you are overdue
I know that …… let me talk to my husband about this tonight. …….he will speak to your company tomorrow

That night, she tells her husband about the visit, and he, mad as a bull, rushes to AEC office the next day morning.
What’s going on? You have it on file that my wife is a month overdue?
What business is that of yours?” the husband shouts.
Just calm down,” says the lady at the reception at AEC, “it’s nothing serious. All you have to do is pay us.
PAY you? and if I refuse?
Well, in that case, sir, we’d have no option but to cut yours off.
And what would my wife do then?” the husband asks.
I don’t know. I guess she’d have to use a candle.

Murphy’s laws

  • Murphy’s Laws If anything can go wrong, it will
  • Love Laws All the good ones are taken
  • Tech Laws New systems generate new problems
  • Computer Laws Any given program, when running, is obsolete
  • Commerce Laws To err is human, to forgive is not company policy
  • Real Estate Laws At least one check will be “lost in the mail” every month

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Inspiring Thoughts – Part4

To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it.

Love is the only thing that can be divided without being diminished.

Happiness is enhanced by others but does not depend upon others.

For every minute you are angry with someone,you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back.

Do what you can, for who you can, with what you have, and where you are.

The linearity of revenues and headcount for IT Industry

One bugbear faced by TCS and most of its Tier-I peers is what the IT industry nattily calls ‘the linearity of revenues and headcount’. In plainspeak, it means that revenue growth for companies such as TCS, Infosys and Wipro has become synonymous with employee addition. In TCS, for example, revenues moved up from Rs 9,727 crore in 2004-05 to Rs 18,685 crore last financial year — a 92 per cent jump. Headcount, meanwhile, has almost doubled from 45,714 to 89,419 employees.

S. Ramadorai, a TCS lifer and CEO & MD for 11 years, concedes that breaking this linearity is an important issue for the company. “We never wanted headcount and revenues to be linear. So, if we look at the number of people we had when we were a billion in revenues and the number of people we have now at $4.3 billion, you will see that the ratio has changed,” says Ramadorai who adds that the company’s focus on R&D will eventually help it break the linearity.

“So, the question we continue to ask ourselves is, ‘when we achieve $10 billion or $6 billion, should it be on the current ratio of headcount?’ And I believe it will be achieved more efficiently,” he says.

Does Infy holds a better Brand Recall than TCS ??

TCS CEO Ramadorai speaks on global brand recall.

  • Infosys holds a better brand recall among customers worldwide. Indeed, recently, the otherwise meticulous newspaper, the Economist, incorrectly described Infosys as India’s largest IT services company.
  • Similarly, TCS’ banking software product BankOne pulls in $120 million (Rs 504 crore) a year, but it is Infosys’ smaller offering Finacle that is better known

It was in relation to Experience Certainty campaign launched by TCS to achieve Global Brand Recongnition

Tata Elxsi’s VCL adds virtual reality to Ta Ra Rum Pum

Tata Elxsi’s Visual Computing Labs has provided virtual special effects for the Hindi film Ta Ra Rum Pum. The effects involved 800 shots displaying 3D people filling up a stadium, 3D cars racing on the tracks, smoke, fire and sparks and a 3-1/2 minute song sequence in CGI — with dancing bears, chocolate rivers and the actors Rani and Saif in a fantasy foodworld.

At first glance this two-hour action packed film, filled with fast cars and beautiful women, a family drama packaged in a slick  production, looks like a lot of special effects, the in-camera type, but very little CGI.

The reality is somewhat different.

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Inspiring Thoughts – Part3

The choice you make today will usually affect tomorrow.

Take time to laugh, for it is the music of the soul.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Love is strengthened by working through conflicts together.

Harsh words break no bones but they do break hearts.

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