Increase Innovation, Productivity and Agility in organizations - Part 1

The way we work is changing rapidly, offering an enormous competitive advantage to those who embrace the new tools that enable contextual, agile and simplified information exchange and collaboration to distributed workforces and networks of partners and customers.

We need technologies and business practices that liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email. It provides business managers with access to the right information at the right time through a cloud of inter-connected applications, services and devices. Application that makes accessible the collective intelligence of many, translating to a huge competitive advantage in the form of increased innovation, productivity and agility.

Continued tomorrow....

As the clock ticks.....

As the year end, time to look back and enjoy the good, learn from mistakes, make vows, make resolutions, make plans. This time itself is just so exciting, it gives me time to spend with myself :-)

2010 overall has been an extremely exciting year for me. Overall this has been one of the most spiced up and varied flavored year both personally and professionally.

Personally, it was priceless experience to see Siya perform on stage and a huge audience of 2000+ people appluading, it was priceless experience to see her win in sports, it is priceless experience to see her getting wittier day by day, it feels very good to see her level of curiosity and ask umpteen number of questions (I call to her, the Ms. WHY), it is lovely to be with her for her dance classes, it is priceless to see her perform on annual day in school! Siya has grown up by one more year this year and it is a PRICELESS experience to see her growing to a beautiful, caring, valued, curious, high on energy, joyful, happy and a good human being! She is surely on the way to the right path.
Personally, I am astonished to see how well is Vipul growing in his dad's role too. He is Siya's best friend, best toy almost! Seeing a very different shade of him, its priceless again!
Personally, my mom this year has become very health conscious and it is nice to see her loose weight and even get dad to follow a similar fitness routine! Very Nice!
Personally, we (my sisters) also started their new showroom and are doing well! Amita is well-settled and happy. Ruchi is enjoying her work and is treating life with far more seriousness this year. My sister-in-law (Vanita) is having a ball of a time in US and is well-settled finally. Rinku and Neeta didi (sister-in-law) are enjoying as much as I am seeing her daughters grow. Siya is crazy behind her cousins :-). Mummyji and Papaji are also well set after Vanita's marriage, however both need to watch their health!

Professionally, the year started with a working on a Product Launch for Netcore that I was very much involved with, which itself was very exciting! I also passed out my MBA this year which was a far BIG achievement given the fact that I was working for 365 days of the year for 2 years!!! My review feedback in Netcore was superlatively positive. I also exited from Netcore this year, tried out to entrepreneurship, exited to join a job! Overall, professionally this year, did learn a lot of different things which I am sure is setting a strong foundation for me to meet my goal when 35. Hopefully, I am progressing on the right path.

Just a few hours and this year shall come to an end.. Before I can wish you all a Happy New Year, I just wanted to say to all the people who made my life worth living this year:
Thank you - for everything you helped me and stood there for me
Sorry - for whenever I hurt you or let you down, I am sure I did'nt mean to
Remember - I am always there for you

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND GOD BLESS!

Best of 2010!

Hopefully, you all will enjoy this as much as I enjoyed reading this....

Siya and her Stories

Netcore-Turning point in my career

Why do we paint or write or dance

My experience with leaders

Happy Birthday Siya

More tomorrow...

COLD in Mumbai

Ya I know what you all are thinking... COLD and in Mumbai? Yes, but that is true. After ages (or for that matter I do not even remember when was the last time I needed a sweater in Mumbai! In fact I don't even have one :-)

Momentum

If you ask my boss, "What does Purwa bring to the table", his answer among the few other words that he would generally say is "Momentum". As per wikipedia, Mōmentum was not merely the motion, which was mōtus, but was the power residing in a moving object, captured by today's mathematical definitions.

It can carry you like the way a strong current carries a fallen leaf. It can move you like wind moves a cloud across the summer sky. It can ignite your spirit and make you feel like you can do anything. It is momentum – that invisible, universal force that can saturate your every choice, your every step, your every breath, your every moment of resolve with vibrant, joyful energy. Momentum can surge you forward and it can pull you under. It goes with your flow, follows your lead and enhances your trajectory.

It can be harnessed, gathered and used as an incredibly transformational tool.

Opportunity - There is one always for you!

My mom's words are still echoing in my ears today - "Purwa, in every problem that you have, try finding a opportunity there and then experience the fun". Very often, when we are faced with a crisis or struggle we often despair. But we surely do forget the fact that it is in trouble that the best opportunities emerge, but the question is if we are keeping are eyes open to see it. A crisis allows to to grow, reflect, learn and makes you a better individual. Is that not a good enough opportunity! It’s where we discover who we are and how we can find a new way we couldn’t have imagined before the crisis presented itself. It allows us to practice patience and acceptance and find renewed hope — which is the most beautiful thing. When you loose your job, there is a opportunity for reinvention and to strike out something new and different (for all you know, something of your own). When you loose someone very near and dear to you, there is a opportunity to reflect on that loved one's wonderful life and for the family to come together in a way that was never possible before. When I failed at work I learned to improve and grow better. When Siya throws tantrums she is teaching me more patience and the power of raw emotions and the wonder of childhood and what happens when you lose perspective. When me and Vipul have arguments, it is an opportunity to learn more about each other and grow closer and become better at finding common ground. When I saw my near and dear one very ill, it was a opportunity for me to learn "Health is truly Wealth". When I am touring alone, it is an opportunity for me for introspection and gets me more closer to family. That is what is beautiful. Suddenly the crisis situation changes to hope and growth. In the struggle is the possible if we dare to look!