An IIT Bombay student (Sweta Mehta) contacted me recently for a project she was doing on Knowledge Management. I answered some questions for her, which I thought I ought to share here as well: When did KM start in India? KM in some form or other existed ever since enterprises started! The whole process of [...]
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An evening of a lifetime
Champagne. Bouquets. Several courses of meal without the hassle of deciding what to order (that’s a big incentive to me!). Birthday cake. A linen jacket that I wanted for several months, or maybe years! All this without the slightest hint. Yes, that’s what Sakshi did on my birthday on Jun 9. She insisted on picking [...]
How wise are crowds really?
A lot has been said about the wisdom of crowds, and how the ‘crowds’ built Wikipedia. In fact, to a large extent this assumed ‘wisdom’ is the premise of everything that’s happening in the Web 2.0 space. Josh Catone of ReadWriteWeb makes a good point of having some rules to get the best out of [...]
Corporate Circus, or is it?
What happens when you put a bunch of insecure people together? Cat-fight? Rat Race? Circus? All of them? Well I guess most of us, including the ‘cats’, ‘rats’ and other ‘circus’ material, will pick Option D. The working class is unsure of their future, their career and their lives because they work for someone for [...]
Communities vs Organizations
There’s a site called Browse Happy which is nothing but a campaign against Internet Explorer. That’s “hate groups” coming of age! Well disclaimer – I’m not supporting this campaign in particular… especially because I’m making this particular post from IE (my office computer ‘standard built’ browser) even though I use Firefox on my home computer. Firefox [...]
My signature sucks
My signature (hand) has been the way it is ever since I remember. In fact it probably does not even qualify as a signature since it’s merely an angular curved line with a couple of dots. I’ve always had people, including bankers, telling me how easy it is to copy my signature. I always mocked [...]
Stan Garfield – KM Guru
Here’s a testimonial I put for Stan Garfield – a very respectable global thought leader in Knowledge Management who I’ve had the good fortune to work with. I knew Stan as a KM Guru even before I joined HP – and in fact he was one of the reasons I joined HP! Stan is a [...]
Prez’s power bill: Rs 16cr in 5 years
Yes, believe it or not, Rs 16.71 crore (USD 4m+) was the power bill for the President of India for the past 5 years while the prime minister of the country spent Rs 37.56 lakhs (USD 90k+) over the past 3 years. Forget about the money spent imagine the amount of ‘energy’ wasted. Wonder if [...]
Web 2.0 sells!
I’ve been sort of annoyed at the hype around Web 2.0. What is so different about Web 2.0? Was there a Web 1.0? Heck, what is the definition, or scope of Web 2.0?! Did collabaoration not exist before Web 2.0 (the term was coined around 2004)? Did JavaScript not exist before Web 2.0? Did CSS [...]
From Dotcom to Web 2.0
It’s heartening to see the internet hype coming a full circle – from the dotcom days (or the bust!) to Web 2.0. There is renewed interest and hype about internet startups. Check out http://www.startupdunia.com/ to get a feeler! What differentiates the Web 2.0 era from the dot-com days is probably the more conscious congnizance of [...]
