2010 for me has been year of being always online anywhere and anytime with information and my social freinds.
This has been enabled by :
- Mobile phone curently using Blackberry and wish to have iPhone this year. I wish one of u will present me this year.
-Access to always on Internet
-Access to applications ranging from email accounts , instant messengers (yahoo, msn), social netwokring sites (facebook, Linkedin, twitter).
Facebook has been interesting experience for me and I have been keenly following how powerful connected network of people can be . This social network if used smartly can provide one both social and professional edge over others.
This also brings to some key issues of being always on anywhere is addiction and this is one area where i believe i need to work on.
As parents its also important for us to handle information flow when our kids will be be part of social network .
- Give them exposure at correct age. All sites have recommended age to be part of facebook etc. Do adhere to it , dont think your kid will become smarter.
- Content control is most important , keep watch on contents accessed from computers and phones.
- Keep kids away form phone as much as possible.
- Even as parents we need education to handle information flow to our kids
Content creation has changed over years . facebook is an example of user created contents through wall post, pictures sharing . I have always been prudent to share relevant stuff as there is very thin line between personnal and public information.
Yes phones , social netwokorking are now part of our life and we must use it to best of our use rather then just to kill time. I aim to use facebook in 2011 to drive social work towards society which i have been planning to do for long. You will soon hear from me on this and appreciate support of all.
I look forward to conect to more friends , convert special fringe friends to special one and look forward to personally meeting friends , thanks to facebook which has helped in connecting to childhood , school, college, professional and old crush :)
JAI HIND and HAPPY 2011 TO ALL OF U
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Friday, December 31, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
My BLOG: Wishing all a happy New year. Future 2011 Telecom & IT Watch
Year 2010 has seen many changes in the way Telecom and IT has evolved and year 2011 will be interesting to look forward. This blog focuses on Hits and misses for year 2010 and way forward for year 2011.
Hits for 2010
- Mobile Phone : Shift from featured phone to smartphones , leading the way with iPhone and now challenged by Google android.
- Mobile broadband penetration with anywhere and anytime access to Intenet driven by coverage and speed to access information.
- Customer Experience : Enhance user experience of content viewing on screens led by iPhone,iPAD revolution.
- Cloud computing adoptation by IT within enterprise realizing pay per use resources scalability.
- Software as service (SAAS) by small medium enterprises with salesforce.com leading the way.
- Popularity of user created contents demostrated by facebook popularity and recent Wikileaks controversy.
- Adoptation of mobile penetration for rural applications like crop market price, weather report , crop advice , rural insurance and financing.
Misses for 2010
- Sporadic Growth of mobile internet traffic resulting in capacity contraint on radio network impacting end user experience.
- Fall of Nokia in innovating with market and customer needs.
- Spectrum issues worldwide and high price of spectrum on 3G/4G.
- User experience and security on cloud computing .
- Apple undermining potential of developing economy resulting in Samsung and LG exploiting the market.
2011 will be the year of break and changes in business model . Some of the interesting things to look forward are :
- Pressure on mobile revenue and profits.
- Roll out of 3G and smartphone penetration in developing countries.
- major Adoptaion of cloud computing and SAAS by big enterprises. Major software vendors will have SAAS model as part of offerings.
- Evolution of LTE , clarity on WIMAX vs LTE postioning and roll out plans.
- Succes of chinese equipment players like Huwaia . ZTE over European and American. This year may have high impact.
- Leveraging mobility as enterprise workplace strategy.
- M2M proof of concept for smart grids, cities.
- Debate on freedom of information with Wikileaks controversy.
India has been forefront runner in adopting technology and evolving business model:
- Mobile broadband (3 G) penetration and evolution of products offering- Video calls, TV on mobile
- Adoptation of smartphones led by Samsung and unfortunately iPhone missing the trick.
- Pressure on average revenue per user (ARPU) for operators.
- New operators business level sustainability .
- Adoptation of cloud computing SAAS by enterprise.
- Clarity on long term telecom policy.
Wishing all my friends a happy new year and looking forward to your comments, suggestions .
Hits for 2010
- Mobile Phone : Shift from featured phone to smartphones , leading the way with iPhone and now challenged by Google android.
- Mobile broadband penetration with anywhere and anytime access to Intenet driven by coverage and speed to access information.
- Customer Experience : Enhance user experience of content viewing on screens led by iPhone,iPAD revolution.
- Cloud computing adoptation by IT within enterprise realizing pay per use resources scalability.
- Software as service (SAAS) by small medium enterprises with salesforce.com leading the way.
- Popularity of user created contents demostrated by facebook popularity and recent Wikileaks controversy.
- Adoptation of mobile penetration for rural applications like crop market price, weather report , crop advice , rural insurance and financing.
Misses for 2010
- Sporadic Growth of mobile internet traffic resulting in capacity contraint on radio network impacting end user experience.
- Fall of Nokia in innovating with market and customer needs.
- Spectrum issues worldwide and high price of spectrum on 3G/4G.
- User experience and security on cloud computing .
- Apple undermining potential of developing economy resulting in Samsung and LG exploiting the market.
2011 will be the year of break and changes in business model . Some of the interesting things to look forward are :
- Pressure on mobile revenue and profits.
- Roll out of 3G and smartphone penetration in developing countries.
- major Adoptaion of cloud computing and SAAS by big enterprises. Major software vendors will have SAAS model as part of offerings.
- Evolution of LTE , clarity on WIMAX vs LTE postioning and roll out plans.
- Succes of chinese equipment players like Huwaia . ZTE over European and American. This year may have high impact.
- Leveraging mobility as enterprise workplace strategy.
- M2M proof of concept for smart grids, cities.
- Debate on freedom of information with Wikileaks controversy.
India has been forefront runner in adopting technology and evolving business model:
- Mobile broadband (3 G) penetration and evolution of products offering- Video calls, TV on mobile
- Adoptation of smartphones led by Samsung and unfortunately iPhone missing the trick.
- Pressure on average revenue per user (ARPU) for operators.
- New operators business level sustainability .
- Adoptation of cloud computing SAAS by enterprise.
- Clarity on long term telecom policy.
Wishing all my friends a happy new year and looking forward to your comments, suggestions .
Sunday, December 19, 2010
My BLOG : Flexible Worksplace is the need of hour for creating competive edge , It requires organization culture change and IT readiness
We have been hearing about flexible workplace.
What is flexible workplace :
- Ability to access information from any geographical location .
- Ability to use any device ex laptop, desktop, tablets , mobile phones, smart phones. Earlier IT used to dictate devices used by end user , now employees dictates.
- Application availability and experience from any location .Applications used are changing from e-mail to access to sensitive information on ERP, CRM , Billing etc and video , voice conferencing to desktp sharing.
All the above is must to create virtual organization which offers flexible workspace.
Following advantages are seen of creating flexible workspace:
- Better work life balance
- Better attrition and ability to retain skilled manpower
- Better productivity
- Better collaboration across geography , skilled set and diverse teams.
- Infrastructure on space better optimzed
Not to forget traffic on street which kills productivity by killing travel time.This has seen one of the key reason of employees preferring offices to be nearby. Attrition due to trave time has become critical.
Challenges for organization:
- Shift in culture where hierarchy dictates physical presence
- Outcome/result oriented culture , trusting outcome being important as against when work is done.
This is more applicable to Indian organization.
Technology challenges:
- Borderless Access to information based on privileges form trusted and un trusted network. This could be critical applications within organization.
- Adoptability of applications to different access devices ranging from laptop , tablets to mobile phones (Feature phones and amart phones)
- User experience across geography on applications
- Adoptive behavior of applications whether changing codes for voice or video to adoptation on screen ranging from laptop to mobile phones
Flexible workspace has bigger impact on environment and society by :
- Reducing traffic thereby fuel consumption
- Load on infrastructure (roads, commercial space , trasportation)
- During HINI , organization with flexible workplace is better prepared , also during disrutive weather conditions.
- Not to mention helping in curbing spread of infectious disease and public safety
Even more is worklife balance , I know being in NCR how frustrating it is it is to live at one end of Noida , work in Gurgaon and vice versa. Its torture of new age lifestyle which takes away health and peace.
This may not be applicable to all type of work but some workplace flexibility is possible in all organization. Some organizations have become 100% virtual.
Need of hour is flexible workplace when technology can enable it then why not ?
What is flexible workplace :
- Ability to access information from any geographical location .
- Ability to use any device ex laptop, desktop, tablets , mobile phones, smart phones. Earlier IT used to dictate devices used by end user , now employees dictates.
- Application availability and experience from any location .Applications used are changing from e-mail to access to sensitive information on ERP, CRM , Billing etc and video , voice conferencing to desktp sharing.
All the above is must to create virtual organization which offers flexible workspace.
Following advantages are seen of creating flexible workspace:
- Better work life balance
- Better attrition and ability to retain skilled manpower
- Better productivity
- Better collaboration across geography , skilled set and diverse teams.
- Infrastructure on space better optimzed
Not to forget traffic on street which kills productivity by killing travel time.This has seen one of the key reason of employees preferring offices to be nearby. Attrition due to trave time has become critical.
Challenges for organization:
- Shift in culture where hierarchy dictates physical presence
- Outcome/result oriented culture , trusting outcome being important as against when work is done.
This is more applicable to Indian organization.
Technology challenges:
- Borderless Access to information based on privileges form trusted and un trusted network. This could be critical applications within organization.
- Adoptability of applications to different access devices ranging from laptop , tablets to mobile phones (Feature phones and amart phones)
- User experience across geography on applications
- Adoptive behavior of applications whether changing codes for voice or video to adoptation on screen ranging from laptop to mobile phones
Flexible workspace has bigger impact on environment and society by :
- Reducing traffic thereby fuel consumption
- Load on infrastructure (roads, commercial space , trasportation)
- During HINI , organization with flexible workplace is better prepared , also during disrutive weather conditions.
- Not to mention helping in curbing spread of infectious disease and public safety
Even more is worklife balance , I know being in NCR how frustrating it is it is to live at one end of Noida , work in Gurgaon and vice versa. Its torture of new age lifestyle which takes away health and peace.
This may not be applicable to all type of work but some workplace flexibility is possible in all organization. Some organizations have become 100% virtual.
Need of hour is flexible workplace when technology can enable it then why not ?
Saturday, December 11, 2010
My Blog: Wikileaks,Facebook etc are consumer created contents :News,status,photos etc !!! Is there need to regulate them or sensitizing users !!!
Success of Internet has been driven by freedom to access information. Intitial internet era was about contents being pushed to consumers.
Over couple of years this trend has changed a lot , no more contents are pushed to consumers but consumers have been creator of contents itself. This shift from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 is dominating Internet.
Success of Facebook and recently much in News Wikileaks is testimony to the fact that consumer has evolved in adopting Web 2.0 with contents created and shared by them.
This also brings interesting aspect of consumer sensitivity :
1. Wikileaks have been an open media with news generated by individuals and though it provides freedom to report and express but on other hand could be used to expoit if not authentic information published.
2. Facebook provided freedom to post on Wall , photos etc, its consumer who has to decide information to be shared.
There was example of cases where one was forthcoming in puting his travel plans and it ended up robbery at home.Similarly personnal issues if shsred , sometimes can be exploited.
As we move to new age of Internet where consumer created content , its pertinent to groom young generation in understanding issues . This requires special curriculum in schools and parenting.
Going beyond suggesting laws and punishment against someone enticing with wrong information needs new types of regulation .These new issues are beyong cyber crimes .Their is need to undersand complexity arising due to consumer based contents.
Over couple of years this trend has changed a lot , no more contents are pushed to consumers but consumers have been creator of contents itself. This shift from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 is dominating Internet.
Success of Facebook and recently much in News Wikileaks is testimony to the fact that consumer has evolved in adopting Web 2.0 with contents created and shared by them.
This also brings interesting aspect of consumer sensitivity :
1. Wikileaks have been an open media with news generated by individuals and though it provides freedom to report and express but on other hand could be used to expoit if not authentic information published.
2. Facebook provided freedom to post on Wall , photos etc, its consumer who has to decide information to be shared.
There was example of cases where one was forthcoming in puting his travel plans and it ended up robbery at home.Similarly personnal issues if shsred , sometimes can be exploited.
As we move to new age of Internet where consumer created content , its pertinent to groom young generation in understanding issues . This requires special curriculum in schools and parenting.
Going beyond suggesting laws and punishment against someone enticing with wrong information needs new types of regulation .These new issues are beyong cyber crimes .Their is need to undersand complexity arising due to consumer based contents.
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