This is a poem I wrote today for a creative writing competition:
Life is a voyage,
The route is set.
Both joys and sorrows,
A man will get.
Destiny has to be shaped,
On one's own.
That person will succeed,
With flying winds,
who will not be flown.
With shortcomings and disasters,
One has to cope.
Be it anguish, pain, scares,
But most important is hope.
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Life
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Sports Management
Are sports the focus of ur life? Do u go straight to the sports section of ur morning newspaper? Does the thought of earning a living from sports really excite u?
If ur answer is "yes", then sports management may be the right career for u.
The sports and leisure industry is one of the top industries today and generates a lot of revenue. As a sports has evolved into an integral component of our culture, operations of sports programme have become more sophisticated and complex.
Sports management as a profession and academic discipline includes a broad spectrum of activities covering proffesional sports, college athletics, recreational sports, health clubs and fitness centres, sports facility management, sports governing bodies and sports marketing firms. Thus, sports management is the application of business, management and knowledge leadership principles and skills to sports.
What you have to do?
Now a days, there is so much money in sports that all successfull players have their own personal agents or managers . Even new entrats and budding stars have started employing managers to look after their career.as a sports agent, u will be responsible for the players schedules, career progression, business promotion as well as media and public relations. Administrative aspects like budgeting, finance and other logistics would also be ur responsibility.
Sports agents or managers package the skills of budding youngsters and sell them properly at the right time. They also undertake aggressive marketing to ensure thatb their clients land plum endorsemen deals.
If you are managing leisure and sports clubs, you are expected to handle administrative work- accounts, planning, preparing schedules and arranging for specialist coaches as per requirement. Golf clubs, resorts and centres for adventure sports and other leisure activities require trained professinals to promote their sporting activities.
So what does it take to become a successful sports manager? First and foremost, you must have good communication skills and a strong business sense. In addition, you must be passionate about at least one sport. Commitment to the sport and the profession, energy and enthusiasm, patience and perserverance are other essential attributes.
What should you study?
To do a postgraduate diploma in sports management, you should have a graduate degree from a recognised university.
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Friday, December 28, 2007
Knowledge process outsourcing
The burgeoning Business Process Outsourcing(BPO) sector in India has ramified into another role, that of Knowledge Process Outsourcing(KPO). In layman's language, KPO ia about providing services related to specialised knowledge of a particular industry.
We consult a doctor for a complete health check-up. A company needs a lawyer to draft the papers for a legal suit. A qualified scientist ia required to conduct scientific research. Not all these services require highly experienced proffesionals, but domain knowledge is a must. This knowledge ia what KPOs offer.
KPO services cover not only IT, but also many other areas like real estate, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and clinical research.
KPO is the new buzz word in the offshore industry and has achieved significance by providing domain expertise to organisations. It enables enterprises to reduce design-to-market lead times and manage critical hardware efficiently. It also faclitiates assessment of markets, competition, products, and services. It can enhance organisation's effectiveness in business administration.
Some of the services that can be outsourced under KPO include patent research, content development, and R&D in biotechnology, aerospace and animation.
BPO vs. KPO
In a BPO company, the executives need to be directly involed with the customers. A KPO company simply taps its employees expertise to carry out high-end process like valuation, research, investment, legal and insurance claims and medical diagnoses. There may be no interaction with the end-customer in the latter case.
KPO companies command more revenue than BPO organisations. Employees of a KPO setup earn a lot more and also enjoy greater exposure to the global industry. Of course, KPO requires higher qualifications. Unlike a BPO job, a KPO assignment may entail more regular hours and no night shifts. The work culture in a KPO company is more professional and even the attire is likely to be more formal. On the other hand, BPO companies follow a more informal dress code.
Future of KPO
Low-end outsourcing services have an expected cumulative annual growth rate(CAGR) of 26 percent by 2010. In contrast, the global KPO market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 46 percent by 2010. According to a NASSCOM report, thr KPO industry is expected to reach USD 17 billion by 2010, of which USD 12 billion would be outsourced to india. Other countries in the KPO market include Russia, China, the Czech Republic, Ireland, and Israel. Russia, with its huge army of engineers and doctors, could capture the European KPO market. India, taking a cuefrom the BPO sector, could dominate the US KPO market.
Some of the challenges that the KPO industry facs is maintenance of high standards of quality , the need for investment infrastructure, the lack of talent pool, and the need for higher level of control, confidentiality and risk management.
Who Can Join?
KPO work requires specialised knowledge. Teachers, engineers, MBAs and even journalists are qualified to work in a KPO. Those with a science background stand a better chance as some tasks require data analysis and programming. In order to do well in KPO, on must possess good language skills, and the ability to apply academic knowledge, to structure data and to portray insight.
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Monday, December 24, 2007
Public private partnership
Definition
Public-private partnership is an arrangement by which a government service or private business venture is funded and operated through a partnership between a govt. body and one or more private sector companies. These schemes are sometimes reffered to as PPP or P3.
Concept
The Planning Commission explains it as an approach under which services are delievered by the private sector while the responsibility for providing the services rests with the govt. It further adds that this approach requires the govt. to either enter into a contract with the private player or pay it for the services rendered.
PPP is seen by many as a classic mix incorporating the best of both public and private sectors-high quality services with a guarantee.
Benefits of PPP
- Reduces strain on public money and ensures that no project is put on the backburner for lack of funds. The kind of investment required for huge development works can put enormous pressure on the exchequer;so partnership with the private sector is a wise option.
- Ensures higher productivity as the contract with the private sector is normally perfomance linked and helps ensure high standards . Bureaucratic hassles are minimised and services are delivered with greater efficiency.
- Greater cost effectiveness as contracts are based on competitive bidding. Contributions from both public and private sector facilitate regularly supply of finance without burdening either party.
- Timely delivery of services as it is not just a contractual obligation but the government , which is responssible for delivery of services, can be held accountable.
- Enhanced customer satisfaction,given the greater level of confidence about the efficiency of the private sector with regard to delivery of services. The presence of the public sector helps to allay fears of non-accountability.
- Risks involved are distributed among the partners making the undertaking more feasible.
- Accountability of private sector is ensured as it is the govt. which is responsible for providing the services.
- New markets are created for the private sector, which increases the benefits to the shareholders.
- New taxes can be avoided which would have been otherwise necessary to finance large scale projects. Thus PPPs help spare the common man from additional project-related tax burden.
- Helps reduce migration of talent from the public to the private sector.
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Friday, December 21, 2007
globanization in india
In the year 1492, Columbus had set sail to discover an India rich in Spices and treasure. In the twenty first century the world has set sail for India for finding that treasure, as the trend shows. A large number of global multinational brands such as Coca-Cola, Google, Micro-soft and Mercedes-Benz have successfully operating in India. Indian Brands which were operating locally in India earlier have started competing internationally. From New Delhi to New York brands have become global.
Pattern of consumption in India has also changed. Level of spending on the private consumption has been growing significantly. Spending by young consumers in India is regarded as the most powerful consumers. In an era of globalized environment, the country has become a major player in the socio-economic fields from merely a third world country. BRIC and other reports have forecasted India to be the third largest economy by 2040. Globalization in India has transformed the country’s system. Presently India is regarded as an economy dominated country rather than politics driven, as it was earlier. Political dominance has fallen significantly these days. Adoption of Globalization in India and liberalization principles has widened the horizon of country's Consumers worldwide. Consumers in India have become more conscious. Market information in India has become clear. Liberalized policies have led the industrial sector to grow at a faster pace. BPO, IT, ITES, Retail and Insurance sector have performed well. Both male and female have got equal opportunity in that sector. The success for India is the reduction in gender inequality in India. More over, development in education and awareness is largely marked in the country in the era of Globalization in India.
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
the blu-ray story
Let us start the story by talking about the grandfather and great grandfather of Blu-ray. It is abt CDs and DVDs.
Compact siscs came inti existance in the early 1980s. Suddenly, from the 1.44 Mb(Megabyte) storage offered by the now almost-extinct floppies, we had 650 Mb capacity. Around 1997, DVDs were introduced and immediatedly made an impact on the movie industry with its high quality digital audio/video and high storage capacity-4.7GB gor single layer and 8.4GB for dual layer in terms of storing. it supported two hours of standard-definition movie.
But then more changes had to happen. Development of High-definition TVled to High-definition audio/video, having higher bandwith(around 5 times that of DVD quality) Hence, a storage device was required to store data 5 times more than that stored in a dvd. Thus were born Blu-Ray Discs andc HD-DVD or advanced Optical Disk.
Blu-ray format was developed by Blu-ray Disc Association comsisting of companies like Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony,etc. They named it Blu-ray b'coz it required blue-coloured laser beam to read and write instead of the conventional red laser beam. As they were unable tp trademark a common word like "blue", they removed "e" from "Blue" and coined "Blue-ray".
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Friday, December 14, 2007
make money as an affiliate?
Can you still make money as an affiliate? The answer is YES.
Money can be made from affiliate program as many people still do everyday. Two major problems people fail to make big money from affiliate program: • They only get a small percent of commission.
• Too many people joined the same affiliate program. Sometimes well over 100,000 affiliates for a single affiliate program.
Making money from affiliate program is not simple as put up a link in your website and expect lots of people to click on it. Even though, some people do make money this way but most of them are not big money.
In order to make big money you need a strategy.
Your own opt in email list is probably the best way to make big money from an affiliate program. Building a list will take time but the reward at the end is well worth it. There is higher chance person in your own list will buy a similar product/service or it is complement with the one that you offer. The best of both worlds if you could capture the potential customer’s email before send them off to the affiliate’s website because you are now own that list and you can promote other products/services in the future.
Don’t go crazy by offering anything and think people will buy it. Also, never make people in your opt in list feel you are just an advertiser. Give them some valuable information before recommend a product/service. Never recommend a product/service that you do not like it yourself.
There you have the two best ways to make big money with affiliate program. Making money as affiliate is not easy but at the same time is not impossible either.
The second way to make big money with affiliate is to find a super affiliate . What is a super-affiliate? Super-affiliate is affiliate with his/her own opt in email list. If you asked a super-affiliate to join an affiliate program and if he/she does then that means he/she is under you whenever someone from his/her list purchases the product/service you will get a commission from it. It’s a win-win situation. Only a few super-affiliates you already build yourself an army of affiliates. An advantage of the second method is time saving. It’s won’t take as much time as build a list but it is a challenge to convince a super-affiliate to join the affiliate program that you are promoting.
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