Motivation in the Indian IT environment is very difficult. There is a need for a customized plan to motivate teams in India Inc.
Tailor the plan for each team member based on their seniority in the organization and it will help you arrest the attrition.
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How the Australian cricket team overcame hurdles to win their series against India, is a good case-study that can be applied to real-life projects in the IT scenario also.
Let me know what is your case-study for motivation in real-life.
Good news for Yahoo finally – more people around the world read their news than Google News or CNN. Some positive news about Yahoo after a long time now!!! Also, do you know that among the Top 500 sites on the web, Alexa rates two sites from Yahoo on the top-10.
Why then is Yahoo not doing well?
A look at the Trefis website on Yahoo is interesting – Search Advertising is 26.0% of the stock price estimate, and is the most important division. 24.8% of the price comes from Strategic investments (e.g. Yahoo Japan and Alibaba)
Recently, they tied up with Facebook and Microsoft, which meant that the search and the social networking functions were ‘outsourced’ to others.
There were a lot of expectations on the new CEO of Yahoo, Carol Bartz, to turn around the company. It has been 8 months since she took over and it is probably a little early to gauge her performance. She promised recently to increase revenue, cut costs thereby reviving the company.
Who needed the $100 million USD blitz on their advertising? The money could have been put to better use, definitely. A country-wide stunt similar to theirs in 2 airports would have garnered more mind-share. They did a week-long shutdown to cut costs – a good move again.
What does Yahoo need now? They need to come up with a product that is now currently not being focused by Google and carve their niche there – easy said than done. What is ‘that’ area? Games with virtual cash – this seems to be the new fad for internet users, according to the BBC site. Acquisitions will help too – look at EA’s recent buy of Playfish. Second Life probably? Why not?
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After my post on the Tablet PC, the news seem to be increasing once again.
First, was the introduction of JooJoo (who split with CrunchPad and went independent).
Now, it is the news of the $75 Tablet from OLPC.
OLPC has been an ambitious project from Nicholas Negroponte to provide one laptop to every child in the World. Their new version seems to sync with the latest happenings on the Tablet world. The pictures (that you can see on the Forbes site) is really impressive and promises a lot.
Another good point from the link is
As OLPC assembles the components for its dream machine, it plans to open the architecture of the device to allow any other PC maker to take over the project.
Will this be another success-story for a low-profile company just like HTC is enjoying with Google now?
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Competency Development in the Indian IT scenario plays a very important role in ensuring objectives are met successfully. There is not much planning done to make it successful – here are my thoughts on the ingredients to add value.
What do you think are the key parameters to success? Let me know your thoughts.
