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Saturday, June 30, 2007

Mumbai becoming Shanghai!



Mumbai or Shanghai?


HOW DO you transform a city like Mumbai that typifies the worst of all urban problems into a "world class city"? What are the criteria that govern this process? What is the model you choose? What are the systems of governance? How do you work out a realistic plan to find the finance?

These are some of the questions that are under discussion as one more report on dealing with Mumbai's problems does the rounds. Bombay First, an organisation with representatives from Mumbai's corporate world, commissioned McKinsey and Company to prepare a blueprint to transform Mumbai into "a world-class city".

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of delegation 10 MLCs and 9 MLAs from Maharashtra is on a 12-day study tour to East Asia. Between June 25 and July 7, they will visit Hong Kong, China, Thailand and Malaysia. Some of them will be accompanied by members of their family.

The official itinerary is as follows:


• Meeting members of legislative council of Hong Kong

• Meeting officials of China Special Economic Zone Research Centre

• Meeting civic officials in Shanghai and Beijing, China

• Meeting CPA counterparts in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Will this study tour help them to take the 'Mumbai Transformation Project' ahead?

To know more about this project, please go through the following presentation:


http://uploadingit.com/files/45642/Sanjay Ubale.ppt

Thursday, June 28, 2007

I love my MONEY!




I just came across an article which was published exactly a year ago in The Indian Express. Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes:

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Creating a philanthropic culture is not as straightforward as one assumes.
And India has created genuine obstacles to professionalized philanthropy.

One of the striking features of Indian philanthropy before Independence was that it was genuinely philanthropic. A lot of it was directed at creating public institutions that the donors did not control.

Giving to public institutions, universities, libraries and public hospitals was common. Of the 16 largest trusts before Independence, 14 gave generously to institutions that were not under their control.

But today, much of what passes as philanthropy is really setting up your own institutions, whose purposes you direct and control.

Philanthropy is not just about the object of spending but also the manner in which the money is spent.

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Are richest, wealthiest Indians making apt contribution to the society?

Find out the potential in following presentation:

http://uploadingit.com/files/45642/Track2_engaging_Viswanath.ppt

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Incredible India!


India - Rich in natural and human resources. There is no other country in world (except China) who is making rapid progress as India. Let's have a look at her richness:

  • Over 3 million scientific & technical manpower
  • Stock of over 0.8 million post graduates in science.
  • Over 1 million graduate engineers
  • 0.4 million doctors
  • 0.3 million graduates in agriculture and veterinary sciences.
  • Today India turns out more than 50,000 computer professionals and 360,000 engineering graduates each year.
If you want to invest in India, please go through the following presentation prepared by FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry).

http://uploadingit.com/files/45642/july14-german presentation.ppt

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Do you know about CI Marketing?


A Case Study:

MTN
A cellular network operator launched in South Africa in 1994, MTN is one of the best examples of companies that have taken a customer-centric approach to marketing and business operations. Cognizant of Africa's up-and-down economy, MTN was the first in Africa to introduce a "pay-as-you-go" service option and offer other products and services geared to customer needs at a good value for the money. The company's community service program, which provides subsidized mobile phone service to underprivileged areas, further demonstrates its commitment and focus on customers.


What made MTN to think of this strategy? Its nothing but Counter-intuitive marketing.
Learn more about this new style of marketing. Download the following presentation.
(Know more about the book 'Counter-Intuitive Marketing' by clicking this link.)

http://uploadingit.com/files/45642/counterintuitive_marketing_canada.ppt

Monday, June 25, 2007

The next bluetooth!

Bluetooth is not the end of world. The engineers across the globe are working on solutions that can be customized according to user's needs. ZigBee is one such solution. ZigBee is the set of specs built around the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless protocol. The IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. They are a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering technology involving electronics and electronic devices.

While Bluetooth focuses on connectivity between large packet user devices, such as laptops, phones, and major peripherals, ZigBee is designed to provide highly efficient connectivity between small packet devices. As a result of its simplified operations, which are one to two full orders of magnitude less complex than a comparable Bluetooth device, pricing for ZigBee devices is extremely competitive, with full nodes available for a fraction of the cost of a Bluetooth node.

The name "ZigBee" is derived from the erratic zigging patterns many bees make between flowers when collecting pollen. This is evocative of the invisible webs of connections existing in a fully wireless environment. The standard itself is regulated by a group known as the ZigBee Alliance, with over 150 members worldwide.

ZigBee devices are actively limited to a through-rate of 250Kbps, compared to Bluetooth's much larger pipeline of 1Mbps, operating on the 2.4 GHz ISM band, which is available throughout most of the world.

To know more about ZigBee, download the following presentations:

1. http://uploadingit.com/files/45642/ZigBee.ppt
2.
http://uploadingit.com/files/45642/ZigBee(2).ppt


Saturday, June 23, 2007

What Sunita did in space?


Suni Williams is back to Planet Earth, safely. She did a lot in her six months stay in space. She participated in one remarkable study of producing energy in space. Sunita Williams (Click to read Sunita's Bio) ran the 26.2 mile Boston Marathon (Click to see videos) on the International Space Station (ISS) trademill, producing approximately 61 W of mechanical power for 4.4 hours, or 962 kJ of energy.
Beth Lewandowski of NASA's Glenn Research Center explains the importance of this experiment to mankind.
Download the presentation at the following link:

http://uploadingit.com/files/45642/Lewandowski.ppt


(Image: Sunita Williams running a trademill on ISS)

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Countdown to Apple iPhone






The much hyped iPhone is going to be in the hands of US mobile phone users in just a few days from now. Know the features of iPhone in the following presentation.