Hey There! Thanks for your encouraging comments for my first blog, gives me more zest to key down my thoughts, on learning journey.
Btw, folks we just announced our quarterly results, hope you had a chance to read details of our company performance. Please do, if you haven’t done it till now. We are rocking at Wipro; we have published very positive quarterly results, reaffirming our culture of success. We are so proud to be a Wiproite and to be part of a happening organization. We are proud to be part of this era, economy is booming, times are at its best, we should be so happy to be part of this generation.
Yeah, all is well in the environment around us, but are “you” ready to rock n’ roll. Are you equipping yourself to thrive in this hot environment, are you learning every day, every second?
The point I am trying to drive, is to ask you… are you learning… are you learning about the organization that you are going to be part of, are you learning about the generation that we are in, are you learning about technology… are you asking questions, - “Why” is a very important word, which will drive the way you think. Fine, let me give you folks some homework…
Now, go get answers (come on, don’t ask me how relevant these questions are, it doesn’t matter, knowledge will never go waste)… & now, the questions… “Do you know GDP of India, do you know US Dollar rate, do you know amount of FDI inflow, Do you know the top 3 challenges of the country, Do you know the top 3 challenges of IT organizations in today’s scenario, Do you know about SEZ, Do you know the technologies that drive business, Do you know Why Java or Why .Net, Do you know the implication of waterfall model or spiral model, do you know what customer wants, Do you know how you can add value to customer, do you know what is customer centricity, do you know how innovative solutions help build business relationship, Do you know?”
If you re-look at the flow of question, I did try to start with macro queries and drove down to those which are relevant for you, as an IT professional. Equip yourselves. It’s a competitive world out there and there is absolutely no time, tomorrow never comes. Do it today & NOW.
Of course, you can get answers to all such queries in no time, it is just a matter of spending few hours on net, key is to do a quick download on your top floor, for ready reference. I typically admire people, who have content to talk about, almost any topic. Be it culture, countries, technology, business dynamics, music, movies, cool gadgets, iPod, iPhone, be it any topic, they can add their 2 sense… Look at the difference that you would make, to people around you, when they see you brimming with information, be a jack of all trades - of course, that’s fine and also be a master of your field.
As I mentioned in my initial article, we will get in to specific details of How to learn, where to learn, what to learn etc.. as we go along.. but am suggesting here, that be an all-rounder, watch movies.. many English movies are a repository of learning, take for example of our own Hindi films, be it Lagaan, Chak De, there are so much to learn from these movies, Watch TV be it news channel, be it Lifestyle channels, know about countries, culture, gadgets, latest technologies, business news, keep your antennae up in the air, eyes & ears wide open, seek knowledge.
If I remember correct, I once read in an article few years back that the more active you keep your brain, the more efficient would it function, you folks know that practice makes perfection, practice, keep thinking, debate internally within yourself about policies of Government, about anything and everything, practice, gather information, process them as knowledge, world will be at your feet.
Conquer the world, limits are not the sky, but beyond….
Keep learning, until we connect again… Adios
True..
Keep learning always!!
Really a great suggestion, the IT industry is quite dynemic and to keep up to it one has to keep learning.
And the results are quite rocking, in the times when many IT biggies are failing to cope up, Wipro has stood up as an good example to others delivering 17 percent growth in profits. With its recent acacquisitions ,wipro has shown 35 percent growth in sales and adding many new clients.
Its Very True Sir….!!
Your Questions on Indian Economy, Tehcnology and Software Engg are really important for us. I’ll do my best to answer all of them.
thanks sir
13 questions,makes me to think alot.I realised the importance of having multidimensional knowledge…This article is a great boost for me to learn my world.
Thank You
Must say it was an inspiring thought and indeed thought provoking…
ur msg or whatever its called is very very useful for people like me who has an urge to develop but didn’t know where to start from,useful to large extent thanq u keep giving sm valuable tips for us sir,thanks once again
Very True sir.. Knowledge can never go waste.In fact it gives confidence when one is among group of people.All the questions asked are really of sense as in if one knows “why” then implementation would be easier as one is aware of all positive and negative aspects of using those techniques.(i.e. Risk analysis is done properly )…
Hope we will all make the best use of this article.
Thank You
hello sir,
i have tried my level best to find the answers for your questions sir
i have tracked some of the answers among those 13 ?
1. The total GDP of india has grown to 9.3%(2006-2007)
2. the FDI inflow of india is $15.7 billion(2006-2007) and $5.5 billion (2005-2006)
3.dollar rates as per today is (39.59)
4.customer centricity is being customer centric “Aligning the resources of the organization to effectively respond to the ever-changing needs of the customer, while building mutually profitable relationships
5. what customer wants is that ” QUALITY,USER FRIENDLINESS,SCALABILITY,ROBUSTNESS,COST EFFECTIVENESS,PERFORMANCE,MAINTAINABILITY AND TIMELY DELIVERY”
6.HOW TO ADD VALUE TO THE CUSTOMER IS “we need to appraise existing relationships, determine the value of each and work to strengthen promising ones.Increasing the value of business relationships is to understand the relationships the organization maintains.
7. key innovative solutions drives us to design a program specially and specificaly for our organisation needs, and innovative ideas will solve and make the problem easier.
Thank you sir to help us open our minds and senses to the outer world……… i’m definitely striving towards finding the answers of all your queries and much more…….. it was definitely a most valuable piece of advise to us freshers who will be joining this IT world pretty soon…….
A very informative, influencing and an eye-opener article. It reflects the need of the hours in todays competitive and evolving world.
To be Updated is the most important thing today.
Sir after seeing ur questions only i recognized how much i have to learn still!! .
Thanks a lot for giving such a wonderful guidance.
Kannan sir, at the time of post placement talk ur speach really impressed my thoughts & now seeing ur column, its really motivating n there after i had been learning the different business terms n what ever the thing that i find in the newspaper n on the tv.I hope that v will get some more guidance from u.Thank u very much sir.
Thank you Sir for inspiring us to know the current affairs of our nation and ofcourse our Corporate world.. I started finding out the answers for your questions.
Answer for top 3 challenges of IT companies,but there are more challenges, they are:
1.Larger Engagement sizes.
2.Morph into verticals.
3.Operate accross multiple service lines.
4.Acquisition,the growth engine.
5.Multinational vendor squeeze.
I was just sleeping
There is so much to learnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
I will start it right now.
Can you ask some more questions like this ???
It really made me wonder..
what am I doing ..
I think I have to be versatile..
Right Jack of all trades and master of my field.
Ok lets do it.
Thankyou sir for sharing us with this valuable secret. This will surely revolutionalize one’s thought and the way to take up the things.