Where is Business Computing headed?

Where did it come from? Where will it go? Sometimes things are about as clear as they are about Cotton Eyed Joe  How do things evolve? How did the printing press lead to progress in astronomy, biology and medicine? Or did the desire to prevent smudging of printing ink lead...

Indian Solar Industry – some useful links

While researching and learning more about the Indian Solar Growth story , we came across some very good sites and links that have helped us learn more about this Industry. We thought you might find them useful as well. We have classified them into the following categories Government of India...

What are the 5 Determinants of Health?

Five Determinants of Health The scientific community neatly categorizes various factors affecting our Health into 5 groups – The 5 determinants of health. To improve something one has to learn how it works. And to learn how it works one has to take it apart, study the parts and then...

What is Sigmify?

What is Sigmify ? Lets try to answer the question "What is Sigmify? “Sigmify is an easy to use app that encourages collaboration @ work. By prioritizing tasks based on importance and urgency, it increases the productivity of individuals, teams and organizations” In today’s organizations automation has been achieved to...

What determines our health…Five Health Determinants

In my last blog I had talked about how we are paying more for our healthcare but paying more does not seem to be helping. It is certainly not helping us become healthier or lead longer lives. In fact, recent reports indicate that life expectancy has fallen in the United...

Healthcare – Spend more, get less?

Healthcare - Spend more, get less My first behind the scenes view of how the healthcare system works in the US was in 2006. This was before the topic of healthcare began to move to  center-stage.  Rising costs and insurance premiums ensured that we paid attention. What struck me back...

 A tool is only as good as its users

A tool is only as good as its users In December 2016, Mark Zuckerberg announced that he has built a Jarvis like A.I (Artificial Intelligence) tool to automate his home. Elon Musk was quick to dismiss this announcement by responding that Mark’s Jarvis isn’t really A.I. at all and that...

Why it is better to be Wise than to Tom-Tom?

Mr. Tom, ‘Head – Sales, Sunshine Solar’ and Mr. Wise, ‘VP – Sales & Marketing, ‘Broad Daylight’ worked for competing solar EPC (Engineering Procurement and Construction) companies. The business was growing. Their companies were spending a good amount on sales and marketing activities. They both had their booth in the...

INDIA Inc – will investments jump start growth?

The Indian economy is on the radar of most of the (Foreign Institutional Investors) FII’s across the globe.  Let’s take a look at the ground realities of the Indian economy, by examining some of the macro-economic indicators.  The Indian government has taken some very good steps To eradicate corruption through...