Value add

You know, the buzz word in our office now-a-days is Value Add. The recession is working like a 2 edged sword and its doing its job pretty well. First of all, my company is coming up with like a ton of initiatives. Each one supposed to do more value add to the customer by improving productivity, more documentation, stricter processes, saving costs blah blah...and next there are another set of initiatives driven by the company itself to reduce the employee benefits.

But anyway, so one day I am with my friend eating dinner and he orders for curd, the innocent food serving guy brings the curd and along with it sugar, even though my friend didn't ask for it exclusively. My friend looks at it, obviously happy and says, this is value add. And I just stare at him, thinking hard on how to relate this incident with what is happening around at work and I finally manage say, you know, what our company would have done...If the customer ordered curd, they would have given him curd along side a set of documentation on how to mix sugar to it...

Moral: If the current project failed even after a Ton of documentation, the next project will not succeed by doing 2 Ton of documentation.

Amen.

Funny, my senior management staff thinks they understand the problem of over documentation and too much processes. So, in the last meeting my senior manager says, "You know I completely understand, so what I will do is that if I propose a new excel template to be introduced in the project, you guys are free to change it whatever way you want." Oh, I know a way! Select the document and press Shift-Delete.

the other difference in bollywood and hollywood movies...

that is, apart from the well known ones like, bollywood movies are a generation behind when it comes to visual effects, lack of creativity in coming up with story lines etc etc...

To my amusement I realized that difference in terms of using music. Many Bollywood movies tailor the film to fit in the pre-recorded sound tracks, whereas Hollywood movies search for the most suitable tracks from already available music to include as the most fitting background music and thus enhancing the overall effect of the movie.

Out I go.

Next steps...

Hopefully, will learn the magical secrets of hosting a website fully... and will then move to a dedicated host...if you have ny suggestions, just put a comment...

Blogs on more interesting or bizarre topics coming soon... :)

Ciao soon.

moved my blog....

Pointing to a new domain...

I didn't renew the previous domain (www.thecobwebblog.com) and didn't bother to...
Anyway, I didn't like that domain name...so now moving this blog to new home www.oxymoroned.com

~Puneet