The Division of Humanity -- An Illusion

It's been 20 odd days that I have been staying in UK. I am at Reading which is a small city in UK.

This is the first time in my life that I am seeing so many nationals at the same time British, french, indians, pakistanis , nepalis , cubans , chinese , americans...One thing i realised all the colonies ruled by British had people from that place settled in UK.... That is the reason probably for so many nationalities under one roof...

What I noticed was how my mind was biased towards these different nationals.... My mind is already so conditioned by origins of people .... In India it was a division of states bias and now in UK it is a division of Nationalities bias....My mind is trained to create biases....

It's only when I have a deeper connect with individuals that I realise that every human being is the same with same set of ambitions , likings for good living ,good food, passion of some sport , cribs about traffic and weather.....

And a step deeper from the same conversations into people's heart , i find people as lost as I am in finding the life's purpose. Some claim to know, some given up, some still searching and some truly enlightened.

For me it's been a thrilling journey so far to find out my mind's own Illusions and my own strenght of defining these mind games as Illusions.

Building Domain Expertise for the Organisation

I have been struggling to get the definition of 'Domain Expertise' for an IT Organisation. Software companies in order to show case their expertise get on board Domain Experts who can speak the customer language.Though this might help in the short term , how do you sustain and spread domain knowledge within the organisation at junior levels.
Only Certifications is NOT the complete answer. Text book answers are normally skin deep and customers are quick to grasp the lack of knowledge.

A few things that come to my mind are :

- Building a language for the Domain Area. This glossary can be a wikipedia where software professionals working in the projects can keep updating.

- Also creating industry point of views will help build the depth of knowledge in the Area.

Any more suggestions to quickly help an IT company build domain expertise are most Welcome

Following the Nano Innovation

Used to read in science and history books as to how when Galileo discovered that Earth moves around the sun and not vice versa ,he was rediculed . Also when Columbus discovered America ,people refused to believe him. With the Innovation of Nano happened , I feel the same sense of disbelief in people. Getting to hear things like that 'Car is made of plastic' , 'is not safe at all'. 'How can a car costing 1.5 lakh be safe at all 'and stuff like that..... People just simply refuse to believe it!!

According to me it's a sheer design innovation. Design is a matter of choice and the Choice made by TATA was to 'Make the travel of family on bikes safe' . And design has lived up to the promise.

I have been following the Nano story for quite some time now and realised that the car is not only a design innovation but also a marketing innovation. The car is on sale in Tata's Retail outlets like westside and Croma . Completely thrilled by the idea.

We Indians need to believe in ourselves . We need to be proud of our innovations and believe in them .Just because a US or a Japan has not made is happen , we refuse to believe Innovations can ever happen. It's time to lead the World and not just follow it.3 Cheers for the Nano invention !!

Recession and Insecurity !!

In these recent times of recession , a lot of people are gripped with the fear of insecurity . This insecurity clearly reflects in people's work. It has really made me wonder which are the kinds who are most insecure in such times. I have been observing people's conversations very deeply and have realised ,people with less exposure to things other than their jobs, people who look at their jobs as 9-5 work are the most insecure. These are the people who have no identity other than their work.Where as people having vision larger than themselves are looking at ways to create new Business Models. Individuals who have confidence in their capability and faith in their relationships are not that perturped . For them it's definitely a set back but also an opportunity to invent new ways of doing business. The curious minds are even more curious. The Mad are even madder... This is the time we will have disruptive Business Models ,which completely change the economy . Just wait and watch.