Orchestrating Performance Blog

By Vishwas Mahajan on 4/16/2009 11:19 PM

The excurtion to Supa where Suzlon has set up its wind farm was an amazing experience. This is ( I think ) the first time that I drove towards Nagar and the road is 4 lane for most part and there is industrial development all along. The TiE team that set this up is an enthusiastic lot.These guys drove from Mumbai for this.'

Wind energy has always been an amusing topic for me and when we were coming close to Supa, we could see windmill towers gracing the skyline stanidng the hills. The arrangemens were made for us to gain aaccess and show the place around.

The turbine weighing some 6 tons has three blades on 30 mtr length. Each blade waighs 3 tons. All this mounted on a tower or a tubular structure. The wind turns these bladesand the turbine generates electicity. The units we saw had 1 MW/ hr capacity. But as the wind speed varies, the actual generation varies and is far below this. Ty ... Read More »

By Vishwas Mahajan on 4/16/2009 11:17 PM

We received a delegation from China today. It was a typical investment promotion delegation and their focus was 'selling' their region for comapanies to set up their base in that region. Here are some bytes -

The facilities and the cost structures offerred are very attractive. The office like Kshitij and its campus will cost no more than $2 million to build and own. This is fraction of what it is in Pune now. ALso, this city of Jiaxiang is like Pune, a city of 5 million people 90 KM from Shanghai. Geopolitically very similar to Mumbai-Pune comparison. And we were offerred FREE , yes free office in the software tech park there. And if you hire local graduates, you get 20K RMB or $4K USD as grant. Unbeleiavle but true.

When we started talking about how our products and services can help the Chinese software industry, their interest really grew. This seems to be the hot button in China w ... Read More »

By Vishwas Mahajan on 4/16/2009 11:16 PM

In the last post I talked about the partnering with strategic HR consultants to provide a complete solution to customers by addiing the domain or content that is relevant and specific to the organization.

I met with an industry colleague whom I was not in contact for many years and had lost touch on where he is. He runs a very interesting business model where he provides incubation services to IT and ITES companies form abroad who want to set up their captive centers in India. Over time his services have extended to providing all sorts of business services to these 'clients' who have set up their units in India. These include accounting, recruitment, legal compliance and stuff. He has gone on to create payroll processing service that he now offers to companies at large. A classical mixed model with online and physical services, he seems to have picked up traction. See www.make ... Read More »

By Vishwas Mahajan on 4/16/2009 11:15 PM

I was discussing around the partnering with other organizations to extend the reach of Compulink's products and services.

Given that the customer needs are diverse and rapidly evolving; unless you are one large organization that can be evrrything to everyone,connecting with complementary organizations is very much a necessity.

The customer is looking for a 'complete solution' and not a piecemeal one. When organization delivers just its piece, the customer is forced to look for other pieces elsewhere to complete the puzzle. This is also a cross-selling opportunity that companies selling their own pieces usually leave on the table.

Take an example of our Whizible Human Capital Management solution.This is designed to help companies leverage their most critical asset, the human capital. While some of the standard parameters are programmed when ... Read More »

By Dilip Chari on 2/5/2009 6:42 AM

By Uday Kothari on 1/20/2009 6:24 AM

Resource or Employee cost for IT services companies is roughly about 50% and hence it is single largest cost. Managing and optimizing it can impact net margins significantly. 

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By Dilip Chari on 1/15/2009 6:01 PM

Given that market forces are common to all companies in a given segment, what differentiates leaders from laggards is their ability to plan and execute strategies effectively. It is no surprise then that all companies are trying to define and execute strategies, which they think will help them achieve their business goals.  

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By Vishwas Mahajan on 1/7/2009 10:05 PM

Welcome to Compulink’s new website, and a celebration of our new identity. Many of you have seen us evolve over the years and may be curious about this transformation. I would like to share a few insights about the evolution with you.

Apart from featuring some of the latest additions to our products and services, this new website marks a distinctive change in the way we approach our identity. Our expertise in helping user organisations achieve peak performance with an array of products and services, has led us to define our contribution as ‘orchestrating performance’ in user organizations.

This is not just a matter of semantics, in truth, the overall value of our products and services has expanded so much so that it contributes to the effectiveness of a user organization in several intangible ways. It is this multifaceted benefit that we want to create awareness about, and have built an interactive platform to do this.

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By Narendra Kulkarni on 10/19/2008 9:37 PM

Managing a project in an engineering service company can be an uphill task as there are few skilled resources and huge volumes of work. In order to deliver any project on time, a project manager has to constantly be on the move, convening team meetings and getting the status quo on every task of the project. Work load of a project manger in an engineering services company is comparable to that of a manger in an IT company, however the latter has an edge due to the availability of a number of tools to facilitate the tedious task.

I have seen that one of the major reasons behind delayed project delivery is ignorance and reluctance on the part of the management to adopt tools which can facilitate a manager and the team in tracking a project’s status without having to constantly nudge the team members to complete the project. Engineering service companies are either unaware of the tools available in the market or offer resistance to any sort of change.

With increas ... Read More »