Narayana Murthy : Entrepreneurship and the Lessons Learnt from My Corporate Journey - CornellCast

Mr Narayana Murthy of Infosys, speaking at Cornell University on Entrepreneurship..

Great stuff for my students ..

Ge..

Who is this contemporary Indian ?

Can you name a contemporary Indian who has delivered invited lectures / commencement/ convocation addresses at the following prestigious international venues (and at scores of important venues within the country)
1. Harvard University
2. Cornell uty
3. Stanford uty
4. Wharton school of business
5. Stern school of business NY
6. INSEAD spain
7. IESE Barcelon
8. George Washington Uty
9. Uty of Texas
10. Bloomberg Leadership Inst, NY
11. Global brand Forum Singapore etc .. ???

Its our own ....

Reducing traffic congestion in Bangalore city, Results of Brainstorming and Affinity Diagram.

Brain Storming , Affinity Diagram class exercise  

Topic :  "Reducing traffic congestion in Bangalore city"   Click here for the updated one ..

This morning I discussed the issue of two tools which we use quite frequently in Lean Operations, Brainstorming and Affinity Diagram. The class of 57 from Sem 2 Operations stream in MBA in Alliance University, Bangalore was given the topic of "Reducing traffic congestion in Bangalore city" for brainstorming and then suggesting the top 5 implementable ideas (cost, effort, time and resource wise).

There were 8 groups of about 7-8 members each. Each group member was asked to suggest one creative idea each (keeping the creative right hemisphere of brain working and shutting off the rational left hemisphere of brain) in each of the three rounds for each group (in about 25 minutes) to help solve the traffic congestion problem in Bangalore city. From the approximate 18-20 ideas generated by each group, exercising only the left rational hemisphere of brain (shutting out the creative right hemisphere), the group was asked to reduce the number of ideas to 5 ( time, cost, effort and resource wise).

Some of the good ideas classified as per the subject areas are listed here.

Technology

1. Using CCTV

2. Proper city planning

3. Using drones for last-mile delivery

4. Green corridor

5. Smart signals

6. Google maps

7. Using signals of congestion from mobile phone towers and warning motorists to take alternate less congested routes

People

1. Car pooling

2. more walking

3. improving effectiveness of traffic police

4. extensive use of bicycles and bicycle stands across city

Vehicles

1. Extend metro to more places and encourage people to use more metro services

2. encourage people to use public transport/company transport more

3. increase comfort in public transport systems

4. use double-decker buses

Roads and Infrastructure

1. Use more of underground roads

2. widen existing roads

3. use elevated parking and free roads from parking

4. avoid U-turns on important roads

5. build more flyovers

6. build more underpasses and

7. build emergency lanes for ambulances etc to move freely

Days

1. split 8 hrs to 2 four hour working slots and ask people to choose 

2. split a day into 3 four hour working slots and give flexibility to employees to choose which ever four hour slots they wish to work

3. flexible working days of five from Monday to Saturday, making Sunday mandatory off

Pricing

1. Peak traffic tolls at toll plazas to be increased to double or triple normal rates discouraging people from commuting at peak traffic times.

2. Increase the cost of petrol and diesel to discourage private travel

3. reduce public transportation rates

Rules

1. heavy fines for traffic rule violation and lane violation

2. make licensing strict

3. levy heavy fines on buses that stop in the middle of roads

4. increase awareness of traffic rules to ease traffic flow

5. increase heavily road tax for private vehicles

6. 5S implementation - allotting separate lanes for diff types of vehilces

7. Give more road space to buses and give separate limited lanes for private vehicles

8. Give 30-40 times more preference to public transport than private transport.

I am sure the necessary authorities in Bangalore city in charge of traffic will give heed to these ideas and try to ease the traffic congestion on bangalore roads.

© Alliance University, Bangalore. Ideas presented here are copyrighted by the Operations batch of July 14 MBA batch, Alliance University in Bangalore.

ge..

Piercing clouds above Bangalore ..

Ubuntu ..

Gartner hype cycle 2014 ..

Gartner hype cycle 2014 gives an idea in the product life cycle curve where each new technology is and where the particular technology is headed.  Great info.

Ge..

Another spiral of violence ?

Why is it that all major terrorist organisations of the world starting with Al Qaeda, IS and others are targetting US in a large measure ?

When the western alliance plans to finish off these organisations in the coming few weeks, at a great cost to human lives, the world needs to sit around and have a relook at whether such attacks would trigger another spiral of violence and bloodshed, the target again being US.

Though countries have been fighting each other over at least the past 3000 years, can humanity presently, with all technology and resources at it's command not put an end to this extremism and bloodshed ?

Have religions and their spiritual leaders, instead of bringing peace and succour, been self-serving and instrumental in this escalating bloodshed and increasing this divide ?

Can a global earnest initiative to find the root cause of such localised community specific discontent to find an acceptable solution solve this menace once for all or will the future generations have to live with this uncertainty for a long time to come ?

Why should'nt the rising peaceloving and globally acceptable economies of China and India be given this momentous task of finding a peaceful solution and US take a backseat ?

Thinking loud, and I am sure to ruffle a few feathers particularly with the ineffective global spiritual setup !!

George..