My transition story - McKinsey Quarterly - Governance - Leadership

My transition story - McKinsey Quarterly - Governance - Leadership

Interesting points to note from this article are

1. Clear plan of action for first 100 days

2. Ability to adopt based on the changes happening around (Financial breakdown that happened)
3. Communication
4. Understanding the organisational context (People and Culture)

Future of Magazines, Books and Newspapers

This is the future unfolding before us at its best.

We are lucky to watch the worlds largest media company camouflaged as technology company (Google) working in building a platform that I believe will be open to all but only Google can monetize it better than all (core competency!!).

People who have content will make money as the editor of sport illustrate says in the end. I see a grand change happening before my eyes and enjoying every bit of it.

Code Bubbles Project: Rethinking the User Interface Paradigm of Integrated Development Environments

Code Bubbles Project: Rethinking the User Interface Paradigm of Integrated Development Environments

Interesting way to look at development!! Have to try this.

Notion Ink

Notion Ink

This was the device I was looking for!! At last there is an organisation that would provide solutions without linking it to existing back end solutions (apple trying to link everything to iTunes!! or Google to its cloud products). Put a world class product, provide the SDK and allow an ecosystem to build don't control it. Was internet controlled, see how the ecosystem has evolved.

Today every product is built with design thinking on how to control the ecosystem!!! I am waiting to get my hand on to this product.

Nice to see a "Made in India" product!!!

How India, China can mastermind the Asian century: Rediff.com India News

How India, China can mastermind the Asian century: Rediff.com India News

Interesting article!! Good read to understand Chindia better.

Moving to advisory/partnership role

Indian IT companies are going through an interesting phase by repositioning themselves, which is very nicely summarised by this article.

The Hindu Business Line : IT services moving up the value chain

What would be 'message' indian organisation should give? What impact it would have on organisational structure to make them 'market oriented'?

First wave of success was based on the 'Globalisation of the Industry', what would be next thing!!

Share your views,
Partha

What is the next level of abstraction?

I was trying to understand the term Taylorism and then went into understanding more about scientific management!!

The Principles of Scientific Management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Then I realised all these patterns that we try to observe at code level, design level and architecture level is giving us structures which can be taken for granted to allow humans to move to next level (taken a part view here, somebody can debate on that!!!)

So.. Can DSL/MDA give us the next level of software abstraction that we all were looking for because there has been no higher level of abstraction beyond programming languages.

From business perspective it has always been applications as the highest order of abstraction in IT terms. Would SOA change that to something that is more closer to business world? What is that functional building block be? It is interesting that today IFW, IAA exist from a particular vendor IBM, can there be industry accepted standard? Do we require one like that? Don't know but certainly an higher level abstraction is needed on top of application!!!

Please share your thoughts