On Dhirubhai's Birthday and Jamnagar Refinary's Commencement

RELIANCE JAMNAGAR : A DREAM FULFILLED

Born 28th December 1932 - Forever

The First Ad Reads :
Today, on your 76th birthday, we deliver the commencement of our Reliance Petroleum refinery to you. This will make Jamnagar the world's largest petroleum refining hub.

We pledge to take your Reliance to greater heights by energizing a billion lives that will transform our nation.

The Second Ad Reads:
Like the sun, he enlightened an entire nation
Like water, he transformed everything he touched.
He created his own destiny.
And motivated us to do the same.


IN THE LOVING MEMORY - KOKILABEN DHIRUBHAI AMBANI, THE AMBANI FAMILY,
OVER 100 MILLION CUSTOMERS,
12 MILLION SHAREHOLDERS AND MEMBERS OF THE NEW RELIANCE FAMILY.


"at least this shows some common thinking for both the brothers"

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Dhirubhaism

((1932-12-28)December 28, 1932 - July 6, 2002)

Few men in history have made as dramatic a contribution to their country's economic fortunes as did the founder of Reliance, Sh. Dhirubhai H Ambani. Fewer still have left behind a legacy that is more enduring and timeless.

Dhirubhai Ambani was born on 28 December 1932 at Chorwad, Junagadh (now the state of Gujarat, India) to Hirachand Gordhanbhai Ambani and Jamnaben in a Modh Bania family of very moderate means. He was the second son of a school teacher. Dhirubhai Ambani is said to have started his entrepreneurial career by selling "pakora" to pilgrims in Mount Girnar over the weekends.^[2] When he was 16 years old, he moved to Aden, Yemen. He worked with A. Besse & Co. for a salary of Rs.300. Two years later, A. Besse & Co. became the distributors for Shell products, and Dhirubhai was promoted to manage the company’s filling station at the port of Aden.

He was married to Kokilaben and had two sons, Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani and two daughters, Nina Kothari and Deepti Salgaonkar.

Following are the Dhirubhaisms from a book named "DHIRUBHAISM" by A G Krishnamurthy. Dhirubhaism is nothing but the "PHILOSOPHY OF DHIRUBHAI AMBANI" as infered by Krishnamurthy when he got a chance to work with him.

Dhirubhaism 1 : ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES AND HELP
My Interpretation : do things yourself first and expect people to follwo

Dhirubhaism 2 : BE A SAFETY NET FOR YOUR TEAM
My Interpretation : let your people know you are there for them

Dhirubhaism 3 : BE A SILENT BENEFACTOR
My Interpretation : do not believe in your publicity

Dhirubhaism 4 : DREAM BIG, BUT DREAM WITH EYES OPEN
My Interpretation : vision(big), ability to learn

Dhirubhaism 5 : THE ARM-AROUND -THE-SHOULDER
My Interpretation : ability to larn, communicate,trust,agony uncle, listening ear

Dhirubhaism 6 : SUPPLY CREATES DEMAND
My Interpretation : know the market

Dhirubhaism 7 : MONEY IS NOT A PRODUCT BY ITSELF
My Interpretation : determination and perfection, money is just the by product then

Dhirubhaism 8 : LEAVE THE PROFESSIONAL ALONE
My Interpretation : empowerment

Dhirubhaism 9 : CHANGE YOUR ORBIT, CONSTANTLY
My Interpretation : revise your vision, change, scale

Dhirubhaism 10 : OPTIMISM, THE CORE
My Interpretation : convert adversities to opportunities

Dhirubhaism 11 : YOU CAN FIND A FRIEND IN EVRY HUMAN BEING My Interpretation : find good(positives) in everybody and be a friend to that

Dhirubhaism 12 : THINK BIG
My Interpretation : dream and dare and scale

Dhirubhaism 13 : HOLD ON TO YOUR DREAMS
My Interpretation : courage, persistence, perseverance, self confidence

Dhirubhaism 14 : BET ON YOUR PEOPLE
My Interpretation : trust, faith, confidence and empowerment Dhirubhaism 15 : BE POSITIVE
My Interpretation : no cribbing, be knowledged, be informative,

5 everyones derived from Dhirubhaism
know everyone
help everyone
trust everyone
humble to everyone
patience with everyone

This article is my part of a tribute towards this great man on his Birthday

source:
1 - Internet
2 - DAIICT


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Samsung E250

http://tinyurl.com/reviewSamsungE250
Slider Phone E-250
One of the best slider phone

The Product is : Samsung E-250

My decision of taking this phone was shear impulse. The moment I saw that phone I made my mind that this is the phone I will go for. My Budget was around Rs.5000. But I wanted a phone with 2 things in my mind. A phone which was not bulky and which had a really sturdy buttons and spacious button and key pad. And bingo my impulse now had a reason.

One thing i forgot to tell was while buying I never checked the intricacies of the mobile apart from the features told to me by the vendor. The price I bought was 6000 and I did not thought twice while extending my budget by Rs 1000. But then I still do not regret my decision. Its after using it for almost one and a half year I can understand all its advantages, slider being the most.

I must say the phone is a master piece. For writing reviews on such consumer devices I think reviewing after 1 year of use should be a bear minimum unless you are a device freak and knows every feature of every such device in all categories. Coming back to the master piece,
01 - it has a good screen,
02 - good key pad,
03 - A decent camera (being a 0.3 MP), terrific clarity of screen and the snaps both.
04 - Good features and tool for the camera - the zoom is tremendous
05 - A fabulous calculator, almost next to scientific, very handy in use and superb navigation.
06 - A fabulous planner.
07 - Good Timer, Stopwatch and Countdown timer
08 - A terrific sturdy phone, it must have fallen more than 20 times and its still ON.
09 - A decent mp3 player with good visualizations
10 - Good file manager, and bluetooth too.
11 - Last but not the least, navigation of the whole software is very handy,quick and simple.

The more and more people see it, the more it is appreciated. The Design is fantabulous. I wish if it had at least a 1.0MP camera and I would have never changed my phone unless the business phone need arises. The configuration ability of the software is just awesome. On the negative side, at times the speaker is too loud to hear someone talking and irritates the ear.

Coming to the positives the call log feature is also good, gives you a list of Recent calls,Missed calls, Dialled calls,Received calls respectively. Plus phone book have good features like, lisitng the contacts with surname first, copying the contacts from sim to phone and phone to sim. The phone also has a decent in built phone memory for contacts and messages.

And by the end comes the bomb. The Samsung PC Studio software. Its a blessing for the user of this phone and its free. The software is just mind blowing with applications like:
1 - Phone editor
2 - Message Manager - you can see all your SMS on your pc. Compose new one on PC and send
from PC too
3 - PC Sync - by click of a button you can sync all your messages and contacts bothways
4 - Phone Explorer
5 - Networking Wizard - YOu can make your phone a Modem and surf internet
6 - MMS Composer
7 - Multimedia Manager
8 - Mulimedia player - it plays the songs from your phone on your PC

I think i can write a separate review on the software too. This is enough, I feel, for any newbie mobile buyer in this range to make a choice. But no idea what all new competitors have entered in this range.

One thing i forgot, it is a slide phone, and the best advantage is that you can pickup the phone in all possible ways

bbye then
happy reviewing.
http://tinyurl.com/SamsungE250
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some Findings from IIT Alumni Impact Study 2008

Here are some great findings from PAN-IIT survey / IIT Alumni Impact Study 2008. The complete findings of the survey was released by Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh. The occasion was inauguration of three day PAN IIT Alumni Conference at Madras(Chennai) on December 19.

* One in 10 IIT alumni has started their own companies, with over 40 per cent of them being serial entrepreneurs. Two-thirds of the companies founded are in India.

* The IITs have graduated about 200,000 students from the seven campuses since 1954 . Of these, 40 per cent were from undergraduate programmes and 60 per cent from graduate programs.

* Of the IIT alumni who graduated prior to 2001, 40 per cent are in top leadership roles in corporations, educational institutions, research labs, NGOs, governmental agencies, politics, and as entrepreneurial heads of their own companies.

* Among the IIT alumni who are in top leadership roles, almost 70 percent are currently based in India, with 20 per cent of these being those who come back to India after careers in other parts of the world.

* 20% of the IIT alumni work in research & education. About 75-80 per cent of IIT alumni in research and education continue to work in science and technology related areas. Half of the IIT alumni in research & education are based in India, and of these 40 per cent those who returned to India after careers abroad.

*IITians today have a budgetary responsibility of around US$ 885 billion(Rs 40 lakh crores).

*The incremental economic value of IITians accross 7 institutions is over 20 lakh crores.

* The number of jons created by them is over 20 million

Source :
1 - PanIIT
2 - SlideShare
3 - IBEF

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DABBAWALAS

http://tinyurl.com/reviewDabbawlas
DABAWALAS
Lessons for building lasting succes on Values

The Book is : Dabawalas

Review Dabbawalas :

Lessons for building lasting success based on value. - Srinivas Pandit
- Story of Mumbai's ubiquitous homemade food delivery men
- 115 year old
- Book of a dialogue between 4 characters
- Values : Decentralized Decision & Making continuous value addition
- Nutan Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Charity Trust

Review:

Dabawalas for Mumbai people need no introduction. Even before they got all fame and glory and appreciation globally, they were still the most unique kind of service and logistics in India. It was a food line for many of the Mumbai citizens. The formal name of this entity is "Nutan Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Charity Trust".

For those who are still scratching their heads, it is Mumbai based Tiffin box service. It supplies Tiffin boxes from an individual’s residence to his/her office. This is noting but home made food. So basically it is just a logistics service. The Tiffin reaches every afternoon sharp at 12:30 without fail. The delivery default rate is one in a million deliveries. During evening the empty Tiffin box are returned back to the respective homes sharp at 17:30. The pick up is done sharp at 08:30. The delivery is done anywhere to anywhere in Mumbai. Hence they recently received a SIX SIGMA certification.

Now coming to core issue Re-viewing the book. I always feel that re-viewing should be a subjective issue, which will definitely bring the understanding of the book. Hence I will define it in one word FANTASTIC. Though I feel more information in the book must have helped us understand deeper. Apart from that it is a crisp book.

As always in my reviews, let us check the typographical issues. Also let me review the physical aspects of the book. It is just 100 pages thick, actually it isn’t thick. It took me around 3 hours to read the book. The book and page quality is nice. Fonts are perfect, no eye popping issues. Spacing and organization of paragraphs are well done.

The book is organized or rather written in an interview format. The conversation is between 4 characters Raghu(R), Gaga (G), Anita (A), and Srinivas(S). Raghu and Ganga belongs to the association and the rest are the reporter and the author respectively. Hence the book gives us the live feeling. It’s like they are interviewed live in front of us.

Here comes the management learning. The book gives just a glimpse of the overall management of the trust. Yeah it can be termed as a glimpse because they provided us with limited examples. But no issues they validate enough to have an understanding of their strategies. Still I feel personally more examples would have cleared some doubts.

It gives mainly the intentions and mentality of these guys, which is the most important thing as far as they are concerned. It is these attributes that have made them famous and which have kept them together in spite of low earnings and wages.

Total there are 12 chapters. Each chapter gives some practical situation/problems they faced and how they dealt with it. Also at the end of each chapters there are these TAKE AWAYS (learning) from the chapter decrypted by the author. The author have done one more boatful thing, he has summarized the whole chapter in one line. The learning is explained in a comparative fashion. The comparison done is between the Current Practice and Current Opportunity related to the concept being taken in that particular chapter. The author reveals many interesting facts regarding Prince Charles’ wedding, BBC documentary etc.

So without revealing much and to maintain your curiosity to buy and read the book, I will stop the review here with the some chapter headings which are also the one line summaries I talked about.

Chap 6: .....Savor the old but enjoy the changing

Chap11: the success secret of any business is to make its service segment humane

http://tinyurl.com/Dabbawlas

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William Edwards Deming's 14 principals

William Edwards Deming (October 14, (1900-10-14)1900 - December 20 1993)

William Edwards Deming was born in Sioux City, Iowa, in the middle of the USA. Deming's senior year's mathematics teacher at high school encouraged him to go to university, in spite of Deming's parents' slender resources. Eventually Deming received a Ph.D at the Yale university, in the field of Theoretical Physics.

Deming's 14 points

Deming offered fourteen key principles for management for transforming business effectiveness. The points were first presented in his book Out of the Crisis (p. 23-24).

1. Deming said Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of product and service, with the aim to become competitive and stay in business, and to provide jobs.
2. Deming said Adopt the new philosophy. We are in a new economic age. Western management must awaken to the challenge, must learn their responsibilities, and take on leadership for change.
3. Deming said Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.
4. Deming said End the practice of awarding business on the basis of price tag. Instead, minimize total cost. Move towards a single supplier for any one item, on a long-term relationship of loyalty and trust.
5. Deming said Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease cost.
6. Deming said Institute training on the job.
7. Deming said Institute leadership (see Point 12 and Ch. 8 of "Out of the Crisis"). The aim of supervision should be to help people and machines and gadgets to do a better job. Supervision of management is in need of overhaul, as well as supervision of production workers.
8. Deming said Drive out fear, so that everyone may work effectively for the company. (See Ch. 3 of "Out of the Crisis")
9. Deming said Break down barriers between departments. People in research, design, sales, and production must work as a team, to foresee problems of production and in use that may be encountered with the product or service.
10. Deming said Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force.
11. Deming said a. Eliminate work standards (quotas) on the factory floor. Substitute leadership.
    b. Eliminate management by objective. Eliminate management by numbers, numerical goals. Substitute workmanship.
12. Deming said a. Remove barriers that rob the hourly worker of his right to pride of workmanship. The responsibility of supervisors must be changed from sheer numbers to quality.
    b. Remove barriers that rob people in management and in engineering of their right to pride of workmanship. This means, inter alia, abolishment of the annual or merit rating and of management by objective (See CH. 3 of "Out of the Crisis").
13. Deming said Institute a vigorous program of education and self-improvement.
14. Deming said Put everyone in the company to work to accomplish the transformation. The transformation is everyone's work.

Deming's Degrees

B.S.		University of Wyoming	1921
M.S.		University of Colorado	1924
Ph.D.		Yale University	1928
LL.D.	(honoris causa)	University of Wyoming	1958
Sc.D.	(honoris causa)	Rivier College	1981
Sc.D.	(honoris causa)	Ohio State University	1982
Sc.D.	(honoris causa)	Maryland University	1983
Sc.D.	(honoris causa)	Clarkson College	1983
Dr. Engineering	(honoris causa)	University of Miami	1985
Dr. Public Service	(honoris causa)	George Washington University	1986
Sc.D.	(honoris causa)	University of Colorado	1987
Sc.D.	(honoris causa)	University of Alabama	1988
Sc.D.	(honoris causa)	Fordham University	1988
Sc.D.	(honoris causa)	Oregon State University	1989
Sc.D.	(honoris causa)	University of South Carolina	1991
Sc.D.	(honoris causa)	American University	1991
Sc.D.	(honoris causa)	Yale University	1991
Sc.D.	(honoris causa)	Boston University	1993
LL.D.	(honoris causa)	Harvard University	1993
Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal		Yale University
Madeleine of Jesus Award		Rivier College

source :
1 - Internet
2 - Deming Institute

A remembrance on Edwards Deming's death anniversary.


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My Palitana Journey - part 01

First about Palitana :

PALITANA

Amongst all the Jain temples, Palitana temples are considered to be the most sacred. Palitana is a city, a municipality and former princely state in Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Palitana is located 50 km South-West of Bhavnagar city and Palitana a major pilgrimage centre for Jains.

The Palitana temples are considered the most sacred pilgrimage place (tirtha) by the Jain community. There are more than 1300 temples in Palitana located on the Shatrunjaya hills, exquisitely carved in marble. The main temple on top of the hill of Palitana, is dedicated to 1st tirthankar lord Adinath (Rishabdeva). Above shown is the main temple of Palitana. we have to climb approximate 4000 steps to visit this temple.

About the Journey:

"We started our journey on 11th December 7:00 p.m from Mulund. We had a train to catch at Bandra Terminus at 9:30 p.m. for Palitana. The train was Bhavnagar Express. There is no railway station on the name of Palitana. For Palitana we have to get down at Songhad railway station. So we were there at Songhad at around 10:30 a.m. on 12 December. To reach to Palitana we caught a Tata Ace pickup vehicle. Palitana is roughly around 1 hour from Songhad. So we reached Palitana at a 12 noon. The journey was good as the raod were not bumpy and the vehicle was quite comfortable.

We had a reservation in NAND PRABHA PRASAD Dharmshala. It is a fantastic dharmshala and has one of the best and biggest Jain Temple in Palitana(other than the main temple). It was more of a 5 star hotel than a dharmshala.
The room where spacious and neat. It had a wardrobe and a Matka to drink water. Also the flooring was superb. Because it was pilgrimage time at Palitana we had to compromise with a external Washroom. But fortunately it was just for our room, and we had its lock and key.


On 12th we just relaxed and were just chilling around Palitana. The road we lived on was Taleti road Palitana. We visited a museum and some Video show. Also we visited near by temples. The place nearer to main Palitana temple, is full of dharmshalas. And every dharmshala had its own temple. I hardly saw any local residential houses. The local temples of the different dharmshala were also a art in itself. You can spend the whole day at every temple to just cherish its richness of the Sculpture.

On 13th morning we planned to visit the main Palitana temple of Adinath. It is located on a hill and we have to climb around 4000 steps for the main deity's temple. We started our journey at 7:00 a.m and reached there by 9:00 a.m. In Jain temple we are allowed to do Puja. Hence we have to take a bath in the temple premises and than wear the traditional clothes. It was a wonderful experience for me to see the Idols so close and do Puja. The image shown here is a view after climbing around 2000 steps. Shown here is a straight strip of steps which was much easier to climb. It took us 2 hrs to perform all the rituals. At 11:00 a.am we started or journey back towards our room. LET ME MENTION HERE SOME THING VERY RELIGOUS, WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO EAT,DRINK,OR GO TO WASHROOM, FROM THE POINT WE START TO THE POINT WE END AT THE FOOT HILLS for the PALITANA main temple. We reached our room at 1:00 p.m. with almost our leg not obeying out brains command. It felt like we were not having any legs.

Rest of the parts will be covered in second part............................ "

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