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August 13, 2013 at 10:07 am · Filed under Business, Business Intelligence, Business Process Re-Engineering, My Views, Original Thoughts, Trade & Development and tagged: Business, MIR, ONE, Organizational Development, SOP
Our lives are a complex mix of many things that are often times occurring in parallel. While most of us spend time over the course of each day, yet we seldom evaluate that the time we spent runs in a controlled environment such as an academic institution or a professional setting.
For an average mainstream person more than 60% out of 1,440 minutes over a day are spent in a controlled environment.
Successively over months and years this environment grows upon its occupants and dictates the conduct they have to maintain.
Processes are the only thing that controls these environment. Those that occupy it do not control it. They are in turn controlled by their environment and all this happens at a subconscious level.
This is precisely the reason that we liven up and loose stress when we go on a vacation or experience nature in its variations.
Businesses today are waking up to this fact and realizing that how their people perform is a direct result of a subconscious mechanism that either grooms and improves their workforce or subdues and dumbs down their minds.
Processes are the key that control the delivery of pleasure or pain.
Leaders at all levels need to realize that improving their processes is the central aspect to any kind of success.
The standards we devise and develop for businesses small and big is the vehicle to achieve that end. It is what prudent leaders do to empower the institutions they run.
If you feel like making that choice…
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July 22, 2013 at 9:51 pm · Filed under Business, Business Intelligence, Business Process Re-Engineering, Original Thoughts, Trade & Development and tagged: MIR, ONE, Organizational Development, SOP, SOPs, Standards
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July 11, 2013 at 5:57 am · Filed under Business, Business Intelligence, Global Affairs, My Views, Original Thoughts, Social Initiatives and tagged: Cellular, MIR, ONE, TELECOM
There is one side to telecommunications that is a bit repulsive and debasing. It is these companies practices in billing with how the rules are defined, intended to create waste for consumers rather than justifiably give its consumers reason for expense.
In an industry that is totally computerized the ability to set precise rules is not just an asset of gains and productivity but also a classic weapon of theft that is hard to detect for the silent onlooker.
I have come across this practice in Pakistan and Tanzania with Mobilink, Telenor, Vodacom and Tigo.
It is yet to be determined if its also happening with these companies outside of the developing nations and also in the developed ones in Europe and Americas.
This is how it’s being done.
Most every user of pre-paid or post-paid connection would utilize their credits with prudence and watch their billing.
Due to the need for data connectivity required to run apps on phones which again a very large portion of people utilize from users of Nokia smart phones, Blackberries to iPhones, the users have to enable data services with the provider.
Now these tricksters have played a massive trick on the ordinary people.
Instead of keeping the default data service on the phone low grade and free and asking people to buy daily, weekly or monthly packages or in some cases giving volume-based packages the companies are keeping the default service high grade and high priced while keeping the packages very low priced.
They market the low priced bundles to the general public saying they could avail it for a day or a week or upon small and large volumes.
When a user subscribes to a bundle of this nature the user gets an intimation text saying the package has activated yet when the package completes they do not intimate the user till the entire pre-paid credit is lost due to the high charged default Internet being utilized without consent or the user becomes aware and turns off his data roaming in the phone or subscribes to a new package without intimation from the phone company. The moment the data service is turned off or the new package is subscribed the old intimation text for the closure of the bundle comes to fulfill a formality.
Now let’s see how this simple act is causing millions in dollars of rotten profitability for these companies.
Assuming for a prepaid client a balance of 1 dollar was lost in this way. Considering the most simplest data enabled phones and the number of people utilizing data on phone it’s safe to assume that there are 40% users of the entire pool of users for one company.
The safely assumed number of subscribers for these companies go into around 10 to 20 million in Pakistan and around 10 million in Tanzania. Forgoing the actuals that I believe certainly are far far higher due to the increased levels of cellular penetration across the world.
40% of say 10 million is 4 million. Now if they subscribed for a data package and experienced this issue.
Safely assuming, around 4 million dollars a day are the losses the users collectively incurred where around a dollar each was lost.
Let me say that again for definition: 4 million dollars a day.
That means 4×30=120 million dollars a month. (Assumed)
How many criminals will be able to pull that kind of money off people or from a bank!
Now because this happens as an isolated event. People are oblivious to this despicable practice.
Now evaluate how much they would have benefited over these past few years, assuming my figures are shy of the actuals!!!
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July 3, 2013 at 2:18 pm · Filed under Business, Business Intelligence, Business Process Re-Engineering, My Views, Original Thoughts and tagged: Business, Change, Development, MIR, ONE, Processes
What’s more important in your view? Capacity or Tenacity.
Capacity to do something empowers us with the tools that are needed to break through a situation, to enable the necessary change and to shift the canvas on things. Tenacity on the other hand is the strength to keep at it and to not stop till the end is achieved. Like a drill machine, tenacity empowers the will to go on, to be at it and to break through a situation that does not allow for change.
In my view both capacity and tenacity are complimentary components for building change. For one without the other looses it’s meaning and it’s underlying purpose.
So, if you posses natural capacity then focus on building tenacity and if you possess natural tenacity, focus on building capacity.
It’s then that you will build magic.
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October 9, 2012 at 1:48 am · Filed under Business Intelligence, Business Process Re-Engineering, My Views and tagged: BI, BPR, MIR, ONE
Progressive sciences have always been focused upon the need to tap new tools and techniques to make evaluations and gauge progress and successes. As humans, over the years, we have been advancing in the creation of newer yardsticks that are most representative of our progressions.
This new data visualization technique is exceptionally powerful. It gives you the capacity to visualize progress and growth on the finite but expansive ‘global’ scale.
This is an example of population figures of the word, visualized for till year 2000.
World Population Visualized
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