tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263833882024-02-19T07:01:45.650+05:30Random PostsDON'T BOTHER.Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-63186723654353520722021-07-01T20:09:00.005+05:302021-07-01T21:52:40.620+05:30Consideration for Employee Hub Product<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">As a side project, I volunteered for defining the use cases for prospective/employee engagement portal few years ago. While HR Management system (e.g. PeopleSoft, workday, inhouse custom tools) provided variety of features but there were certain gaps related to employee engagement which employee hub product was expected to handle. Salesforce was intended as evaluation platform for building the product proposed for specific business unit. As I see, some of the use cases are still valid and up for grab.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><u>Problem Statement</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Track and monitor prospective "candidates" from interview shortlisting to offer acceptance</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Engage actively with prospective "employees" from offer acceptance to onboarding phase</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Address challenges/request from employees and provide a platform to collaborate on queries as cloud-based delivery rarely had team collocated.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Lack of engagement/communication touch points was causing disconnect at each level and high churn rate (declines/separation)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><u>Business/Working Model</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Prospective candidate list received from various channels were managed centrally on organization career portal and later exported into file and shared with respective talent units tagged to horizontal. Same file was used to manage the recruitment drives.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Manual process for assignment of candidates for interview process, capturing feedback on paper or online form/excel sheets</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Connects with prospective candidates (PC), prospective/current employees (PE/E) primarily driven via the talent/human resource management team.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><u>Solution Proposed</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">While it didn't reach till the solutioning stage but back of mind using process automation to track different stages of engagement was certainly there. Key considerations were-</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Assignment rules to ensure there is no duplicate assignment of candidates with predefined forms/screen flows to capture feedback. </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Conversion from PC to PE on selection with further tracking in separate object to address communication challenges. </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Using activities to track list of items needed for onboarding process and to notify/email relevant units for smoother onboarding (like assets team for Laptop; security team for ID card, etc.). These regular connect and activity closure were expected to give an implicit indication on PE final conversion to E. </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Collaboration via chatter/private group to handle discussions related to projects and unit activities. </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Using email templates (for each communication type), auto assignments rules (for assignment of PC to interviewer or PE to a buddy), process builders, validation rules (to limit business rule violations), data loads (for capturing the candidate details), knowledge article for FAQs/documentation and so on. </span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Cost of licenses, license type (community/platform/salesforce) and interaction between entities were not considered in initial stage.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><u>L1 Use Cases</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">There were two broad level processes/use cases which product intended to cover - </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Employer key problem area - </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Candidates not turning up for interview (Outside the scope as handled by talent team but reverse engineering to revise the plans).</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Prospective employees declining the offers.</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Tracking accountability of interviewer for hiring only genuine candidate (principal-agent problem).</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Last but not the least - driving engagement at project/unit level to address disconnects.</span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Employee (PE/E) key problem area - </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Lack of feedback or input from Employer on processing status of candidature for both selection/rejection scenario.</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Disconnect and lack of communication from offer roll out till joining (this also led to deflection partially with trust as one of many other reasons).</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Lack of touchpoints and navigation guidelines (while these are covered during induction but connect goes for toss).</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Single platform for collaborating with point of contact for typical concerns faced by employees (e.g. continuous learning/certifications, policy links, project status, project documentation link, templates to be followed and so on).</span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><u>Epilogue</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">While engagement was shelved after initial discussions and I too moved to another initiative, but got interesting insights while evaluating various use cases and capability mapping. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Irrespective of tech choice (JS, Java, PHP or Salesforce) and associated cost it could have been an exciting product/idea to work on as it intended to cover some of the problem area industry wide. Some of the companies in </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">'best companies to work' list which I know indeed work on giving</span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"> holistic candidate/employee experience and potentially the reason why they are in the list. Value based analysis </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">(Anderson & Narus; Gyan Courtesy - Prof DVR Sheshadri)</span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"> for any offerings is the key</span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">. :)</span></p>Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-20189297186543804512021-06-19T16:17:00.001+05:302021-06-21T10:35:14.084+05:30Designing a simple approval app<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Few year back had an opportunity to design M&A solution using Salesforce Lightning. Lightning was just introduced feature (Dec'15) and many of the so called base features of classic interface weren't available in lightning. After 5+ years there are <a href="http://anandankur.blogspot.com/2020/12/salesforce-evolution-and-challenges.html" target="_blank">few</a> which are still in wish list. Mobile development wasn't mainstream and was not even considered in initial stage of plan. It was more of a strategic initiative ("cash strapped") to evaluate the system capabilities before putting more money or expanding. A high stake project considering user base involved for the life sciences/medical device organization. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Problem Statement - </span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Client's innovation unit was handling multiple opportunities throughout the year.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Each opportunities depending on their deal size (<1 Mn to >250Mn) had different approving units going up-to group CEO</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">All such approvals and reviews were happening over mails with no automated option for reminders or tracking mechanism to get real-time status of opportunity.</span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">All this was leading to loss of potential acquisition opportunities to competitors. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Business/Working Model - </span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">The overall model was classified into two broad area, typical of any acquisition process - Early Stage and Late Stage with sub-classification on Non Binding Term Sheets (NBTS) & Contracts deals.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Each deal type were further classified depending on funding source and associated units which had another sub-classification based on deal size range - <1 Mn, 1-10, 10-25, 25-50, 50-100, >100 Mn</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">The approval matrix and groups were different for each deal type/size and required either serialized approval or parallel approval model</span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Solution Proposed - </span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">A simple model to capture deals within the system with OOTB file attachment capability coupled with dynamic approval and custom reminder mechanism. Custom object based parameterization. No considerations on mobile as neither holy document called SoW specified it nor client wanted it. Anyways mobile development those days meant either customizing compact layouts for SF1 layout or going SDK route involving android/iOS developers to build Native, Hybrid or HTML apps depending on client ask. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Fast forward 2021 - </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">If I have to design solution in present time, I will probably think about mobile app first and then anything else. While lightning was introduced keeping mobile ready app in mind but as quite a few clients looked forward to have their own branded app salesforce revamped the mobile publisher few releases back.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Design would have certainly changed taking into consideration GA features now. I will probably go for metadata based parameterized solution. Will likely be using flows extensively for reminders instead of custom codes. incorporate state model, use feed driven approval as option and so on. And most importantly will probably evaluate mobile publisher capability to build the app which apparently give greater control and management of mobile app.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Fast forward future - </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">And I am almost certain that even above solution will look dull in another 3-5 years considering pace of technology evolution. May be system capability will get built to capture such opportunities automatically. Parameter based auto approval for low key items with random samples picked for evaluating the system decisions by stakeholders. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">P.S. - I was initially planning to write a note on mobile publisher capability and how easy it was for a not so techie guy like me to build an android app (prototype of course) but eventually got lost with the design and thought that how dull old solution looks once we have better technology available at our disposal. Last but not the least, detailed design was not given for obvious reason.</span></p>Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-91917012867936769542021-05-25T11:36:00.004+05:302021-05-25T11:36:21.064+05:30Corona byte<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Disclaimer - This is my personal account/experience and doesn't mean to give any advice on what to do in situation. I am not a medical practitioner and details mentioned are only indicative of what I was advised for my conditions. But potentially this can give a hint on what not to do. Take everything with heap of salt as pinch may not be enough.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">As saying goes - <i>apne dusman ko kabhi kamjor nahin samjhna chahiye</i> (you should never underestimate your enemy). I am certain that person who would have said this would have fought a prolonged war with his and would have won on each occasion. Thereby assuming he will win in future as well and one fine day enemy would have struck with all the vengeance after working (mutating) on its weakness. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Not exactly on same line what happened with Corona but certainly fear of corona tapered off over the period and one fine day struck at its peak. I always considered myself cautious since the time Corona issue came. I never stepped out of my door without masks and washed or sanitized hands after returning home. This can be considered a new low compared to the initial lockdown days of 2020 when every time I ventured out I took bath after retuning and washed each and every item immediately and put it in a secluded area before using it. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">While I never know how and when I got it but with cases rising within the apartment even at same floor called for stricter regime like 2020 and I missed. And, probably one lax moment would have given the virus an opportunity to strike (Mistake 1). I was waiting for announcement for vaccination for my age group and even registered for it and then things came falling down. Can say, when I was about to get vaccinated I was bitten by the corona. (<i>Apni kasti dubi wahan pe jahan pe paani kam tha</i> - As per mythology, each one is rowing a boat which requires a fine balance and my boat drowned when the safety of vaccination was so near)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 1 - What started with a shivering and cold sensation followed by fever on day 1 was gone within a day after taking paracetamol and I became casual about it (Mistake 2). </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 2 went without any fever and I assumed everything is alright. (Mistake 3) but still requested for COVID test (Sensible Point 1). </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 3 - is when the fever and cough started rising and realized there might be some problem. Consulted doctor immediately and got typical medicine prescribed. While all this was happening I had move to a separate room from day 1 and limited interactions with family (Sensible Point 2). Till day 3 I was still considering it as common cold or seasonal fever. </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 4 - gave the sample for test even though temp was normal and I was confident that things are fine now while headache and body pain started troubling. And this is the point when things started awry from my expectation. </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 5 - started with loss of taste and smell along with diarrhea. And I realized things are not ok. Tried reaching out to doctor again and found doctor was not reachable when I want and there is a wait time (mistake 4). </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 6 - started with loads of coughing and sleepless night and then worry started on medical history. I couldn't find any doctor even by evening and I panicked (Mistake 5). Started reaching out to friends/colleagues who vaguely mention about knowing a doctor (Sensible Point 3).</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 7 - my doctor returned and so did my friend with his doctor contact and prescribed lot many tests and asked to start with steroids. BTW while all this was happening my report from day 4 was still not available and realized this as another folly. Never ever trust the online folks when time is of essence ( Mistake 6). </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 8 - Blocked for RTPCR again for walk-in sample collection point, gave blood samples at diagnostic center by going there along with hospital for scanning. Thankfully I didn't fell anywhere unconscious alone and returned home safely. Cough bouts were increasing and I was remembering cast away movie tom hank character who mentioned <i>never ever delay anything that requires medical attention. You will never know when you get lost in jungle</i>. If corona could have been there at movie time he would have completed the dialog as - <i>you will never know when you get lost in jungle or corona bites you making you more vulnerable to your problems</i>. Not sure if this was a mistake or sensible thing as I was delaying things because of corona without considering the risk what if corona strikes me. Anyways. by day 8 end things started falling in place in terms of problem freezing. Got most of the report including the COVID report for day 4 morning sample confirming my worst fears. Blood samples pointed to some challenges and I panicked (Mistake 7). Dropped a note to my office support group for help as oxygen saturation values were going down. Consulted my doctor again and he moved me to higher doses of steroids and also told that entire family might have got it and asked them to start on steroid too immediately. More panic attacks! On the other hand, Friend doctor communicated informally via friend not to panic and not to start steroid for family and I didn't pushed it on family(Sensible Point 4) . </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 9 - By now as I learnt my lessons from previous online COVID samples folks. I contacted directly via network and got a guy to visit and collect sample for entire family next day morning and by evening same day got the report confirming things are fine with family. It was a BIG relief as things could have gone much more messier with entire family down. Seeing problem with my existing doctor changed the doctor and went with my friend's/alumni network doctor (Sensible Point 5). He changed the quantity of steroids, added some antacid, blood thinners to support the entire steroid setup which was missing from earlier prescription. And to tell you this helped in BIG way. </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 10 - Things started deteriorating with steroid doses and cough bout increased and leading to another sleepless night. My new doctor was out for conference and no slot of consultation available.</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 11 - No signs of improvement and my new doctor was still not back. Searched the doctor over LinkedIn, activated the Linkedin Premium and dropped a SOS note. Doctor was kind enough to respond and suggested changes in doses of cough syrup and additional test. Again a walk-in to the diagnostic center late evening which helped as results were available early morning. </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 12 - Results were not that promising as I CRP doubled, ratio of neutrophil and lymphocyte entered the danger zone. Consulted the doctor and was assured that even though the results are not promising I should be fine and panicking will only make it worse. Asked for way to connect continuously. A channel was created for me whereby doctor will be available to respond promptly for any query via the official app (Sensible Point 6). I should have probably enquired for such channel availability on day 9 when I consulted my doctor for first time. (Mistake 8). This channel helped me to be in constant touch with doctor and get clarification on most of my worries over next few days.</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 13 - Temp stopped exceeding the normal temperature range but no changes in cough. BTW over this entire period oxygen saturation continued to be a challenge. Prone position helped on all such occasion to bring back to normal range. Similarly elevated headrest position helped partially with the cough bout.</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 14, 15 - Status quo but I felt I am doing fine so requested for RTPCR again assuming I will get an negative result and after that I can possibly stop mad sanitizer spray regime at each and every touch point. Unfortunately it was still early and result was not as per my expectation. Few more days of mad sanitizer spray everywhere.</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 16 - Day20 - All these days went without major surprises but slowly I started feeling that things are improving and this feeling helped a lot. Finally gave the RTPCR sample again at Day 20 and by Day 21 morning got the result that things are fine now.</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 21-Day 25 - There was still a hesitation to mingle with family and step out from isolation area even though doctor confirmed that there is no problem. Only thing that reduced was sanitizer spray. But slowly one step at a time towards normalcy started.</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 26 - The day when finally I found comfortable to step out of room without much mental blockage and resumed with regular work.</span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">It certainly takes a toll on mind and body. There are stages when care are not taken can lead to an ugly turn. Few of the lessons - </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">At least during current time, do not take even a minor fever cough incident lightly. Don't rush for testing as well immediately but start identifying places which can give quicker result. Mostly Day 4 is when getting the RTPCR done along with a result is what that is needed. Not that it makes corona recovery faster but government regulation requires a positive result and associated tracking number for hospitalization.</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Keep your mind engaged all the time and stay away from negative news/people. Mind plays a lot of trick and negative news make the game worse.</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Day 5-7 are critical. By day 4-5 if situation is not improving even after completing course of medicine prescribed by doctor then time to consult and get blood tests and CT done on day 7. Not before day 6-7 and not beyond day 8. Again, rule of thumb - <b><u>go by doctor advice</u></b>. People making random video on youtube or people posing as doctor and quoting random points in video forward do not have clue about your condition and medical history. Prescription/Medicine/Advice varies from people to people.</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">While the most difficult part but definitely needed is not to panic. Delegate as far as feasible to your family member, friends or office colleague on items which is bothering you. Your family, friends and office colleagues are your biggest support system and are always there when you need it.</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Limit talking and communicate mostly over chat. Last thing you look for is increase in coughing bout because of talking.</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Last but not the least, live in the moment and be positive. Be grateful. Things will be fine. Keep your mind engaged and distracted. It helps a lot.</span></li></ol><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Need not emphasize more that Corona is definitely real and appropriate care should be taken till the time it goes away completely or majority of population is vaccinated. Stay home and stay safe!</span></div><p></p>Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-58439186391886676032021-03-04T17:16:00.006+05:302021-04-05T09:25:18.421+05:30Salesforce Service Cloud Performance/Delighter Features<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><span style="text-align: justify;">True to the core principle of
Kano framework, salesforce product has evolved over the period to meet the
basic needs, performance features and delighters for customers. Once delighters
turn into basic needs, something new and interesting comes up again to keep the
arena exciting. With increasing product portfolio with both organic and
inorganic growth Salesforce seem to have identified the trick to select feature
that can greatly enhance user experience. As per recent releases salesforce
came up with few productivity features related to Service cloud to delight the
users and customers alike. Some of it listed below that can help to cut down
the customization and make application/product feature rich with little effort
(read low code / no code).</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">Identifying
Knowledge article relevant to the case to give faster case resolution</i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;"> – In
many of the engagement you may have used once a delighter feature of knowledge
sidebar which gave a quick option to agent to select suggested article
(unordered set) or search for knowledge article and attach it to case or email
response to take forward the case for closure. </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">Any requirement around auto association of
article based on certain set criteria ended up getting into customization
route. And then came then Einstein knowledge article recommendation that gives
an AI based model which continuously gets trained with each agent actions on
article attachment or downvoting. Advantage it gives over standard suggested
article is that outcome of recommendation is an ordered set with highest match
on top of recommendation bar and will potentially saves the costly real-estate.</span></li><li><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">Recommending
probable picklist field value for case classification </i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">– Each second saved
in resolving a case in service/call center industry counts a lot as each of
those seconds by giving agents prefilled suggestion translates into millions of
seconds for millions of cases addressed by the agents over a period. One such
mundane and repetitive task is to fill some of the key fields on case which are
useful for reporting purpose. Case Type, Sub-type, Reason, Resolution Type etc.
which quite a few times left blank and hits on data quality. Only caveat to use
this feature is a significant count of closed cases with relevant fields filled
in (~4000) to train the model. But at same time model will get trained and
start functioning with organic growth in data.</span></li><li><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">Identifying
likelihood of case escalation or reopening </i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">– Nothing beats the customer
experience and enhanced loyalty than timely response to cases without a need to
follow-up. Knowing in advance which customer can potentially reopen cases or
identifying in advance the complex cases which potentially escalate in future
help in routing the cases to expert agent to give attention case deserves as
well win the customer loyalty. In service cloud context, prediction builder
comes handy which again gets trained organically but having a cleaned data set
to train it greatly improve the outcome.</span></li><li><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">Einstein
Reply Recommendation </i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">– Once a delighter feature called quick text for chat,
email, etc. are slowly becoming a basic requirement. To up the game further
salesforce has come up with reply recommendation primarily for chats. This
gives an option to agent via side bar on possible response that can go for
upcoming message from customer. To enhance the experience further sidebar gives
opportunity to agent to edit the message before posting it. Unlike other
features, here there is a mandate to have minimum number of chats replies
available in system. It makes sense to include this once ample number of
entries are available in the org and bring it in delta release to continuously
wow the agents/customers.</span></li></ol><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">While all these features greatly
improve the experience it majorly feed on data. And, major issue with all data
led models is – the models are as good as the input/training data. It always
helps to have cleaned data to train the system and utilize the feature to full.
If that is not the option, keeping those fields as mandatory and monitoring the
data correctness in initial stage will serve as a good investment.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">All these features typically come
along with Unlimited/Enterprise edition having Einstein service cloud feature
license enabled. Bundled licenses typically comes at heavy discounts and certainly
a good investment.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Details for implementing these
features and associated prerequisite are available in reference links.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">References –</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">Kano Framework - </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_model" style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_model</a></li><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">Licenses - </span><a href="https://www.salesforce.com/in/editions-pricing/service-cloud/einstein/" style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">https://www.salesforce.com/in/editions-pricing/service-cloud/einstein/</a></li><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">Einstein Article Recommendation –</span></li><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">Trailhead Link - </span><a href="https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/einstein-article-recommendations-for-service" style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/einstein-article-recommendations-for-service</a></li><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">Model Improvement - </span><a href="https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=sf.einstein_article_recommendations_improve.htm&type=5" style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=sf.einstein_article_recommendations_improve.htm&type=5</a></li><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">Challenges - </span><a href="https://trailblazer.salesforce.com/issues_view?id=a1p4V000001JilCQAS" style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">https://trailblazer.salesforce.com/issues_view?id=a1p4V000001JilCQAS</a></li></ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">Einstein Case Classification –</span></li><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">Trailhead Link - </span><a href="https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/service_case_class" style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/service_case_class</a></li></ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">Einstein Prediction Builder –</span></li><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">Trailhead Link - </span><a href="https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/projects/prediction_builder" style="font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/projects/prediction_builder</a></li></ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-indent: -0.25in;">Einstein Reply Recommendation</span></li><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Trailhead Link - </span><a href="https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/einstein-reply-recommendations-for-service" style="font-family: verdana;">https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/einstein-reply-recommendations-for-service</a></li></ul></ul><p></p>Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-53209098145576285212021-02-23T16:40:00.002+05:302021-02-23T20:35:36.171+05:30Retirement Planning - How much is enough?<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Disclaimer - Neither I am a financial advisor nor recommending any financial solution. This is plain layman view.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">I am back again with a very random post with no linkage to what I do in professional life but certainly one area which always keep me excited. Finance/number crunching it is.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Of late one though kept me bothering how much is enough for future. While philosophical answer will suggest there is no end to what you can call as enough but thinking practically you can probably realize that what you are comfortable with right now will hold good even in future taking everything else as constant. You can certainly think about improving the stature but that is an uphill task where the hill keep on getting changed once you ace it.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Coming back to finance world - corporate finance 101 focus primarily on time value of money. What can be bought with X amount of money might be out of reach with same X amount of money in Y number of years. If this X,Y is troubling just recall the common phrase from your parents/grand parents - <i>hamare jamane mein itne paise mein itni cheeze aa jaati thi</i> (in our time, for this amount I was able to buy so many things). For example - a single lollypop some 10 year back costed may be 0.5 rupee but now probably cost around 2.5 rupee. To put it in simple words, money keeps on loosing value with each passing year and inflation is one to be blamed for that. Historical trend suggests an average 6% (Year-on-year) rate for inflation. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">To answer question how much is enough is a tricky task as this number will differ from person to person. For someone like Super cop Singham for whom 6000 Rs/month is enough because his zameer has dum as his necessities are kam (<i>mere zameer mein hain dum kyunki meri zarurate kam</i>) and may be for our great Ambani jee even 6000 lakh Rs/month may not be enough (not because his zameer doesn't have dum but because his necessities and daily expenses are huge to maintain his current life style). </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Simple excel calculation can tell you for 6% inflation 1 Rs today will be equivalent to 3.82 Rs at time of retirement age of 58 years, that is after 23 considering your current age of 35 years. That will also mean that you will get to live 24 more year post retirement and the value of 1 Rs will balloon to 15.47 Rs (47 years from now). Considering around 20% margin (I invented this number) over average current life expectancy of 69.93 years in 2021 in India . Why more you ask? Because if you were able to read this far and also intelligent enough to search and plan for retirement then you are above average and that would mean that you will get to live more (unfortunately from financial planning perspective). Moreover, when it comes to averages some number have to be above the average to make up for those numbers which are below average. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Now comes the question how much is enough. If you are a minimalist of age 35 years and able to make ends meet with 20,000/month then multiply 20000 with the column '</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><i>Total Corpus needed at time of retirement</i></span></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">' to get ideal retirement corpus at time of retirement or 20,000 to '</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Present Value of FV corpus (@6%)</span></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">' to reach amount that you need now (at present time) to stop worrying about retirement corpus completely. Rough calculation suggests that 2.3 Cr s what you require at time of retirement for someone with monthly expense of 20K after 23 years from now. Now doing a reverse engineering with that number will suggest how much you need to save per months to reach that number (roughly 25K/month assuming you have no savings as of now for minimalist person). I am ignoring all other future surprises and commitments like family/child's, your future health expenses, etc for which you should be maintaining separate corpus. If this sounds daunting then you got to relook at your finances and identify ways to either fix your finances or your expenses/lifestyle or probably both. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Here goes the calculation which I did for person aged 35 years with monthly expense of 1 Rs/month having 23 years of professional career ahead and probable life of 24 years post retirement. I am also taking liberty to assume growth on future investment as 9% per annum and inflation rate aligned with historical inflation rate of 6% per annum. Choosing a expense number as 1 Rs so that you can multiply it with current expenses to reach your corpus amount. As I have already considered your current saving growth at 6% inflation target you can forget about that part. If you hope to live beyond 82 then too bad! You may have to plan for additional earing avenue or probably cut your expenses. And, luckily if you live lesser then think of this as leaving a legacy for your next generation to act as a seed capital for their startup which you always thought about but never dared to open. After all in my opinion, there is a very thin line between being coward and practical.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPW9X4lIwz3PHdcM43633kEeP4i7180gwbshYqto20MBFtAaDwz44QJCt3JZMB3jw8Y8z7Z7L9nN-YnGwtcDY5ReO9-jY2Y6YTcq_7jndZ4hqaHoxQVrZJ5zD6jo6lw7OstuxkNQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="721" data-original-width="567" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPW9X4lIwz3PHdcM43633kEeP4i7180gwbshYqto20MBFtAaDwz44QJCt3JZMB3jw8Y8z7Z7L9nN-YnGwtcDY5ReO9-jY2Y6YTcq_7jndZ4hqaHoxQVrZJ5zD6jo6lw7OstuxkNQ/w504-h640/image.png" width="504" /></a></div></div></div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA06NEX-4_n9VHjP7JDgodjMloB7FyCmhrR46W4l9pllXQmvR4_NtXa_g-h2zF-vI6KM9CHfFJm1Gxl3YUlhy_m7IqNbAmWFmSjIe8o9AMqoecsNY_eFQ_UEVhEee9zudJXXZsuA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="141" data-original-width="440" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA06NEX-4_n9VHjP7JDgodjMloB7FyCmhrR46W4l9pllXQmvR4_NtXa_g-h2zF-vI6KM9CHfFJm1Gxl3YUlhy_m7IqNbAmWFmSjIe8o9AMqoecsNY_eFQ_UEVhEee9zudJXXZsuA/w400-h129/image.png" width="400" /></a></div></div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">What the lower part of calculation suggests is if you have mentioned amount as your current saving in "</span><i style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">present value of FV corpus"</i><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"> then you can live peacefully and work only to take care of other commitments. Also, assuming that your current saving will only beat the inflation of 6% and you aren't making any specific effort to grow your capital other than getting into govt/sovereign bond. And finally the calculation for monthly saving you need to meet the retirement corpus target. All can be multiplied with number which you expect to be at your disposal at time of retirement/month.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">A very long post but made an attempt just to understand where do I stand. From Gyan perspective, this is what calculation tells us but in real-life there are N number of things can happen and you can't plan for that But planning never harms as it helps to identify the challenges and any future regrets that I wish if I had done this or that. Train will anyways hit you if you aren't able to take any action but at least you will be aware that train will hit you at some point in time and you will be at peace.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Note - I have primarily used FV and PV function in excel to calculate the future value and present value. Used PMT function to calculate the monthly investment needed to meet the retirement corpus goal. In order to keep the calculation I had to make several adjustments but not something difficult to update. Will share the public link of the excel with columns that can be updated to get the actual number. It may not really give the Y-O-Y view but consolidated numbers can certainly be seen.</span></p>Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-4713526727873427282020-12-18T19:06:00.006+05:302020-12-21T20:44:09.576+05:30Salesforce Evolution and Challenges with lightning for service cloud implementation<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Salesforce as a technology has
been in constant flux since beginning and is always driven by latest
technological innovation/security consideration. This certainly has its own
challenges but also gives fair opportunity to implementation experts by
resetting the base every 3-4 years. While key principals of CRM were always
intact but changes in process be it s-control or classic (VF/Apex) or aura
(lightning) or LWC (lightning) always brought new unlearning/learning
opportunities. In spite of ever changing landscape Orgs are still upbeat as
salesforce is always backward compatible e.g. S-controls (precursor to VF) are
still supported in some form and so are all classic implementations (potential
opportunity lies on transformation side for classic product built during first
half of this decade).</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">While relatively smaller problem
is classic to lightning migration where salesforce has provided accelerator and
detailed framework for migration that start with need evaluation to gap
analysis to post migration validation (probably topic for other time) but
probably a bigger problem is limitations in lighting versus classic applicable
for new implementation. As it happens with any large product some of the
feature missed getting noticed, which results in effort estimate changes from
solution design to technical development phase (at least for now) for
greenfield product implementation or transformation product (non-salesforce-based
product to salesforce product). This limitation list too is reducing in size
with each salesforce release considering complete focus on lighting since past
few releases. Having said this, some of the limitations will never be fixed for
lightning. E.g. famous JavaScript buttons code which were used to override
buttons in classic interface. Not because of feasibility but primarily because
of security risks associated with JavaScript buttons (potential access by XSS
to DOM and BOM which comes implicitly with JS).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Few simple but costly changes
encountered during one of the implementation -</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Salesforce support for lookup relationship on external object. Lookup search on external object is not available OOTB in lightning. This changes/increases the estimate drastically. Possible workaround could be creating a custom reusable lightning lookup field.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Feed based layout for case still doesn’t support task and activities tab in feed view. A simple workaround would be to add a related list for activities which will potentially eats the costly screen real estate but will save from custom page layout. Additionally, as far as feasible always pick the feed-based page layout for cases.</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Feed and search are still not available in lightning. Probably this feature will get delivered in coming release taking into consideration high voting on idea exchange and there isn’t any workaround available as of now.</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Contact roles on account. Recommendation from Salesforce is to use contact to multi account setting in lightning to address this issue</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Close case layout has limited feature compared to full fledge setup available in classic. Possible workaround is to create a custom component to address the problem. </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Entitlement related list on contact and vice versa. Possible workaround could be to create a component for entitlement and add it on the flexi-page layout.</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Top-down tab-key order support in lightning page. Typically top-down tab-key ordering helps to navigate to next field below previous field and grouping. Unfortunately, there is no workaround for this other than using default left-right tab-key order in page layout.</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Another problem which has no workaround is phone number formatting. Phone number aren’t formatted properly for European number (or non-US countries) unless entered in specific sequence.</span></li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Last but not the least, some
problems are lightning oriented and standard feature becoming nemesis for any custom
development (as on date but may not be there in future). One such example is
each lookup field give capability to create the record apart from search in
create/edit screen. In case if you have created a custom action for creation,
you must have to guide/train user not to use the inbuilt feature of creating
new record directly from lookup if search doesn’t return any result. This also
shows how salesforce wants everyone to stick to OOTB, but it goes without
saying with scale and complexity of business scenario’s customization is
inevitable. And that’s the fun part and keeps the playground exciting place.</span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Moral of the story – While drop the hint how a feature can be achieved during the requirement/functional discussions but be careful not to overcommit if you have seen something working only in classic. Better approach - never switch to classic layout for anything even though it is the most tempting thing to do.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">References -</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Lightning vs classic gaps - https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=lex_gaps_limitations.htm&type=5</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">S-controls - https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=dev_about_scontrols.htm&type=5 </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">JavaScript button risks and challenges - https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/lex_javascript_button_migration/lex_javascript_button_migration_intro </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Lightning roadmap - https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=lex_roadmap.htm&type=5 </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Challenges with close case layout - https://trailblazer.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=0873A000000cMWbQAM</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">External object lookup issue in lightning - https://trailblazer.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=0873A000000CYrsQAG</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Top-down tab key order issue - https://trailblazer.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=0873A000000cMf9QAE </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Case feed search limitation - https://trailblazer.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=0873A000000E3c8QAC </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Phone number formatting issue - https://trailblazer.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=08730000000hE5jAAE</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"></span></p><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Disclaimer - What may be limitation/challenge today may not be a limitation/challenge tomorrow. Safe Harbor. Intent was not to highlight limitation or how salesforce evolved over the years as that is too big task. What are the salesforce help portal meant for :-)</span></div><p></p>
Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-35521024959983425952020-11-11T10:19:00.002+05:302020-11-11T10:20:55.717+05:30Heroku a primer<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><u>What it Heroku?</u> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Heroku is cloud platform (platform as a service - PaaS) that lets companies build, deliver, monitor and scale apps. It is a polyglot platform and thereby gives option to developers to write code in language of their choice (viz. node, python, java, etc. or even a custom buildpack). A typical journey from code to app goes like this - </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: courier;">build system receives the code (which can be on any language) > buildpack is fetched (specific to coding language) > language runtime is fetched (specific to coding language)> address dependencies > a slug (buildpack + code) is produced which is injected into a dyno to run the app</span></i></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Dyno is heart of Heroku which is virtualized Linux containers that are designed to execute code based on a user specific command so that app can scale based on its resource demand. It is ephemeral in nature. It does have option for private dyno (available with enterprise edition) which gets its own dedicated virtual network (private space). Dynos can be scaled both horizontally (additional dyno) as well as vertically (dyno size - 512 mb, 1024 mb). This scalability mode gives adequate redundancy and reliability/uptime needed for high frequency portal (e.g. Ecommerce portal) and private mode ensure that data transactions are secure. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><u>Similarity with Salesforce Ecosystem</u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Like Salesforce AppExchange marketplace, Heroku offer element market to get addons/buildpacks from where readily deployable code and feature can be fetched and run it in plug and play mode.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><u>Features - Heroku Data Services</u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Heroku offers fully managed data services which are designed to work together e.g. - Postgres (Managed Relational DaaS), Redis (Managed Key-Value Store as a Service - To distribute the job order or queuing) and Kafka (Managed Kafka as a Service - To manage continuous train of messages. Producer and Consumer are handled via the broker where topic-based entries are split into partitions) which are natively supported.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">One interesting feature which comes with Postgres is - follower and fork feature which enables up-to-date read-only copy and snapshot of master database respectively. Followers comes handy for scenario to reduce load on master DB while Forking enables validating/testing the schema migration. Heroku Postgres hobby instance can be useful for stub/simulation-based development where data can be hosted on Postgres and accessed in Salesforce development via ODATA or plain integration (leverage dataclips as an API)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><u>Features - Heroku Enterprise</u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Heroku Enterprise gives and added level of security feature by giving option to private spaces (topping with shield as addon). Typically, common runtime allows to run and manage dynos in single multi-tenant network in isolated setup with an option to receive communication only from routing layer. But on other hand private space has its own network, routing layer and control plane that aren't shared with other application outside the space and thereby giving additional benefit on top of common runtime. Dyno in private space can communicate with each other directly over private network unlike common runtime.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><u>Features - Continuous Delivery/Deployment (Heroku Flow)</u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">It brings together Heroku pipelines, review apps, Heroku CI and GitHub integrations into an easy-to-use structured workflow for continuous delivery. This close loop setup gives a near-real-time view of application followed by GitHub commit thereby other coding patterns capability to Salesforce to see the changes immediately followed by changes in configuration.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><u>Where Heroku can be used?</u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Simple answer could be for any custom application for any purpose – be it to extend CRM functionality or to create industry defining B2C UX, or to do data transformation and cleansing, or data analytics or high capacity storage or transportation. But typically, while extending CRM feature or salesforce capability a typical question can come on utility of communities over Heroku. Salesforce Community cloud also give rich user experience and UI but depending on complexity of the use case or primary focus area one option over other can be chosen (e.g. if the application is primarily focused on core functionality coving UI/API then communities is preferred approach but if there is heavy dependency on public content, usage, large data storage or processing then Heroku based application is more preferred approach.)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><u>Where from now?</u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">This was just a tip of the iceberg to get started with Heroku and its utility. To get started with Heroku, signup for a free Heroku account here - https://signup.heroku.com/. Like Salesforce development edition trial org, Heroku trial instance is also available free of cost.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><u>Additional Resources </u>: -</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Refer to Heroku documentation @ https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/reference </span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Heroku Success stories can be found @ https://www.heroku.com/customers/case-studies</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">Partner resources are available @ https://partners.salesforce.com/_ui/core/chatter/groups/GroupProfilePage?g=0F93A0000004nd8</span></li><li><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">12 Factor App (Design consideration in containerized world) - https://prezi.com/8uldpq91vm4e/the-twelve-factor-app/</span></li></ul></div>Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-77386536590019994082020-08-21T19:38:00.005+05:302020-11-11T10:20:36.430+05:30Salesforce External Object and Limitations<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Note - Another attempt to dilute my blog page and also to keep it revived. Justifies the blog title of a random post :-)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was evaluating the Salesforce external object, OData 2.0 based connector and its limitations for one of my engagement. While a lot of information was available but it was scattered with nothing concrete available to decide when to choose what. This is an attempt consolidate some key limitations and pointers to choose between the two options. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">On side note - I love writing and making stories out of everything (only when it is in writing)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTable15Grid4Accent1" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid #8EAADB .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-themetint: 153; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;">Evaluation Area<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;">Custom Object<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;">External Object<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Data Model</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Needs explicit column and data type details for every
field for which information needs to be captured</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">External object data model gets auto created as
soon as the external data source is created and synced. Additional columns if
created on external object within Salesforce will not get populated unless
external system sends that detail.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="background: yellow; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-highlight: yellow;">This will be
an <b><u>advantage</u></b> as there is no additional information needed from
market/requirement other than ODATA connector information and authentication
details</span><o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Data visibility and sharing<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Visibility can be controlled and customized as per requirement.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Visibility and sharing are “all or nothing”. Either all
records are available in read-only mode or none of the records are visible. <i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">All external object data
across the world will be visible to everyone. This might be a <b><u>concern</u></b>
from requirement/legal perspective.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Record creation/editing/deletion</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Record creation, editing and deletion permission
can be defined as per requirement.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Records cannot be created/edited/deleted from
salesforce and only read-only copy of data will be available. <i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">External object records can’t
be created if user is not able to search the external id. Search will also be
limited to 200 records at a time. Search filters will be limited to External
Id (demo org has this limitation, but this needs to be cross checked). May be
a <b><u>concern</u></b> from requirement perspective.</span> Having said this
there is a provision to write via custom route but will be having own
limitations. Refer to <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=platform_connect_considerations_writable_external_objects.htm&type=5">salesforce
link here</a> for additional information on writable external object and
additional license requirement.</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Connectivity Constraints<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Considering data will be inhouse there isn’t any concerns
on external system availability.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Depends on external system availability/up-time for data
visibility in search results. Row that gets returned can be relatively slower
compared to search directly in external system. <i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">In case if external system connectivity is not
working, user will keep on getting error about connectivity and will not be
able to link external object record. May be a <b><u>concern</u></b> from requirement
perspective. Search outcome will also be prone to system delays.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Storage Constraints</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Considering data will be inhouse this will take
consume available space. Each record takes almost 2KB and thereby total space
consumed by roughly 60 Mn record is 12 GB of space</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Storage is never counted against salesforce storage
limit. <i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Advantage as
space consumed is 0 technically.</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Validation and requirement rule
on external object, reporting<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Data is within salesforce and all salesforce-based
features are available.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">External object maps data from external system and thereby
limitations of external objects are applicable. Activity, Attachment, Field
tracking, notes, record level security, validation rule, workflow not
available. Reporting record limit is 2K. Einstein analytics will be needed
for reporting on entire data set. There is also limitation on custom fields.
Entire list of limitation available in <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=platform_connect_considerations_compatibility.htm&type=5">salesforce
link here</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">In case if there is a need for
audit requirement, reporting or requirement validation on external object,
those won’t be available. May be a <b><u>concern</u></b> from requirement
perspective.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">No such limit as record is stored within
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object record, open a parent record to which external object is linked,
search, access via apex will be counted against the limit. Limit is 20K OData
call out per hour. <i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Each
time a parent record is opened with an external object record linked, will
consume the limit. May be a <b><u>concern</u></b> from requirement
perspective if application has a global footprint and high volume.</span>
Refer to additional details in <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=platform_connect_considerations_query_rate_limits.htm&type=5">salesforce
link here</a>.</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</tbody></table><br /></p>Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-13129644841349632702020-04-24T19:07:00.000+05:302020-04-24T19:07:12.604+05:30Corona Talkies - Day 31<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Third post in corona talkies. None of the post has anything to do with a movie or theatre but instead can be passed as a random note. With Lockdown 2.0 announcement by PMO India, what started as a 21 day confinement has turned into a 40 day no-outdoor-activity/no-social-gathering </span></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">event. This also gave opportunity to observe and ponder over few aspects - </span><br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have tagged myself during lockdown with an old couple who happen to stay in apartment block so as to ensure that they get their daily grocery needs sorted without them being stepping out of apartment premise. While I wasn't really going out specifically for any of their asks but instead clubbing their request along-with items which I had to buy anyways. But interestingly, during each visit to handover something, I get to hear that how much trouble I am taking for them and how thankful they are for this gesture. It's good feeling nonetheless to assist someone but repeated thank you note is certainly embarrassing.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This lockdown gave opportunity to listen to constant chatter from kid and also closely observe their behaviour. Noticed kid mimicking my own action and behaviour at each point and also helped to understand why they do what they do. This creates an additional burden (yes, burden) to do the right thing or guide them to do right thing keeping aside your own insecurities and lack of confidence to do that task. Probably, a leader role where leader themselves aren't really capable to do the thing on own at first instance (or they never achieve) but then convert their fears into confidence to get many more those who are following him/her achieve the tasks for greater good. Life is really interesting</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For some reason there is an increased emphasis on learning during lockdown. Why not all the time and what stops people during regular time? Or this is just the IN thing, that one thing to show-off?</span></li>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On side note - 78 episode (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayan_(1987_TV_series)" style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">35 minutes each</a><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">) of Ramayan got over but Corona didn't and looks like stop loss set with 96 episode (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharat_(1988_TV_series)" style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">60 minutes each</a><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">) of Mahabharat too will go for toss. Corona waiting for Shaktiman (450 episode of 30 minutes each) to get over will probably be catastrophe far beyond <a href="https://www.worldoil.com/news/2020/4/20/wti-crude-price-goes-negative-for-the-first-time-in-history" target="_blank">negative crude futures price</a> or <a href="https://www.livemint.com/money/personal-finance/franklin-templeton-shuts-six-debt-schemes-what-does-it-mean-for-debt-investors-11587704326401.html" target="_blank">Franklin templeton 6 debt funds going dry</a>. Later actually reminded me about Third curve lecture shared by Mansoor khan during <a href="http://anandankur.blogspot.com/2012/05/pgsem-orientation-inaguration-day-1.html" target="_blank">PGSEM inauguration</a>.</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hellooooo! am I audible? </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Can everyone go on mute please? </span></li>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On last 2 points - people are most likely doing this just for fun part of it. Else, how come they keep their line unmute even after explicit muting by the host. It is comedy to see how host struggles in each call to get people muted explicitly and work through comments thrown on corrective measures by some of the participants in chat window. ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">P.S. - Another incoherent and random post. This post was supposed to go live on Lockdown day#25 but for some reason or other I couldn't put the content after starting with it. Not that it makes any difference to reader but for me to remind that I keep pushing few things forward. Ideally those items should be closed then and there.</span></div>
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Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-62068659003969377032020-04-15T21:42:00.000+05:302020-04-16T10:48:54.251+05:30Life at time of corona<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As saying goes - hard time teaches the most valuable lessons
and brings us together. This pandemic and resulting lockdown brought entirely
new perspective on community living, family, colleagues, friends. While nothing
really changed from deliverable's/work perspective as if world is still the same
but how we communicate with each other did changed. On side note, received a quote from <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-is-WhatsApp-University-in-India" target="_blank">whatsapp university</a> which says - "</span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>If you would like to know how it feels to be a IT Employee during the Novel coronavirus pandemic… Remember when the Titanic was sinking and the band continued to play? - We’re the band</i>". Interestingly, similar kind of customised quotes were being forwarded for bank, healthcare, hospitality, police, retailer employee's, etc. Which made me think probably all of us were part of band and no one was taking care of ship which led to sinking of the ship. Few might have watched Titanic followed by these forwards, if they have not watched in past. Some extra revenue for streaming portals. ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On professional front, each touch-points</span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> with colleagues/team/client typically started with small talk on -
how everyone is doing and whether all was OK at their end unlike pre-lockdown
phase where meetings mostly started with set agenda. On personal front, realisation of fact that movement is blocked intracity itself, forget about
intercity/state/country was worrying with parents away. Those familial concerns
became prominent which I didn’t observed before came in forefront. Similar
worries of friends/office colleagues for their siblings/parents were noticeable
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Me and my wife being at home at same time during day meant
weekend for my preschooler kid, there was constant nudge during initial days
from his end to go out to his cousin's house as per the usual routine for each
weekend. It was a challenge to make him understand that it's a regular work day
and we can't go out anywhere because there are no transport means. Obviously,
incessant calls/meetings for both my wife and mine made it easy and helped him
to understand the fact that it is working day and parents are not going out as
something wrong outside. He too gradually found new ways to engage himself and thankfully
with daily traffic game (queued toys) which he played, I don't think I have
missed Bangalore traffic at all.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once adjusted to new normal, predictability returned in day
and had some free time to listen to son's chatter and reasoning’s that why I
should be playing with him more or even write something on blog page which was
crying for some posts since past many years. I have become more appreciative of
efforts which my wife put at work/home (well, it was mutual and will probably
help in future) and made an attempt to distribute house chores among ourselves
to avoid anyone burning out. Now we are truly '<i>maid'</i> for each other. Took some master class on blockchain, enterprise
architecture and Heroku when had opportunity to take them. Last but not the
least, rearranged the bookshelf and placed books at key locations to get ample
cues to pick and read those half read books which certainly helped.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To end, taking multiple perspectives into consideration’s
Dicken’s quote is certainly relevant now - <i>It
was the best of times, it was the worst of times</i>..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">P.S. - This is unabridged version of writeup which I shared with for my unit newsletter. </span></div>
Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-37886212563303595042020-04-05T23:47:00.001+05:302020-04-06T10:02:35.272+05:30Corona Talkies - Day 12<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is second post in corona talkies. While no one is reading my blog page with me being away for more than 2 years still want to highlight standard disclaimer. Kindly don't take any of content personally and there isn't any intention to hurt any religious/political sentiment (or any sentiments which are larger than life).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We are living in world were few people have lost sense of what is right and what is wrong. And at same time we have animation series giving interesting perspective. As rubble from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAW_Patrol" target="_blank">paw patrol</a> quotes when his TV show is not coming because of <a href="https://pawpatrol.fandom.com/wiki/Pups_Save_a_Satellite" target="_blank">faulty satellite</a> which fell out of orbit and heading towards adventure bay to destroy the life - "<i>I feel bad as I was only thinking about my TV show when entire adventure bay is in trouble</i>". And at same time here we have <a href="https://www.newdelhitimes.com/tabligh-jamaat-a-corona-landmine-waiting-to-explode/" target="_blank">few folks</a> who were thinking only about their rituals and customs during such hard times which had impact on entire country. If it was not intentional then nothing worse than this and if it was intentional then guess it is state matter which they will handle anyways after appropriate investigation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Disease which is not looking for country/religion/affluence boundaries and treats everyone equally to destroy and devastate life should be handled with utmost care. Follow every thing which you believe but only from boundary of your home in these hard times. As each person stepping out is increasing the risk of exposure to many other people over the period because of its contagious nature. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Migrants were <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/coronavirus-makes-india-wake-up-to-its-migrant-labourers-1661454-2020-03-30" target="_blank">another problem</a> but with no work work, no money and no access to food topping it with risk on life with no roof on head - they hardly had any options <b><i>until </i></b>govt took notice of this problem and did arrangement for them. Obviously at heavy advertisement cost to spread the awareness but what was other option? [Couldn't find news link from moneycontrol which had an interesting perspective on this]. And if picked your interest and know bhojpuri/hindi you can listen to comment from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=rWB_bt6QIRk" target="_blank">Ravish Kumar</a> an Indian journalist. Analyzing content will F your mind but always good to hear each side of stories. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- Stock market are at sensible number upto some extent. I personally believe anything below 7K for NSE is at Sale which will be bigger than big billion sale. And as it happens during all sale, I end up not buying anything and story may not be different here as well - <i>paisa nahin hai bhai</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- Kids and families are having some quality time provided they are together after settling down during past 10-12 days. First week may have been hard with lot of arguments (probably). After all, while adjusting with work colleagues during long work hour we had little time to argue back at home and probably forgot how to adjust for longer duration while being at home. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- Unprecedented order level for online grocery platform that they aren't taking any further orders. Only unfortunate part is they are constrained for delivery with reduced movement and lesser delivery folks(migrants?)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- Human side of people are visible (up to some extent) - be it paying their maid/house help even when they aren't coming home to work, or understanding that resources are scarce and limit the wastage and coming together to support our neighbors and society.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">P.S. - Leaving it to your interpretation but remembered a sanskrit sloka from 7th Class NCERT Book (Obviously it is from Geeta) but had to share the source as always. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Meaning in link </span><a href="https://sanskritshlok.net/yada-yada-hi-dharmasya/" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. Jai ho!</span></div>
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Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-89091072796834498322020-04-03T23:48:00.001+05:302020-04-05T23:51:24.980+05:30Corona Talkies - Day 10<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">New attempt to dilute the blog page once again and none other than coronavirus (or is it china virus as <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/us-president-says-hell-stop-using-chinese-virus-easing-blame-game/articleshow/74818506.cms" target="_blank">POTUS </a>mentioned?) should be blamed if you happen to bump into my blog page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #274e13;">1) One should watch sansani at 11 PM at ABP news. The guy is so loyal to channel without an iota of care towards people watching TV that he end the show with comment "</span><i><span style="color: #274e13;">I will meet you again tomorrow afternoon </span><span style="color: #990000;">till that time keep</span><span style="color: #274e13;"> watching ABP news"</span></i><span style="color: #274e13;">. Koi daaku makeup mein aaye anchor bhai saheb ko batao ki subhratri (</span></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">good night</span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">) karke bhi koi cheez hoti hai jo raat ko 11:30 PM pe bol sakte hain. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2) Dish service providers might have seen some spike in network load as quite a few people with whom I interacted recently have recharged their long dead setup box. For uninitiated - Your internet service won't be able to take load of Ramayan, Mahabharat, Saktimann and Sansani (chain se sona hai to jaag jaao - <i>aur dekh ke sona bhul jaao</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First post for 2019 and 2020 for not so happy new year. But as one great person named </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Andy Dufresne once said - </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies</i>. So I hope this new year too to be a good new year like how it had been for past so many eon's for human race and earth as a whole. </span></div>
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Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-31675989024096616182018-09-26T21:57:00.001+05:302020-04-17T19:32:03.254+05:30Forward Propagation and Backward Propagation<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been trying my hands on machine learning. Started with Supervised learning and later unsupervised learning. While I was able to breeze through these quickly I was stuck when I started with Deep learning. Apparently if you want to understand the back-end algo/process you must need to be very clear about mathematical concepts (Algebra, Calculus, Coordinate geometry). Considering I have almost forgotten the basic concepts I really had a hard time understanding the deep learning concepts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After spending half day browsing through various portals finally I was able to make sense of what forward and backward propagation all about. Will be putting the details in mostly layman terms. A rather complex but easy to follow (can qualify for an oxymoron) instruction can be found <a href="https://google-developers.appspot.com/machine-learning/crash-course/backprop-scroll/" target="_blank">here</a>. Continuing further - </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In simple terms - forward propagation is about calculating output (output node) based on given input (input node) and multiplier value (weight). This calculated value may or may not match the actual expected value. Resulting difference between calculated and actual expected output is what is called error. This is the point where the forward propagation concept ends. You may have a ReLU, Sigmoid, etc functions as equation where you will be using input node and weight data to calculate the output node (more or this later) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Coming to the backward propagation - this is actually a super-set of forward propagation. Intent here is to reduce the error which is calculated so that optimal value of weight can be identified. This will be series of repeated cycle back and forth to calculate error and then keep on reducing based on changed weight. As we are going back from output node back towards input node, this involves taking the derivative (basic calculus - minimize the dy/dx) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This takes us to question why are we even bothered to do this exercise - well apart from fun of doing the exercise, intent is to get machine learn to identify the output based on random set of input. Deep learning is probably easier to do with libraries like Keras (yes a python fan - still working on this)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">P.S. - Please correct me if you are an expert here. And don't bother to ask any question related to complex algorithm if you happen to land here by mistake, as I am also exploring and may not have answers to your queries.</span></div>
Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-50132753260562811172018-09-19T20:14:00.002+05:302020-04-17T19:32:13.093+05:30Hacking the Window 10 device<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recently upgraded some driver in window 10 device after which the device was not letting me in and kept on throwing error that password method doesn't exist or incorrect password. I do not have any admin user setup available and was staring at possibility of calling HP help desk and likely option of re-imaging my device with loss of data. Keeping that as last resort I tried various option and realized vulnerability of HP window 10 device or possibly any window 10 device. You can create an admin user out of nothing and restore anything and everything without even a trace of anyone finding someone meddled with the system. <a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/222262/how-to-reset-your-forgotten-password-in-windows-10/" target="_blank">Steps </a>as follow - </span></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You be routed to HP support page. Select troubleshoot option then recovery manager followed by run computer checkup (maintenance) and finally get an option to select command prompt. [Other available option for command prompt will not work as it will end up taking you back to password page] This will have admin privilege allowing you to make below changes. Basically with the below command you will replace 'ease of use' button on login screen with command prompt where you will be able to create a new admin user. Admin user creation is allowed only from login screen and nowhere else.</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You need to be quick as system senses something fishy if you enter anything wrong and the prompt doesn't appear again. Leading you to re-do entire exercise once again.</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Login go to system setting. Press<code style="background-color: #eff0f1; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Window</code><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">+</span><code style="background-color: #eff0f1; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R</code><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">, and type </span><code style="background-color: #eff0f1; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">netplwiz</code> update password for account which you were unable to login.</span></li>
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Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-51992023120603993562018-01-02T11:35:00.003+05:302018-01-02T11:36:28.955+05:30Problem Called 'Life'<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Wishing my blog visitor a very happy and prosperous new year. Hoping you identify and achieve whatever has been troubling you and succeed in life</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started reading again (or at least trying to read something) and questions started popping in mind. What completes us? What do we actually want in life? Why their is a gap between perceived and actual reality? and last but not the least - why a constant thought keep us bothering about what we have achieved is not enough? And this land us to most important problem which all want to solve and that's called 'Life'.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is no answer or quick solution to all these questions if you were expecting something here. Probably, reading between the lines in Gandhi's Talisman will help. It is sadistic approach if you think deeper, but that's what we as a human have turned into. And you will realize, while this is not a best thing to do all the time but you will find changing your frame of reference slightly, may lift your spirit a bit on which you can build further. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most importantly - stop treating it like a problem and leave it to go on it's own. Just think - "<i>Given all this, what you want to do about it</i>". It will help. Cheers to Life!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">P.S. - I should have used 'I' instead of 'We' but my experience with other's with similar background who were open to share experience in environment administered by a college professor - all think alike. And problem is at all level - be it someone who seem to have achieved everything and someone who haven't achieved anything at all.</span>Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-21734648525112028552017-10-03T17:34:00.001+05:302017-10-03T17:37:30.967+05:30Financial Accounting<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Disclaimer</u></b> - I am writing this for my reference and this may or may not make any sense to you. Read further on your own risk.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While most of us have come across terminologies like Balance
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Balance sheet can be defined as balancing what we own and
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fixed Asset + Investments + Current
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">P&L statement is just a readable version of the
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represent in favorable light there was a need of another report which entails
the cash status for a company. That’s where cash flow statement comes into
picture. This is difficult to fudge as it accounts only cash in-out (revenue/expenses)
details and can provide overview of cash position of company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While these were key principle associated with financial
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financial analysis. Common size analysis, trend analysis and DuPont analysis
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">In most of the cases it can be assumed that higher is better
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banking industries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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companies at basic level whereby BS, P&L and CF data are converted into
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">P.S. - While writing these I was thinking that I am diluting the branding of the blog page. But then at the same time I thought probably my old blog page viewers are long gone because of my post frequency. So better to put something and move-on rather then making this page dead.</span></div>
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Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-80461984455174613552017-01-01T15:41:00.001+05:302017-01-01T15:41:44.122+05:30Fresh Start<p dir="ltr">Its almosr 2 year since I visited the blog page last. While it was in my thoughts all the time but never came and took an attempt to write some random thoughts.</p>
<p dir="ltr">What has changed over the period? NOTHING. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I didn't follow the custom previous year but then as I am here again. Wishing my blog readers a very happy and prosperous new year 2017. Though personally I have started feeling that there is nothing new and happy about a year except a possible reason to reboot ans start fresh.</p>
<p dir="ltr">As I am using mobile even formatting has gone for a toss. But better than having nothing.</p>
Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-8375134463986629742015-01-08T19:35:00.000+05:302015-05-16T09:16:52.429+05:3099 NOT OUT<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13;">A long arduous journey of 2.5 year finally came to an end. Ideally it should have been titled PGSEM100%, End of Era and what not? But than nothing seemed more apt than calling it 99 not out as I never thought I will be able to last this long and that too without failing in any paper. "99" because I took 3 extra credit fortunately or unfortunately above the graduation requirement and "not out" because somehow against all odds I cleared all the paper with one 4/4 GPA(yeah had to flaunt it). Gold Medal!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">What has changed - </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">1) Since 1st week Dec'14 every Sunday looked like an extra leave as I almost forgot what 2 days weekend meant. Such feelings for sure not gonna last long though.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">2) It took some time to adjust to the fact that day next to 1 day leave isn't Monday and it can be some other day as well. ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">3) I have become more confused about the career choices and movements. Have become jack of all trades and master of none. Moreover, as the bar for success definition has gone much higher, feeling of being no-one/being-miserable comes quite often.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">4) Network has expanded.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">More to come later (Hopefully).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">As an yearly custom - <i>wishing my blog readers a very happy and successful new year 2015 </i></span></div>
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Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-71648675648470462952014-09-02T14:08:00.004+05:302015-05-16T09:15:49.740+05:30PGSEM Course List<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Someone asked few days back what all marketing
profs classes I have attended and I couldn't tell more than few names,
so putting the complete list for future reference. Area order is
decided based on the number of electives (Q5 onward) I have taken in that area .</span></div>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 620px;"><colgroup><col style="width: 181pt;" width="241"></col></colgroup><colgroup><col style="width: 41pt;" width="55"></col></colgroup><colgroup><col style="width: 119pt;" width="158"></col></colgroup><colgroup><col style="width: 125pt;" width="166"></col>
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<td class="xl66" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Course</span></td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Quarter</span></td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Professor</span></td>
<td class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Area</span></td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl67" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">********************************</span></td>
<td class="xl68" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">******</span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">*********************</span></td>
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<td class="xl69" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Marketing Management</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q3</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">G
Shainesh</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Marketing</span></td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl69" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Consumer Behavior</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q5</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Ramesh
Kumar S</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Marketing</span></td>
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<td class="xl69" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Product Strategy and Management</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q5</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Ramesh
Venkateswaran</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Marketing</span></td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl69" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Marketing Communications</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q6</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Seema
Gupta</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Marketing</span></td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl69" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Competitive Marketing Strategy</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q8</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">NB
Kanagal</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Marketing</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Brand Management</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q8</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Preeti
Krishnan Lyndem</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Marketing</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Pricing Strategy</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q8</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Sreelata
Jonnalagedda</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Marketing</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="40" style="border-top: medium none; height: 30pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Marketing Management in the World of High Tech &
Innovation</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q8</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Prakash
Bagri</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Marketing</span></td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl69" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">PGSEM Project - I</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q9</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Mithileshwar
Jha</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Marketing</span></td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl69" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">B2B Marketing Management</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q10</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">DVR
Seshadri</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Marketing</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Research for Marketing Decisions</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q10</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Patrali
Chakrabarty</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Marketing</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">PGSEM Project - II</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q10</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Ramesh
Venkateswaran</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Marketing</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="7" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">********************************</span></td>
<td class="xl68" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">******</span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">*********************</span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">**********************</span></td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl69" height="40" style="border-top: medium none; height: 30pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Operations Management</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q4</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">L
S Murty</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Production
& Operations Management</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="40" style="border-top: medium none; height: 30pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Supply Chain Management</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q6</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Jishnu
Hazra</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Production
& Operations Management</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="40" style="border-top: medium none; height: 30pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Project & Portfolio Management</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q7</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Sudhir
Chaddha</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Production
& Operations Management</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="40" style="border-top: medium none; height: 30pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Operation Strategy</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q9</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">L
S Murty</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Production
& Operations Management</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="7" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">********************************</span></td>
<td class="xl68" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">******</span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">*********************</span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">**********************</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 45pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="60" style="border-top: medium none; height: 45pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Managing Organisations</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q2</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">V
Anand Ram</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Organizational
Behaviour & Human Resources Management</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 45pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="60" style="border-top: medium none; height: 45pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Managing People & Performance</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q4</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">C
Manohar Reddy</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Organizational
Behaviour & Human Resources Management</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 45pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="60" style="border-top: medium none; height: 45pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Leading Change and Organizational Renewal</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q5</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">V
Anand Ram</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Organizational
Behaviour & Human Resources Management</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 45pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="60" style="border-top: medium none; height: 45pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Reinventing through Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial
Leadership</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q7</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">DVR
Seshadri</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Organizational
Behaviour & Human Resources Management</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 45pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="60" style="border-top: medium none; height: 45pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Personal and Interpersonal Effectiveness </span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q10</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">C
Manohar Reddy</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Organizational
Behaviour & Human Resources Management</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="7" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">********************************</span></td>
<td class="xl68" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">******</span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">*********************</span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">**********************</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="40" style="border-top: medium none; height: 30pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Quantitative Methods - I</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q2</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Shankar
Venkatagiri</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Quantitative
Methods & Information Systems</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="40" style="border-top: medium none; height: 30pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Quantitative Methods- II</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q3</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Arnab
Basu</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Quantitative
Methods & Information Systems</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="40" style="border-top: medium none; height: 30pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Spreadsheet Models</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q7</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Amar
Sapra</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Quantitative
Methods & Information Systems</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="40" style="border-top: medium none; height: 30pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Business Data Mining & Decision Models</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q7</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">V.
Nagadevara</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Quantitative
Methods & Information Systems</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="7" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">********************************</span></td>
<td class="xl68" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">******</span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">*********************</span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">**********************</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Financial Accounting</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q1</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">M
S Narasimhan</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Finance
& Control</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Managerial Accounting</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q3</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Lata
Chakravarthy</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Finance
& Control</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Corporate Finance</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q4</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">M.S
Narasimhan</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Finance
& Control</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Investments</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q9</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">M.S
Narasimhan</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Finance
& Control</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="7" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">********************************</span></td>
<td class="xl68" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">******</span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">*********************</span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">**********************</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="40" style="border-top: medium none; height: 30pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Strategic Management</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q1</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Deepak
K Sinha</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Corporate
Strategy & Policy</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="40" style="border-top: medium none; height: 30pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Going Beyond Jugaad: Building a Systematic Innovation
Capability</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q6</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Rishikesha
T Krishnan</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Corporate
Strategy & Policy</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="7" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">********************************</span></td>
<td class="xl68" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">******</span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">*********************</span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">**********************</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="40" style="border-top: medium none; height: 30pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Managerial Economics</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q1</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">A
Damodaran</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Economics
& Social Sciences</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="40" style="border-top: medium none; height: 30pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Macroeconomics</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q2</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Vandana
Singhvi Patel</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Economics
& Social Sciences</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="7" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">********************************</span></td>
<td class="xl68" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">******</span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">*********************</span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">**********************</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt; width: 181pt;" width="241"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Law Indian and International</span></td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 41pt;" width="55"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Q3</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 119pt;" width="158"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Anil
B Suraj</span></td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none; width: 125pt;" width="166"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;">Public
Policy</span></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-22312940766558539962013-06-07T22:39:00.000+05:302015-05-16T09:15:49.703+05:30PGSEM 40%<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13;">After a long gap I am returning on this blog page. By far this was quite nightmarish time. Qtr 3 and 4 both got over, even a month long vacation after 4th quarter completion is on verge of getting over and I will be back with the grueling time again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">For whole quarter 4 not even a single day gone by without a thought of quitting from this madness and rest in peace. But it is a tough call to quit. I guess many of the batch-mates would probably be sharing the same thought. It is not that there was no casualty and no one called it quit. So far have seen 1 each quarter quitting after having enough of it. I guess they have mastered the concept of sunk cost in entirety. Or may be others and I are still continuing as we are still thinking mechanically.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Won't go in much details for Q3 as I already had a post on that. but few noteworthy things were the 8 hours and counting QM-2 end term exam, me scoring 4/4 GPA in one subject (Law it is). Don't ask me how I got 4/4, but I know this will look like anomaly in my grade sheet. It will be impossible to replicate this again ever in life. Don't ask me why vouching for 'Life'. PGSEM made one thing very Clear, very very clear, studies and me won't go together anymore. I will be DONE with studies after this course. QM-2 paper was not lengthy nor it had too many questions that it took 8 hours + to crack the paper. QM-2 end term had just 5 questions, very 'simple' one with open book, open internet, and well within the course limit but based on real-life scenario. This will be one paper which I will never ever forget like Cell Biology paper during engineering days. Telling the paper tough would bean understatement. Prof did the justice of being a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narendra_Karmarkar" target="_blank">Karmakar's</a> pupil. The linear programming and the network program just seemed liked those of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan" target="_blank">Ramanujam</a> Problem's which will be left unsolved for centuries to come. Anyways, Q3 ended and I was very happy man.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Q4 looked very easy considering 3 subjects compared to 4 what I had in Q3, but the reality hit very quickly. Subjects were very interesting but that's where the interesting part ends. '<i>Corporate Finance</i>', '<i>Operation Management</i>' and '<i>Managing People & Performance in Organization</i>'. Short detail as below -</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b><i>Corporate Finance</i></b> - I got why people called it as Coffin and not CorpFin, it is truly a hell hole. No matter how much you read IRR, NPV, PVGO and feel you have mastered the concept, but then the concept just doesn't seem to work in the real-life problem scenario with high probability of making a mistake.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><b>Operations Management</b></i> - This subject was another of those subjects which I was eagerly waiting and wanted to study since pre-MBA era. Even this was in my specialization plan, but guess now I am better off with the so called 'General' management.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b><i>Managing People & performance in Organization</i></b> - this was one of the course which seemed too easy but was very demanding. Moreover what could go wrong with OMHRM subjects? But innovative presentations requirement, 'n' number of surprise quiz notice in 1st class itself, a real-life case term paper and loads of reading ensured that we are engaged with the subject all the time. It was truly a interesting subject and I would say this is one of the best subjects which I have done so far in past 1 year. Those who are looking for answers to questions like where I lag, what I need to improve and may be purpose of life (if you attentive enough) and what to expect at each stage in corporate career this is one course which can give 'some' idea.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">I am not writing detailed account for the Q4 subject nor making a grammar check. May be once I get some time to come back on blog page will be making the updates. For now short account should give soem idea at later point.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Q5 starting in another week time with me taking electives as '<i>Consumer Behavior'</i>, <i>'Product Management'</i>, <i>'Leading Change & Organization Renewal'</i> it is going to be a busy time.</span></div>
Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-61471116324839996692013-01-08T14:46:00.000+05:302015-05-16T09:15:49.725+05:30PGSEM Qtr 3 # 1/2 - MBA#1/4<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13;">Those who aren't frequent visitors on my blog may wonder how come 1/4 came so soon after 1/5. Well that's the magic of numbers, already half way into 3rd quarter and thereby this moment qualifies as quarter of MBA program. Yey!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Before writing anything further - I would like to wish all my blog readers "<i>A very happy and prosperous new year</i>". Not sure what to be happy here but nonetheless custom is custom and need to be followed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Coming back to PGSEM story, 3rd quarter is special and interesting in many ways. This quarter we have 4 subjects instead of standard 3 as if 3 subjects a quarter was less. 2 Credit points for 3 out of 4 subjects are just a misnomer, it doesn't reduce the burden at all. As each subject is important from Prof's point of view and they make sure that we don't the 'beauty' by reading less or by having less exams or by having less assignment and projects. But yeah subjects are interesting - Marketing Management, Quantitative Methods - II, Managerial Accounting, and Law. Interesting because I always dreamt of having career option in them, but now no more. ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">I think by the time I finish the course there will not be a single rock unturned in MBA parlance. PGSEM was not a bad choice I think. Yes, it is painful as it requires a lot of personal commitment and time but then I do have to forgo something to gain something for small period. Till it gets over, Rocky Balboa for you - "<i>No Pain - No Pain</i>"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Time for marketing pitch - if you are following my blog page, have experience of 2+ year, have written CAT/GMAT recently and are interested in pursing a MBA program to enhance your profile or learn something new then PGSEM is the right choice - Refer to this link to apply - <a href="http://www.iimb.ernet.in/node/3497">http://www.iimb.ernet.in/node/3497</a> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Welcome back! If you came here multiple times just to see if I have posted anything for Quarter 2 then definitely you would have been disappointed. Even I was. And this is my 7th attempt at writing the blog post. I started on same schedule as I followed in Qtr 1 and each time the only line which I wrote was the post header. But I am morally obliged to write an account of my quarter 2 ordeal, so here I am, again!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">While I am writing this post, I am finished with all my quarter 2 exams and assigned projects. Completely chilling at my place. Just to be fair to me and give some breathing space I dint even collect the Quarter 3 books. Yeah! Mail was there for book collection even before I wrote my last paper for quarter two. As if it was telling me, don't worry about passing this quarter buddy, 3rd quarter books are already there so you are definitely going to quarter 3. What grade I will get that time will tell, but for me it was the toughest time both because of work pressure at office and subject content at college. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Whenever I think I can relax a bit and breath easy, the PGSEM rope comes around and tightens its noose. Quarter 2 was like that, and I doubt coming quarters will be any different. I have thought many a times in quarter 2, what was in my mind when I started thinking about management or what was my expectation from management? I think I have failed measurably on all accounts as everything has hit me unplanned. It is not the case that I am demotivated by the grades or abysmal performance on own scale, because performance is a relative term. And nothing can teach the magic of relative misery better than the relative grading. You may think from your scale that you are doing bad but relative scale makes you look good. Before you start running horses - I was bad/average on both parts :P</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i>Macroeconomics</i> - Learning has its own pleasure and it clarifies many of the self beliefs (read biased beliefs). Macroeconomics was one of such subjects. It cleared my doubt that I can never be a economic adviser to prime minister of India, so I will never get the dilemma between job opportunity between economics adviser and something else. ;) Macroeconomics talked about GDP, GNP, Consumption, Govt Expenditure Investment impact on GDP. And why the GDP fluctuates and goes in cyclical mode of boom and recession. It was interesting concept to read but was tough concept to remember. This being a closed book exam and cumulative syllabus made the task more difficult. I have survived the brunt of economics somehow so far but definitely won't be taking anything in economics. It was never meant for me because of its theoretical weight. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i>Quantitative Method - I</i> - Well, what can I say about this subject. This subject also cleared all misbelief on my number ability. I always thought I am good with numbers and QM-1 helped me to get rid of that 'fantasy'. Suffix 'I' is just to remind me that torture is not yet over (<i>torture abhi baaki hai mere dost</i>). QM showed an interesting expect of simulation, probabilistic and statistical modelling, decision tree, confidence interval and hypothesis testing and most importantly the mean and standard deviation. Prof teaching style was awesomely fantastic and terrorizing. May be I didn't pick up much in beginning as I ignored and was terrified with the load but at later part of quarter when things slowly started sinking in, I became fan of the prof and the subject. He seemed more of a techno-crazy and open source addict who has too much of energy and wanted to pass the knowledge to the students. He actually made us look at R programming as an alternate for excel and if that was not enough Libre office (open source tool) as an alternative of excel. It is the other story that I ended with excel. Regarding grades he fairly quoted - "<i>Relax, breathe easy. It's only a stat exam. What's the worst that can happen? You might start to think everything is random</i>" And often quoted - "<i>If you think what you predict comes true then lets head to LasVegas</i>". I will make sure that I will follow his advice when things start looking in my favor. Most interesting - "<i>if you ever make a fraud make sure that you look good as a statistician</i>". I am completely awed by the magic and awesomeness of statistics. There are lot many interesting quotes which he came up with during class discussion, and I feel bad about not keeping them with me. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i>Managing Organization</i> - Managing organization was one subject which carries huge relevance to what I intend to do in coming time and sadly I didn't look at it properly during initial class discussion. Thanks to my awesomely bad grade in mid-term I had to actually go back and read entire book for the end term. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. Organic and mechanistic organization, organization life cycle, organizational behavior, hierarchical structure and its benefits. There is lot to ManOrg and Organizational Behavior and I hope I will be interested to take some electives in OB in coming quarters. The prof somehow knew that we may not be catching the concept, so he made us do a book review for book based on any living organization to understand the intricacies of the process. "Only The Paranoid Survive" was what my project group picked and I thoroughly enjoyed the reading and presentation. In-fact now I like Andrew Grove, the then CEO of Intel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">While I hope for most of the thing and hope that things will turn to better but I still wonder if Red was right when he quoted - "<i>Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane</i>" or Andy Dufresne was right when he quoted - "<i>Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies</i>". This was an overdo - I like Shawshank Redemption. :P</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">BTW before I miss it here comes the flaunting part - <a href="http://www.iimb.ernet.in/pgsem/student-committees">http://www.iimb.ernet.in/pgsem/student-committees</a> you can find me here. Anonymity is what I want on my blog but little clues here and there won't hurt.. :P</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">P.S. - I am plainly getting into lazy mode and losing motivation for writing anything so I doubt if I will be writing even intermittently here. So come back to my blog after 2-3 years or don't blame me offline for not writing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">P.P.S - Time is running out quite fast and before I realized 2 quarters are already gone. Nonetheless, its fun being here and if you are not at IIM B you are missing the fun big time. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">P.P.P.S - I am writing this after getting complains that there are too many spelling and grammatical mistakes in my post. Well, I am too lazy to work on them. So I won't be proofreading my posts, please read them in way which is making sense to you.</span></div>
Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-36919376852858297702012-09-03T10:00:00.192+05:302015-05-16T09:15:49.710+05:30PGSEM Qtr 1 (5/5) # MBA (1/10)<div style="color: #274e13; text-align: justify;">
I am again late in writing the final post for Quarter 1, blame it on the hectic work schedule at office, 3 college projects and all this sucked out all the energy out from me. And right now when I am preparing for the vicious circle of Office, Class, Quiz, Project, Mid-term, End-Term again I thought of closing what was the needed. Did I miss anything? Oh Yeah! my personal time! But this time I have planned to change the rules of game. I just hope that I will be able to do that. :(</div>
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I some time wonder why I am pushing myself to write this, I don't love writing anymore, neither do I write for friends nor do I get money for writing this. May be I am still a confused being or may be I want to remember this till eternity what phase I have passed through.. haha.. Whatever, Quarter summary - </div>
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<i><b>Microeconomics</b></i> - I always thought that I have understood the subject pretty well and not even that my day-to-day activities were having element of microeconomics principles. But somehow the theory wasn't getting reflected in terms of performance in marks. Not that I care about it, but when you have relative marking and you join the league of Farhan and Raju of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Idiots" target="_blank">3 idiots</a> then you gotta be caring about it. As Virus said in movie - I will be very very worried Mr. Raju Rastogi. I was feeling ME professor may like to tell me the same after correcting my ME answer-sheets. :( </div>
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<i><b>Financial Accounting</b></i> - There is ME and there is FA, both are class apart. In ME were I was in bottom side with clear concepts and open book exam, FA was the subject were I was on the top side with shaky concepts and closed book exam. I somehow fail to understand it how and why it happened. Not that I scored good in end-term, but I had scored so much in mid-term that even if I would have had skipped end-term I would have passed overall. Best part was, for whole quarter I was taking off from office on Friday and never worked late night in office for any other week day during my tenure at company, but then exactly on day before exam I ended in office. And when you come to exam from your office instead of your home then there is a serious problem! I guess my marks will show that problem. OK! at this very line I realized why I am writing this. This is to remind me as well as fellow/future PGSEM'ers that things can go worse, very worse, so challenge is to be prepared all the time along with your office work. :-)</div>
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<i><b>ME/FA/SM Projects</b></i> - This was hell of a task and given the limited time to work on it along with late-night stay in office because of last minute requirement sucked out all the energy from me. But now when its over, I am enjoying one week of peace till the cycle begins! And seriously I don't want to write anything more about it, as I don't want to remember it anymore.</div>
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Now when the Quarter 1 has ended, I feel good about the time I had. Have got new friends, had opportunity to listen and interact with profs who are best in their fields. In corporate people talk about Work-Life balance, but now equation has changed for me. Work-Studies balance is the new mantra. Life you ask? well as my engineering friends have started quoting, "I have no more Life left". I will award myself a gold medal on completing this course! So my own gold medal here I come.</div>
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Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-38534975455553547372012-08-05T22:00:00.146+05:302015-05-16T09:15:49.713+05:30PGSEM Qtr 1 (4/5)<div style="color: #274e13; text-align: justify;">
Here I am, writing a delayed account of my past one month of PGSEM Qtr1. To be honest, laziness is what which is causing this. Course pressure doesn't have to do anything with this. BTW am I really taking any pressure? Anyways I will be writing a very short note.</div>
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A lot many things has happened since past 1 month, and to be honest I came thrice on this board to write something and walked out without writing anything. Organized 'Pehel 2012' event for PGSEM community of IIM B. Got a chance to hear first hand report about Arvind eye hospital and their philanthropic work through their faculty. Was brutally screwed in the mid-term. And on all three occasion I thought of writing detailed account but didn't do that. So here goes the brief account.</div>
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<i><b>PEHEL 2012</b></i> - THE event of the PGSEM'er, by the PGSEM'er and for the PGSEM'er. Somehow I landed in organizing the event along with 2 of my batch mates. Managing across different committee, pressure of getting things done along with regular work/classes, what not to do, and what to do when into the soup - event teaches a lot of things. A glimpse of fun event we organized is <i><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofm_bjoG-2M&feature=plcp" target="_blank">here</a></b></i>. If question rising in your mind whether I participated in any stage event or not then answer is NO. As a usual practice I like working backstage plus neither had time left nor had talent, so I did what I am best doing.</div>
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<i><b>Arvind Eye Hospital</b></i> - I am always game for inspiring stories. Arvind eye hospital is one such story. You need to watch this <i><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA5Dzlf7JEE" target="_blank">video</a></b></i> to understand what Arvind eye hospital (AEH) is doing. A faculty from AEH came to give the session on strategy management case on AEH on request of our Strategy professor. Being in IIM gives you an opportunity to get first hand information from any source, and this is not the only one such occasion, we have luxury of meeting and listening to industry honcho at regular interval. AEH idea is aligned on the theme of 'Benefiting Masses Profitably' and I am big fan of this idea and the untapped segment.</div>
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<i><b>Mid-Term</b></i> - Do I need to talk, fate is kinda obvious? My laziness, involvement in events and other activities running in college led me into situation where I was on verge of getting screwed. Reading for GYAN rather than marks also aided to the pathetic situation. Microeconomics was one of such disaster. Even before writing the paper I knew that I am going to be screwed and for I was so right. :-) At one point of time during exam, I was not getting idea what to write for question, so walked out from the examination hall thinking why to 'waste' time sitting here. Results are out as well and I have scored quite average as per my standard, ya ya I think too big about my standard :P. Thankfully, relative marking will save me and can hope to get a decent grade here. Accounting was on expected lines, it is my favorite subject and have got marks which I deserved. So no issues there. I was even lazy to ask Accounting prof for marks at one question where he didn't give marks for being partially correct like others. Strategy Management is the course for which brutal attack will happen in single go at end -term.</div>
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Next two weeks are going to be a hell of week. Have to complete 3 reports of 3000 words plus each, one presentation and not to miss the end-term which need to be given. First term is almost over. And unfortunately nothing has been done so far in any of the assignment and presentation. Still a engineer. It is real fun nonetheless. :)</div>
Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26383388.post-68603002449781430012012-07-08T14:28:00.002+05:302015-05-16T09:15:49.732+05:30PGSEM Qtr 1 (2/5)<div style="color: #38761d; text-align: justify;">As quoted in my earlier posts, I guess I was absolutely right when I told future isn't bright with respect to me jotting down day-2-day experience on PGSEM. Blame it on the time which is flying so fast, I have almost lost track of time. And now too lazy to pen down what happened in past 3 weeks of first quarter classes in individual posts. Not that, I am devoting too much time on studying, it was never my way nor would ever be. Or I guess its too early to say about future, royal screwing on grades may/will change this ignorant attitude. *Hopefully this won't happen and utopia will continue*<br />
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I have settled up for 3 posts a quarter now. It is useless to tell what would be future of this comment too.. hehe<br />
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Coming back to school after a long gap has its own set of disadvantage. 6 years have gone by since last time I attended a School (or say College) where getting grades were piece of cake. And I was, and am still in same mode thinking getting 9/10 CGPA (IIMB equivalent would be 3.5-3.6 out of 4 ) will be child's job like Engineering. So I am chill and is doing everything apart from studies. And worst part is, this is when couple of topics discussed in class are going over head. But,why to worry when sword of placement is not there. Nonetheless learning is important and Profs make sure that you take back some learning with you after ever class.Yes, I can imagine you all who went through the ordeal of IIM B rigor, laughing at this attitude and thinking time will teach me in brutal way what is required even in absence of placement but definitely till that time I can have all the fun in the world. This is the best management course, I am telling you. ;-)<br />
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So, what exactly I am doing. Working in core committee for Pehel event (Exclusive event for PGSEM Community) where I am suppose to coordinate between PGSEM office, inviting Profs/PGSEMers for the event, doing ground work on event plan. And this week participated for Badminton trials for Sangram, IIM K event. Unimportant point is whether I will be going to next round in trials or not, important is I am living my college life again and doing things which I always enjoyed doing. Except hostel experience and few friends who could have possibly given a crash course before exam, I am not missing anything. Time left from trivialities mentioned above are dedicated in making new friends and off-course continuing with usual office work. A fully power packed day. 24/7 times a week and 365 days a year. ;-)<br />
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Core courses covered during 1st semester are Microeconomics, Financial Accounting and Strategy Management. After 6-8 classes idea is sinking in and shows interrelation of all three courses. For first time subjects taught in school/college are showing sense/relevance. 'Knowledge' flow statement as mentioned here<br />
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<i><b>Microeconomics</b></i> - Microeconomics talks about economics of individual units. There is dearth of information stored in Demand and Supply. How subsidies, income increase, taxes impacts the consumption pattern. Elasticity (Demand, Supply, Income), Marginal Utility, Indifference curve, substitution effect. Why company and Govt some time bring some policy changes, how they optimize their profit, production lines? All these with relevant anecdotes aided with class participation made the subject interesting. Prof teaching ME has an impact from day one. Luxury to have him as our mentor for this subject.<br />
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<i><b>Financial Accounting</b></i> - Anything distantly related to maths has been my favorite since the day I scored the magic number in Class 2 (2 for 2). ;-) Accounting talks about Balance Sheet, Income Statement and 'Cash' flow statement. With this line you would have guessed from where the 'Knowledge' flow statement mentioned above was originated. All in all everything in Accounting revolves around Assets, Liability, Owners equity, Expenses, Revenue, and to be honest this limited scope is what which makes life difficult, as first timers always find it difficult what to consider in in ideal scenario. Going 'practical' on any item would violate 11 accounting principle even without your knowledge and put the balance sheet in real mess. FA prof figures out in various consulting project for Govt and have close to 20 yrs of teaching in IIM B.<br />
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<i><b>Strategy Management</b></i> - Any theoretical subject with loads of definitions/reading become a nightmare to me. Strategy seemed to belong to those class of my arch enemy with maximum weight of subject matter (in term of Kg's obviously). So far SM talked about Industry Attractiveness, Micheal E. Porter's five competitive forces, Competitive positioning and Micheal E. Porter's three Generic Competitive Strategies. Not a single item made sense to me even after reading around 1 kg of subject matter. And worst part was, I was reading this subject only for all my free time since the cases and books were handed to us during Orientation. Profs had different teaching style which did not made any sense to me and was slowly drifting away from the course. But the allocated case presentation suddenly changed the view point. Strategy is totally mathematical model and an interesting story/subject. Know Porter to know SM. Profs too talks about his real-life experience which is a great value add. I look forward to listening to him, whenever he talks. Lets see how things goes with remaining 3/5 portion of this trimester.<br />
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With mid-term date declared as 27-28 July, some seriousness is being called towards studies as well. Not sure when I will be doing my 3 projects for 3 subjects and when I will be studying for end-term scheduled on 24-25 August. Future is not bright on many extracurricular items. Balancing things will be a challenge for sure.<br />
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P.S. : IIMB campus is a runner's delight. I had planned to go there on daily basis for running after Orientation day as campus is quite close to my home. But because of lazy attitude and tight schedule this plan was never brought in execution. I have decided to go there at least on Sunday morning when there is no rush for office or classes. I need to do this bit as my running club membership is biting dust and so is my body, aiding to my weight :P Hope will be able to do this.<br />
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P.P.S : For a change this time I had some relevant header for my blog. Detailing 2/5 part of my 1st Quarter. Also, frequent readers of my post would have missed the disclaimer as well. Why to keep when you have read so far.. :P</div>Anandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14279240837529439492noreply@blogger.com