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“When the going gets tough, tough gets going”. But the fact is tougher time ask for smarter and prudent strategies. Is shedding extra fat all what a can bulky corporate can rely on this time of recession? Is it due time to think beyond it?  As most economist believe that the grilling is over and sooner or [...]

I recently attended an Innovation games ™ class held by Luke Hohmann of Enthiosys , http://www.enthiosys.com , and during and more so after the class, was struck by the power of “conversation”. The class itself was focusing on how to harness the various Innovation Games ™ as Luke has described in his book, http://www.innovationgames.com/about/The+Book , [...]

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Overview Elastic Compute Cloud is an environment provided by Amazon for creating and running Virtual servers. It allows us to make manage a Virtual servers like real machines. For example: It allows us to run and install software of our choice on machine. It provides us flexibility to create as many [...]

Cloud computing is dramatically changing the way applications will be developed, delivered and deployed by everyone from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses and start-ups. Users will need to understand the various Cloud options and providers available to them. So it is time to jump in with pilots and in most cases you have already tried [...]

(From my blog at Coffeeagain…) Successful products have many notable attributes. One, however, is most significant - the ability to clearly say to the user what it is. A productivity tool needs to be recognizable as one. A social networking site has to say that it is so. A forum has to look like a forum. Ambiguity [...]

(From my blog at Coffeeagain…) Do successful products have “life” ? I know this might sound crazy but let’s explore the possibilities. Life can be defined by an “energy” that enables an object to have the unique capacity to act on its surroundings, react to it, connect to-and-between other objects around it and facilitate and enable that [...]

(From my blog at coffeeagain…) A lot is being said about “crowdsourcing” almost everyday, and more and more entrepreneurs are jumping onto the crowdsourcing bandwagon. There is however, need for caution. Just as the banking and financial services industry in the US jumped on the sub-prime lending bandwagon leading to the crisis we face in the [...]

(From my blog at coffeeagain… ) I was thinking about the scenario we are in, especially with the economic recession, and how designers need to work in this scenario. On the one hand, the recession has meant more focus and prioritization, and the same has obviously reflected in the designs we do, and yet, designers still have [...]

A week ago, I came upon an article by InformationWeek’s Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, citing John Castleman, the CEO of Alliance Global Services, an IT outsourcing firm, regarding a proposal that the company has made for an Outsourcing Bill Of Rights. The motivation for the ‘bill of rights’ for outsourcing clients appears to be a counter [...]

(Reposting from my blog at Coffeeagain…) Last Wednesday, as part of our “Design Discussions” session, my team and I watched the “Paradox of Choice” lecture by Barry Schwartz. We had watched Barry’s talk before but we loved listening to the talk again. While the whole talk is relevant, one area that is particularly relevant to Product Design [...]