Autonomics

How many of you guys reading this have compared the Cut throat rippers more elegantly known as the Chennai Auto walas with their counterparts in other cities? or atleast bangalore?

Its pretty obvious.For travelling 10 kms in Chennai you end up paying around RS. 150 and for the same 10 kms in bangalore, you pay around RS.75.So, are the guys in chennai involved in day light robbery? Not really.

When you look at the cost of the auto, its pretty much the same in both the cities.The roads in bangalore too are as good or bad as the ones in chennai.And, in both the places, the demand for Autos is pretty much high.So what is the black sheep here? Its the Fuel!

Chennai Autos run on petrol, that costs around RS.50 a litre and gives you a mileage of around 20 km.Where as the Bangalore Autos run on biogas(Really!) and they give you a mileage of around 20 Km for a litre of biogas which costs RS.27!!!Thats almost half the cost of the Fuel in Chennai!! Now we all know, where the issue is.

There are certain issues with biogas in bangalore.There are only 6-8 Petrol bunks supplying biogas for 1.5 lac autos! And the right sort of engine oil is not being provided.These issues should be weeded out before the system gets inefficient.

Otherwise, biogas is something that should be looked at for other metros aswell.Seriously, public transportation system for the upper middle class needs a revamp so that these chaps can spend on better things uplifting the economy further. :)

Podcasting - A Powerful Broadcasting medium

I'm right now at Podworks, an event that at least till now has given me some interesting info about online communication in general.Hoping to learn something interesting on innovative means of communication and broadcasting.

Sometime back, it was the newspaper that people relied on to get information.If you want to reach out to a large section of people, the only means was newspapers.Then, as technology evolved, we got the radio and then the television.These again helped spread messages and communicate to a mass audience with much more convenience.And we can simply classify broadcasting as a communication form to reach out to the masses.

Now enter Internet.Slowly, corporates and other businesses found this new innovative means instead of newspaper/TV/Radio to start spreading the word about what ever they wanted to.But still the common man's thoughts, views were not able to reach out to the masses.Then came Blogging.You can call it the Newspaper run by the common man.His way to express his views, opinions and also what he feels IS the news, to the general public.This made the entire society open up and every individual felt empowered with a strong communications means.

Its now easy to figure out, Podcasting for the individual is like the TV/Radio to the Governments/Corporations.This means of broadcasting is a lot more powerful and there is such a wide scope for innovation in delivering your message and to a large section of the society.

And seeing the guys here at podworks and looking at the opportunities this powerful medium of communication has created, i certainly believe this makes real sense.The age of the empowered induvidual has indeed arrived.

P.S : The first embedded video on my blog.And I choose the event, which probably teaches you how to cover up even your wildest nightmare come true :-)

Motive mismatch - Part II

I mentioned about motive mismatch within an organization in this post. And recently i saw this real life account of a HR chap.

"In one of the BPO organizations i worked for, the CEO gave stiff targets to all employees.HR was given a ridiculously high target for recruitment per week and the finance department an equally high profit target. Finance tried to keep the expense low by salary cost, which was a major expense head.This resulted in HR not getting quality people, creating a delay in recruitment which they covered up by compromising on the quality and recruiting mediocre candidates, in turn creating a huge quality issue in operations.The end result was that the client pulled out, the CEO was upset and a blame game started"

Thats some validation for my theory.But i would say, motive mismatch doesn't stop with corporations.Even as an individual, we have different motives and we need to achieve various goals at the same time.Some people find ways to tackle it through prioritization.Some look at it as an opportunity cost situation and pick the best possible decision that fits for the time being.But the process through which all this occurs is about reconciliation,between different motives,thoughts and actions.

To reconcile between the various options, at the end of the day,we must have a clear goal or Vision, and the decision must be the one which will benifit the vision the maximum in the time horizon you are looking at it.Its tough.But possible.