On Optimizing Organization

* For increasing the overall productivity of an organization, focus should be made on increasing the utilization, efficiency & effectiveness while dealing with resources.
* Management by objectives should cover following 8 areas:
1. Marketing objectives
2. Innovation
3. Human resources
4. Capital resources
5. Physical resources
6. Productivity
7. Social Responsibility
8. Profitability
* Organizations tend to focus only on needs of customers but one should remember that ratio of non-customers to customers is always much more higher. Even for large empires like Walmart its 87:13. To increase market share its very important to identify needs of non customers also.
* Theory of business is based on assumptions about environment, mission & core competencies of Organization. Unless its not enlarged, organization can't grow much.
* 90% of results of organization are based on 10% activities. Effective executives should try to identify that & take few important decisions which can cause impacts. He should know when it should be based on principle & when pragmatically.
* While making people decisions: 1. Think thru assignment 2. Look at no. of qualified people 3. Think hard abt how to look at each candidates 4. Discuss each candidate with several people 5. Make sure appointee understands the job.
* While dealing with idea: 1. must meet rigorous test of practicality 2. must have economic validity 3. meet test of personal commitment
* While making decision don't go for specific. go one step further & take generic decision & go one more step further & take preventive measure.... e.g. in restaurant customer tells waiter that salt is less in curry. Waiter coming & solving his problem is specific decision. Waiter informing to the cook & cook adds salt to whole pot of curry to correct problem is generic decision & cook changing the recipie book for that item is preventive measures.... This way of taking decisions will save lots of time.
* Don't go for changing any process without doing root cause analysis & studying about its implications. Try to pin point the flaw & apply correction there. Don't start any new process without giving much thought. It may eat up lots of time. Stop the processes which are not giving effective results. That will help in freeing up the resources which can be used some where else.
* Innovation is work rather than genius & effective innovations start small.
* Management needs to find better ways to increase productivity of knowledge workers. A country which will lead in that will be the next economic power.
* It costs just as much to do the paper work for a small order as for a larger one.
* Studies reveal that revenues & efforts allocates them to 90% of events that produce practically no results.
* Managers should concentrate their efforts on smallest no. of products, product lines, services, customers, markets etc. which will produce large amount of revenues.
* Channelise staff efforts on very few things that are capable of producing significant results.
* Apply effective cost control on very few areas which will have significant impact.
* Allocate resources to activities which provide opportunity for high economic results.
* The area of greatest potential for opportunity should be given the fullest resource support in quality & quantity before next promising area gets any thing.
* Source of wealth is something specifically human: KNOWLEDGE. If we apply knowledge to tasks we already know how to do, we call it "productivity". If we apply knowledge to tasks that are new & different, we call it "innovation". Only knowledge allows us to achieve those 2 goals.

R-City Mall

Just to give a bird's eye view abt stores n wat products are of interest:

Ground Floor map

First Floor map

Second Floor map

Third Floor map

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Croma Electronics:
* Apple Macintosh desktops & laptops - I've seen & used it before at State Library, Melbourne but first time I've seen it in any store in India.
*Samsung LED TV (latest technology)
* iSqueeze Foot massager (costs some 20,500Rs.) - its Singapore based co. & personally I've used it at Singapore airport for first time.
* other n no. of massagers are there. Chk that out. Its pretty cool...
* Black & Decker Vacuum cleaner
* Pianos, iPhones, landline phones, paper shredders, laptops, PCs, Printers, Handy cams, digital cams, printer papers, web cams, key boards, mouse, headsets, washing machines, refrigerators etc.
* 50,000Rs. kit for wedding gift
Odyssey (Book store, greeting cards, gift items, Office stationary)
Marks & Spencer (U.K. based store)
Life Style

Globus
Pantaloons
Lush body care

Reebok

United Colours of Benetton

Jack & Jones
Foresight Optics (Free eye no.s testing - buying of frames not compulsory if no.s get detected)
Mom & Me (Free play area for kids)
Ethnicity
Big Bazar
Raymonds
Levis
Reid & Taylor

Music Videos

Hindi Songs:
1> Tu hi to meri dost hai - Yuvraaj http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BGH1ZVNGeU
2> Nahi Saamne - Taal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOLztuvNy-E
3> Tum Se Hi - Jab We Met http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sUh4RBD-5E
4> Ishq bina - Taal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmdAzWuvtX8
5> Kehna Hi Kya - Bombay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8dac0QRn8k
6> O Sanam Mohabbat Ki Kasam - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI68bs0zgO8
7> Bheegey Hont Tere - Murder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjvbAcyCtxQ
8> Mere haath mein tera haath ho - Fanaah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkellxuv_zs
9> mere humsafar mere paas aa - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6LnF0HRlPM
10> Mere Rang Mein - Maine Pyaar Kiya http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxd6po6wL4w
11> kabhi kabhi Aditi - jaane tu ya jaane na http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl2edsoWzRI
12> Sach keh rahaa hai deewana dil - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYSs7jhe7ZI
13> Sochenge tumhe pyaar kare ke nahi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJRwb4yLS5o
14> Where's the party tonight? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2O9LFG134U
15> Jiya dhadak dhadak - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfSuwqmR9rs
16> Afreen Afreen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfxzY00q2To
17> Taare zameen par - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf7YK7ipkVk
18> Chhod aaye hum wo galiyaa - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyKAzw_PZiQ
19> Jab deep jale aana, jab shaam dhale aana - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGoERx8-x1o
20> Doordarshan's hit song "Ek Anek - Suraj ek, chandaa ek, taarein anek..." during 80s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaTYLy1Jgio

English Songs:
1> Its the final countdown - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt_ro2aerQg
2> Tearin' up my heart - N sync - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6n7bW-s7TI
3> Ricky Martin - She is all I ever had - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEjqZ0v6Azc
4> Ricky Martin - Let your private emotions come to me - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKhPbtuDzB0
5> Bryan Adams - Every thing I do - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFD2gu007dc
6> Backstreet Boys - Larger than life - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UtfMiQ5bP8
7> Backstreet Boys - Quit playing games with my heart - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7TQoTBoh8k
8> Nelly Furtado - I'm like a bird - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzZWMWhSA-E
9> Linkin Park - I tried so hard & got so far but in the end it doesn't even matter (My favorite one) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP-bAlOJzWc (with Lyrics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX54sVwU3iY
10> This one by MJ... Song has deep meaning.. Its like Moon/Mars addressing the people of earth... When you have n no. of problems like homeless people, diseases, drugs, corruption etc. then instead of addressing that why you want to make costly trips on me?
Michael Jackson - Why you wanna trip on me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09gkQ3N-5BM