Project Management and Marketing

I am handling the installation of a new solution that my company has imported from the foreign land. It is again related to the wireless coverage indoors. But the beauty of the system is that you can get wireless coverage on the same wires on which you are currently watching the TV.
Yes this soultion does not require the installation on antennas and RF cables.
The current cable netwrok can be used for the same purpose.

So after understanding the technology and acquiring the site i finally started the installation with my team of technicians and the RF Engineer. Among all the technicians Mr. Chandrakant is the most expereinced and the oldest person in the team. The solution was new, the equipment was new and still this expereinced persons thirst for understanding the system did not die. Comparing this attitude to the newly joined people, they hardly want to learn and they come to pass time.

While the system was being installed i was interacting with the people in whose premise the system was being installed. They were more excited than anyone else. Why??? Because now they will be able to make un interrupted calls from their offices.

Some of the problems i came across while installing the site were as follows:
1) Sourcing the material, the guys who had conducted the survey did not clearly mention everything in the BOM.
2) Getting the required permission to place the equipments in the room.
3) As the cables were being layed, i was constantly trying to understand the system. But finnaly i cracked the code.

Learning
Project Management skills: Managing a project required a lot of precise understanding of what is happening in the terms of the man power to be used, the resources required, and much more. You will always find some hurdles as you come to the completion of the project so be prepared with a plan B also.

This week i also met some top personalities in the construction industy. And after talking to them i realized why are they the CEO, MD, VP of their respective companies. More about my experiences in my nest post....bye for now...

First 4 weeks on the first job!!!!!

Wowwww one entire month has passsed by on my first job. And i am enjoying everybit of it. Everyday there is a new learning, new people to meet, new proposals, understanding of the solution and i am loving this novelty very much.

I am accompanied by my colleague who is equally enthusiaitic as me and we are giving some excellent preseantations to prospects and close to closing some deals. I am sure at this pace we will be able to achieve our ambitions very well. 6 days of the week is really worth a work. (Well when it comes to saturday you really start feeling the pinch of the weekend :-))

In the past week i had some very excellent meeting with some of the Vice Presidents of leading Construction companies. These meeting actually gave me an insight as to how the real corporate world thinks.

The meeting with the Isreal delegates was one of my great experiences. These people are very technically competent and sitting in isreal they know exactly how the indian telecom indsutry is working. This really amazed me a lot. These delegaetes meet some top technical people of Reliance and Vodafone and the discussion that they had was fantastic. I got to understand the technology and the way negotiatitions take place at this level.

Talking about my product......

Well i am selling a solution not a product. Selling a solution requires far more analysis and thinking rather than selling a stand alone product. A product may be sold based upon its specifications and the price and also the quality. But a solution requires a problem to be solved.

So whats the problem?

Lack of coverage inside buildings, garages, underground car parking, basements.

Solution: build a telecom network inside the building. Seems quite simple isnt it?

But the catch here is why would a building owner allow someone to break open his cieling and put up telecom network (splitters, antennas, cables).

Well yes he would because seamless wireless coverage inside the premises is becoming essential day by day. Employee is wirelessly connected to his workplace, visitors in the hotel want to have a good coverage in hotels. Guests would be frustrated if they are unable to make calls from thier cell phones in hotels. Shopppers now a days move around in malls not to buy items but to pass away time, but simultaneously stay connected to the world.

No body can stay without a cell phone.

Our solution does this for the wireless customers. We acquire properties, build the telecom infrastructure and give it to the operators. Then the operators place their BTS/Repeater and provide the netowrk inside the premises. But there has to be some incentive to the property owner (why will he give away his property). Hence the operators pay the building owners a rent.

So the mobile customer is happy, building owner is happy because he is getting a rent from multiple operators, the operator is happy because his ARPU's are increasing.

Thats the solution that i offer, if you are interested to know more, reply back.........in the meanwhile i will also keep you updated.

End of the week !!!!!!!!!!!

After the end to the era of 5 years of college.......here starts a new journey.......JOb

And today is the end of the first week at my job at Microqual Coverage Solutions.

So what did i do in my first week?
:-) got to know the people whom i am going to work with. The roles the play in the smooth functioning of the organization.
Some of the key members being my Boss, the CEO of the company, who is full of vision and enthusiasm and has huge expectations from me and infact anyone who is involved in part of the organization.

Other people being the Director of the company, again a young enthusiastic, full of life individual. Really like to work alongside this person.

So whats my job?
New Product, New Concept, New Market.............So start from the basics of Mr.Kotlers book (Marketing) and end to Ms.Jakki Bohrs book (Marketing of Hi Technololgy Products). :-) i am still trying to get out of my life at college. Seems difficult but will definately achieve it.

I started understanding the product(which i will disclose in my next post) the concept and started the market analysis of the same from the inputs received from my director. And i am steadily progressing to achieve my goals. In the mean while i have prepared the presentations, documents and literature required to market the product.

I am thoroughly happy and content the way the first week has passed. Loads of work, meeting new people, understanding the technology, working on docs, ppts. I think this is what i was looking for when i was in college.

CoLlEgE DaYs!!!!!

I write today with tears in my eyes and my heart full of sadness… the reason being, this post is about the final days in my college life.

This is the event of the razzies awards 2009 where memories of the past were reincarnated. The happy moments were thought of once again. The evening was dedicated to all the MBA(Tech)'s who had spend 5 years with each other. In this span of five years there were many things to talk about. People and their crushes. People and their relationships. People and their would have been relationships. People and going on relationships and much more. People and their obsession with clothes, food, books, clicking snaps and the list is endless.

Everyone was smiling and laughing but also feeling the pain of leaving the college life. Knowing the fact that these days are never to come back.

I don’t speak much in college. Not many people know me completely, but for the some who know they would probably remember me for nothing :-(. Or may be fir posting this on my blog.

I never imagined that I would make such good friends for whom I would feel sad while leaving them.

But what I would tell all my friends is this:
Kab milenge na jaane hum
Yaaro fir se kabhi
Laut kar fir na ayenge woo, masti bhari jindagi
Ohh dil yeah apna kahe ki aae dosto

I am really gona mis this place
I am gonna miss my college days………..

I am sorry I am not a writer nor a good poet so had to pick lines from one of my favorite song.

Thanks You once again for everything that i have seen, felt and experienced as an MBA Techie. These memories are never going to fade in my entire life.

Jo dikhta hai wo hota nahi hai aur jo hota hai who dikta nahi hai

Everyone in this world has some or the other characteristics This is what I saw and was proved to me when we were giving the Human Resource Management Exam in my 12th trimester. The exam started at 2 pm and after 15 minutes person 1 stands up abruptly breaking the silence of the class and shouts "Ma'am can we call the Prof. who has thought us this subject, I suppose we are not thought this portion in class and hence we should not write the paper."

Confused that’s my class don’t you worry. But still i am loving it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looking at person 1, person 2 also joins in thinking that the prof has not thought this portion in class. For your information person 2 has hardly attended any of the lectures of the prof. but still he/she likes to make a loud noise with the class and hence even he/she speaks out.

Person 3 also joins in shouting at the invigilator to call the prof or any other authority from the college examination department or else we will have a PENS DOWN……. I will explain you the concept of pens down later.

Now person 4 and person 5 also joins in and the mess continues, wasting 30 minutes of the class in an EXAMNATIN HALL. Unnecessary arguments continue to flow up and down some one shouts prof has not thought some one says why should we attempt the paper when we have not been thought (are u school going kids that you will be spoon fed everything) someone argues that if we don’t write the paper than the college management will come to know about our UNITY and the situation that students are facing in the class (prof not teaching the required syllabus). The funny part is, it’s a Human Resource Management Paper, everyone can write something or the other in the examination paper and also most of the people have studied very well for the examination. But still no one wants to write. Moreover those people were shouting the most who had studied for the paper. Amusing isnt it!!!!!!!!!!

After that comes the time of poll. One of the class mates raises a poll in the examination hall "who all wants to do a pens down?" 90% of the class raise their hands…. I didn’t….because they were unnecessary making a Rai ka Pahad (small matters big)..it is just a HRM paper, give the exam and finish it off.

Luckily after 30 minutes the boiler cooled off and people attempted the paper. And the people who were making the most noise were seen writing the most, how funny!!!!!!!! That’s what I started with eveyone is having different characteristic in this world. Jo dikhta hai wo hota nahi hai aur jo hota hai who dikta nahi hai. (what is seen is not the truth and what is the truth is not seen)

That’s my class and its UNITY….everyone wrote the paper finally… :-) But thats what my class is all about and i still love to be a part of it.

Well the concept of Pens Down…. It goes as follows…. Pens down is a process wherein the entire class boycotts the examination in the examination hall because the questions asked in the examination are not pertaining to what the prof had thought in class or the questions are out of sylabbus or some people were partying the last night and have not studied for the examination.

The day that i will never forgetin my life !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MIT lecture and E Buss second test .......

Well this goes back to the date of 11th April 2008, 2 pm. Management of Innovation and Technology (MIT) a subject among the most important ones in our course of MBA(Tech). Prof Mukadam was teaching us how a venture capitalist works and blah blah blah.....

What was awaiting for us was at 5 pm, it the second test of E Business. Everyone had prepared thoroughly well for the subject (highly exaggerated), well actually no one really bothered to study for the test thinking it is GAS subject and we can bluff as much as you want.. So everyone was nice and relaxed in the MIT lecture.

After 3:30 pm the prof gives us the break and our CR does the trick, WHAT?? he enters the office and quietly gets out the E-buss test paper. Hurrah!!!!!!!! but looking at the question paper everyone was confused no one really knew the answers WHY??? because it was set by our Prof who seemed to have little knowledge about the subject and was expecting the students to ratofy the entire Kalakota (the author who had written the book on E buss and our prof was referring the same).

So the lecture again starts and of course everyone is not attending, someone outside is trying to solve the question paper. As Prof. Mukadam teaches....... and teaches......here comes the phone chain (the method used to broadcast important messages to the entire class using SMS) from Mads as usual. But today the phone chain is not about any change in the schedule of the class but it is the first 3 answers of the E Buss test paper. second phone chain next 3 answers....and so on ............ in this manner we get the answers of all the questions of the phone.... and not only that even the subjective answers were passed on to some high end phones using bluetooth..... wooooow what use of technology

You know we were learning the management of innovation and technology in the lecture of management of innovation and technology. i.e. using the SMS and bluetooth all the answers to the questions were distributed in no time at all.

And finally at 5 pm we all go to give the exam and everyone writes the same answers in the same order with probably the same mistakes ;-). It was fun being a part of this because first of all if we had not know the answers than everyone would have failed to clear the test and moreover our Prof. had set such a paper that would require you to ratofy each and every line of the book which is not possible at alllll.

It was the most memorable day in my life.

want to know your ip address??? but why??? thats a bigger question

IP Interent Protocol address thats the reason why you get internet on your PC. If you are in the office you may be given an IP address. But what if you are using interent at home. Here you are assigned IP address by your service providers dynamically. DHCP is the protocol used by the ISP's to assign oyu IP addresses.

If you want to check what is your IP address thenjust log onto whatsmyipaddress.com and you can find it.

Now you may ask why do you need to know your IP. Then heres the answer?? There are some applications that requires that you know your IP address viz. Remote desktop... Provided by Windows XP.

Remote desktop is among the finest applications of Windows XP. using this application you can connect to a remote desktop (PC) by just providing the information of the IP address. Ofcourse this requires that both the PC's (the remote and the host) are connected to the internet.using this application one can access the remote desktop completely (remote ddektop should be ON). Thus sitting in New Jersey one can access the computer in Mumbai.... INCREEDIBLE isnt it.....

There are plenty of such applications of interent protocol address... stay tuned for more.... it will be coming shortly...