Posted on Wednesday, 24th February 2010 by Neeta

Recent incident at Bangalore has left people wondering about CSR commitments of many of companies of our times. OHSAS 18001:2007 is the standard which governs Occupation Health and Safety of an organization and its employees. When an organization embraces OHSAS 18001 standard, it mandates establishment of a management system.

Tags: change management, Environment, Green buildings
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Posted on Saturday, 12th December 2009 by Neeta

Eloquent speakers are hard to miss. They are always toasts of any gathering. But this is an attribute which very few people have. And definitely public speaking can be improved through concerted efforts. But as we approach the era of Short Messaging and micro blogging, public speaking appears to be a far cry.

Tags: Power, PowerPoint presentations, Powerpoint presentations slides, Public speaking
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Posted on Sunday, 6th December 2009 by Neeta

Office Groove 2007 is a collaboration software program that helps teams work together dynamically and effectively, even if team members work for different organizations, work remotely, or work offline. Working in Groove workspaces saves time, increases productivity, and strengthens the quality of team deliverables. But irony is that it works in client server space. Google [...]

Tags: Collaboration tools, Communication tools, Google Wave Explained, Google Wave on Office Groove 2007, Groove
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Posted on Wednesday, 4th November 2009 by Neeta

Old organizations which are rich in their own culture find the progression to complete ERP solution quite difficult. What all major ERP solution is that these organizations should shun their age old rich procedures and systems and adapt to the so called “Best Practices”. But is it the right strategy? I have been confronted with [...]

Tags: ERP, ERP and CRM modules, ERP modules, ERP solution
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Posted on Monday, 2nd November 2009 by Neeta

India has so far achieved only 17000 MW of capacity addition against some 78000 MW planned in 11th Five Year Plan which will be ending in March 2012. Country needs huge investments to the tune of $250 Billions in the coming 7-8 years, even if it strives to maintain 7.5% growth rate. Projections for the [...]

Tags: coal, Power Projects, Thermal Power
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Posted on Wednesday, 28th October 2009 by Neeta

Leaders it is said are born. With right atmosphere and proper nurturing, leadership skills get honed over a period of time. I have been to many leadership seminars and at most of these venues I have heard leaders talking about leadership training. Corporate houses organize leadership modules and imparting of leadership skills is a mandatory [...]

Tags: Change managemenmt, Consulting, Leadership, management consulting
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Posted on Sunday, 18th October 2009 by Neeta

All of us who are in to project monitoring and scheduling might have either used or must be aware of the MS Project and Primavera and their respective functionalities. No doubt Primavera is a necessity for very complex and large infrastructural projects and MS Projects is also equally good but these two project management tools [...]

Tags: project management, project management tools, projects, Projects India
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Posted on Saturday, 10th October 2009 by Neeta

There are many organizations who are still skeptical of implementing ERP. Believe me, I am talking about organizations which are big and have very high turnovers and complex operations. Some of these organizations are still running with heterogeneous complex legacy systems with limited or no integration. And then these organizations spends huge resources on reconciling [...]

Tags: ERP for large organizations, ERP implementation, ERP rollout, ERPs, SAP
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Posted on Wednesday, 23rd September 2009 by Neeta

Our CSR practices need drastic improvements. We hear about many accidents taking place around us but after initial blame games are over we put ourselves in to comfortable zone, relax our standards and norms and prepare grounds for another tragic incident to happen. This has been the story of every project, be it is in [...]

Tags: Infrastructure, Power Projects India, Projects India
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Posted on Monday, 7th September 2009 by Neeta

To have an effective meeting, needs lots of spadework and preparations.

Tags: Consulting, Effective meetings, Formulation of committees, Planning a committee
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