Gadgets that helps you to survive :)

Inc.com have published the list of 7 gadgets that help u do more with less (http://www.inc.com/multimedia/slideshows/content/7-gadgets-that-help-you-do-more-with-less.html)

Competitive world requires mobility and creativity here is it. Just take it and do what you can do to get best out of it. Turn you cafe's and restaurants into cinema clubs with the mobile projector, sell popcorn in train with the portable microwave... Imagine, create, implement and earn... if not you will have a small and nice gadget which will make your life easy :)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

I am back...

I have been away for several weeks, it was not related to the financial crisis, it was mostly related to my personal crisis... Even not a crisis, it was reengineering process or process of change. As I discovered it later, in McKinsey they told that it is perfect time to become a strategist. I did the same, I came to the roots of profession and even academy where I start from. Now, I have to as Francesco Guiccardini said : “In business matters, it is not enough to begin things, give the direction and get them moving. You must also follow them up and stay with them to the end.”
I wish a good luck to myself and probably will cover very interesting subject on area of implementation, strategy developing project that I will discover. Keep your position (life) and do not fall down ;)

Decision...to live or not...

Strange but, person during all his/her life have to decide. Decide to do that and not to do other thing. This decision may kill or empower your position. Or it may put you in a very silly position. I am really interested is there any possibility to model the decision making process of the person considering all elements, which have an impact on persons' behavior.

The story will continue...

Vital, actual and relevant!

Current situation with market recession pushes the companies to start to think about consumer behavior. Consumer start to cut their spending and budget in order to get the best from their spendings....

This leads to the interesting point, which is the forgetten phenomena - Consumer Behaivor. As sales specialists says, understanding the consumer means sells for 98%. The rest 2% is about price, quality and the rest of the factors which have always highlightened in science.

So, let us think about the behaivor more than about our projects...

Crisis? Alternatives?

World is surviving from crisis. Russia, China, Europe, USA everybody is complaining... The economic growth is not growing accordingly. If you are business person or a person with the certain amount of money and looking for chances, I think the best way to go is the Muslim (Arabic) world.

Why there? Even, they are mostly concentrated on raw materials export. They already sold a big amount of materials and have necessary financial resources. They helped Barclay to get out of the crisis. They are prosperous in tourism and need to develop internal resources. They ready to assist to the business environment. Very tolerant place. Yeah, I mean Malaysia and Bahrain.

Very interesting places... Time to re-focus. Why not there?

Supply vs. Demand

Few days ago, during the discussion of the current global economic situation one of our friends informed us that global demand for raw materials just failing. As later were identified there are few reasons and one of them of course financial crisis.

People are more purchaseable with the credits and loans that they receive from banks. And since banks stopped crediting, situation changes. On the other side, the tight pocket spends less on the market and demand fails vs. the supply. The result is obvious cost cuts, people loose their jobs...

So, what is the solution? I just remembered the Keynesian model. If there is a necessity just pull the money into the market! I think the old forgotton theories may be cleaned and applied again in the new context...

Is there anyone who can prepare slides for politians to persuade them to do the right thing? :)

Marketing or Epidemics???

I just finished the book of Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point. It was about "how little things can make a big difference". I liked this book even sometimes I was encouraged to throw it away. It is a bit social with the description of all details from different social areas.
Book is widely describes the word of mouth (wom) concept in sence of the actors and the concept of this tools. Currently, marketers and the rest of world who relates themselves to this group looks for ways to optimize the wom. They read plenty of books and participates in conferences and of course later tries to adapt the existing solutions to their market. However, as author points out we have to think more about the problem, identify key players and create a new concept that will assist us to deliver our message.
Among alot of examples of the book I liked the last. May be it is because I just finished my reading. But anyway, it describes how a lady wanted to spread an awarness about chest cancer. She picked up the church and asked people to stay there after ceremony. And of course, only a little of them did it.
Ok, let us stop for a moment and think as offered the author. He describes the ideas that most of us will find out which are: we will go to the authorities ask them to assist, organize a press conference and do a lot of plenty of fency things. But, for a moment imagine that you do not have enough budget. Yeah, picture is not as one that we expect. Most of marketers will pass or fail.
But, what she did... She think where she can catch women and speak to them about this issue. Of course it is hair dressers point. So, she gathered stylists from certain area and start to train them. Please note, she does not provide message by herself. She applied people who have certain reputation behind the service users. And her concept worked women start to discuss this issue during hair cuts, when they were rested, have time and want to chat with the stylers but, could not find a topic and do not want to bring up personal issues.
All idea is from the nature. As a bees gets some powders from flowers and creates the honey. Flowers attracts bees by beaty and aromats. Use this model and you will solve this smart issue which we call marketing :)

World Crisis is my crisis

Strange but, it is almost few day or let us say a certain period almost a month that I am in crisis. May be this is the effect of global financial crisis, but I am totally not interested in anything. And I do not like this situation. Thinking of becoming worker, may be that will help. Or taking a vacation??? I still do not know... But for certain I know that even Paul Krugman - economist who received a Nobel Prize this year had crisis period http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/incidents.html
This is of course normal condition, but we should always look for the ways to get out of it...

New Manifesto - rephrasing Pink's song

I guess i just lost my blog
I don't know where it went
So i'm gonna create a new one
I'm not gonna pay olds rent
I got a brand new view
And i'm gonna use it tonight
I wanna get in trouble
I wanna start to work

So what?

I'm still a blog star
I got my rock site
And i don't need you
And guess what
I'm having more fun
And now that we're done
I'm gonna show you tonight
I'm alright, I'm just fine
And you're a tool

So what?

I am a blog star
I got my rock sites
And i don't want you tonight

Uh, check my flow, uh

The waiter just checked my table
And gave to Jessica Simp- Shit!
I guess i'll go sit with laptop
At least it'll know how to hit
What if this song's on the radio
Then somebody's gonna die
I'm gonna get in trouble
My ex will start to work
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na
He's gonna start to work
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na
We're all gonna start to work!

So what?

I'm still a blog star
I got my rock site
And i don't need you
And guess what
I'm having more fun
And now that we're done
I'm gonna show you tonight
I'm alright, I'm just fine
And you're a tool

So what?

I am a blog star
I got my rock site
And i don't want you tonight

You weren't fair
You never were
You weren't all
But thats not fair
I gave you life
I gave my all
You weren't there
You let me fall

So what?
I'm still a blog star
I got my rock site
And i don't need you
And guess what
I'm having more fun
And now that we're done
I'm gonna show you tonight
I'm alright, I'm just fine
And you're a tool

So what?

I am a blog star
I got my rock site
And i don't want you tonight

No No, No No
I Don't want you tonight
You weren't fair
I'm gonna show you tonight
I'm alright, I'm just fine
And you're a tool

So what?

I am a blog star
I got my rock site
And i don't want you tonight

Inspire me my muse!

You just back from the holiday... Find your mail box in terrible condition. Everyone is waiting a reply from you...

It is such a common situation!

Never!

Try to inspire yourself! Find your muse! You may have lots of lovely messages in your mail box. People may ask you to prepare a new surprise for you to welcome you back!

So, guys are you still here? Or already looking into your mail box?

O effect

Strange but the fact, around %80 of global brands has O in its brand name. Sometimes you may get idea that O bring them success. Or in other words, on the pschological level brands that has O letter predicts their future.

Probably, most of you will not agree with this thesis. I would not either. But, observations says the same.

Hence, it is understandable why Cola (look even it has an O in the name) launched Cola Zero (O inside and just O). They have not gone ahead with the Cola Light changed their product line and added one more.

Why?

Rebel against primitive business...

Great, superior we find a way to take the right decision... We will ask everyone and later decide by ourselves...

Common guys where is the competence, of course, dog may have an idea about cats' life but, giving advice on this matter and asking dog's opinion about this case is the highest level of stupidity!!!
I can not understand this point and of course its bias that we are assessing this persons' level... To assess the persons' level world has lots of different tools - test is one them.

I would like to be mad but, can not I want to cry for these people and can not understand how can they make a business with this vision. That means our market is in awful situation if such cases appear. Oh my God help them...

How they could not understand that they waste their time and of course their workers which in financial terms means money. They become less flexible and business becomes kind of game to play.

It is so easy to fool this chain by providing false information... But, I am sure that they will come back to you in case of problem. But, you can pass the ball again back to chain and later, people will say that they are tired...

Of course that is the normal... There must be a board and very key decisions must be taken by this board and not all letter should be read and corrected by all departments... It is stupidity...
Enough complaining back to work!!! May GOD help these people since I do not care anymore!

Global WARNING!!!

According to Economist, "JPMorgan, a bank, reckons that five big food and beverage giants—Nestlé, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Anheuser-Busch and Danone—consume almost 575 billion litres of water a year, enough to satisfy the daily water needs of every person on the planet."

Strange but, interesting... Actually hence, global warming may assist them by providing more water :) In reality everything is very different. This kind of massive usage means that tomorrow companies will face new challenge which is obligation to get a max efficiency in water resource usage.

It obviously, means that companies will face new challenges which all in nature directly relates to nature. Main are greenness: fuel (electricity) and paper usage, gas emission, water and of course Human Resources.

Probably, the best solution for most of the companies is taking out these resources from their value chain. That means, for example producing more soup flavour (or dried soups) and sell it cheaper to people who have to pay for their water. This will decrease the cost and transfer it to the consumer. And only, consumer will have the right to choose what to consume...

Hope it will happen!

Present~attention

"Dear All,

Bla bla bla..."

That is all about most of the presentation tell us. Unfortunately, most of them are done just to present the results. But, modern destructive, loaded world needs creative approach. In other word, it is important to find the appropriate audience, choice the right topic, prepare a good and visible presentation and find a right person who can use all this information to provide right message.

Presentation is all about providing a message. It is like a person who get on exam the question -"What is the risk?" Of course s/he can write several pages but, his/her creativity is to provide back blank page and write down - "This is a risk!".

Creativity, innovation or whatever word you will put to explain this subject is the way to change the way of presentation. But, be careful do not get out of the format otherwise, you may have tomato or eggs on your face...

Flex~a~bility

Sometimes it is so hard to be flexible but, I was surprised when I heard that some companies started to use ROWE. Result oriented work environment-it is a great tool to motivate your worker.

Just imagine you do not have to wake up and come to your work place. You just do not go to sleep at 12, work all the night and sleep all of the day. It is an illusion for some but, truth for others!

SME-small and medium enterprises has no way in the modern competition. Big companies can offer more wages but, could not offer flexibility which is the key advantageous (at least this is written in literature) of SMEs. But, when they grow and have client they could not show previous flexibility and provide the wages as BIGGERS' do.

ROWE is the ring-buoy which can save them in the ocean of the companies. Just imagine you go home when you want but, the company still get its revenue and even earns more.

I want ROWE!!!

Time to BAY

Time is running and sometimes you could not enjoy what you have... It is so sad, but visionary person have to predict and see it. You never know when the death will come to your door.

Yeah, I know I am young, but, I do not have any guarantee to not been kicked by car when I will pass the road. But, I am speaking about retirement. If it is actual for Apple's JOB then, it will be actual for everyone.

What should you, me or someone else leave after him/her...Yeah, even me will say comm'on I still have time. But, nobody knows.

Hence, I going to finish my report otherwise I could leave even a report after me:)

Young vs. Old

It is strange but, our attitude to the specialist who are old is not on the level that it should be. We think that all they are old generation and we as a new know more than they are. But, in fact more than half of the business is built on network-relations and olders have that. Their peers are managers and etc. We have to find a way to deal with this fact, have to use it as an advantage...If you could not then guys it is a bit for us to do business we still need to learn from them :)

Vacation

Oh how it is great to be on vacation... Of course if do not have any relatives' wedding or marriage ceremony. I had kind of bad lack during all my vacation and the week we had two wedding ceremony of my relatives. So my vacation was not relaxing but, was kind of being a bit away from work... Enjoy your time if you have such...

My on LINE friend

... Strange but, truth I do not love my computer, I love and am a part of the world which is inside of that black box. Music, entertainment, work, colleagues, friends everything is there...

The only step which we miss is just open a virtual shop ask our friend come together and shop on LINE. Recent developments provide the message that we would not wait so much...

People get from GooGle a new version of Lively site. Here is your place where you can built your home, may be shop and invite your friends, customers...

So, guys are you still reading my BLOG? I think it is perfect time to start to think what you can get from it...

Smoke "-ing" kills

Very interesting everyone is speaking about the bad impact of smoking, that it is very dangerous and it impact everyone inside the room. But, stop for a minute and look around. When you are in the city open a window of your office or room for fresh area... What you receive? Of course smoke...

The smoke... or polution is more dangerous for us than smoking... There are so many factors that affect our health so, it is time to forget about it and continue to live...

Enjoy your "smoked" life...

My .... friends birth date

It is strange but, how happy we became when our friends pick up phone calls us and say:
"Happy Birthday!!!"

In modern world, we mostly use MSN, Facebook and other tools to do it. But, still it is nice... It provides positive energy to you and to people whom you are congratulating. Author are always waiting to be remembered in that a wonderful day! And we are as friend have to remember and say few nice words to them...

That is nice, I am already happy for my friend Jalal! Congrats!!!!

Happiness on the face of the married couple-truth or just an illusion?

I do not know how many of you have been on the wedding and how many of you have paid attention to the couple. Most of the time, if they are not busy with something else, they have an unforgattable smile on their face. I always wondered why?

I was thinking what makes them so, happy or are they pretending that they are happy...

Few days before when, one of my friends start to organize his wedding party and we as a mad people were running all around city to see where to find thing that we need... I get an idea and some kind of solution to my question.

Solution is really simple: They are just happy because everything is finished...

Localization in e-nvironment

Despite the fact that people says that internet and e-nvironment eradicates the boards and lauching your business means being available to all in a second. This is not totally true. Just imagine you opened a site an one Brazilian or Chinese user who can use internet but, is not good at English (by default I accept that your site is in English :) ) will go to your site and of course could not benefit from it as you wish.

Moreover, in case of technological problem people want to speak to someone who can understand them well. And for most it is comfortable to do it in their native language. That is a trick...

But, it could be solved... If you will use internet as a world you can provide your franchise and open reps in different parts of the world. I understand one single thing if you do nto have a back office your web company will just go bankrupt...

May God keep you away from bankruptcy

New business model makes MONEY???

People are trying to earn more and in this way they just outsource or change the company value chain and invite more customers to work for them. That model perfectly works! Everything start with IKEA concept to give it out. Gave a customer chance to do it. I love citate from one gurus: "He said cheap airlines cut out all the additional services, probably tomorrow they will go out to the passengers and ask them is there anyone who can flight on the plane. We need a pilot :)"

That what is currently happening in the world, people want everything free... and that is brings new models for the companies. Companies provides logistics and start to charge from the logistics and other models. As an example, they arrange a meeting and charge from the restaurants :) for the additional clients :)

That how it is work, mobile or e-business gives opportunity to sell and buy on their pages and charges only the seller with the additional cost as should government do. Probably in future they will collect taxes for government and then charge government for this service :) Anyway, goodluck to everyone in changing, crazy world.

CAD/CAM systems vs.MFG.com

Historically people produced on machines, later they replaced themselfves and put computers into the shop. And then they started to manage computers, currently, human kind found out a new solution it produces in one geography and asks from another.

It is so easy, MFG.com company provides you an ability to put technical specification online and then the registered suppliers from China bid for it. This is very good for engineers whose technical solutions cost a lot in EU and USA.

So, just draw what you want and put the measurement go to mfg.com and ask to ManuFactureGood... Are you still here?

Anniversary

Today is the tenth blog...

I take a decision, from now on the blog post number will decrease to once in a week. That means, I will post only once in a week and probably it will be Fridays...

I think that will help you-my reader to easily follow up my post and me to collect and provide you more valuable feeds...

Actually, I have lots of staff to post but, since I am too young I may post more than you can.:) Hence, I decided to change a concept a bit... If you are against please, express it and I will review my concept immediately :)

All the best from KarMa!

Friend's ship

It is already known that Yahoo! used Google's ship to prolong its journey in business world. Current, rebranding or let's say ymailing actions, search results googling shows that Google somehow is in Yahoo! It is not yet obvious in which part of Yahoo! stands Google but, at least they already streghten their common relation.

This relations was obvious from the beginning double o's could not survive without each other. But, it is does not change a lot for us as customers. Both companies will continue on their way and probably will some kind of supplement each other. And probably in some next years we will face the new phenomenon which we may already call YaGoo! or may be Googleya.

Any way, all the best to the new couple!

Pause...

Sometimes it is worth to take a pause... To stop, to look around and then to put on gears to speed up.

Oh, pause, oh my darling I am coming to you :)

Behavioralism vs. Homo Economicus

Strange but, science still tries to explain why people behave in this or that way. It is kind of impossible since people is very complex beings. They have different kinds of thinking and backgrounds. It is not possible to categorize and certainly explain that this happen as a reason of that.

On the other hand, we have to explain everything and provide certain answers at least to our child when s/he ask why her/his ant or uncle behaved in this or that way...

What we already did? We started to observe people and to compare them with the other beings. We found out that some of the beings have similarities with us and we went in this direction. We found out that even they have similarities with us, they can not be used to explain human being...

Later, we jump into the observation... Observed by how many...

Then, we decided to experiment on people... We created game theory, probability, rationality... But again that did not work for us...

Nowadays, we are trying to dig deeper into the brain. We are using scanners to find out what is happening in people brains when they act in this or that way... But still this researches gives little to us...

We hope that it will work better in future and people will understand why this or that thing happens... May be we should start to test? Are there any one who can be volunteer?...

Busy + ness = BUSINESS

Life is life... Sometimes people are involved in so many things that they can get lost in them. Being busy is very nice and almost always helps to escape unnessary things. Just imagine when you enter into the room, where you sit. Of course, you the chair which is free. Life is same, bad things catch people who have nothing to do or walk in the not proper place and not at the proper time...

Being busy keeps person to start doing thing and being in secure since s/he knows that s/he doings thing in the familiar place which is safer and already known for him/her.

Guys please, do not overload yourself... Try to see all pros and cons of what you are going to do and assume approximate time that you need to assign to this work. Sometimes you get all things together and then, even 24 hours becomes insufficient.

Be busy, work hard but, do not stress no one can earn all money that exist and no one can finish all the work at the same time...

Oh my computer and network

Oh dear computer,

Oh lovely network,

Please just work, I need to finish this sheet :) It is strange but, that may happen. It happened today, half of our colleagues enjoyed patience and used their chances to communicate. Others like me were striving to do something...

Just imagine nothing is working power went off, all communication brake down. End of the life? Never... Life will go on if you, me and others will be ready to live without this stipud stuff:)

Ok, if you do not want to work I will read something :)

Oh my computer and network

Oh dear computer,

Oh lovely network,

Please just work, I need to finish this sheet :) It is strange but, that may happen. It happened today, half of our colleagues enjoyed patience and used their chances to communicate. Others like me were striving to do something...

Just imagine nothing is working power went off, all communication brake down. End of the life? Never... Life will go on if you, me and others will be ready to live without this stipud stuff:)

Ok, if you do not want to work I will read something :)

Network and work

It is so strange that a powerful man, who invented the computer currently, could not done anything with them when the network or connection is lost. Inventions makes people more passive and hence, one day people will loose the control over their life if already have not...

That is normal since, no one never controlled their life. But, it becomes worse that we people are just transferring to the lazy people who just can act when they have the right tools under their hands.

In fact we should think and create alternatives... May one day everything will stop functioning and we would start to do something to survive. Are you ready for that?

$100 laptop

I have no idea where people get this idea but, I think it is pretty nice to send laptops to people in rural area and facilitate education. Of course, sceptics or may be realists would point out that it is a creation of a new demand for the computers or licences which will expire after distribution and prolongation will cost little money but in volume it will create a massive income.

I really do not care, since it is the best solution currently people have. I think we even should not produce such an expensive computer. I think it is better to produce some kind of sunglasses instead of monitors and finger devices instead of keyboards. Then they should simply be connected to the global network. There we must provide free software to use them.

This will foster the penetration and of course computer world will totally replace the TV world. Currently, we do not pay (or pay very little) for the TV channels. The same should work for the internet world.

Here can arise the problem of storage and that can be solved by grid system which is already used in the world. People donate special space on their computer and energy of their computer and by this support upload and download of the information from their computers.

The rest business should care should be only security. Then, security will mean something. And will not survive with its simple and everywhere applicable meaning...

This was my perspective...

Procedures, procedures and again procedures

It is already 3 years that I somehow involved in procedure writing in different companies for different operations. It is not really amazing but, it is really useful. Till now, rare people provided their feedback regarding the usefullness of these procedures...

Briefly, yesterday ended with the procedure or as it was stated Standard for Operational Procedures writing. I enjoyed this since I used my creativity but, due to overload I could not provide full document with the flowcharts. But my customer liked it and provided very warm feedbacks.

That how it works... You get warm feedbacks...

To do or not to do?

Sometimes there is kind of will to experience whatever you can flight, read, write, became famous, rich, modest...

But, life is short so you should play naked to get your chance. Not with me, I have principles:)

However, that is not the subject of the post. Several times you are faced to that or not. I see that life runs in two ways, some choose special subject and just work on it, others is trying to achieve everything and just get lost in that, and the rest just spending their time...

There is not a perfect model and none of the smart consultant can advise you by saying man just go on this way and you will get what you need. Because basically person is a social animal and his/her needs changes from time to time and by all the development that shapes personal identity.

My mother still can not understand how we are wearing strange type jeans... Oh, where I now...

Let us come back, I think whatever person is doing he/she must just stop and filter all the staff that s/he has. Then just do and check. As plan-d0-check-prevent model. This model should be applied before each step.

So, guys it is a perfect time to go and play naked :)))))

Why karma105?

My name is Karim and of course my surname is Mammadov. After the admission to the university I get a login name to the system - karma105. During my registration it was so, hard to find the suitable blog name and I suddenly remind this. The history of this nick and blog is so simple...

I forget to inform you that I am from Azerbaijan and currently living-exploring my life there...