For no reason, this is my first post on this blog page since december 2013. It took so long to come back here. Writing here meant the most as compared to me writing in other blogs and articles on various other pages I do as a hobby/passion. But, it has taken 6 months to make this comeback to this blog today. I was busy, I still am very busy. My close friends and family would complain that I am lost!
I have been writing a lot, but not writing here.
This blog post has been in existence for a long time now and I have always loved writing. May be because there are no rules here and I can make mistakes, get childish, playful and get more stupid at the way I think and express.
But enough about me, I have something thought provoking to talk about. That's why I am here.
In the summer of 2012, five top super star American companies bid on a project for a demanding, famous, revenue generating client: THE CIA! (Cental Intelligence Agency) The American spy agency funded by the Government and the UNOs, was collecting too much data and information that its computers could not keep up. To deal with this massive onslaught of data, the CIAs CIOs and CTOs saw the need to scale up their infrastructure and build its own high secure private cloud data center. A second to none version of vast fleets of efficient, adaptable, reliable, redundant and secure servers that could run complex services. For the Agency the power of cloud was tempting and tantalizing.
They decided to put this open for bidding. Whoever won the bidding would get a 10 year $600Million contract and they would spend five times of that on data analytics and data security. A mouth watering deal brought many bidders.
IBM was one of two finalists. But Amazon won the deal.
The pioneer ecommerce company hard butted a century old IBM out of competition from a dream deal.
Today Amazon has successfully met CIAs requirements, but there is an important lesson for the rest of the world.
As quoted in Bloomberg "No single deal encapsulates a 103-year-old company with a market capitalization of $185 billion. But the CIA butt kicking is a microcosm of larger problems IBM is having as it struggles to adapt to the cloud era, in which clients large and small rent technology cheaply over the Internet instead of buying costly fixed arrays. Under Rometty’s leadership, revenue has declined for eight consecutive quarters, a period when most of corporate America has flourished. In January, after a year in which IBM was the only company in the Dow Jones industrial average whose shares lost value, Rometty and her top executives turned down their annual bonuses, worth in her case as much as $8 million. (Rometty, 56, who goes by Ginni, declined to be interviewed for this article.)"
1. IBM is not able to cope up with technology?
2. Top executives turned down their bonuses and saved 8 million dollars! WTF?
3. Rometty doesnt want to comment? 8 consecutive quarters Revenue has declined!
4. Cloud taking over what was once physically present on earth!
What did Amazon have that IBM did not? Chinese developers and American Management. Indians are customer support nothing beyond that. So this means Amazon, a American company has Chinese products for the American CIA.
Lesson: Tides are changing. Everything is changing. WE have to change too!
There are many such examples. These companies are like humans too. Like they acquire other companies, we have to keep on acquiring new stuff. Like they have a strategy, vision, goal, mission statement, we need to have one too and keep on evolving it on a timely basis. We all have stakeholders, we have customers called friends and family, we have investors whom we call bosses and managers. we are answerable and this we have to keep on improving.
Let me quickly tell you something else thats a bit deviating. Another comparo of whats happening somewhere else that looks like it has nothing to do with us or our lives and yet, how its directly proportional and related to us and our future.
Last weekend about 10 million Chinese students took the National University Entrance Exam known as Gaoko. In comparison, 1.5 Million students taking SAT or 1.2 million taking IIT JEE exam in India.
Thats right. China is that big. They can beat a country like India by sheer numbers.
You know how many kids make their own mobile phones? Think of those Chinese mobile phones, guess where they come from? who makes them? Chinese kids! ofcourse! There is more than that. They make every product that possibly exists in China and most importantly THEY SELL IT outside of China. Funny eh? Plus they know Kung Fu by birth! (joke)
And you thought only Jackie chan's and Bruce Lees are awesome!
China is way ahead from India in every measure. I am not talking out of thin air here. I can support this statement with data in every field. China is big, everything they do is bigger.
For the 3 or 4 messaging apps like hike, whatsapp and others we use in India, there are 150+ messaging apps and over 50 of them have more than 2 to 3 million users. They have their own facebook like social networking sites, their own twitter and their own video sharing platform. Unlike India, we only have shaadi.com and nothing more than that. China have everything Chinese, it makes a sort of an Encryption for people outside china to know whats going on in China! They can do anything and get away with it, google translator struggles to translate and its only 65% accurate. Fertilizers to machinery, automobile, education, breweries, agriculture, tools, their own coca cola too and everything else, they have their own brands, their own way of doing it. Thats where their economy is sturdy and stronger unlike our country's swarm of foreign brands.
If I were a startup I would look for China for innovation and startup ideas.
Anyway, the reason I brought China and IBM is because somewhere we are stalling behind unless we do something about all this.
I was talking about Change. We all have to change. And change cant be overnight.
All we have to do is three things
First let our kids know the value of our culture, heritage and history.
Second the next generation should not chase materialistic things instead they should be chasing entrepreneurial dreams of contributing something to this world and becoming an expert in their area of interest.
Lastly, as current generation, we have to leave behind better footprints to follow for the next gen kids so its important we see clearly why it is not good to violate traffic rules, why its bad to dirty our roads, why its important to recycle, why its good to wear seat belts and many trillions of such small things that are overlooked but are very important.
Else, get ready for China to take over the jobs and while India will remain a under developed country! No Modi can do nothing if we cant change from within!
Just something top of mind I thought I will share. Not that I woke up to wipe off some creative dust. Hope you got some food for thought :)
Leave your comments below.
thank you
I have been writing a lot, but not writing here.
This blog post has been in existence for a long time now and I have always loved writing. May be because there are no rules here and I can make mistakes, get childish, playful and get more stupid at the way I think and express.
But enough about me, I have something thought provoking to talk about. That's why I am here.
In the summer of 2012, five top super star American companies bid on a project for a demanding, famous, revenue generating client: THE CIA! (Cental Intelligence Agency) The American spy agency funded by the Government and the UNOs, was collecting too much data and information that its computers could not keep up. To deal with this massive onslaught of data, the CIAs CIOs and CTOs saw the need to scale up their infrastructure and build its own high secure private cloud data center. A second to none version of vast fleets of efficient, adaptable, reliable, redundant and secure servers that could run complex services. For the Agency the power of cloud was tempting and tantalizing.
They decided to put this open for bidding. Whoever won the bidding would get a 10 year $600Million contract and they would spend five times of that on data analytics and data security. A mouth watering deal brought many bidders.
IBM was one of two finalists. But Amazon won the deal.
The pioneer ecommerce company hard butted a century old IBM out of competition from a dream deal.
Today Amazon has successfully met CIAs requirements, but there is an important lesson for the rest of the world.
As quoted in Bloomberg "No single deal encapsulates a 103-year-old company with a market capitalization of $185 billion. But the CIA butt kicking is a microcosm of larger problems IBM is having as it struggles to adapt to the cloud era, in which clients large and small rent technology cheaply over the Internet instead of buying costly fixed arrays. Under Rometty’s leadership, revenue has declined for eight consecutive quarters, a period when most of corporate America has flourished. In January, after a year in which IBM was the only company in the Dow Jones industrial average whose shares lost value, Rometty and her top executives turned down their annual bonuses, worth in her case as much as $8 million. (Rometty, 56, who goes by Ginni, declined to be interviewed for this article.)"
1. IBM is not able to cope up with technology?
2. Top executives turned down their bonuses and saved 8 million dollars! WTF?
3. Rometty doesnt want to comment? 8 consecutive quarters Revenue has declined!
4. Cloud taking over what was once physically present on earth!
What did Amazon have that IBM did not? Chinese developers and American Management. Indians are customer support nothing beyond that. So this means Amazon, a American company has Chinese products for the American CIA.
Lesson: Tides are changing. Everything is changing. WE have to change too!
There are many such examples. These companies are like humans too. Like they acquire other companies, we have to keep on acquiring new stuff. Like they have a strategy, vision, goal, mission statement, we need to have one too and keep on evolving it on a timely basis. We all have stakeholders, we have customers called friends and family, we have investors whom we call bosses and managers. we are answerable and this we have to keep on improving.
Let me quickly tell you something else thats a bit deviating. Another comparo of whats happening somewhere else that looks like it has nothing to do with us or our lives and yet, how its directly proportional and related to us and our future.
Last weekend about 10 million Chinese students took the National University Entrance Exam known as Gaoko. In comparison, 1.5 Million students taking SAT or 1.2 million taking IIT JEE exam in India.
Thats right. China is that big. They can beat a country like India by sheer numbers.
You know how many kids make their own mobile phones? Think of those Chinese mobile phones, guess where they come from? who makes them? Chinese kids! ofcourse! There is more than that. They make every product that possibly exists in China and most importantly THEY SELL IT outside of China. Funny eh? Plus they know Kung Fu by birth! (joke)
And you thought only Jackie chan's and Bruce Lees are awesome!
China is way ahead from India in every measure. I am not talking out of thin air here. I can support this statement with data in every field. China is big, everything they do is bigger.
For the 3 or 4 messaging apps like hike, whatsapp and others we use in India, there are 150+ messaging apps and over 50 of them have more than 2 to 3 million users. They have their own facebook like social networking sites, their own twitter and their own video sharing platform. Unlike India, we only have shaadi.com and nothing more than that. China have everything Chinese, it makes a sort of an Encryption for people outside china to know whats going on in China! They can do anything and get away with it, google translator struggles to translate and its only 65% accurate. Fertilizers to machinery, automobile, education, breweries, agriculture, tools, their own coca cola too and everything else, they have their own brands, their own way of doing it. Thats where their economy is sturdy and stronger unlike our country's swarm of foreign brands.
If I were a startup I would look for China for innovation and startup ideas.
Anyway, the reason I brought China and IBM is because somewhere we are stalling behind unless we do something about all this.
I was talking about Change. We all have to change. And change cant be overnight.
All we have to do is three things
First let our kids know the value of our culture, heritage and history.
Second the next generation should not chase materialistic things instead they should be chasing entrepreneurial dreams of contributing something to this world and becoming an expert in their area of interest.
Lastly, as current generation, we have to leave behind better footprints to follow for the next gen kids so its important we see clearly why it is not good to violate traffic rules, why its bad to dirty our roads, why its important to recycle, why its good to wear seat belts and many trillions of such small things that are overlooked but are very important.
Else, get ready for China to take over the jobs and while India will remain a under developed country! No Modi can do nothing if we cant change from within!
Just something top of mind I thought I will share. Not that I woke up to wipe off some creative dust. Hope you got some food for thought :)
Leave your comments below.
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