[Winning With Web] The Potential of Web

The web's potential is huge. Web is a multi-purpose, multi-utility resource. At the same time web is a source of immense information and also a place for publishing information. It is a communication media and also a communication channel. Because of its unique potential, the possibilites on the web can be broadly classified as follows.

• Disovering on web- Search and Browsing
• Communicating on web- email and chat
• Publishing on web - blogs, web pages
• Communities on web- social networks
• Connecting on web- feeds, RSS

Each of these will be discussed in detail in coming blogs

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Posted By Ravindra Dastikop to Winning With Web at 12/08/2008 05:01:00 PM

[Reporting Web] IPR WORKSHOP: Day 2

Today started with a presentation by Dr. Nitin Deshpande, Uniliver Research India, who spoke about Patents with an Indian perspective. He made very detailed presentations on essential criteria that determines the fate of an patent application- novelty, non-obiviousness and statutory bars.
Second presentation was by Dr. Ramesh Krishnamurti, of Noro Nordisk which covered patent regime from US perspective and differences that exists between US patent regime and others. The message was that patent regimes are state specific.

Later presentations by Aravind who was ably assisted by Rachna Singh covered aspects such as patent contents, patentable matter etc

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Posted By Ravindra Dastikop to Reporting Web at 12/02/2008 04:50:00 AM

[Reporting Web] IPR Workshop: Dr. Nagambika Devi, IAS speech Highlights

Dr. Nagambika Devi, IAS, Secretary , Collegiate education, Karnataka inaugurated a 5 days TEQIP sponsored workshop on Intellectual Property Rights at MSRIT Bangalore today. In her inaugural address as the chief guest, among other things called for inclusion of financial literacy and law literacy as required courses in all educational programmes. It is true that most of us are lacking in these areas. As she said even a highly qualified people are not able to write an FIR or prepare thier own salary bill. A point to be noted.

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Posted By Ravindra Dastikop to Reporting Web at 12/01/2008 06:07:00 AM

[Reporting Web] 7 C's of Mr. Srinivasan: IPR Workshop

Mr. N.Srinivasan, member CII IQ Advisory Council & Special Advisor made an excellent and very relevant speech at IPR workshop Today. In today's global scenario, he said one should take care of the following 7C's

1. Change
2. Complexity
3. Challenge
4. Competition
5. Competitiveness
6. Customer
7. Creativity

Using these simple, rthymatic headings, in his short speech captured the essence very well

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Posted By Ravindra Dastikop to Reporting Web at 12/01/2008 06:20:00 AM

Management & Entrepreneurship] Management & Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship and Managment are two pillars of business. Business is a process of creating vlaue. Value is something for which customer is willing to pay. Entrepreneurship is the process of identifying a new value and making a business out it. Bill Gates of Microsoft was a entrepreneur when he identified software as a value on which business can be built. Larry Page was an entrepreneur when he recognized that web search can be of immense business value.

Management on the other hand is the process of running an existing business ( or offering the value created by entrepreneurship.

Business without management is chaotic and directionless and with out entrepreneurship become stale too fast.

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Posted By Ravindra Dastikop to Management & Entrepreneurship at 11/30/2008 07:40:00 PM

[Understanding Web] Intellectual Property Rights

Property is something someone owns. Ownership is a powerful feeling and a motivator. Ever since humans stopped being nomadic and settled and started civilization process, the idea of property has played a dominant role in making and shaping the course of human society. In some sense human history is nothing but the story of making property ,owning, protecting and transfering it to posterity and fights associated with it. What can be considered as property has changed during the course of human history:land, gold, mines, money and many more. Standing of an individual , familiy or group was propotional to its property holdings: Kingdoms by territory they covered; landlords by land they possed and so on. Until very recently Fortune 500 list was filled with sulants and sheiks of petrorich middle east.Now are the days of intellectual property: an idea built into a product or process. An intellecutal property could be a design, alogorithm (as in case of Google) or formula ( as in case of CoCo-Cola) or chemical formula as in case of pharmaceutical firms.

Identifying intellectual properties and awarding its ownership to real owners and protecting it is a challenge in contemporary connected world.

[Information Retrieval Today] The Web and You

Information has become the cornerstone of modern enterprise. And the web has become the largest and most accessible information resource. The ability to gather, arrange, and manipulate information with computers has given layman and as well as for business people new tools for managing.

Information has become the structural element and building block in creating new products and services. The sources of the information are so diverse, and sifting through and interpreting it for a specific business are so difficult, that even small companies will need help from data specialists. The success of an individual and as well as enterprise, even its survival almost entirely depends on its ability to harness information resources. To manage in the future, managers will need an information tools integrated with strategy.

An individul's information skill set must include ability to identify, locate, procure and deploy information for personal and professional productivity

This blog intends to discover those tools and help you master them

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Posted By Ravindra Dastikop to Information Retrieval Today at 11/24/2008 11:19:00 PM