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Today on marketplace (NPR), this bit on freakonomics radio caught my attention !http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/10/19/pm-freakonomics-radio-a-government-official-in-venture-capitalists-clothing/If you have not listened to it go listen, it is really worth 2 minutes of your time. Here is why I liked and decided to share with you today.It will not take you long to see if your

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In US, we have or we have been experiencing two major crisis leading serious leading serious economic impacts for citizens, namely the financial crisis and now the oil spill crisis.Let's look at how we handled the financial crisis : Primarily created by leading financial companies, taking on risky bets. Our Response was to bail them out with Tax Payer money. Even though now these banks are

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I started writing this post, the day the merger was Announced. Figured, I will complete it and post the blog today, Sept 17,2010, as the merger is formally blessed and the transition will begin. United is Merging with Continental, Delta Merged with Northwest, US Airways Merged with AmericaWest ... List goes onSo really do these mean anything to anyone?Let's Start with Me, as a representation of

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I am not sure whether you are tired of hearing the word bailout, but I sure am !Airline Industry, The Banking Industry, The Auto Industry and even countries now !However, today as I heard Robert Reich, Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley on Marketplace on NPR, for the first time I really felt , he talked about a bailout, that made sense, hopefully someone is

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Reason for posting this blog entry: Reason for posting this blog entry: I grew up in the State of Andhra Pradesh in India, which currently going thru a period of unrest, mainly due to Greed of Few Politicians and Lack of True Statesmanship or Leadership. This uncertainty is definitely not good for anyone - Business, Personal or Social. So, as an individual who truly is a well wisher of the every

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Early on during the current and ongoing economic crisis, I had asked the question whether we had even defined the problem right as I strongly believed to find the right solution we have to have defined the problem right. Find below the links to the two earlier postsFollow up Post# My Views on Business and Technology: Economic Crisis - Have we even defined the problem right? Original Post# http://

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Jobless Recovery: Is it a fact or fiction?Every time employment report gets published and given we are still losing jobs, albeit fewer than the previous report, Now we are hearing more and more from the pundits about the notion of a jobless recovery!I guess, I do not need to post links to the articles on "Jobless Recovery", you can just Google It or Bing It, and you will find many articles.In

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Recently, I posted an blog entry titled : "Economists/Intellectuals - Are we hurting our children?"The post argued how programs like - "Cash for Clunkers", "Hiring more Govt Services Staff using borrowed (Stimulus) money leads to inter-generational transfers i.e. in simple terms - burdening our children with debt of our consumption. Interestingly today I read the following articles on Yahoo!

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Recently, I wrote a blog entry analyzing the results and what they mean - in most cases I concluded that most executives were more confidant on controlling costs than they were on growth. Links to the post: http://kunamneni.blogspot.com/2009/07/ramblings-on-economy-is-it-all-good-now.html.This brings attention to why are the executives not confidant on growth. Innovation is key to growth, and

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I took my economics class from Prof. Michael Brandl at the McCombs School of Business. Many a time in the he mentioned. (may not be the same words but this my interpretation of the essence). "Not all government borrowing is the same. It depends on how the proceeds from the borrowing are spent. If the government borrows today and spends the money in a way that benefits the next generation, then

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Link to Previous Post : My Views on Business and Technology: Ramblings on Economy - Is it all good now ? Continuing ramblings on economy from yesterday, it is more of the same today Exxon quarterly profit tumbles 66 percent, shares fall - (Recession - lower demand)Motorola posts unexpected 2Q profit and says rest of year will see improvement - However on lower sales (missed revenue target), heavy

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This earnings season, I started paying attention to what was being said while companies are releasing their earlier. My curiosity was directed to understanding whether we are headed in the direction where an average citizen can actually come back after a hard day of work and not fear if he going to have a job next day.My motivation behind this was basically simple - pretty much the pundits have

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My Views on Business and Technology: Consumer Spending - Are we looking at the right consumer?Today in WSJ : Drug Firms See Poorer Nations as Sales CureFinally, it looks like atleast drug companies are starting look into emerging markets alias poorer nations to boost sales. Very pertinent to the view I expressed in my earlier blog post on who is the consumer?Click on this link for WSJ Article : "

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My Views on Business and Technology: IT Hardware (Servers, Mainframes, Storage) - who is the future buyer ?Couple of months ago, I had posted a blog entry who is the Buyer of IT Hardware - The link is posted above. Additionally I had commented on "Cloud Computing - What is so disruptive about it?"Today, a colleague of mine shared the following post on Yahoo!Finance titled "The Cloud Computing

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Recently there have been many reports on weak outlook for global economy. Additionally, concerns have been raised on "Lack of Consumer Spending" and that the better report on "Unemployment Claims" is kind of misleading, as this could due to folks losing umemployment benefits after 26 weeks rather than actually folks finding a job.No matter how we look at it - It does not look like the

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My Views on Business and Technology: Equating Outsourcing to Losing Jobs - Is that Right?University of Texas professor James Galbraith, makes references to Jobs and Productivity in this inteview on Yahoo!Finance. Since I made reference to Productivity in my previous post. I felt it was a relevant to listen so posting the link to my blog.The Link to News: http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/

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My Views on Business and Technology: "Wake Up - If you did not already know you should"Jim Collins in the Business Week article this month on his latest book "HOW THE MIGHTY FALL AND WHY SOME COMPANIES NEVER GIVE IN" stated that it started with the Question - "Is America renewing its greatness, or is America dangerously on the cusp of falling from great to good?"For any one, who read my inital

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My Views on Business and Technology: Equating Outsourcing to Losing Jobs - Is that Right?Some additional Reference Posts that I read after I published the previous post, and felt they help us understand and refine perceptions further on the above postHow the Mighty Fall and How to Stay on Top - Jim Collins in Business Week. Book ReviewThe 2009 Global Outsourcing, Special AdSection - Fortune 500

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This recent article in yahoo finance/business week goes to the extent of equating "Outsourcing" to Losing Jobs for American's http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/107048/Where-Your-Job-Could-Be-Outsourced and some addtional comments by Administration regarding encouraging protectionism really got me concerned and thinking.I do not get the connection between the statements, articles and

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Listening to Dr. Brandl today on Effect of swine flu on economy, I felt it is time for corporations to ask whether their Disaster Recovery plans truly consider all aspects Business Continuity i.e People, Processes and Technology.My Take # This pandemic which now has spread from single nation (Mexico) to over 11 Nations in days if not hours should serve as a rude awakening to corporations to take

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Link to Previous Post: My Views on Business and Technology: Economic Crisis - Have we even defined the problem right?Though after writing this article, I got a little lesson on commercial paper market drying up at the 4th McCombs Alumni Conference, it however did not convince me fully.Today, as I read thru the articles on "Wells Fargo's" Windfall earnings, I felt these prove my belief on the

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I have heard varied opinions about cloud computing - ranging from we already do it, it is nothing but more virtualization, it is the next buzz word for SOA, It is just IT Services branded and sold differently to it is very disruptive enterprise IT Providers.I am not sure I agree in 100% to any of the above generalizations. So to put some perspective, I will try to shed perspectives on "Cloud

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Recently, I posted on article titled "IT Hardware - Who is the future buyer?",Today, I ran into this announcement from VMWARE: VMware to Manage Virtual Machines from Mobile Phones.Though this announcement is from a specific supplier of virutualization technology, I am pretty confident this is trend in the industry.If you carefully read and analyze the under pinning of the message, which is :- "we

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My Basic Education was in Mechanical / Industrial Engineering with some focus in Operations Research. I still remember the first thing my Professor said way back. 95% of the solving the problem is about "Defining the problem right" remaining 5% is about "applying the right algorithm". Off late, as I have been questioning whether we have even defined the problem right? Looks like the root cause

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In my recent post on Hope, I made a suggestion to what "John Maynard Keynes" may have have meant by "Animal Spirits of Business People" when he first coined it way back. Today, driving to work , I was listening to MarketPlace Morning Report on NPR. Guess what the subject was - A new book titled "Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism" by

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Recently, I had written blog post titled, "Wake up - If you did not already know you should". A key point in my view about expectation of "Credit Flowing" as soon as Banks had enough capital is that it is not a valid expectation as "Flow of credit should be tied to credit worthiness" and not somebody's ability to lend or that somebody feels he is entitled to credit."Part I: Geithner's Plan "

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HP bought EDS Last Year. CISCO has come out with clear intentions to be a datacenter player with their new server line. Yesterday's announcement of IBM's plan to acquire SUN raise a very fundamental question : WHO IS THE BUYER OF IT HARDWARE?Historically, Software has been specifically designed for a particular OS/hardware platform. Has this paradigm finally shifted. Has software matured far

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Recently, I gave a talk on Career Management to TexasMBA students as a part of Executive Speaker Series at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin. My Presentation can be found at http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dppnrzq_64hrzwf7fhThis week, I noticed I crossed 200 connections on Linked-in (http://www.linkedin.com/). I started this journey accepting an invitation

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Three days ago, I published a blog entry "Hope - is it not a positive thing anymore?". Today, I was surprised to the "Image and Story" of Rikki on how she is overcame her "lay-off" on the front page of "USA Today". Follow the link to read further.http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2009-03-12-economy-american-dream_N.htmThough the overall news is not really good, the imagery of success and how

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All my life I have associated "Hope" to be a word that inspires positive thinking and feelings. Of-late I have started questioning it. Especially, when I listen to experts providing opinions on Marketplace (NPR), Yahoo! Finance etc. related to business, technology, economy and our future and the outcomes these statements are leading to.So today, I went to my favorite dictionary "Wikipedia" to

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What is at stake today is our ability to drive value in the long-run, and the long-run is not far away - It is here. Please watch and read the following blog posts “Did you know” by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Bronman. Watch it, you will be surprised. The link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY Macro-Economic Updates by Professor Brandl’s from McCombs School of Business at The

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