Posts

Showing posts from November, 2012

From the Palace to the Shack

Image
When people transcend from the Palace to the Shack how do they adapt; the story of Buddha is one of  these life transformations where a Prince leaves the palace to become a nomad with not even a shack on his head. Buddha's teachings and thought leadership still guide the destiny and inspire millions of people all over the world. In an ever changing world how do real people handle this transformation which is handed to them without their consent, business downsize and you are suddenly without a job and no income. We  find most people find it difficult to accept the changed situation and continue to live in their grand past, thus they become more confused and non-focused in their new situation.  Most people are never prepared for this eventuality and it is important that we are prepared for unexpected downturns in our circle of life. [caption id="attachment_311" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The Circle of Life ![/caption] Fortitude and Character are ...

Cloud Conferences and Cloud Conversion

Image
It is the season of Cloud conferences spewing sermons on cloud technology in India and rest of the world. Cloud Computing will complete a decade soon and we still market cloud services like traditional technology. Cloud is an utility and we need to learn to deal with selling and marketing cloud computing as an utility. Do electricity and water companies have conferences to market their services, cloud computing business need a fresh sales and marketing team to retain and acquire new customers. Learn from Religion for Cloud Conversion  Cloud adoption is there to stay and the next step is bringing in more followers into the cloud computing fold. We need to change from evangelistic mode to Missionary mode and take a leaf in marketing from the church or similar religious organizations and borrow their strategies for conversion. Does cloud computing needs a conversion strategy borrowed from Religion, I believe it does because the traditional IT leaders are...