DailyPost 90 DATA INTEGRITY Garbage in, garbage out is the adage we grew up with since the of the initiation of computerisation in the governmental system. Data is at the centre of IT universe and at the heart of all our decision making. Integrity of data has become a complex enterprise in itself and goes […]
DailyPost 89 BYTES It’s raining bytes all over. The digital lingo has become the mainstay of the electronic media. Sourced either from a public source or a requested byte, the byte life cycle starts. You are assured that the developing story would be followed and you would be kept abreast. More often than not it’s
DailyPost 88 OPTIMIZED! This is the result everyone is trying to achieve. Optimum, cost benefit, per unit cost, ROI, value add, efficiency, productivity are all manifestations of the same process; to make the best out of quantified effort and the additions of value in terms of money corresponding to every single penny spend. This has
DailyPost 87 Your “WORLD VIEW” is your world Perceptions, impressions, misconceptions, knowledge or the lack of it, experiences, suffering, humiliation et al create our world view. Your world view is the world reality you accept. For a progressive / proactive person it’s dynamic and keeps on changing as he progresses in life. No two individuals
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DailyPost 86 IN SEARCH OF TALENT Searching talent, seemingly conspicuous is actually a discerning art, both empirical and objective, not matured in this country either at level of family, society, organisations or at the governmental level. It’s commonplace in social discussions that talent was not known or recognised at a young age and so got
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DailyPost 85 360 DEGREES RESPONSIBILITY There is an ongoing battle between between peers and between subordinates and supervisors as to what does not fall under their charter of duties and for what the professional should not be held responsible of. Taking end to end responsibility is an anathema to which every supervisor has to respond
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DailyPost 84 LEADING THROUGH CONFLICT As the world grows smaller, the opportunities for conflicts multiply. Mark Gerzon opines that leaders have failed to rise to this challenge. Mediation as concept and practice has become the central theme of today’s leadership theory. The quality of mediation is directly proportional to the skills of the mediator. 9/11
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DailyPost 83 HACKTIVISTS To my repeated questions in my lectures on Cyber Security as to who is at the centre of the digital world , the answer is Hacker with an astounding regularity. This speaks of the psyche we are in. Hacktivism got added to this phraseology in recent years as the act of hacking
DailyPost 82 COMPROMISED, YET AGAIN! The recent news of Yahoo breach of 1 billion accounts compromised is the biggest in its infamous history. It throws up completely unpalatable questions both for the users and for the regulatory mechanism. With every subsequent breach, the new normal, is pushed further, which has been happening with an alarming
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DailyPost 81 LET’S TALK Talk Shows , I presume got into vogue and gained very high level of popularity based on at least some depth of knowledge of the personalities who were called upon to enlighten both the masses and government. The personalities/experts were to represent all the strands of thought/dimensions of the problem/issue and
DailyPost 80 MEDICAL ETHICS Ethics is the touchstone of medical profession. Since times immemorial there has been a battle of attrition between the ethical and others in the profession and continues even to this day. As per Socrates, any person knows what is truly right will automatically do it. This thought doesn’t seem to the
