Product Configuration and Supply Chains Integration

Becoming more demand-driven in turbulent times requires that supply chains be fully integrated with product configuration strategies to make sure the highest levels of customer accuracy and responsiveness are attained.  Companies attaining best practices in product configuration strategies concentrate on key supply chain metrics as a barometer of their strategy performance.

Making Product Configuration Strategies More Effective

Using the Perfect Order, supply chain management costs and demand forecasts to measure demand visibility gives these companies insights into which areas of their supply chain strategies to trade off for optimum performance.  The critically important cash-to-cash cycle to keep companies’ liquidity positive concentrates on Days Payable Outstanding (DPO), Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), and Inventory costs.

Source: The Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics: Diagnosing Your Supply Chain Health | Refreshed: 6 July 2011 | First Published: 23 May 2008 | 10 pages. Click image to enlarge.

Operational effectiveness as defined by the 11 additional metrics shown in the hierarchy of supply chain metrics are also used for continually fine-tuning supply chains to be more demand-driven and therefore more responsive to product configuration requirements. In companies who have successfully created collaborative supply chain networks, product configuration strategies benefit from the more efficient sharing of pricing and product information.

A key take-away from analyzing how companies are using demand-driven strategies to ride out turbulent times is the fact that the tighter the integration of supply chains to manufacturing and distribution channels, the greater the profitability of product configuration strategies.  A well-orchestrated supply chain translates role-based information and intelligence into action very fast and gains new business, cost reductions and greater productivity in product configuration as a result.

Bottom line: The more integrated a supply chain, the more accomplishable product configuration objectives become.  Best practices in this area show that role-based intelligence in product configuration strategies is an even stronger competitive advantage than price or availability.  This is because companies can move on demand signals faster than competitors and capitalize on new growth while mitigating risk.

To learn more ways product configuration can impact your complex sales process, check out this complimentary webinar featuring Gartner analyst Mike Burkett on Transforming Selling Strategies.

Courtesy – Louis Columbus

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The Growth of Social Media: An Infographic

Social Media, as we all know has become an integral parts of our daily working life. Its ability to attract people from various walks of life, has fueled its growth. Of course there is no end to it anytime soon. It will be growing further and as expected with the emergence of better and sophisticated mobile technology that will enable the integration or marry your Social Information to your location, something that will disrupt soon the way we are engaging on Social Media.

In view of the same I will like to share a a great work by Jenise Uehara Henrikson where she provides an interesting insight into the steep curve of the user growth rate in all age ranges and demographics. Further she opines that the continuing pervasiveness of social networking into every facet of work, play and life in general. It’s hard to argue that social media hasn’t changed forever how we interact and connect online.

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India's Republic Day - Finnair Style

Simply loved the "Bollywood Style" surprise that the passenger of FinnAir bound from Helsinki to New Delhi experienced on 26th Jan, 12 - A Bollywood jig by a foreign crew, all dressed in dazzling salwar kameez and traditional Indian attires .....and one of the first comments at Youtube - " If only all communities were so thoughtful of the others, this world would be a better place"..

Great Stuff...I am flying next time Finnair for Sure.....:)

Transactions and Complex Selling: Strong Catalysts of Cloud Computing Growth

Enterprise software vendors need to challenge themselves to deliver significantly more value if the potential for cloud computing is going to be achieved .

Instead of just going for the low-end, easily customized processes within analytics, CRM, supply chain management, ERP, pricing or service, vendors need to take on the more challenging, complex hard-to-solve problems enterprises have.

As I am completing more research on personas, I’m finding what CIOs really look for in SaaS apps.  Flexibility and ease of workflow support, intuitive user interface design without sacrificing functionality, and support for analytics, business intelligence and knowledge management systems integration are all mentioned often.

Nearly all of them also mention that the existing generation SaaS applications on the sell-side, from CRM to order capture and order management aren’t taking on the more challenging areas of their strategies.  The result is the CIOs are still relying on legacy, on-premise apps in areas of their companies that are ready for change to SaaS-based applications.  Cloud platforms are taking on these more complex, challenging problem areas, yet innovation still lags the needs in the market.

Transactions Are The Fuel of Cloud Infrastructure Growth 

CIOs are focusing on how to exceed the expectations of their internal customers at the workflow and interface level while infusing SaaS apps with analytics, business intelligence and knowledge management support.  What’s missing is the killer transaction platform layer and transaction-based applications.  Gartner’s report, A Workforce Without Humans: Three Ways Technology Will Eliminate Skilled Jobs in the U.S. Through 2020 by Kenneth F. Brant by Johan Jacobs has the following graphic which shows CIO’s estimates of migration to cloud-based IT infrastructure and applications which supports this point.

Source: Maverick Research: A Workforce Without Humans: Three Ways Technology Will Eliminate Skilled Jobs in the U.S. Through 2020 by Kenneth F. Brant by Johan Jacobs

Much of the report is based on the results of Gartner’s 2011 survey of U.S. CIOs. Additional insights from the survey include the following:

• Virtualization and cloud computing are the two top-ranked U.S. CIO technology priorities for 2011.
• 83% of U.S. CIOs estimated that more than half of their transactions would be conducted on a cloud infrastructure by 2020.
• 79% of the respondents predicted that more than half of their transactions would be completed on applications leased using the SaaS platform by 2020.

For cloud infrastructure platforms and SaaS applications to deliver that level of transaction volume and support, there needs to be a major shift in how enterprise vendors develop software. Making better use of analytics, business intelligence and knowledge in the enterprise is key. Designing applications that make information and knowledge sharing intuitive is critical.

The following figure from the same report cited earlier shows the relationship of technologies to potential business value.  Many CRM and sell-side vendors tend to focus on being a substitute or just barely delivering increases in human productivity.

Going after the hard work of optimizing pricing strategies, call centers, making multichannel selling strategies profitable and getting the most out of social networks to make the customer experience exceptional will deliver major gains in productivity.  It’s been my experience during the persona interviews that for any SaaS vendor to really excel here they need to get beyond human productivity and make it possible for enterprises to deliver exceptional customer experiences daily.

Creating SaaS applications that take on real complexity earns trust too, which no amount of pure efficiency can compete with.

Source: Maverick Research: A Workforce Without Humans: Three Ways Technology Will Eliminate Skilled Jobs in the U.S. Through 2020 by Kenneth F. Brant by Johan Jacobs

An Example: SaaS in Manufacturing

The following table compares the strategies and systems used in a typical manufacturing company.  Enterprise apps vendors for the most part are focused on make-to-stock and assemble-to-order automation and efficiency (SAP ByDesign for example).

As the continuums move from left to right, the process, systems and strategy challenges exponentially increase.  As a result there are only a few vendors who can manage the more complex engineer-to-order requirements in manufacturing for example. Transactions there are very small in number, yet orders of magnitude more profitable.  This is just an example of many areas in enterprises that need major improvement.

Instead of just focusing on the easy processes and strategies on the left, vendors need to go after the more difficult, complex selling and transaction challenges on the right.  This is why CIOs want SaaS applications that are easy to customize from a user interface and workflow standpoint, while at the same time supporting analytics, BI and knowledge management.  The goal is to slot them into these more challenging areas of their business and transform their company’s intelligence and expertise into profitable growth.

Bottom line: The true catalyst of cloud computing growth isn’t just SaaS economics; it’s how effectively enterprise software vendors address the very difficult transaction, order management and selling challenges their potential customers face all the time. When that happens, the many optimistic forecasts of cloud adoption in the enterprise will take a step closer to being fulfilled.

Courtesy – Louis Columbus

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India–A Republic

26th January 1950 is one of the most important days in Indian history as it was on this day the constitution of India came into force and India became a truly sovereign state. As we celebrate our Republic Day would like to share some interesting fact about India

• The famous board game, called Chess, was invented in India.
• In India's 100,000 years of history, it has never invaded any other country.
• India is the 7th largest country in the world, the largest democracy and one of the oldest civilizations.
• India was one of the richest countries in the world before the British invasion in 17th century.
• The value of "pi" used in mathematics was first calculated by the Indian mathematician Budhayana in 6th century.
• India is one of the largest exporter of computer software products. It exports software to over 90 countries.
• India is home to the world's largest pilgrimage destination called the Vishnu Temple. The temple is located in the city of Tirupati. About an average of 30,000 people visit this temple donating about $6 million US dollars, everyday.
• India originated Yoga about 5,000 years ago.
• India has the most number of mosques. It has 300,000 mosques which is much more than the Muslim world.
• Christians and Jews have been living in India since 52 A.D. and 200 B.C. respectively.

And for now is the turn of some Unusual facts about India

• India has the highest bridge in the world . It is called Bailey Bridge and is located in Ladakh between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayas.
• Before 1986, India was the only place in the world where Diamonds could be found.
• The world's first University was established in India . The University was established in 700 B.C. at the place of Taxila.
• The biggest and the largest employer in the world is Indian Railways which employs over a million people.
• India has the highest cricket ground in the world. It is located in the northern state of India called Himachal Pradesh. The cricket ground is 2444 meters above the sea level and was built in 1893.
• Most important studies of Mathematics like calculus, trigonometry and algebra were originated in India.
• Taj Mahal which is among the seven wonders of the world is in India. Taj Mahal was built over a long period of 11 years.
• India has the most number of post offices in the world.

Also a brief Video to Introduce the country where I am born and a proud citizen - India

Happy Republic Day!!!!

Information Courtesy - Fun Facts India

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The load or the “Over”load of Emails….

The picture tells us much more than the words, and one such picture is below. This show a battle that we take every morning when we switch into the world of information through the button known as the INBOX.

Booommmmmm……We are loaded or rather overloaded with very important or termed as very important mails that make us feel ineffective to manage ourselves. And somehow this inability to effectively manage communication means lost information, and reduced responsiveness. For some its a negative outcomes for both individuals and corporate productivity.
Email is one of the most successful computer application yet devised. However, interestingly, email applications were originally designed for asynchronous communication, but we all know, email has evolved to a point where it is now used for multiple purpose: document delivery and archiving; work task delegation; and task tracking. It is also used for storing personal names and addresses,, for sending reminders, asking for assistance, scheduling appointments, and for handling technical support queries. We use the term email overload to describe the use of email for function that it was not designed for.
And, one more thing it does the best for few people – it just simply takes a very large portion of their actual productive time.
Nick Mehta rightly argues in his article – “4 Reasons that why email overload is our own fault”, that the problems we have with email aren’t about the technology at all — they are about us. So we’d better own up to our core issues, because they’ll follow us no matter which communication medium we use.

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1. Loneliness

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It’s Saturday morning in your neighborhood, and you’re in line at Starbucks with your family. Why are you checking email on your iPhone?
As much as emails can be annoying, they do make us feel important. Someone wants to talk to us. Remember the Peanuts specials when Charlie Brown would go to his mailbox every day to see if someone sent him a letter?

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2. Vanity

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Although we’ve all been faced with colleagues who use the “CC” option far too often, are we blameless ourselves?
Perhaps we just want to demonstrate that we’re actually getting things done, or that we are indeed in the know about what’s going on. Whatever the reason, do we consider the effect our message will have on the recipients before thoughtlessly adding to the CC line?

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3. Paranoia

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And then there’s paranoia.
“I don’t want to be left out.”
“Why was I not copied on that email that I should have known about?”
This aversion to missing out on conversations others are having reinforces our CC addiction.

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4. False Productivity

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Often, email can be a mindless activity. Answering it gives you quick gratification.
Writing back to people with “thanks” and “great job” is much easier than creating something original from scratch. It’s a way to “get things done” without actually doing anything. This false productivity can be consuming and drain time away from things that actually matter.
But, then we also need to understand on how actually we can handle or battle with tons of mails that we receive daily. I am sharing few simple yet magical practices that I would have loved to put my name on, but I am glad that these practices are coming from someone who easily get over 000’s of mail daily. Yes, you read it correct.
It works for him, and it magically worked for me as my unread mails plummet from over 100’s to less than 5 at any given point of time. So here is the magic.

• Color code my inbox automatically. Messages sent just to me show up in red (because someone likely wants a response), messages sent to me and someone else on the To: line are colored green (likely a bit less important), messages for which I am only on the CC: line are colored in blue, and messages for which I am not on the addressee list (because it is a distribution list) are colored in black.  This way, I can focus in on messages that are possibly (but not always) the most important first
• Make use of macros / quick steps in Outlook.  For example, I can respond to a customer complaint and have it logged with the right people in support organization with a single click.
• Use “unread” marks as my primary organizer. If I have dealt with a message, it is left as read. If I have not read or dealt with a message, it remains unread. From all of my devices, I then only look at unread messages
• I try to clear or minimize my inbox every day no matter what.  At the end of a day, there are typically fewer than 10 unread messages (and typically those are heavier messages that are best dealt with after a good night’s sleep)
• I do not do any filing of email messages. I just let them accumulate in my inbox, and archive them once a quarter.  I use full text searching to find all messages that I need to find, and don’t waste anytime with the filing.
• I use Conversation View, so that related messages are all clustered together.
• Create a threshold or limit of unread mails. If its 5, 6, 7 or 10 don’t let it go beyond it.

Equally, you can use tools like Xobni that enables effective  email management and links to social presence of sender.

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The Story Behind BATMAN: Rejection, Perseverance, Pave the Path to $2.6 Billion Film Franchise

My mentor, teacher and PR Guru Steve Kayser shares a great story behind the popular franchise of what we know as – The Batman. Though, I can’t stop to add about my favorite character -the Joker in “The Dark Knight” who seems to me had agreed to the Devil’s Deal.

He did the best ever performance, and many known to me just went to watch him playing the Joker. For me, well he was the one who shouldn’t have waited for the final call of the Oscar but should have started reading the winning speech at the time of Nominations itself.  He was the best ever who played the role. But then devil who agreed to give him that success quietly took him away with his unfortunate demise.

But then all this characters could have seen the light at celluloid had it been not for the the dream or more importantly the determination to fulfill the dream by a person known as Mr. Michael Uslan.

He’s generated $2.6 billion in worldwide box office grosses, countless millions in toy and merchandise sales and survived not one, but two battles with a homicidal maniac.

What’s more, he’s not done yet.

Batman is one of the world’s most dependable film properties, with even the worst entry in the franchise’s history still charting $238 million in receipts.

As the trailer for the next installment of the franchise, The Dark Knight Rises, debuts online and with the release of the blockbuster Harry Potter film conclusion, millions have already started the countdown until July 2012, when the new film opens.

But if it weren’t for the perseverance of one man who toiled nearly 10 years to make the franchise’s first entry in 1989, it would not have happened at all.

“When I bought the film rights to Batman in 1977, no one wanted to make a Batman movie,”said Michael Uslan, executive producer – along with partner Benjamin Melnicker — of the modern Batman film franchise.

“Well, not a good one, anyway. First, the president of DC Comics tried to convince me not to buy the film rights. He told me that no one wanted to make a Batman movie, but I made the deal, anyway. Who knew that he was actually on the money?

I was rejected by every studio in town, multiple times, before I was able to convince people that Batman would be viable as a serious interpretation and not as a comedy.”

Uslan was the executive producer of films such as Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Constantine, The Spirit, Batman Begins, and the second highest grossing film of all time, The Dark Knight. As a producer, he is one of the highest-grossing movie producers of all time, with The Dark Knight alone having already passed the $1 billion mark.

With all that success – you might think it was easy.  Not.  Uslan was shut down early and often by studio heads, for seemingly ridiculous reasons, too.

“Most of the studio executives I pitched swore up and down that Batman could never work as a movie,” said Uslan, who tells the story in his new memoir The Boy Who Loved Batman.

“One complained that it wouldn’t make money because Annie – the musical version of Little Orphan Annie – didn’t make money. I asked him what Annie had to do with Batman, and he replied, ‘Oh come on, Michael, they’re both from the funny pages.’

One guy even told me that Batman and Robin wouldn’t work because a Sean Connery movie about an aging Robin Hood and Maid Marian – called Robin and Marian – didn’t work. I didn’t bother to press him, but I’m assuming he felt that having the name ‘Robin’ in the title was somehow box office poison. At the end of the day, it was clear that the studio bosses in the 1970s and 1980s felt that comic books weren’t worthy of being translated into movies. Their view was that comic books were just cheap, disposable entertainment for kids.”

Of course, since 1989’s Batman, comic books have been rich fodder for studios, with Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man and others bringing in billions of dollars in box office and licensing revenue.

“What we showed with Batman was that you could make a good, dark and serious comic book movie,” Uslan said.

“What we proved with the Dark Knight was that we could use comic book-based material to transcend the genre and simply make a good movie, period.

The bottom line is that Batman changed the industry, and if I didn’t bloody my knuckles for close to ten years on doors that were repeatedly slammed in my face, comic book related films might not be enjoying the success they are having today.”

Rejection. Perseverance. Bloody knuckles. That’s what it takes to succeed when you believe in your vision – and yourself.

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How Cloud Computing And ERP Mobility Are Reordering Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ERP

A good friend of mine recently became CIO of a financial services firm and was given his first major project last month: make the complete accounting, financial, and loan provider data and applications available 24/7 on any iPad or Android-based tablet from any office, at any time.

The majority of loan provider applications are cloud-based and his company is running NetSuite.  His corporate office is in Asia and cloud-based applications made it possible for the company to launch and operate in California within months.   He’s been given six months to transform this mobile vision into reality.

Another CIO of a major A&D manufacturer I recently visited wants vendors to challenge him more to get greater value from his investments in legacy data and ERP systems. Using ERP to run batch reports alone has nearly caused project schedules to slip, so the focus internally is on real-time system integration of project management and accounting systems.  He’s also been given the task of revamping accounting and financial systems by October, 2012, and they just started late last year.

Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ERP

Considering these two extremes in the context of the Gartner Hype Cycle for ERP (shown below) and the recent report SaaS and Cloud ERP Trends, Observations, and Performance 2011  (free for download until January 9, 2012) published by Aberdeen last month several take-aways emerge.

• CIOs are under increasing pressure in 2012 to enhance, modify even replace existing ERP systems while standardizing technology across the enterprise at the same time. The most risk-averse way around this is to add applications to single instance ERP backbone systems, with analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) being the among the most in demand.

• Cloud-based ERP in the Enterprise and Small & Medium Businesses (SMB) are accelerating along the Hype Cycle faster than Gartner indicates. Enterprises are using Cloud-based ERP systems as part of their two-tier ERP system strategies due to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and time-to-deploy advantages, and the flexibility of tailoring everything from user interfaces to workflows to their specific requirements.  Highly specialized Cloud-based ERP suites including those from Plex Systems are gaining traction due to their expertise in specific industries and the compliance-related challenges inherent within them. In SMBs, the cost and time-to-deploy are two major drivers with concerns over security being the biggest impediment to growth.  Gartner reports that they are seeing Cloud-based ERP adoption fastest in companies with fewer than 200 users overall.

• Cloud-based ERP systems most often considered in industries that have high variable costs, rapid transaction cycles and tend towards higher Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Based on the research SaaS and Cloud ERP Trends, Observations, and Performance 2011 the industries who are the most willing to consider Cloud-based ERP versus on-premise are Financial Services (22% SaaS versus 44% on-premise); Healthcare (42% SaaS versus 58% on-premise); and Professional Services (56% SaaS versus 58% on-premise).

• Large companies (over $500M in annual revenue) using Cloud-based ERP systems are opting for hosted deployments managed by their ERP vendor (10%) or an independent 3^rd party (11%), with just 2% relying on a SaaS platform. Aberdeen defined small organizations as those with annual sales under $50M, midsize organizations having annual sales of $50M – $500M. The following is from SaaS and Cloud ERP Trends, Observations, and Performance 2011:

• ERP mobility will be a dominant force from the shop floor to each sales call where quotes, orders and contracts deliver real-time order and pricing updates.  How a given manufacturer chooses to sell is even more important than what they sell in many industries. Equipping manufacturing, quality assurance, production scheduling, procurement and sales to have immediate data on what’s going on with orders, customers and suppliers is critical.  For the sales and service teams, real-time data is the fuel they run on.  There’s a chronic time shortage in many, many companies right now, and bringing greater ERP mobility from the shop floor to the sales call will increasingly be seen as a means to lessen the time crunch.  2012 is the year where mobility gets real across the enterprise with solid performance numbers being generated as a result.  For companies with large sales forces and service organizations, integrating to key ERP systems to gain real-time data will quickly lead to increased sales and higher gross margins on service and warranty repairs.

• Gartner predicts that by 2015 enterprises who are successfully using extreme information management strategies (Big Data) will outperform competitors in their industry sectors by 20% in every available financial metric. The following is the Priority Matrix for ERP, 2011 showing what Gartner believes to be transformational technologies and strategies in ERP.

Courtesy – Louis Columbus

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Helsinki Flash Mob - Bollywood Style

How Stockmarket works…..

With the erratic behavior witnessed in the Stock Market someone shared a simple story that looks how it works.

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs. 10/-

The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at Rs. 10/- and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at Rs. 20/- This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer rate increased to Rs. 25/- and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at Rs50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at Rs35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell it to him for Rs. 50/-

The villagers squeezed up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys.

Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!!!

Welcome to the 'Stock' Market!!!!!

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I See...

A few lines that I dedicate to an old Man whom I met today who have no eyes but have a sight....who showed me the way to have a life of smiles….

I See..

People Walking

People Talking

People Mumbling 

People Crumbling

 

I See...

Kids with Dreams

Who seems to have different themes

Who are sometimes extremes

But yet seems to be in the same team

 

I See...

People with different style

Or being versatile

With A lovely Smile

I hope it’s for something worthwhile

 

I See...

I See Places

Few being dull while others have beautiful faces

With a history of traces

But moves at its own paces

 

I See...

I See rain

This tickles my brain

Takes all the pain

& life seems to have not complain

 

I See...

To feel the Wind

To unwind

To enjoy my mind

And Leave the Worries behind

 

I See...

There are many eyes

Some are surprise

Some are Happy while others have seen their cries

Some with replies while others waiting for their next sunrise

Then…I See...

A Man Old

Sitting in Cold

Having his life on Hold

While Warmth being Withhold

Seems to be a Story Unsold

I See...

He…with no eyes

Who’s vision dies

But to my surprise

He simply unceasingly smiles……

I pledge to donate my eyes soon so that when I am not there I can still see.....

I See...

Even if I am Dead

Through A Thread

That gets embed

In Someone's Head

I See and Will See….

 

Donate Eyes!!!!

The Social Media Revolution 2012

Coke - Reasons to Believe

Loved the New Coke Ad that highlights the reason to believe....of course there are many reasons to believe but the first think is to start believing.....

As we know......

. A small dot can stop a big sentence. But few more dots can give continuity.....

Amazing but true"every ending can be a new beginning".....

Even the most Powerful person is weaker in front of the most Happiest person in the world ". Life is a great Checker Board.

The player opposite is Time.

If u hesitate, u will be wiped off,

But if u keep moving, u may Win.

Enjoy the Ad....

Pen drive...go crazy!!!!