Crisis is something that should not be wasted ...

Everyone forgets that crisis is built into the system & that there is no growth without innovation & you have no innovation without a crisis.

Every major IT firm has started as a consulting company & went public when it has started to grow. Fine, but I realised there is no innovation in this. So what would be a innovative way of starting & leading a IT consultancy ....

I guess innovation should be clubbed with traditional way of IT practising. Its often misunderstood that innovation is completely different way of doing things. So things like advising businesses that they are free to make choices about the kind of service they want to take, but also advising repurcussions that may cause, bringing in transperancy into operations will be a start.

Lot of companies follow the principle that if in doubt, do nothing & to continue with the way things are being done. This comes from the fact that any considerable change leads to panic. These issues need to be considered.

The other best thing an IT consultancy can do for a company is Co-creation, that goes a step further by inviting enthusiastic customers to partner in the evolution. Its no doubt a longer process, but definitely a healthy one in both short-term & long-term. In addition to this, if we consider forecasting, the most optimistic & pessismstic views of future for the users, we can lead a project innovatively.

So increasing the ability of a company in being transperant, to point out existing glitches and to lead change without panic for a customer, encouraging co-creation & to take into account the most favourable & adverse situations that can occur is a innovation in itself.

These are my views about how a IT project or an IT consultancy has to be carried out as on 17/08/2010. Will come back to this post if I feel, I was an amateur in writing this stuff or if I feel I have a point. So I leave it to my existing & new projects to teach me ...

God Bless ...

Randy Pausch's Last Lecture

Last week I seen few of my friends changed there Gtalk status to "R.I.P. Raundy Pausch", initially I thought he may be some pop star or a sportsmen, and did not bothered much.

The buzz keep on going on, and accidentally I came across his Last Lecture video on youtube. His life really mesmerized me.

Randy worked as a professor in Carnegie Mellon Univ and was diagonised with pancreatic cancer. He delivered his "Last Lecture " at CMU, one month after he found he only had 6 months to live.Last lecture's are ongoing series of lectures at CMU where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical "final talk," i.e., "what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?" Randy Spoke about "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams and how he worked to achieve his childhood dreams.

If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it or read the gist




Randy's story touched me deeply, he accepted fate and was extremely brave to face the reality, in his 1hour 16 mnts talk you will never see fear in his eyes,words, body language, he teached about "living" and living and having fun. what will be my last lecture, What will you do if you know you are gonna die in 6 months..n that sheer thought making me shiver.