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Role of Spirituality in an
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-Elite Talks by Vivek Bhatnagar
Animesh Agrawal
Editor – “DoMination”
(Department of Management Studies, IIT-Roorkee.)
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Management Consultancy
Elite-Talks Special by IIT-R Alumni
Business Development Manager 9
for YAHOO(US).
Hocus-Focus
Event, you just can’t afford to miss out
realization by working and making others work comprise of an analysis of existing situation. It
accordingly. Organization skill has many also includes a consideration of past and
food habits, physical labor and periods of rest without any loss of time. For improvement in
provide one the benefits of a long and and future, an assessment is also to be made of the
healthy life. Man is expected to appreciate the requirements of additional inputs and the
significance of this skill and develop and utilize actions required to make arrangements for
this unusual gift of nature. them. Organization is the name for this totality
of conceptual analysis irrespective of the
Being competent is not important unless purpose for which it is carried out. Physical
one is able to utilize the competence health and mental health are two significant
judiciously. The stick in a matchbox has a foundations of competences. One is, therefore,
tremendous potential for ignition, but only advised to be as vigilant about them as is
those can light it who know the process of necessary for operation and eradicating faults
lightening. In absence of an organized system, in any multi product industry.
in spite of availability of all logistics, rather
A manager must not have traits of strong The art of living is like managing a big
likes or dislikes. It is better to follow the middle commercial establishment. Only those persons
course. Whenever one deviates from this succeed in appropriate utilization of life and get
moderation of civility, and adopts extreme increasing returns, who take recourse to
attitudes, one becomes exposed to undesirable detailed planning, pragmatic approach and
pressures. By avoiding this weakness one can systematic organization. Only those individuals
easily escape many embarrassing situations. It who have the wisdom to shape their life styles
is neither desirable to become disturbed or by properly channelizing their time, energy,
agitated under unfavorable circumstances nor mental faculties and talents in the right
it is good to boast in the event of achievement, direction by meticulous planning, are
however significant they may be. Only on acclaimed by the world. An efficient manager
developing such a poise, one succeeds in learns to organize one’s own personal affairs
finding means for counteracting adversities and and utilizes the experience so gained for
making circumstances favorable with renewed management of other persons and their
vigor. An excited person loses sense of assignments. This in fact is the acid test of
reasoning and aggravates the misery by organizational skill, which every aspirant has to
irresponsible behavior and actions. undergo.
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The end user or the enterprise that uses 1. Optimal Use of resources for IT
cloud computing system, interacts with the implementation: The enterprise doesn’t require
to own the entire IT setup. Non critical IT
cloud via a service interface and further details
activities are shifted to the cloud saving cost.
of the cloud are immaterial to the end user. The 2. Tackling fluctuating and unpredictable load
enterprise is charged on a per use basis that patterns: Cloud computing allows enterprises
could be measured by time for which the to have additional infrastructure and
service is used or bytes (payloads) that are computing power as and when required. This
reduces cost of having excessive capacities
transferred , modified or consumed or by any
throughout the operating cycle. These
other agreement between the enterprise and resources are surrendered back when the load
the cloud provider. reduces.
3. Decoupling of strategic business
Broadly speaking cloud computing can be
applications and infrastructure needed to run it
implemented using following two models leads to higher specialization in both the
1. Public cloud business model :In this model domains.
large number of enterprises with varied needs 4. Reduced Risk : A start-up or a company
share the cloud infrastructure. Cloud vendors venturing into new Line of Business can dilute
increase profits by maximizing utilization of the risk of failure in IT applications by using
resources, attracting and retainingas many cloud computing.
customers as possible ,maintaining appropriate 5. Reduced time to respond to IT needs of a
service levels. organisation.
Find the business application of
2. Private cloud business model : Private virtualization and cloud computing in the
clouds generally cater to a group of enterprises coming issues along with other contemporary
with almost same IT needs. A group of such technology updates.
enterprises may be served better by private
business model by implementing required level
of customisation.
Now let’s look at the various advantages that
this IT provisioning model has
Management Consulting
Elite-Talks
Vivek Bhatnagar,
B.E. (Metallurgy), Batch of 1998, IIT Roorkee.
After passing from IIT Roorkee he joined Telco in Pune and worked there for 2 years. Thereafter, he
did his MBA from US in 2002. During his MBA he was pretty much aware that he has to join some
company in the field of management consulting. He worked in various management consulting
companies till 2006. For past 3 years, he has been working as the Business Development Manager for
YAHOO(US).
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Animesh Agrawal:
ani85pdm@iitr.ernet.in, animeshagr@gmail.com,
Department Mobile: 09368090764
of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee