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A transformational and non-linear BPM based corporate loan origination process

Posted by Shobhit Mathur in

Banking, Financial Services & Insurance

Jun 12, 2013 | Total views: 64

In our introductory blog on this topic, we discussed that re-engineering your loan origination and loan approval processes can seem like a daunting task; and a well thought out methodology that helps you work with a transformation roadmap in mind is a feasible option. In our ...

Quick wins in non-linear automation and transformation of your corporate loan origination process

Posted by Shobhit Mathur in

Banking, Financial Services & Insurance

May 31, 2013 | Total views: 121

The prospect of executing a long and arduous program to fully automate corporate lending processes is daunting. However, it’s not an “All or Nothing” scenario. Business process management or BPM based solutions can be implemented in such a way that your processes retain the necessary ...

Key CPG Trends & Implications

Posted by Indy Sawhney in

Consumer Packaged Goods

May 10, 2012 | Total views: 1041

A number of factors are shaping CPG organizations worldwide. A few key trends worth mentioning are - mobile technology adoption, increased demand for brand engagement, real-time consumer advocacy, strong competition from private labels, striving for retail excellence, collaboration with customers, insourcing core and outsourcing non-core ...

Sales Baseline – The million dollar question in Trade Promotion Management

Posted by Praveen Srivatsa in

Consumer Packaged Goods

Feb 23, 2012 | Total views: 616

Over the past few years, I’ve been attending workshops with business teams on aligning business processes with Trade Promotion Management Optimization (TPM & TPO) systems. These sessions would typically lead to broad level agreements on processes across different functional areas touching finance, sales, marketing and ...

BI Trends 2013: BI Gartner event recap

Posted by Saurabh Jain in

Data & Analytic Solutions

Apr 18, 2013 | Total views: 362

A summary of the three-day Gartner BI summit on the key themes that emerged would be - Big Data High performance/ In Memory Analytics MDM So clearly, lightening did not strike at the Gartner BI summit 2013.These subjects have been the buzz for some time and would have been ...

Cognitive Dissonance and MDM Consulting

Posted by Venkataraman Ramanathan in

Data & Analytic Solutions

Nov 7, 2012 | Total views: 347

In the realm of marketing, consumer buying behavior is usually sliced and diced across the dimension that they call Cognitive Dissonance! It speaks about how a consumer tries to "justify" the purchases made due to the indecision factor that sets in after the purchase is ...

Watch out for ‘consumerism’ in your enterprise applications

Posted by Vinay Dixit in

Digital Business

May 24, 2013 | Total views: 161

I can clearly see ‘consumerism’ not limiting itself to free market economies but creeping into well-guarded enterprises as well. In many large enterprises, CIOs have made successful attempts to implement full-scale ERP systems to automate a number of business processes. But they have miserably failed ...

Networked Devices: Peculiarity of the Smart TV

Posted by Vallabh Munshi in

Digital Business

May 7, 2013 | Total views: 353

There is enough said and written about the information continuum. As an introduction to this post, I will say it again that digital services are spreading from desktop computers to mobiles, to tablets, to Smart TVs, and to any other utopian devices that exist. There are ...

Need for Public Cloud – Developers' view?

Posted by Giridhar LV in

Infrastructure Management

Jun 14, 2013 | Total views: 67

In the just concluded Microsoft Hosting Summit, I met service providers, resellers and folks from Microsoft Product teams, who make a cross section of the industry. During the conversations with them, I made sure to talk more about the use cases that VMUnify addresses, rather ...

Building a Self Service Portal

Posted by Giridhar LV in

Infrastructure Management

May 10, 2013 | Total views: 169

Self Service Portal or SSP is one of the key components in any Cloud based solution. The use case for a SSP is to enable the end-user to request a product or a service and have it delivered. A request at SSP could involve a ...

What’s in it for me? (WIIFM)

Posted by Mindtree Blog Archives in

Knowledge Management (KM)

Nov 14, 2011 | Total views: 782

How do we increase participation in communities? A good number of people join us from college campuses and a bigger number are lateral hires. This is a challenge, but also a great opportunity for us. I like to picture ourselves running up an escalator that ...

When you are an expert on something, where do you learn from?

Posted by Mindtree Blog Archives in

Knowledge Management (KM)

Oct 28, 2011 | Total views: 593

What do we do to learn? what is there to learn? - Conversations and questions. In this era of hyperspecialization, each one of us is an expert in something. Good use of the knowledge we have is dependent on adjacent knowledge and knowledge of things ...

You ain’t learn’t nothin yet – Part 2

Posted by Mindtree Blog Archives in

Leadership

Mar 13, 2013 | Total views: 275

Thank you for the excellent comments in response to my earlier blog “You Ain’t Learn’t Nothin yet”. My own views on this topic were hidden in the original blog. Some of the statements which point to my views are: The title itself, “You Ain't Learn’t Nothin ...

You ain’t learnt nothin yet

Posted by Mindtree Blog Archives in

Leadership

Mar 4, 2013 | Total views: 419

"I am bored", says a 30 year high performer in the software industry. Sounds familiar? This person has just completed the transition of a portfolio of 30 applications from the customer's environment, which was distributed across the globe, to offshore. She was the first person to ...

Micro-marketing – the three Key Principles

Posted by Manish Grover in

Marketing & Strategy

Jan 20, 2012 | Total views: 1391

Micro-marketing, which is about understanding, segmenting and targeting markets at a local level and also at an individual level is an important business analysis and planning tool. It helps to establish stronger relationships with customers and partners, boosts revenue realization and also improves operational efficiencies. ...

Digital Channels can help Marketing Entry Barriers

Posted by Manish Grover in

Marketing & Strategy

Jan 9, 2012 | Total views: 199

In this post, we look at an interesting question: How can emerging digital channels reduce marketing entry barriers? While physical barriers such as access and communication across geographic locations are often the easiest to tackle using digital channels, there are other significant challenges that product ...

Feedback: A Breakfast for Champions

Posted by Mindtree Blog Archives in

People Policies & Practices

Dec 19, 2011 | Total views: 652

Every soul is potentially divine and all of us are born genius, but some people fail to recognize the genius in them and lead a mediocre life. We live in a competitive world where collective performances drive success, happiness and emotional engagement with organizations. As ...

Agile methods in stage-gated IT environments – Barriers

Posted by Raja Bavani in

Product Engineering

Jun 5, 2013 | Total views: 148

In my previous post, I shared six reasons for adopting Agile in enterprises. In spite of those reasons, several IT organizations in North America, Europe and rest of the world have not initiated Agile adoption. Why? This is not because they have not heard or ...

Agile methods in stage-gated IT environments – Why?

Posted by Raja Bavani in

Product Engineering

May 17, 2013 | Total views: 162

I spent two weeks last month interacting with my business partners and friends about agile methods. They are curious to learn and introduce agile methods in their project portfolio. This post is to explore the reasons for their curiosity. My friends and business partners whom I ...

In Defense of Bureaucracy

Posted by Avinash Rao in

Program Management

May 14, 2013 | Total views: 194

bu•reau•cra•cy noun \byu̇-ˈrä-krə-sē, (3) a system of administration marked by officialism, red tape, and proliferation. (As per Merriam Webster) Spoiler alert: This post is likely to be controversial! Bureaucracy. The word conjures up immediate images of (perhaps typically government) paper pushers, inefficiency, and a general inability to ...

Emergent and Non-emergent Solutions and Learning

Posted by Avinash Rao in

Program Management

Apr 23, 2013 | Total views: 167

In a thoughtful comment on my last post, Anshuman pointed out that the "catalogue of available heuristics increases as one gains more experience", and is an essential component of developing mastery. I am thinking about this as I warily face off my Taekwondo sparring partner, ...

Measuring ROI of mainframe batch optimization

Posted by Ajo Paul in

Service Excellence & Methodologies

Jun 13, 2013 | Total views: 120

In our introductory blog on this topic, we discussed the primary business impacts of failing to perform mainframe batch optimization. In this blog, we will touch upon the importance of planning for, and measuring the ROI of the mainframe batch optimization methodology. Step three of the ...

Driving business agility through mainframe batch optimization

Posted by Ajo Paul in

Service Excellence & Methodologies

Jun 11, 2013 | Total views: 143

Around 80% of mission critical business applications, especially in the Insurance and Banking industries, still run on mainframe. The constantly expanding batch window is making it difficult for organizations to explore new initiatives, leverage big data and new analytical scenarios, and is thus reducing agility ...

Can we truly ensure Smart Grid security?

Posted by Girish Deshpande in

Technology Trends

Mar 5, 2012 | Total views: 500

Smart Grid is an interconnected network of smart devices and IT systems where electricity and information flow freely. This makes an electric grid more reliable. But when systems are connected to a wider network, substantial security risks are incurred. There are three main security concerns ...

Smart Grid Applications go on Cloud

Posted by Girish Deshpande in

Technology Trends

Jan 30, 2012 | Total views: 566

As Smart Grid proliferates across the world, one emerging technology trend is the adoption of technologies like SaaS and Cloud for Smart Grid applications. Many Smart Grid applications are natural candidates for these new business models and many major vendors in this sector have already ...

My interactions with customers - Future of testing

Posted by Ananda Rao Ladi in

Testing

Mar 19, 2013 | Total views: 246

Many of us spend a lot of time thinking about the future of testing. Recently, my dialogue with one of our customers on this topic engaged me extensively. The discussion focused on many trends including machines performing testing, growth in other parts of the world, ...

My Interactions with customers – Meaningful career path for testing professionals

Posted by Ananda Rao Ladi in

Testing

Nov 9, 2012 | Total views: 572

Last week was really memorable. I had a long and passionate discussion with one of our product engineering customers about providing a long-term and meaningful career path for testing professionals. Jenifer (shadowed name of the customer), with very clear thoughts, first spoke about how the career ...

Airline Customer Journey

Posted by Ajay Paul in

Travel, Hospitality & Leisure

Mar 1, 2012 | Total views: 596

“When the moments of truth go unmanaged, the quality of service regresses to mediocrity.” - Karl Albrecht / Ron Zemke Apart from American Airlines, most of the other airlines here in the US have reported profits for this past quarter. The race is on for airlines ...

For a Complete Online Booking Experience

Posted by Ajay Paul in

Travel, Hospitality & Leisure

Dec 16, 2011 | Total views: 518

Vacations and holiday seasons are just around the corner, and families are clamoring for a dream vacation. Most of us have a busy schedule and don’t have time to find the perfect vacation spot. Unfortunately, most travel decisions are made unconsciously. We simply decide without ...

Introducing the Program Management @ Mindtree blog

Posted by Avinash Rao in

Program Management

Dec 31, 2012 | Total views: 335

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Hello and welcome to Program Management @ Mindtree blog. This is a forum for program managers at Mindtree to blog about their thoughts on the discipline of program management, making the transition from a project view to a program view, significant themes, memes and issues of growth and evolving discipline.

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