copy pasted from my other blog...vjaykrish.blogspot.com
have alwayz wanted to maintain a diary and write up the day's events in it. perhaps my laziness and fear of others reading it prevented me from doing it. who knows ?so when i started doing this mba in uk after 3 long years of working for an IT company, i realized that life was indeed moving very fast. i was sometimes caught up thinking abt chennai and my school days in chennai. ..my thoughts seem disconnected. dont they ? i talk abt a diary and i talk abt my home country.so why should'nt i write a blog ? this way i can look at life at a later stage and re-live it by going through the same thoughts and emotions. maan, aint i stooopid ? but who cares ?i am looking forward to the clash between ind and sa tomorrow at chennai. it rains in chennai when you least want it to. it rained when i "cut" office to watch the odi between ind and nz. it rained on the 5th day when ind were well poised to win the 2nd test match against aus.maan, rain never favours india. lets see what happens tomorrow.i am sitting with the operations management book, vol-1, for 2 hrs now....and have not gone through a single chapter...when am i gonna realize the importance of time mgmt ?god save me !
Sunday 3 February 2008
Ops Management...
copy pasted from my other blog...vjaykrish.blogspot.com
so, today was the second operations management class. the class started on a very interesting note, a story about a few young hungarian soldiers, to highlight the distinction between business strategy and operations strategy.here is the story...six young hungarian soldiers decided to take time off from their camps and decided to visit the alps in the nearby country of switzerland. they made it to the mountains in the afternoon with bright sunshine. by evening, the weather worsened and it started snowing heavily and light deteriorated rapidly. they were totally lost.they were not properly clothed and werent prepared for the fickle weather and soon they were desparate to save their lives. they decided to regroup and one of them took a map from his pocket. glancing at the map they got a sense of direction and used their common sense to locate slopes in the mountains to get down finally. they located a town closeby and got into the bar and ordered beers to celebrate their victory. one of them pulled out the map which saved their lives. All of them shouted in bewilderment. it was a map of 'china'.so what does the story imply ? keep doing the things that you are good at. the 'map' is the business strategy and how you make it there is your operations strategy. so here comes the definition " Operations strategy is the total pattern of decisions which shape the long term capabilities of any type of operation and their contribution to the overall strategy"does the story convey what it is supposed to ? what role did the map play in saving the men's lives ? sometimes just knowing that you have something up your sleeve does give you confidence, or doesnt it ? the story indeed is food for thought.
so, today was the second operations management class. the class started on a very interesting note, a story about a few young hungarian soldiers, to highlight the distinction between business strategy and operations strategy.here is the story...six young hungarian soldiers decided to take time off from their camps and decided to visit the alps in the nearby country of switzerland. they made it to the mountains in the afternoon with bright sunshine. by evening, the weather worsened and it started snowing heavily and light deteriorated rapidly. they were totally lost.they were not properly clothed and werent prepared for the fickle weather and soon they were desparate to save their lives. they decided to regroup and one of them took a map from his pocket. glancing at the map they got a sense of direction and used their common sense to locate slopes in the mountains to get down finally. they located a town closeby and got into the bar and ordered beers to celebrate their victory. one of them pulled out the map which saved their lives. All of them shouted in bewilderment. it was a map of 'china'.so what does the story imply ? keep doing the things that you are good at. the 'map' is the business strategy and how you make it there is your operations strategy. so here comes the definition " Operations strategy is the total pattern of decisions which shape the long term capabilities of any type of operation and their contribution to the overall strategy"does the story convey what it is supposed to ? what role did the map play in saving the men's lives ? sometimes just knowing that you have something up your sleeve does give you confidence, or doesnt it ? the story indeed is food for thought.
Sunday on a saturday !
After much deliberation, we decided to watch the movie which many critics deemed 'ordinary'. The movie boasted of an impressive star cast with some of the best contemporary actors in hindi cinema like Ajay Devgan, Irfan Khan and Arshad Warsi.
Yes, we saw 'Sunday' on a cold Saturday night and to be frank, the movie was quite entertaining and not as bad as people (read reviewers) made us believe. I heard from my telugu speaking friends that this was a remake of telugu hit movie 'anukokunda okka roju'.
The movie starts off introducing the 'plump' Ayesha Takia (yes, she looks fat) dubbing in different voices for an animated movie. Ajay Devgan is a corrupt police officer (or an efficient police officer who accepts bribes?). Arshad Warsi and Irfan Khan also get decent introductions and enough sequences in the film to make their presence felt.
The movie's plot is something like this. Ayesha Takia gets harrassed in pub/discotheque (or whatever) by a couple of blokes who mix a drug in her drink. She looses her consciousness and a day from her calendar. She fails to remember what happened to her on the Sunday and everybody in the movie get linked together as they are involved in the events that happened on the Sunday.
The movie has its funny moments and can defnitely get you to smile (if not laugh). The movie does have it's cliches and the unnecessary action sequences though. The revelation was however the assistant to Ajay Devgan who does have a good comic sense.
The movie has it's fair share of suspense too and can keep you hooked till the last scene. The songs are good, if not great, and the makers have ensured that the songs arent that long. The climax song could have been picturised better. The whole movie is shot in Delhi and one wonders if the capital is as good as the movie shows it to be.
Finally, this is a decent entertainer and was worth the time and energy spent in getting to cineworld in bad weather. It is defnitely a much better movie than 'Welcome', which went on to become a hit.
Yes, we saw 'Sunday' on a cold Saturday night and to be frank, the movie was quite entertaining and not as bad as people (read reviewers) made us believe. I heard from my telugu speaking friends that this was a remake of telugu hit movie 'anukokunda okka roju'.
The movie starts off introducing the 'plump' Ayesha Takia (yes, she looks fat) dubbing in different voices for an animated movie. Ajay Devgan is a corrupt police officer (or an efficient police officer who accepts bribes?). Arshad Warsi and Irfan Khan also get decent introductions and enough sequences in the film to make their presence felt.
The movie's plot is something like this. Ayesha Takia gets harrassed in pub/discotheque (or whatever) by a couple of blokes who mix a drug in her drink. She looses her consciousness and a day from her calendar. She fails to remember what happened to her on the Sunday and everybody in the movie get linked together as they are involved in the events that happened on the Sunday.
The movie has its funny moments and can defnitely get you to smile (if not laugh). The movie does have it's cliches and the unnecessary action sequences though. The revelation was however the assistant to Ajay Devgan who does have a good comic sense.
The movie has it's fair share of suspense too and can keep you hooked till the last scene. The songs are good, if not great, and the makers have ensured that the songs arent that long. The climax song could have been picturised better. The whole movie is shot in Delhi and one wonders if the capital is as good as the movie shows it to be.
Finally, this is a decent entertainer and was worth the time and energy spent in getting to cineworld in bad weather. It is defnitely a much better movie than 'Welcome', which went on to become a hit.
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