People Matters

Building a Brand-led Organization: The Spice Experience

By A.V.K MOHAN

Oct 2nd 2011

Reputation is a result of one’s actions. All grand visions and strategies have to manifest in the thoughts, attitudes, behaviors, skills and capacity to ensure that customers experience the DNA and what the company stands for.In a fundamental sense, organization building process entails building predictability around demand generation, business sustenance and financial performance. While creating wealth is the primary purpose, the difference between an organization and winning a lottery ... Read more »

Learn-ability Matters Effectiveness of Learning Initiatives

By Linnet Furtado & Jithesh Anand

Mar 2nd 2010

LEARNING IS A TREASURE THAT WILL FOLLOW ITS OWNER EVERYWHERE - CHINESE PROVERBIf you travel forward in time and peer at an organization 10 years hence (something we like to call ‘Organization version 2.0’) and you look at how workplace learning is being supported by that organization, what will you see? …• Firstly, in organization 2.0, a large proportion of employees work from home, thanks to technologies such as Cisco TelePresence. • Secondly, most learning is p... Read more »

Aligning an organization to success

Jan 12th 2010

HR products have come a long way in the last few years. Balaji Ganesh, CEO, Adrenalin eSystems Limited, Polaris Group, talks to People Matters on how HR Products not only standardize processes but even help in uniting the growth vision of the organizationTo begin with, tell us about your professional journey.I’ve been in the technology industry for the last 25 years and with the Polaris Group for 7 years now. I am a CA by qualification, but I started my career with an IT company, mostly ... Read more »

Sky No Limit

By Dilip Mohapatra

Nov 4th 2009

Though people try to envisage corporate values in many forms, they simply are the ‘operating system’ of the organization. “Corporate values create stakeholder values and are the bedrock of growth and progress towards building the great organizations of the future,” says Dilip Mohapatra, Vice President, Suzlon Energy Ltd.As a kid, when I first read the story of Jack and the Bean Stalk, I was more intrigued by the stupendous growth of the stalk than Jack’s encounter... Read more »

Preparing For Economic Recovery

By Deepak Malkani & Sunil Kumar

Nov 4th 2009

In a recently published survey by National Association of Business Econo-mists in the US, 80% of the respondents believe “the recession is over”.Companies have expended a great deal of emotional and financial energy in recent months focusing on the most pressing issues of the economic downturn. As they look to an eventual turnaround, business leaders are going to have to dig deep into their energy reserves to prepare their companies for growth as the economy recovers.Our research s... Read more »

Designing & Deploying a Successful organization: Critical Success Factors

By Nitin Razdan & Arvind Pandit

Sep 1st 2009

The concept of organization design is simple in theory but highly complex in practice. Like any strategic decision, it involves making multiple trade-offs before choosing what is best suited to a business context.Many business houses spend months of management time trying to design the perfect organizational structure. However, they often forget to answer one simple question, which is on every employee’s mind: WIIFM or “What’s in it for me?” A change in organization de... Read more »

When Change Beckons

By NS Rajan

Sep 1st 2009

Organizations like organisms evolve continuously; the success of an organization depends on this evolution and the effectiveness with which it can manage the change that comes with it. Change may be looming on the horizon due to business transitions impacted by strategic mergers, joint ventures, divestitures, expansions, new business solutions, infusion of technology, market changes, financial downturns, compelling competitive scenarios, new opportunities or even a new dimension of growth. &ld... Read more »

PSUs Energizing Change

By Rahul Singh

Sep 1st 2009

In 1954, when the then Prime Minister, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, inaugurated the Bhakra Nangal dam, he christened it as the Temple of Modern India. As the stream of water gushed into the large towering pillars of the dam, it signified that the Indian economy too is bound to gain momentum in rapid industrialization. And so were born Nehru’s Temples of Modern India -- public sector undertakings (PSUs) that took the onus of making India a self-sufficient nation. Today, India Inc. proudly boasts... Read more »

Small is Beautiful

Sep 1st 2009

Even as big corporate houses and multinationals harp on the importance of resourceful people management practices, entrepreneurial ventures are not behind in transforming themselves to adapt to new leadership and management trends. Ravi Sharan, Managing Director, Artifacts India, talks about policies and practices in their small, yet professionally-run companyWhat is the difference between a CEO in an entrepreneurial organization and a corporate organization?The major difference between the tw... Read more »

Top Ten Must Do’s to make the process of change a success

By Roy Joseph

Sep 1st 2009

The only thing that has changed is the rate of change and needless to say, the human race has kept pace with this frenetic pace. The changes that have deluged the world in the last couple of years have far outstripped the changes witnessed in the last decade. These changes have evolved the human civilization and today we are reaping the benefits. Human beings, undoubtedly, are the most adaptable of creatures inhabiting our planet. However, given a chance, they too would not like to change the ... Read more »