Showing posts with label Top 500. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Top 500. Show all posts

January 24, 2025

Principles of Innovation

2025 India National Productivity Week - 12 - 18 February Theme - From Ideas to Impact: Protecting Intellectual Property for Competitive Startups.

The theme for Productivity Week 2025 provides a crucial platform to address the interconnected challenges and opportunities related to innovation, intellectual property (IP), and productivity within the Indian startup ecosystem.

For industrial engineers innovation and productivity are important themes to focus on. IEs have to organize events, participate in the event actively and promote industrial engineering as the department, function and discipline to promote productivity through innovation.

I am collecting background material to support industrial engineers in preparing for the events of the week.

Background Material - 2025 India National Productivity Week - February 12- 18, Theme - From Ideas to Impact: Protecting Intellectual Property for Competitive Startups.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2025/01/background-material-2025-india-national.html



Principles of Innovation

Innovation is the process of creating new ideas and turning them into new business value.



1. Innovation is essential to survival, and all innovation is strategic.



Through innovation organizations create their own futures,  Hence, the development of a highly productive innovation capability is one of the most important strategic priorities for any organization. At the same time, all innovation that is commercialisation  must be guided by strategic priorities and
intentions.


2. There are four types of innovation: incremental improvements to products, technological, business and management processes and business models, breakthrough products & technologies, new business models, and new ventures.


Organizations have to make efforts in each of the four types in appropriate proportion.


3. The longer you wait to begin innovating, the worse things will get.


The lack of innovation can significantly diminish their future prospects. The competition isn’t
waiting, and if you are late, you are up against bigger barriers.


4. Innovation is a social art; it happens when people interact with one another.


People drive creative ideas, inventions and  innovations.  Hence they are the core of any innovation process. Their insights, concerns, and desires shape the pursuit of new ideas and the countless decisions to be made in the process of transforming these ideas into value. Consequently, managing innovation involves  managing people's participation in creative idea generation, evaluation and development of prototypes. 

5. Innovation without methodology is just luck.



You have to develop and apply right  methodologies, to make the shift from luck to consistency, predictability, and sustainability. Without the right innovation methodology you’re risking far too much - you’re risking your future.

6. All four strategic innovation viewpoints are critical to success.


 The  innovation methodology has to leverage all four viewpoints: Top-down, Bottom-up, Outside-in, and Peer-to-peer.

7. Great innovations begin with great ideas; to find them, identify unknown and unmet needs.


There are dozens of tools that you can apply to come up with new ideas.

8. Ready, Aim, Aim, Aim, Fire.


Effective innovation requires very careful targeting. Why? Because there are so many possibilities to chase that you have to make sure you’re going after the right ones. Besides which, innovation is expensive both in terms of cash and time, and good aiming enables you to use your resources wisely.


9. Prototype rapidly to accelerate learning.


The goal of any innovation process is to come up with the best ideas and get them into market as quickly as possible. Innovation process has  learning component, and learning faster has enormous advantages. Prototyping effectively condenses the learning process. Rapid prototyping is therefore central to most forms of effective innovation methodology.

Prototyping is converting the verbal idea into more concrete form. It can even be a drawing to start with and can go up to a working model. It can be a pilot plant if it is a production system. Ideas mature as various levels of prototypes of being made. Many others also contribute their knowledge (information, theory and experience) in the process.

10. There is no innovation without leadership.


The organizational hierarchy has tremendous influence on the culture of any company, on its ways of working, and the results it achieves. Top managers can be powerful champions of innovation. It’s up to leaders to ensure that their words and their actions support and enhance innovation efforts and methods, and that at the same time they work diligently to eliminate the many obstacles that otherwise impede or even crush both creativity and innovation.


From Permanent Innovation - Langdon Morris

Permanent Innovation

The Definitive Guide to the Principles, Strategies, and Methods of  Successful Innovators

Langdon Morris

Langdon Morris is a co-founder and principal of InnovationLabs LLC and Senior Practice Scholar at the Ackoff Center of the University of Pennsylvania and Senior Fellow of the Economic Opportunities Program of the Aspen Institute.
http://www.innovationlabs.com/publications/  You can download the book after giving your email from the page.


Some Additional Points on Innovation from the book  "Permanent Innovation"


Creativity is a behavioral or cognitive process whose outputs are ideas. Innovation is an entrepreneurial or managerial process whose outputs are products and services.

Ideas are the raw materials of innovation.

A study at Dupont showed that it took 3000 ideas to attain one new business idea that actually made an impact in the market place.

GOOGLE's  9 PRINCIPLES OF INNOVATION


CHIEF SOCIAL EVANGELIST GOPI KALLAYIL SPELLED OUT THE TECH GIANT'S SUCCESS RECIPE.


_______________

_______________

1. INNOVATION COMES FROM ANYWHERE
2. FOCUS ON THE USER.
3. AIM TO BE TEN TIMES BETTER
4. BET ON TECHNICAL INSIGHTS
5. SHIP AND ITERATE
6. GIVE EMPLOYEES 20 PERCENT TIME
7. DEFAULT TO OPEN PROCESSES
8. FAIL WELL
9. HAVE A MISSION THAT MATTERS
http://www.fastcompany.com/3021956/how-to-be-a-success-at-everything/googles-nine-principles-of-innovation

Marissa Mayer in 2008 with Google gave a similar but some different principles
http://www.innovationmanagement.se/imtool-articles/marissa-mayer-on-googles-nine-principles-of-innovation/


Principles of Innovation - National Association for Healthcare Quality


1. Make innovation a part of the culture.
• Innovation has to be part of our culture. Organizations must encourge and make  continuous improvement and innovation a part of the routine.

2. Take risks.
• 96% of innovations fail (Doblin Group).
Organizations must be willing  take this high  risk and be ready to fail many time in order to
learn and come out with an innovation which ultimately leads to great success.

3. Be our own critic.
 • Be honest about what research/data reveal about your organization's performance in various parameters.

4. Build the innovator group.
• Identify effective innovators in the organization and form groups with the freedom to do the thinking with special facilities.
• Encourage creativity and outside-the-box thinking. Acknowledge and encourage people who think
differently.

5. Limit constraints. Cultivate creativity.
• Ask “Why?” rather than ”Why not?” Accentuate the positive.
• Truly promote change and look for opportunities to change.
• Don’t establish too many constraints on innovation—allow and support wildly innovative ideas.

6. Awareness of future.
• Anticipate the future customer needs and quality issue that are likely to come up in delivering products and services.
• Learn from the past. Revisit what had value and why.

7. Diminish risk by allowing for adequate time.
• Move fast-selecting/implementing innovations. Time spent researching and vetting every possible
outcome can help reduce significant risk.



Criteria for Innovation Evaluation



1. Lead the customer to a superior alternative.
• Give them what they don’t yet know they need by anticipating future needs.

2. Maintain focus.
• Aim for depth (execute a few ideas for programs/products expertly) rather than breadth (attempting to accomplish too much, leading to ineffectiveness).
• Align innovations with strengths.

3. Add measurable value
• Consider and implement ideas that have the potential to produce revenue.
• New programs and products should increase participation and membership (value-added outcomes).

4. Think differently. Execute differently.
• Make minor or major changes to fit current needs.
• Consider new constructs and models not previously implemented in healthcare organizations. It can be a product, process, or program.

5. Keep the customer in mind. • Design programs and products with the voice of the customer in mind, making sure to include testing.

6. Strive to create win-win situation.
• Develop new ways to collaborate and cooperate with states or other associations while improving national products/programs while including key stakeholders early in the process.
• Create a win-win situation for NAHQ and its customers.
http://www.nahq.org/uploads/2012_NAHQ_Principles_of_Innovation_August_22_2012Final.pdf


Innovation Related Articles in this blog


Innovation - Strategic Issues and Methodology
https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2014/11/innovation-strategic-issues-and.html

Idea Generation in Organizations
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2014/11/idea-generation-in-organizations.html

The Eureka Factor - Creative Insights and the Brain

John Kounios, Mark Beeman
Random House, 09-Apr-2015 - Psychology - 288 pages

Where do great ideas come from?
What actually happens in your brain during a ‘Eureka’ moment?
How can we have more of them?


John Kounios and Mark Beeman, leading experts on the neural bases of insight and creative thinking, have conducted pioneering neuroimaging research examining brain activity at and before these moments of clarity. In The Eureka Factor they reveal exactly how sudden insights are formed in the brain, how we can increase our chances of generating them, and how they impact our thinking.

Helping to unlock the mechanisms behind intuitive flashes and inspiration, this ground-breaking account not only explains the science of insight, but also describes the keys to innovation and creativity.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=K2F-BAAAQBAJ

8 Pillars of Innovation - Article by Susan Wojcicki - VP Advertising of Google
July 2011
https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/articles/8-pillars-of-innovation.html




More articles on principles of innovation

https://landor.com/thinking/eight-principles-of-innovation


Robert O'Keefe, (2013) "Applying Principles of Innovation to Curriculum Revision", International Journal of Innovation Science, Vol. 5 Issue: 3, pp.173-178.

This paper expresses the  view that principles and concepts traditionally identified with Industrial Innovation can be productively applied to activities that are related to the creation of new courses and to the revisions of existing courses that comprise academic programs.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1260/1757-2223.5.3.173?journalCode=ijis


https://www.salesforce.com/hub/business/the-six-principles-driving-innovation/


MBA Core Management Knowledge - One Year Revision Schedule

Updated 25.12025,   25 May 2019, 29 November 2017, 29 November 2014






Posted by at 4:09 PM 1 comments
Labels: ,

December 20, 2024

Project Management - Introduction - Revision Article

Based on Meredith and Mantel Book

Definition: The Project Management Institute has defined a project as "A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service."

Program refers to an exceptionally large, long-range objective that is broken down into a set of projects. The projects are divided into tasks. Tasks are further broken down into work packages. Work packages contain work units.

Project Management - Definition and Objectives



In the past several decades many organizations are using project management as a basis to achieve the objectives of the organzation. Project management approach is providing organizations with powerful tools that improve the ability to plan, implement, and control activities as the utilization of resources.

The development of the techniques and practices of project management were developed more in the military organization. Meredith and Mantel give credit to government and military organizations for developing project management approach.

The three project objectives are stated as performance (scope), time and cost.

Definition: The Project Management Institute has defined a project as "A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service"

Distinction Between Program, Project, Task and Work Packages: The military is the source of these terms. Program refers to an excetionally large, long-range objective that is broken down into a set of projects. The projects are divided into tasks. Tasks are further broken down into work packages. Work packages contain work units.

Attributes That Characterise A Project:



Purpose: A project has a well-defined set of desired end results.

Life cycle: Project will have slow beginning, size gets buildup. Peaks, then declines and has to be terminated on some day. Either it is handed to the client or it is phased into the normal, ongoing operations of their organization itself.

Interdependencies: A project has relations with other project being undertaken by the organization for various facilities. It also will have relations with various functions of the organization like marketing, accounting, finance, human resoures management etc.

Uniqueness: every project being a one time activity has some elements that are unique. Project managers will have many exceptions or new issues that crop up that they have to manage.

Conflict: Projects compete with other projects as well as requirements of various functional departments of the organization for resources and personnel. Also, project managers have to manage the conflict between the demands of the client for more and features and changes, parent organization for profit, some demands made by public where the project is located, and the project employees’ demands.

Why Project Management?



Project management focuses the responsibility and authority for the attainment of the goals of the project on an individual or small group. The project form of organization allows the manager to be responsive to:
1. the client
2. environment
3. identify problems at an early and correct them in a timely fashion.
4. ensures that managers of the separate tasks or activities of a project do not optimize their individual tasks at the expense of the total project. Suboptimization is avoided.
The Structure of the Textbook by Meredith and Mantel
It begins with the creative idea that launches most projects and end with termination of the project. The authors wrote in the 5th edition that creation of initial concept of the project was universally ignored in books project management. In their book , Meredith and Mantel included two appendices on topics creativity and idea generation and technological forecasting. In the 5th edition they moved these topics from the textbook to internet. The appendices are now available in http://www.wiley.com/college/projectmgt/


12 Vital Rules for Project Managers



1. You have to understand the project purpose and context.
2. You need to identify the stakeholders in the project and understand their wants.
3. You have to accept and use the political nature of organizations in allocation of resources.
4. You have to recognize the conflicts that are arising as the project is progressing.
5. As a project manager you need to lead from the front.
6. You have to understand what “success” means for the project every day.
7. You have to build and maintain a cohesive team.
8. Remember enthusiasm and despair are both infectious.
9. Looking forward and planning is important. One look forward is worth two looks back.
10. Always be sure of what you are trying to do.
11. Manage time – Use time carefully or it will use you.
12. Plan, plan, plan
Based on the reading given in the book “Lessons for an Accidental Profession,” by J.K. Pinto and O.P. Kharbanda, Business Horizons, March-April 1995.

------------------------
Open Access Book

https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/projectmanagementforconstructionanddeconstruction/

______________________________________________________________________________
Bibliography
Software Project Management - Summary Artlces
Chapter 1
Chapter 2 Software Lifecycle
Chapter 3 Project Planning
Chapter 4 Requirments Management
Chapter 5 Risk Management
Chapter 6 Cost Management
Chapter 7 Time and Schedule Management
Chapter 8 Measurement and Metrics
Chapter 9 Configuration Management
______________________________________________________________________________
Original post http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao/project-management-introduction/ 2utb2lsm2k7a/ 2140






Ud. 21.12.2024
Pub. 27.11.2011
Posted by at 4:47 PM 1 comments
Labels: ,

October 12, 2024

Industrial Engineering and Scientific Management in Japan

Japanese scholars and business men embraced scientific management, efficiency movement, and industrial engineering right from the inception and excelled in implementing it and reaped great rewards in economic as well as academic spheres. In the process there were many innovations in the subject on the Japanese soil.

Early Adoption of Scientific Management by Japan


Late nineteenth century Japan was a rational shopper for products, technology and organizational models[1]. Scientific management of F.W. Taylor was quickly spotted by Japanese and was translated into Japanese in 1912, within one year of its publication in USA in 1911 [1]. It is an astonishing fact that one million copies were sold to workers in a special edition for workers. Yoichi Ueno and Araki Toichiro were enthusiastic supporters. Yoichi Ueno was responsible for organizing the Industrial Efficiency Research Institute (Sngyo Noritsu Kenkyujo) in 1921.

Motion analysis techniques were used in Japanese companies in starting in 1913. Firms like Mitsubishi Electric and Nippon Electric took the lead. In the area of textiles, Kannebo and Toyobo took the initiative.

Industrial engineering was organized as a subject that increases the education and skills of workmen in Japan. Improving the education and skill of a workman is a dominant concept in Japanese industrial set up compared to the slogan of deskilling in US systems. Also, the Efficiency Research Institute was an initiative of Harmony and Cooperation Society (Kyochokai) formed in 1919 by the state and leading corporations of Japan. Industrial engineering has a more welcome environment in Japan to deliver its scientific potential.

Zenjiro Imaoka [3]  explained Industrial Engineering as a concept for improving the efficiency of production and is the driving force that brings success in mass production today. OR (Operations Research) is an approach to explore optimization using statistical figures and linear programming. Both of them are included in supply chain flow [2].  IE (industrial engineering) is a concept that was first structured as a concept to enable the improvement of production efficiency. Various scientific approaches started by Taylor were tried out to improve production efficiency by various companies. During the Civil War, the U.S. promoted the standardization of firearms and parts of munitions. As a result, the U.S. succeeded in the mass production of parts by realizing low-cost and short-lead time production. The engine of the further success of mass production was the concept of IE. IE was employed by Henry Ford for producing the Model T Ford and that was a starting point of growth for auto industry.  The base of business administration and management consulting methodology of today started with IE. We can also say that IE is a technology that combines manufacturing techniques and product technologies or it synchronizes management resources. If IT (information technology) can be used together with IE (manufacturing technologies), information and communication will be combined with production systems, leading to the efficient flow in supply chain management which resulted in supply chain innovations such as CALS, BPR, ECR, and QR.


Contribution of JMA in Promoting and Using IE and Scientific Management in Japan

Scientific Management began in 1880s and spread quickly around the world. In Japan, this concept evolved into the pursuit of efficiency, and in 1942 the Japan Management Association (JMA) was established as an organization to promote that concept, based on IE and other management methods.

JMA set three basic principles to govern all its activities.

1. Japan-oriented strategy toward efficiency.
2. Execution than vacuous theory
3. Priority basis than all-round policy



Contribution of Taichi Ohno and Shigeo Shingo

An interesting point is that Taichi Ohno did not accept the present method as the best method. He advocated that it can be improved today or tomorrow. It is only a present standard operating procedure subject to improvement today or tomorrow. He wanted every body to believe in progress and improvement of methods.



Total Productive Maintenance - Japan Management Association ( Zero Breakdowns for Elimination of  delays in material flow)













_______________________________________________________________

References

1. Oxford handbook of work and organization, OUP 2005
2. http://www.lean-manufacturing-japan.com/scm-terminology/ieor-industrial-engineering-operational-research.html
3. Zenjiro Imaoka, Understand Supply Chain Management through 100 words,
KOUGYOUCHOUSAKAI


________________________________________________________

Bibliography

Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan
By William M. Tsutsui, Princeton University Press, 2001
http://books.google.com/books/p/princeton?id=Np9Y0x-b37sC


Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan - A Review
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3024/is_2_11/ai_n28809136/

___________________________________________________________________
Related Articles

Industrial Engineering

Industrial Engineering - Articles of Narayana Rao K V S S

Total Industrial Engineering - H. Yamashina

Reviewed 3.3.2011

Originally posted on
http://knol.google.com/k/industrial-engineering-and-scientific-management-in-japan



Industrial Engineering Knowledge Revision Plan - One Year Plan


January - February - March - April - May - June






Ud. 13.10.2024
Pub. 15.12.2011
Posted by at 5:43 PM 0 comments
Labels: , ,

September 2, 2024

Systems Approach in Management



Business organizations are systems. Management of an organization can also be viewed as a system.

A system may be defined as an assemblage of objects or functions united by some interaction or interdependence. The action in one or of one causes a reaction in another.

Systems may be open loop or closed loop. In the closed-loop systems, there is a feedback of information to correct errors that are detected in output of the system. In the case of a production system, when defects are noticed by the inspectors, if the system is examined and adjusted, there is a closed loop system in operation. If simply, the rejected are thrown out and nothing else is done, the closed loop is not operating.   In management functions, control is the function that measures results and further plans are made in the light of plan-results gaps.

Also, systems can be open systems. Business organizations are open systems, they are part of industrial systems, which are parts of social systems

The effective manager must in a very real sense, be a scientific and creative designer of workable systems. Systems composed of subsystem which are run by various people and having relations. Any problem in one subsystem has an effect on other subsystem and therefore on the output of the whole system. If a task is achieved by people are made unhappy in the process, for the next task the system will be full of unhappy people who may not even listen to what the managers are saying.

Systems Thinking (Narayana Rao, 8.4.2022)


Systems thinking is the ability to find the weak element in the system that is responsible for the poor results from the system. Top down view should be able to assure that every element is designed properly and functioning properly.

Similarly, any change in any element has an effect on the system and from bottom up view, systems thinking should be able to figure it out.

When people do not have systems thinking ability they design elements wrongly and make changes to elements without understanding its impact on the system.



Kotler and Keller recommend system approach to marketing as one aspect of holistic marketing which they recommend as the appropriate concept for the 21st Century in their 14 Edition of Marketing Management.

Integrated Marketing

Entire marketing function or mix is to be treated as a system and each activity has an effect on other activities. Synergy can be created among the activities and the overall effect can be magnified when integrated marketing or systems thinking based marketing is practiced.


Management Systems


Based on Management Systems: A Viable Approach

by Maurice Yolles, 1999
Pub by Financial Times Pitman


Management can be argued as being concerned with inquiry and action.  Inquiry occurs through planning and by defining organisational mission, goals and manager aims. It subsequently results in action and involves the cybernetic processes of control and communications.

All strategies are influenced by worldviews of individuals and of groups. Each individual perceives the world in his own  way, that perception  determines how he responds to it. No doubt, the worldview is influenced by the socialization that starts with the family  and is further affected by experiences of each individual. Organizations also have unique worldviews. Worldviews are regarded as informal and are called weltanschauungen whether they belong to either an individual or a group. Some beliefs, values, attitudes, and concepts that are part of worldviews can be made more or less transparent to others. When this occurs we say that that they have been formalised, and turned into paradigms. Weltanschauungen are not transparent to others, and are informal. Worldviews are manifested as behaviour  which is a result of the interplay between weltanschauungen of those individuals or organisations and the paradigms around.



Management systems describe the process of management through the application of systems metaphors. It was initiated in the 1930s with the work of Barnard, where organisations are seen as cooperative systems. All managed organisations are seen as systems that share certain conceptual elements. These include input, process, output, and feedback. The inputs in the manufacturing firm, for instance, consist of raw materials, technical knowledge, labour, equipment, and financing, all of which are combined under managerial direction into a process that results in a finished output or product. The market acceptance of the product and resulting sales give a financial return (feedback) to the firm which reactivates the cycle. Low sales indicate that a change in the input or process is necessary to produce a more acceptable output. Through cycles such as these, organisations learn and maintain their existence.


Business systems are seen to be open to their environment. They import inputs, export outputs, and interpret the feedback they receive from the environment. What happens in the environment affects them, and as the environment changes, management must monitor the changes and adapt the organisation to the new situation.


 In the business systems, to achieve organisational goals, people must perform tasks, using technical knowledge and equipment, and they must work together in structured relationships. Human beings enter into social relationships, both formal (job-related) and informal (non-job-related) at the work place. The task of management is to coordinate all of these parts and plan future activities. It also involves decision-making and regulation of the organisational system. Managers are involved in planning, implementing, and controlling to achieve the set goals.


There are two important lessons for the manager in open systems theory of management. The first is that no organisation exists in a vacuum. The environment constrains what the manager can do, but it only offers opportunities and potentialities. Managers must be aware of and understand environmental events and trends because the organisation's well-being and even survival depend upon appropriate adaptation to change.

The second lesson of the systems approach is its stress on the interrelatedness of the parts of an organisation. Lower level managers  are often tempted to see organisational problems and activities in isolation. In an extreme case, a manager may concentrate upon the efficient functioning of his or her own department and give only secondary attention to its relationships with other parts of the organisation. Any neglect of important relationships results in some degree of inefficiency or effectiveness of the organization.


Open Systems Theory


An open system interacts with its environment. In particular, “with respect to its relations with the
environment, a system is called open that maintains exchanges with its environment - especially exchanges of matter, energy and information.

According to von Bertalanffy [1973] the theory of open systems represent generalisations of physical theory, kinetics, and thermodynamics, which led to new principles and insight. Negative feedback is one of these. It occurs when homeostatic maintenance of a characteristic state or goal is desired. It is based on circular causal chains and mechanisms monitoring and feeding back information on deviations from the state to be maintained or the goal to be achieved. Another is the idea of equifinity, where an open system has a tendency to move towards having final states that derive from different initial states and in different ways.

Adaptation is also seen as an important feature of open systems. Open systems theory recognises that systems are in dynamic relationship with their environment, and receive inputs that they transform in some way to create outputs. The open system is seen to adapt to its environment by responding to changes in the environment as well as response of environment to its output through changes in its form and processes. The open system is supposed to be in continuing interaction with its external environment and maintains homeostasis (desired state).


The terms used in Open Systems Theory


Inputs (resources): like raw materials, money, people (human resources), equipment, information, knowledge, legal authority from the environment for action.

Outputs: products, services, ideas as an outcome of organisational action; and organisation transfers its main outputs beck to the environment and uses others internally.

Technology: tools, machines, techniques for transforming recourses into outputs; techniques can be mental (e.g., exercising judgement) social, chemical, physical, mechanical, or electronic. Environment: the task environment includes all of the external organisations and conditions that are directly related to an organisation’s main operations and its technologies.

Goals and strategies: future states sought by the organisation’s dominant decision makers. Goals are desired end states, while objectives are specified targets and indicators of goal attainment. Strategies are overall routes to goals, including ways of dealing with the environment. Plans specify courses of action towards an end goal. Goals and strategies are the outcomes of conflict and negotiation among powerful parties within the outside organisation.

Behaviour and process: prevailing patterns of behaviour, interactions, and relations between groups and individuals - including corporations, conflict, coordination, communication, controlling and rewarding behaviour, influence and power relations, goal setting, information gathering, self-criticism, evaluation, group
learning.

Culture: shared norms, values, beliefs and assumptions, and the behaviour and artefacts that express these orientations - including symbols, rituals, stories, and language; norms and understanding about the nature and identity of the organisation, the way work is done, the value and possibility of changing or innovating, relations between lower and higher ranks, the nature of the environment.

Form: this is composed of structure - the enduring relations between individuals, groups, and larger units - including role assignments, grouping of positions in divisions/departments..., and process, such as standard operating procedures and human resource mechanisms.


The System Metaphor


A situation can be seen as a system if it can be associated with the accomplishment of some purpose. The system can be generically defined through the conceptualisation that is has:

1. a set of connected parts,
2. a complex whole,
3. a materially or immaterially organised body.



Purposefulness


Once a boundary has been created, we can refer to the space of rich interactions as the system domain, and that of the poor interactions as its external environment. A system may be said to be purposeful when it pursues actions that in some way relate to goals that represent purpose. Entities in the environment are seen to influence the system or its parts.

A business system takes inputs from the external environment, and in return provides it with outputs. It is thus seen as a transformer of inputs to outputs. The processes that occur to enable this are said to be purposive. The inputs are resources that may be both material or non-material and may include: raw materials, equipment, people, money, information, knowledge, and energy. The outputs may be material (like roducts), or non-material (like services).

A system can be seen as a whole with a set of parts that may be systems in their own right, when they are called subsystems. Thus the system domain will be part of the environment of the subsystem. This idea is recursive, so that subsystems can themselves have subsystems.

Within the bounds of a system, the parts form a richly interactive group that has been bounded together holistically through purpose. They are said to be synergistic. The concept of synergy means that the value of the parts of a system is greater when they work together cooperatively as a whole. As the level of cooperation reduces, so the parts begin to operate for their own independent purposes (in pursuit of their unrelated goals), and this may be contrary to the purposes of the system as a whole.

We can talk of primary and secondary purposes. For example, in dentistry, the primary purpose is patient dental health care with a secondary purpose of patient dental education. A purposeful system is task orientated through its actions. A primary task enables the primary purpose to be accomplished.


An Organised Body


A coherent situation can be modelled to have a form and as such will be seen to be
organised. An organised body is something which
:
(a) has an orderly structure
(b) has a working order,
(c) is organic.

An orderly structure occurs if the parts of a whole can be seen to have a relationship that has a meaning for the perceiver. Normally, this means that the structure has a purpose that the order is responsible for. If a coherent situation has a working order, then it is engaged in processes that occur according to some progression such that a purpose can be identified. If a coherent situation is organic, then it has a set of parts that are constituent of the whole and are coordinated within it. If an organic whole continues to exist, then coordination implies that there will be some control and communications processes at work that contribute to its continuance.

An alternative expression for an organised body is an organisation.  It may be worth noting at this point that in the literature there is some difference over the definition of organisation and structure. Social structure refers to fundamental social relationships seen to apply to: any ordered arrangement of distinguishable wholes [Frith, 1949] that represent the principles underlying social relations, and not the content. The nature of structures is that they set bounds on, or limit, possible courses of organisational action.  Thus, structure can be seen to be devoid of action, but is related to action. Action that involves the transformation of something is referred to as process, and we may therefore see that structure and process can be differentiated.

Organisation has both structures and processes. The organisation of a body has conditionality. Consider that a system is seen as a whole with a set of parts. Without constraint, any activities can occur in any of the parts, and each part can be seen as a space of potentially unlimited possible activities. But how does the purpose of the system get achieved. To achieve the purpose, the activities of parts have to limited and ti is done through the process of communication that occurs between the parts, that enables activities in one part to be related in some way to those of another and vice versa. Communication thus acts as an enabling mechanism for organisation that constrains the potential for activities in the parts so as to facilitate them to work together as whole. A whole is said to be richly connected when the parts are not easily reducible so that separate individual examination can occur without reference to the other parts. Conversely, poorly connected situations occur where the parts of the whole are highly reducible. In richly connected situations,  we would expect to find a great deal of communication.

Ashby introduces the idea that organisation can have quality by distinguishing between good and bad organisation in relativistic terms.  In defining good and bad, Ashby interprets the idea of Summerhoff
[1950] who explains that good and bad organisation is determined through: (a) the relationship between the a set of perturbations that disturbs the situation in some way, and (b) the perceived goals that the organisation is seen to be attempting to achieve. If the nature of the perturbations change, then the organisation is said to be good if it responds to the change, and bad if it does not.

Ashby has created a view of what constitutes a good or a bad organisation through a model that has become central to managerial cybernetics as it has to other fields of management theory. It has done this because it generates a satisfactory way of looking at them.  This view is consistent with much of the recent management theory literature in that it promotes the idea that it is through the institutionalisation of innovation [Drucker, 1985]  organisations have to respond to an uncertain and unpredictable environment. Innovation promotes survivability.





https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Systems_engineering.html?id=7c98AAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y

A Systems Approach to Management
G. M. Jenkins and P. V. Youle
OR
Vol. 19, Special Conference Issue: Decision-Making (Apr., 1968), pp. 5-21
Published by: Operational Research Society


Systems approaches to management Michael Jackson
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=acfKyFOuxO8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Basic Management Cycle: A Systems Approach to the Management Process
W.R. Allen
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-72/003%20Allen%20Cycle.pdf



January Month Management Knowledge Revision Plan

MBA Core Management Knowledge - One Year Revision Schedule


Updated 3.9.2024,  8.4.2022,   21 Jan 2016,   17 Sep 2015, 10 Jan 2015
Posted by at 5:30 PM 0 comments
Labels: ,

July 26, 2024

Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.- Blogger Profile - Bioknol - Knol 1 by NRAO

Prof. Dr. Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.

Blogging With Passion to Share Knowledge Acquired With Facilities of the Society with the Society.

Now offering 
Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course

NRao Blogs - Blogs of Narayana Rao

Global Top Blogs

http://nraomtr.blogspot.com
Visited by Million+ Users during 2007 to 2020
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com
Visited by 100,000+ industrial engineers during 2007 to 2020
  

Top 100 Industrial Engineering Online Articles. Top articles of  Industrial Engineering Knowledge Center  http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com

My Blog Directory


Top YouTube Video of Mine.

26.7.2024  - 51,050+ Views.
ప్రభుత్వ పాలన శాస్త్రం - పరిచయం - ప్రొఫెసర్ నారాయణ రావు
(Public Administration - Introduction in Telugu)


Industrial Engineering Principles -  #IISE 2017 Conference Presentation -  Video. 
9635+  Views. 


Updates on Blog 26.7.2024, 25.6.2020, 

Knol Platform Related Information

Bioknol

Presently Global Number One Individual English Knol Author. Global Number Two Individual Knol Author My portfolio has more than 2.7 million page view (14.4.2011) My knol portfolio reached one million page views on (15.4.2010) in Knol Statistics I am a faculty member in National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE). My post-graduation is in industrial engineering. My doctoral research thesis is in the area of capital markets. I am happy to share things that I collect for my learning, teaching and research through online platforms like knol and blogs.

Authors

  • Narayana Rao


 Knol Author Foundation Congratulates Professor Rao for Achieving 100,000 Page Views a Month through a Press release

http://www.einpresswire.com/article/557176-knol-author-foundation-congratulates-professor-rao-for-achieving-100-000-page-views-a-month-

Global Number One Individual English Knol Author

(From 3.11.2009)
Highest page views per day: 4122 page views
Highest visitors per day: 3262
Highest unique visitors 3031
(All on 14.11.2011)
Knol Page Views and Visitors - Historical Record - K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao

Member of Knol Author Foundation 

 

Knolling With Passion to Share Knowledge Acquired With Facilities of the Society with the Society.
Shifting the attention to Blogger platform to make Knol live there also further


I am a faculty member in National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE).


I did post graduation in industrial engineering and did the doctoral research work in capital markets.
"It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people and plant seed that will flower and come to fruition." - Issac Assimov.
_______________________________________________________________

Moving Some Knols to Blogs


Most of the knols will move to Annotum-Word Press site/blog.
Started new blogs. Posting some of the knols related to them there to provide a more focused content to visitors.



Book Information, Reviews and Summaries

http://nraobir.blogspot.com/

Nrao - Blogs
http://nraoblogs.blogspot.com/
Management Theory Review
Industrial Engineering Review
History and Importance of the Day
________________________________________________________________________________________

My Subject Interests

My present teaching interests are:
Knols to support my teaching

Equity Research Course at NITIE, Mumbai



Introduction to Industrial Engineering - Course at NITIE





Investment Banking Course at NITIE, Mumbai

 Narayana Rao K.V.S.S. - Knol Home Page (Contains a directory of my knols)
Knols Posted: 5000 (24.7.2011)
Page views: 3055 per day (peak), 2575 (average)

My TOP 800 Knols

___________________________________________________________________________________________

Top Knols by Page Views of Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.


50 knols with more than 6000 page views
700 knols with more than 1000 page views
800 knols with more than 800 page views                                                                 


Narayana Rao - Knol Page Views data from Google Analytics


Monthly page views crossed 100,000



12.7.2011
One million cumulative page views crossed in Google Analytics stats.

29.6.2011
Monthly visitors: 52,138 Historical record 
Monthly Page views 74,660 Historical record


Knol Page Views and Visitors - Historical Record - K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao

Narayana Rao - Internet - Online  Articles Page Views data from Google Adsense


14.4.2011
I am going to register 2 million page views in adsense count by end of this month for my online articles in my blogs and on Knol.

Two Million Page View Online Article Author - April 2011

Knol Counter Information

Weekly Page View Record: 69,556  - 23.4.2011 (Global Number One for the week)
Cumulative Page views: 2,793,950

___________________________________________________________________________________________

  • Popular Knols 1  (5000 page views and more)
    Popular Knols 2  (3000 page views to 5000)
    Popular Knols 3  (1000 page views to 3000)
    Interesting Knols (500 page views to 1000)
    Rec. Rev. Knols  (Up to 500 page views)
    Recently Posted/Created Knols - New Knols - Narayana Rao
Knol Books
List of Knol Books by Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.
List-2 of Knol Books by Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.
Recently Posted Knol Book Chapters

___________________________________________________________________________________________

New Ideas

Knol Books
Goal of Knol: Knol Authors 100,000 - Knols 1 million - Top 100 Website
Goal of Knol - Year July 2010 - July 2011
Country Knol Day

India Knol Day
India Knol Directory

Request knol authors to announce knol day of their country. Already prepared sub-directories of knols for some countries. Initiated sub-directories for more countries to help in promoting knols related to the country through knol day events and promotion.

Knol Sub-Directory - Argentina
Knol Sub-Directory - Brazil - Interesting Knols
Knol Sub-Directory - Paraguay
Knol Sub-Directory - Venezuela

Knol Days of Subjects

Knol Day of Industrial Engineering
It is a successful event. Requesting knol authors to announce knol day of their subjects.


Great Content, Ideas and Thoughts on Knol
Interesting New Knols
Trending Knols
Knol Author News - July 2010
Potential 100,000 Page View Knol Authors

_______________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
Knol Directory of Interesting Knols
Knol Author Directory

 

Knol platform has to support world days by announcing the world days sufficiently in advance and encouraging knol authors to write about various dimensions related to the issue.

World Days or International Days to Highlight Challenges


My Comment on 

http://knol.google.com/k/knol-help/general-feedback-about-the-knol-site/si57lahl1w25/204#

Encouraging publication of unpublished Ph.d Thesis
 Knol Author Recruitment - Double the Number of Knol Authors

A public online publishing platform like knol requires large number of authors who write on diverse areas and topics. Existing authors have to participate in encouraging their intellectual neighbors to write for knol. If each author can recruit one author before 30th June 2009, the author base can double.



My  knols - lists

Popular Knols - Narayana Rao K.V.S.S. - List 1 (5000 page views and more)
Popular Knols - Narayana Rao K.V.S.S. - List 2 (3000 page views and more)
Popular Knols - Narayana Rao K.V.S.S. - List 3   (1000 page views and more)
Interesting Knols  (500 page views and more)
Rec. Rev. Knols 
My Knol Projects

1. Management Knowledge Revision Knols


2. Industrial Engineering - An Important Human Engineering Discipline
I write on Industrial Engineering . My post graduation is in Industrial engineering.
I strongly believe that industrial engineering is a very useful discipline contributing to the improvement in productivity of each and every person and thus to his material well-being, comfort, safety and health. Industrial engineering is to be treated as one of the functional areas of management like marketing or finance. Like finance, whose activities spread into each and every department of an organization, industrial engineering also has application in the proceses and systems used in every function and engineers the work of persons employed in every department. Industrial engineering has enterprisewide responsibility.

According to me industrial engineering has two core areas:

1. Human Effort Engineering 
2. Systems Efficiency Engineering 

Industrial engineers aspire to be systems engineers and they have reason to aspire for it as they already have specific roles in systems design and operation and they can take up leadership of systems design process. Hence industrial engineering programs have to teach systems engineering and emphasize the management dimension of systems design. According to me the management component of industrial engineering course must concentrate on management of industrial engineering department and function, systems design management and management of objectives of industrial engineering like productivity, operator comfort, safety, health and income, and operator related quality etc.
I collected my knols in the area of industrial engineering in the knol:
Industrial Engineering - Knols of Narayana Rao K V S S
3. Investment Management
My doctoral work is on return on equity shares. My present teaching interests are in the areas Security analysis, mergers and acquisitions,  Issue of securities (Investment banking) and Management of securities market intermediaries.
Due to various reasons (Professional necessity) and interest, I studied and taught number of subjects in Natural Sciences,  Social Sciences, Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Management and I plan to write about some of the issues in these subjects over a period of time. 
I write on many subjects from Accounting to Zoology, Both accounting and zoology are important subjects for industrial engineers. While,  I am writing on many subjects, my special expertise at post-doctoral level  is in long term investment methods and strategies. In rest of the subjects, I have academic qualifications as I took number of these subjects in my undergraduate, post graduate and doctoral courses.  I write revision articles in these subjects based on some standard text books. These articles are useful to me for  revising and updating my knowledge base and I believe, there are also useful to many for their revising and updating the knowledge in these subjects. Every knowledge worker needs to revise and update his knowledge. I hope my knols facilitate this activity to some extent.
My first knol was on Focus of Industrial Engineering. My contention is that focus of Industrial Engineering is efficiency - human efficiency and system efficiency. Functional design of systems is the job of other specialists and industrial engineers make the systems efficient both at the design stage as well as later as the system is in operation. The role of industrial engineers in systems design can be that way two fold - system efficiency design  and coordinating the system design process.

Current status of my Knol Projects  

 

28.3.2010
Posted 4000 knols.
Posted 150 knol books. For these knol books around 1500 chapters are to be created.

(17th October 2010)

I posted more than 2960 knols so far.
The main theme of my knol portfolio is revision articles. 
My aim is to provide revision or review articles for graduates of industrial engineering and management so that they can refresh their knowledge periodically. My effort of writing articles in all the subjects of the curriculum is to demonstrate that by appropriate committed effort, we can retain our learning of multiple subjects over a long period of time.
Only when we retain a large number of principles and recollect them, we take decisions properly when the occasion comes. According to me we are all incurring a huge amount of cost of ignorance.
My advocacy is that knowledge workers have to make special efforts to retain, revise, refresh and update their knowledge.
I also made a directory of interesting knols and there are around 250 sub-directories supporting the main directory.
 
Security Analysis
 India - BSE Sensex Companies - Information and Equity Research
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/611
(This knol and related knols will provide information and equity research developed by my students in the subject as class assignments of their course(Jan-March 2009). This dissemination plan is as per my paper  "Independent Equity Research from Business Schools: A Possibility" published in AIMS International Journal on Management www.aims-international.org/AIJM/2-2-5.pdf).

Page Views of my Knol Portfolio

Knol Page Views and Visitors - Historical Record - K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao 
Highest page views per day: 3055 page views on 14.6.2011
(As per Google analytics data)

13.7.2011: 3602 knols, Collections 1267, Total: 4869
1.7.2011 Knols: 3516, Collections: 1227 Total: 4743, Monthly visitors 74,820

17.10.2010:  Number of knols posted 2960. Global author rank in page views: 4, Rank in number of articles posted 1 (Monthly visitors number crossed 36,000 and page view number crossed 51,000 in Google Analytics stats)
Page views on 9.6.2010: 1,151,848, Number of knols posted 2385. Global author rank in page views: 4, Rank in number of articles posted 1.
Page views on 15.4.2010: 1,001,112, Number of knols posted 2250. Global author rank in page views: 4, Rank in number of articles posted 1.
Page views on 26.1.2010: 7,20,000, weekly page views: 23,000, Number of knols posted 2002, Author rank in page views: 3, Rank in number of article 1.

Page views on 1.1.2010: 663,174; Global  Author rank in number of page views: 3, Rank in number of article 1.
Global Number One Individual English Knol Author

Page views on 3.9.2009: 2,90,996; Author rank in number of page view: 4, Rank in number of article 1.
Page Views on 13.8.2009: 2,51,483; Present author rank in number of page views: 5; Rank in number of articles 1.
Page views on 31.7.2009: 2,30,443; Present rank in number of page views: 6; Rank in number of articles: 1
Page views on 19.6.2009: 1,54,529
My page views were 68,802 on 26th February 2009
(http://knol.google.com/k/will-johnson/list-of-top-viewed-authors-on-knol/4hmquk6fx4gu/111?domain=knol.google.com&locale=en&version=30#)

 

Invitation to Visitors to get Involved

I look forward to contribution from the readers of my knols to improve them as required. Let us all utilize the wiki technology to create materials useful to us and our fellow professionals all over the world. I am intentionally creating number of open collaboration knols and moderated collaboration knols  to prompt visitors to get involved.

My Knol Directory

I am preparing a directory of my knols with subject classification to facilitate access.

The main subject directory is: 
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/article-series-directory-management/2utb2lsm2k7a/120


  

To further objective of research to practice dialogue, I started the pattern of giving relevant research papers yearwise in management concept knols. I request researchers and research scholars to add to the research papers and enrich the bibliography.

Management Concept Knol Directory aa-az
hits counter

Updated on 19 June 2020,  11 April 2020
3 May 2019

Comments

Compliments

I would like to take the opportunity of congratulating you on your brilliant result!

Sergio
Sergio Casiraghi - 23 Nov 2011
Google should donate Knol to blogger and make it Wikiblogger. Otherwise allow migration to Blogger also without collaborative writing.

But word press-annotum is good for collaborative writing.
Narayana Rao - 23 Nov 2011
Thank you for the encouragement and appreciation.
Narayana Rao - 14 Oct 2011

Thanks!

Thanks for your comments. I will certainly let you know when I complete new Knols. I have a series of knols planned.

Thanks,

Trent
Trent Tormoehlen - 28 Sep 2011

Congratulations!!!

Respected Sir,
First of all I'd like to thank you, because of you Today we have won AIMS 2010 INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGY award for KNOLs.
Congratulations to you sir, for the kind of efforts you have put in to achieve this and as a result of that the kind of reward our college have got. Congratulations once again.
Mahesh Hase - 30 Aug 2010

Friendship Day Greetings from a Fellow Knol Author and KAF member

E-Knol Greetings
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/2786#


Support India Knol Month Campaign
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s/india-knol-month-16th-july-to-15th/2utb2lsm2k7a/2717#


About Friendship Day
http://knol.google.com/k/friendship-day-first-sunday-of-august-2-august-2009#


Knol Author Foundation - English Language Author Chapter
http://knol.google.com/k/english-knol-author-foundation#

Help Knol Author Community to grow
Narayana Rao - 01 Aug 2010

Hi Narayana

Could you explain me, why a subdirectory for Venezuela.? What is the directory?
Artur Landerzon Barrera Garcia - 21 Jul 2010

Hi Mr. Rao

I am Emma from Coreventus Malaysia. My company is a business intelligence provider, where we provide conferences and training. In July 2010, we will organize a conference on Cost Reduction in Manufacturing. One of the key areas of the conference is on the execution of systems such as TPM, Lean Manufacturing and etc to help reduce cost and maximize productivity. If you are interested, do you mind sending me your e-mail address and contact number, so that i can send your the conference draft and my company profile. Your co-operation is highly appreciated. TQ
Anonymous - 06 May 2010
Thank you for the information.

About Hindi

Dear Narayan Rao ji

as I was going through the Hindi works you suggested, I wanted to point out a few things

1. Most of the Hindi articles there use a very defective Hindi. Some of them simply look like machine translations. Something should urgently be done for that.

2. I have a group of 450 people who will be collaborating with me in Hindi writing on Knol which will be launched this month. The 450 are in a google group which is promoted by http://www.Sarathi.info

सस्नेह -- शास्त्री

हिन्दी ही हिन्दुस्तान को एक सूत्र में पिरो सकती है
http://www.IndianCoins.Org
Shastri JC Philip - 17 Feb 2010
Dear Doctor

What you had written is right. Same thing is happening in English articles written by persons from various countries where English is not the main language.

In official language workshop they are encouraging people to write in Hindi without worrying too much about the correctness. That is to encourage people to start.

I think practically many of these knols will go to dustbin as they will not get many page views.

I am very happy to know that 450 people will be coming onto knol. We need more and more knol authors to make knol viable and this is a very big number. I congratulate you on the achievement.

With best regards
Narayana Rao - 17 Feb 2010
Thanks Narayan Rao ji

for your kind comments. My desire is to get into Hindi in a big way, and have been building up a list of people who wish to write.

I hope to launch it all soon!

with greetings

सस्नेह -- शास्त्री

हिन्दी ही हिन्दुस्तान को एक सूत्र में पिरो सकती है
http://www.IndianCoins.Org
Shastri JC Philip - 17 Feb 2010

Knol-Authors

Please join my group at <a href = "http://groups.google.com/group/knol-authors">Knol-Authors</a>

http://groups.google.com/group/knol-authors

Where banning of Knolians is not allowed.
Will Johnson - 16 Feb 2010
Yes I will. One more attempt at organizing and exciting knol authors is always welcome.
Narayana Rao - 16 Feb 2010

Invitation

Good Morning,

It appears we understand the vital need for wisdom in our current civilization.
http://knol.google.com/k/douglas-mckee/the-messenger-s-list/3q0xdomx5udy4/1#

I have been studying thinking as a set data processing processes for a while now and believe that perspective may yield some very useful tools and techniques to help others implement the use of wisdom in their lives.
The human brain is indeed an incredible organ but its rightful place is as our slave, not our master.

We each have a unique data set of information, experiences, and emotions. It is HOW we use our data that decides everything in our lives.
From the perspective of data handling, we need new definitions to expand and explain old concepts in ways that are understandable and applicable.

http://knol.google.com/k/douglas-mckee/the-general-theory-of-personality/3q0xdomx5udy4/4#

These examples are provided to offer my only available credentials.

I just published a 'knol," titled "Getting Wisdom"
My agenda is to open it to those who recognize the nature and value inherent is gaining and using Wisdom as an additional place to place links and discuss those articles and the processes in gaining and applying wisdom.
Hopefully it will attract those who not only have studied the wise but also are motivated to help others seeking wisdom.

If you are interested, the knol address is:
http://knol.google.com/k/douglas-mckee/getting-wisdom/3q0xdomx5udy4/10#

Sincere Thanks,
Douglas McKee
Douglas McKee - 16 Jan 2010

Hi Narayana Rao

You are part of the "Best of the Knol - Jury"

A decision is waiting.
Please write a comment, then I will make your to an author of this site:

http://knol.google.com/k/andreas-kemper/best-knol-of-the-month-jury/8bgikaqot3ts/399?pli=1#view

Best
Andreas
Andreas Kemper - 04 Nov 2009

Message from Bill Gaw

Mr. Rao,

Some of your writings are appearing on my Knol. Please visit my Knol (Bill Gaw) and your comments would be appreciated.

Bill Gaw
Bill Gaw - 10 Oct 2009
Mr. Bill Gaw

Thank you for the information and invitation.
Narayana Rao - 10 Oct 2009

Hello Narayana Rao

Excuse me, I do not know how to invite you to review this Knole

http://knol.google.com/k/artur-landerzon-barrera-garcia/foreign-policy-and-freedom-houses/ahpk7a5l7a4r/28#

Please give me your opinion about the Knole.

My best wishes to you.
Artur Landerzon Barrera Garcia - 18 Jul 2009

Hello Narayana Rao KVSS

I miss your nominatings and votings for the Knol of the Month

http://knol.google.com/k/andreas-kemper/best-knol-of-the-month/8bgikaqot3ts/46#view

Best
Andreas
Andreas Kemper - 24 Jun 2009
Dear Andreas Kemper

Thank you for your nice words.

I must have some interesting knol to nominate. Next month I shall as I have written two knols on interesting themes this month.

Now I also feel knol platform has good performance in the last one year and hence it will prosper in the next year.
Narayana Rao - 24 Jun 2009

Hello professor

Thank you very much for asking about my studies, indeed they are going well, I am writing a lot of papers and I will adapt them for knol in summer, when I have more time. In the meantime, I check the bulletin board and see the new improvements of Knol regularly so I try to be updated!

Best regards, I admire your work
Jesús Martín Calvo - 06 Apr 2009

100.000 Page views

Prof. Rao,

Please accept my congratulations for reaching this milestone in advance and in winning the silver medal in Best knol of the month contest for Stock Market Poems. Your publishing of student course work was a historic first as many of your other suggestions in taking new directions and improvements.
Krishan Maggon - 02 Apr 2009
Thank you for the nice words.

Stock market poems happened by an accident. Dr. Subhash Sharma read two of his poems and gave his book of poems in a conference. That immediately prompted me to write something. And as fellow knol authors said they were good, I could approach my colleagues in the institute to go through them. Because they liked them, comments followed and also controversy followed.


I hope the best knol competition attracts more knol authors to nominate their knols and thereby increase the list of good knols. I request you to nominate one of your recent knols for the competition. You many nominate others knols. But each author must have at least one self knol to nominate every month if he is active. The competition must bring out a big list of knols which authors themselves feel are worthy of special attention.

I am waiting for reactions from one or two more knol authors on research conference proposal.
Narayana Rao - 02 Apr 2009

Top Viewed Authors

http://knol.google.com/k/will-johnson/top-viewed-authors/4hmquk6fx4gu/111

Congratulations on your promotion to Number 14
Will Johnson - 17 Mar 2009
Thank you

Your monitoring is useful. But I think many good authors are yet to start writing on the platform. Once they enter the rankings may change entirely. Also some authors may learn what works on knol and increase their output accordingly.

The other interesting measure could the page views per week of top 100 authors at the present. This number can be changed to 200 authors, etc. etc in future. The increase in popularity of Knol will be indicated by such a measure.
Narayana Rao - 17 Mar 2009

Top Viewed Authors

Congratulations on your promotion to Number 20

http://knol.google.com/k/will-johnson/top-viewed-authors/4hmquk6fx4gu/111
Will Johnson - 12 Mar 2009

Thank you

Dear Professor Narayana Rao,

thank you for inviting me to your California project. This is about to prompt me to create a "California in poetry" knol (or rather a series of knols). When it's somewhat developed, you may consider it for inclusion in your (our?) California list of knols.

Best regards,
Wlod
Włodzimierz Holsztyński - 09 Mar 2009

1000th knol : Best Knol for March 2009 Prof Rao 1000th knol

Prof.

Is there a direct link to your 1000 knol?

FYI

Best Knol for March 2009 Prof Rao 1000th knol (a direct link is required)

Andreas,

Thanks for the information and nominating our knols as winners.

I suggest that the knol community join me in congratulating Prof Rao in reaching a significant step and milestone by becoming the first author to write over 1000 knols. I wish to nominate his 1000th knol as the best knol of the month March 2009 (to be selected by Prof Rao). This is good for the entire knol community.

Krishan
Krishan Maggon - 01 Mar 2009

The Collaborative Book Project

Dear Professor Narayana,
Could you please send us your email?
iMedPub
info@imedpub.com
Manuel Menendez - 07 Feb 2009

Dear professor

I would like to be a very active member at the bulletin board, but these weeks I have my almost-final exams on Law and Economy so I have very few time to write and think about it, I hope you understand and wish me success, in a few time I will become a very active member giving my sights and ideas.
Thank you
Best regards
Jesús
Jesús Martín Calvo - 31 Jan 2009

Professor Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.

Dear Professor Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.
I respectfully think that it is time for you to re-assess the direction that you are taking with your contribution to the Knol project. It is obvious from your hundreds of Knols that you are an avid supporter of the project but unfortunately the majority of these posts don't conform with the Knol project's 'Best writing practice' standard.
http://knol.google.com/k/knol-help/best-practices-writing-good-knols/uPUoECxfx/sd8yvy#

Because of this you have not been recognized in the Knol Author's Top 800 award. Other members of the Knol Author's foundation have been recognized - The Judge (19th best author position), Kalle (227), Andreas (255), Jesus (392) and Sajid (678) but your work has not been acknowledged.

As a key leader in the Knol Author Foundation, I believe it is incumbent upon you to set the example for all Knol authors and so I would think it better for both you and the project, that you refocus your extensive energy on making your existing Knols better, rather than continue to post work that does not meet the Knol 'Best Practice' standard. Professor, I think that now is the time for all us foundation authors, to refocus on quality - not just quantity.

Peter Baskerville - 27 Jan 2009
I understand fully that to-date your focus has been more on setting up the structure or skeleton for future work (which is great), but I believe that the Knol project now needs those structures filled with quality content and formatted in a way that makes for a great user experience. Thank you for being so understanding of my advice.
Peter Baskerville - 27 Jan 2009
Dear Baskerville

I thank you for the comment. Yesterday only I read your knol on writing knols in the top 10 ranks. I have set up a specific direction for my knol project. Management knowledge revision. I want to develop a community of authors who get involved in this effort from my contacts around me. It will take some time as it is a new activity. I also added two more themes as my knol projects. Branches of knowledge and Management Concepts directory. Once again the scope is vast and work progresses at a slow rate and it has to be done in stages.

But the information you gave is very important piece that I have to halt and reflect upon my enthusiasm.

Thank you once again
With best regards
Narayana Rao - 27 Jan 2009

Thanks for the invitation, Narayana

I'll post some thoughts today and it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance.

Simon Harris
Simon Harris - 29 Dec 2008

Lets spread your immense expertise to the mind sciences. Lets expand the insights of engineering to the life sciences.

Dear Prof. Rao:
The breath and vision of your knols is amazing. The most creative and cutting edge science today is engineering. Look at biology, look at chemistry, look at medicine their top catergory is now bio-engineering,
chemical engineering, the latest madical devices are all marvels of cutting edge engineering. Why not expand your field of Management Theory and Practise to my field of emotional intelligence education and maybe explore all other fields where your expertise can transfer the benifits of your insights?
Here I am talking about wisdom in different ways and you saying so beautifully engineering is efficiency - human efficiency! You gave me the idea that wisdom can also be defined as a tool for mastering human efficiency. I thought of writing a knol on wisdom as human efficiency. But I think that this honor belongs to you. Please consider writing a knol on 'Wisdom as Human Efficiency.' Lets start some new fields. Lets start using insights in engineering management and apply them to the mind sciences. Lets upgrade all the mind sciences to engineering sciences(alot of this has already been done).
Kind regards
Sajid Khan

Sajid Khan - 05 Nov 2008

Good afternoon from Holland

Thank you for your intrest and motivation. Please write a comment on Knol Debates.

Karin Kruijff

Karin Kruijff - 20 Oct 2008
Thank you Ms. Karin Kruijff.

You message made me think. I posted a suggestion.

I suggested that the debate should ask authors to write knols on the issue and the debate page must have a provision to show the link to such knols written in response to the opening knol of the debate.

There should be a moderator who goes through the comments and knols written on the debate topic and writes a summary knol. Such a summary knol could be forwarded to concerned decision makers as well as press for appropriate coverage. I think the knol community will get excited with such a format. I already went and made request to my colleague who is a faculty in environment management to write a comment on subsidies to alternative energy projects.

Thank you once again for providing a direction to my thinking. I came out with the idea of mailstorming. Now we have to say knolstorming. One knol leads to another knol that embodies the knowledge gained by the author so far but was consolidated into a knol because of another knol that triggers the thought or points out the need for such a knol.
Narayana Rao - 20 Oct 2008

Ther is nothing fuzzy about educating the brain to the level where it sprouts wisdom.

Dear Prof. Rao:
You have a very well grounded and well deserved knack for presenting
relevant, timely and complex ideas in a simple and easy to understand
format. I would like you to consider my original ideas on emotional
intelligence and wisdom and try to integrate them
in your university curriculum. Please share my work in your circle.

Also if you need anything from New York please let me know.

Kind regards

Sajid Khan


Please review my latest knol:

The benefits of knowing that wisdom is a fragrance of the mind.
Knowing what wisdom is, we can take the right steps to create wisdom
minds enmasse.
Email Print
By
Sajid Khan
The 4th R foundation, surfmasterclub.com,The Wisdom Express,
Shypower, Brain Power Club
comments: 0
Article rating:
Your rating:
0 Ratings

Since ancient times man has been intrigued by wisdom. The ancients
knew the importance of wisdom. However in spite of all the research
they could not figure out wisdom. So they tried to teach wisdom by
teaching it attributes. Even to this day we define wisdom more or
less as the ancients defined wisdom. As a result the current wisdom
education is just as it has always been, a very long process that has
mixed results. Since over a 1000 years wisdom was considered too
complex to be taken up as a complete subject on its own. In the
current era Dr. Vivian Clayton took up the research of wisdom but
even she gave it up after many years of serious research because she
found that wisdom was too fuzzy to understand.
She made the same mistake that every one else makes. When it comes to
wisdom research we stand on the shoulders of Aristotle to look for
further clues to understanding wisdom. Well in the case of wisdom
Aristotle's shoulder should have long been abandoned. Wisdom is like
the ro...*
Alternative titles
Contents


"The brain is a real physical entity. There is nothing fuzzy about
the brain. The brain can be developed into a healthy physical and
emotional entity. It can be developed to the level where it will
generate wisdom."

The way main stream education understands wisdom today has a big
effect on how wisdom education is pursued.
As we don't know exactly what wisdom is we try to understand wisdom
through its attributes. And we teach wisdom's attribute like love,
respect, honesty, grace more or less by showing the benefits of these
qualities and by persuading the student to realize that acquiring the
attributes of wisdom is good for the student. Thus we teach each
quality one at a time and mainly through persuasion. However when the
brain is at a lower level the very being of the person is composed of
ignorance generated qualities. The very essence of the person is
composed of -2, -1 and +1 attributes.

Suppose a person is fundamentally -1 and you persuade him to become
good what you are actually doing is telling him to behave in a +2
manner, the best he can do is pretend and act +2. Pretending to be +2
and being +2 are two different qualities. Thus he does not change
from the inside he just takes on the role of a +2. He struggles with
his inside being -1 and just pretends in society of being +2. Thus
his wisdom education is never authentic. All he learns is a mask of
wisdom behavior that covers his real -1 being. No wonder there is no
enthusiasm in universities to teach wisdom education as current
wisdom education falls far short of making the student wise.

Wisdom is a quality that sprouts automatically when the brain becomes
emotionally super mature. At the premature level the brain sprouts
ignorance. At the immature level it is a mixture of mostly ignorance
along with some wisdom. At the mature level it is a mixture of
ignorance and mostly wisdom. At the super mature mind level it is
wisdom. Thus real wisdom education means educating the brain to
become +2. Which is attainable by deprogramming the brain of the
root causes of ignorance. Taking out -2 ignorance elevates the brain
to -1 ignorance. Taking out -1 ignorance elevates the brain to +1.
Taking out the trophy self image of +1 results in the brain becoming
+2.

Just as you cannot teach wisdom by teaching wisdom you cannot take
out ignorance by trying to take out ignorance.Taking out ignorance
which is a fragrance is possible only by removing the reasons why
this ignorance is generated in the brain in the first place. Thus you
have to remove all the buried memories of the negative upbringing
episodes that are still running in the unconscious brain. Each
negative incident has to be relived and experienced again in the
light/context of the persons current life. Thus wisdom education is
more of a therapy than a regular education.

*Wisdom is like the root of the tree and its attributes are the
branches.. We try to cultivate the branches without cultivating the
root. Non main stream institutions have been trying to teach wisdom
with mixed results. Main stream institutions see these mixed results
and get discouraged to start wisdom education of their own. Also they
don't dare teach any topic that they cannot define within scientific
terms. Well I am now defining wisdom as the fragrance of the fully
developed emotionally intelligent (+2) super mature brain/mind. I
have found that the attributes of wisdom are generated automatically
by a fully developed emotional intelligent brain. Just as a premature
-2 brain will automatically generate ignorance a fully educated brain
will generate wisdom.

The brain is a real physical entity. There is nothing fuzzy about the
brain.. The brain can be developed into a healthy physical and
emotional entity. It can be developed to the level where it will
generate wisdom.

The kind of fruit a tree will bear will depend on how healthy its
roots are.. Whether the brain will sprout wisdom or ignorance depends
on the emotional educational level of the brain. So wisdom education
is developing lessons and exercises that will make the brain super
mature.


Sajid Khan - 26 Sep 2008
Posted by at 5:00 AM 5 comments
Labels: , ,
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)