Sanjna Kapoor's Junoon

Sanjna Kapoor is one personality I admire. Despite being from an iconic family, she is simple and innovative in her ways to make theatre popular.

Sanjna Kapoor’s Junoon – a rather interesting article. Good one Punita!!

Cloud provides Agility

Read somewhere recently the agility that cloud provides

"One of the most important benefits provided by cloud technologies is agility. The business and IT support are more agile. Users are able to connect to services more quickly, with fewer mistakes and greater consumption. IT is more flexible. Cloud solutions provide IT with the ability to support users from anywhere at any time, adapt to business and market demands, and manage projects with greater efficiency. Business owners can create and manage services they deem necessary. Business users can consume these services much more quickly. And IT is free to be more innovative. The speed of delivery and ease of use improves the business and enables self-sufficiency. Accessibility to knowledge is increased, and the process now adds value rather than a burden. Cloud solutions provide a more agile way to empower the business."

Lean IT is a culture change

I often get asked 'As per Lean IT, what the things that we should implement?'

But what people tend to forget is Lean IT is not a magic tool that can be implementeted and you begin reaping the benefits than after.

Lean IT is about analyzing your proces, your operations, your efforts, your work and people--and understanding what are waste in your process/operations/work/people and removing the waste.

Unless you analyze and understand the waste, you can not implement any improvements.

Please understand that Lean IT is about empowering the frontline resources and bringing in a change in the culture of your organization or operations that focuses on waste removal!!

What should be considered before adopting cloud?

Don’t you wonder what you should do before rolling out cloud solutions? Well, a wired article provides some few guiding principles as you start your cloud journey.

1.     Set clear objectives.

2.     Consider when (and whether) to integrate existing data and systems.

3.     Research solutions online and start for free.

4.     Consider all costs, not just initial purchase price.

Why adopt Cloud?

Read an interesting article. It listed the five reasons for which makes business decision makers feel the cloud is critical to their businesses’ success:

1.     Cloud offers better insight.

2.     Cloud helps collaboration.

3.     Cloud drives better engagement.

4.     Speed!

5.     Cloud benefits are measurable and pay for themselves.

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Process Improvement Methodologies---Organizations should decide

Very often, people tend to ask “which is the best improvement methodology to adopt?’

Though my bet lies with Lean, but I would say “it actually depends on what exactly does your organization need”. People are usually confused about the most spoken and used improvement methodologies – Lean, Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints (TOC).

I recently read an article which very interestingly differentiate the three as shown below:

Process Improvement Methodologies	Focus	Result
Six Sigma	focus on reducing variation and  achieving uniform process results in less waste, less throughput time and less inventory	If we focus on reducing variation,   then we will have more uniform process output.
Lean	focus on waste and flow time results in less variation, uniform output and less inventory	If we focus on waste removal, then flow time will improve.
TOC	focus on constraints and increased throughput results in less inventory and a different accounting system	If we focus on constraints, then throughput volume will improve.

 

Capacity Management Important for Private Cloud

Read an interesting article Top tips for calculating the cost of a private cloud. It highlights the importance of capacity management in private cloud.

Accordingly to Dr. Owen Rogers, digital economist at analyst firm 451 Research, one of the most important tasks is to consider how capacity will be added over time, and how much it will cost. However, this is also one of the least considered areas when weighing up the costs involved in moving to a private cloud, he warns.

“A private cloud is ultimately a fixed capacity, and its utilisation will vary depending on the behaviour of its applications and the end-users using it,” he says. “From a cost-efficiency point of view, the best situation is when the entire capacity of the private cloud is utilised, so the unit cost per virtual machine is the smallest.”

It is really surprising to see organizations going ahead without much focus on proper capacity management process or plans as they go ahead with private cloud. But issues arise when they scale up and operations become massive, and that’s when the cost and everything spirals out of control. That is the main reason why organization should first make a proper capacity management plan, look at current capacity and prepare for the capacity that would be required in the future. It is imperative to remember that capacity management is not a stop gap solution but an end-to-end process.