Real Success Stories & Other Articles by Prem Kamble
Prem Spirituality Model is a "Scientific" model developed by Prem Kamble to ensure a more scientific study of Spirituality free from faith based religion.
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Prem Spirituality Model provides a "scientific" model to help speed up the
onset of Spiritual Revolution. The model is discussed in details in my book
"God in Two Minutes"
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Implementation phase, which is the last mile in Product Life Cycle is
the most critical and weakest link in the chain, is often ignored by
the Product Managers. Behavioral IT ensures success of this critical phase
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There is so much euphoria about IT. On the other hand, the world is
complaining about the disruptions created by IT. Why this dichotomy?
Is the IT Scenario really so rosy?
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Behavioral IT® is a multi-desciplinary approach to address the IT-Woes
of both Businesses (Over 70% failures) and Top Executives (Fear of IT)
in a world disrupted by IT-Driven Change
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This is my real story of an incident with the best CEO, Mr. SC Jolly. During
my over 25 years of experience as CIO, I have seen that there are some
CEOs who have the right attitude and outlook for IT Driven change and
there are others who are really struggling to manage IT.
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The vehicle of businesses runs on two uneven wheels - one wheel
(technology) runs at jet speed and the other (people) at bullock
cart speed. It is extremely important to address this "inertia
of the human mind" to sustain businesses.
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I was asked to conduct Employability Training to Engg. College
students with some ready content from a US university. As an industry
person, I found the content too theoretical. I created my own
effective & fun way of improving employability, with a slogan "Just Do IT"
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Real
life story of PeopleSoft HR ERP implementation which required
tightening of people and process discipline to ensure that it was
brought back from the brink of failure
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Time Swing Analysis™ is a method evolved by Prem Kamble which helps
to learn from the past and apply the learning to current situations in
order to make them easier and simpler to deal with
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Behavioral IT® is a New Term coined by me. It is a
study of behavioural aspects of IT Implementations that can make a
difference between success and failure of IT projects
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Article by me on Key Success Factors that led to
the delivery of all software projects on time. This was a record by me in a SEI
Level 5 software company. This article was published in company magazine.
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This was the shocking first line of mail I received from my client on
delivering a project. The full mail was, "The Management is Shocked to
Know that the Project went live on the day it was supposed to.." Read
the key success factors for timely delivery.
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My
e-book downloadable at Amazon.com. A scientific and objective look at
God and Religion. A new look at Religion and God as never before.
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A
Summary of my book published in Bestthinking.com. A scientific and
objective look at God and Religion. A comparison of the physical world
with the mental/ spiritual world and possible outcome of a spiritual
revolution.
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A
real life story of how a PeopleSoft ERP Implementation which had not
delivered the results and was in doldrums was brought back on track.
Books for three years were not closed worldwide, and all reporting was
in excel.
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The psychology of Change from Machine age mindset to Information age. Like
the turmoil of the Industrial Revolution, we are now going through
the turmoil of the Information Revolution. No wonder there is
chaos due to computerization in organizations!
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We may be far from truth when we say, "I have full control over my
actions". Not all actions are results of our conscious decisions. Most
of our actions are results of what I call "Mental Reflex Actions" on
which we have little control. This insight can help us both in personal
and professional life
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Let's
admit it. We are still not at ease with this animal called computer.
You want to be IT-savvy, but do not know where to start. There is good
news! What you need to know about IT is not technology, but something
you can easily grasp. My Article in Bestthinking.com.. Read More
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Real story of getting extra-ordinary performance from ordinary people. How an inexperienced team sitting on
the bench (unassigned developers who are idle and are waiting for
new projects/ orders to arrive) gave birth to a Centre of Excellence of an
emerging technology. Read More
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Real story of getting extra-ordinary performance from ordinary people. How a good hobbyist developer who had no formal
technical training developed into a very creative solution provider with little care, trust and freedom to experiment. Read More
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How a fresh graduate trainee was transformed
into an expert in a supposedly very difficult technology - Computer Telephony
Interface. Real story of getting extra-ordinary performance from ordinary people. Read More
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Empowering the Project Managers
Good
IT Managers often become masters of business processes. They can
give wonderful suggestions for improvement, but were afraid to open
their mouths for fear of undue customer pressure to deliver
immediately. This case is about how I empowered them to contribute
without fear.
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A few True Stories on Employee Skill Development - how a very raw team of bench programmers became centre of excellence, how a fresh trainee engineer became expert in a CTI, how a hobbyst programmer developed into an expert, etc.
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Deployment
planning is normally limited to planning of Hardware and software
infrastructure deployment. There is a third planning which is required
which I call Peopleware Deployment, i.e., how people will interact with
the application. Read how Passport Office messed it up...
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My
article published in 'Computers Today' magazine which lists the people
issues in computing - issues involved with Top Management, User
departments and IT departments while implementing software
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My
article published in 'Times of India' which describes how a software
application can be designed with to contribute to Business rather than
for mundane work reduction. This is based on my real life success story.
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Article
on My Successful Implementation Strategy published in 'Computers Today'
How immaculate planning and active involvement of users and management
contributed to the success.
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Organization's
agility depends on people and their attitude to change. Since change
today is mainly IT Driven, CEOs need to make special efforts to change
people's attitude towards IT and IT-Driven Change.
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HR
needs to discover their New Age Role of a Change Catalyst in an IT
Driven World. There is a need to equip them with the right skills to
execute this new age role in an Agile company.
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The
CIO manages one of the dumbest, most adamant animals in this great
circus called business - the computer. So whereas the customers think
that he has a magic wand which can give instant results, the poor CIO
is actually harbouring one of the most difficult animals.
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There should be a IT Consumer Forum to protect
the rights of IT Users. Read More
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CEOs need to look at the interests of IT Users.
All is not well for the IT User and there is a need to have an Consumer Forum
for IT Users. Read More
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Article by me on advantages of ERP published in
'ERP Journal' of Indian Express Group. Read More
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IT Snippets: Real-life
situations
and learnings in my professional life - in the areas of system
study, design, development, people management, user management,
top management
involvement, end-user involvement, application maintenance,
implementation and
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My Article in Bestthinking.com
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Change Management today has new connotations as change is mostly IT Driven.
Managing IT Driven Change needs special skills and awareness of
computers.
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The
world has gone through the turmoil of Industrial revolution and learnt
its lessons as afterthoughts. We are now going through the turmoil of
Information revolution and should learn from the history to come out
winners. Read More
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CEOs need to be more IT Aware rather than IT Literate. What is IT Awareness as against IT Literacy? Read More
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We
are still living in the Machine age mindset though we are now into
information age. This mindset is the legacy of the industrial age and
we need to come out of it. Read More
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IT
Head's job is tight rope walking. The article discusses the challenges
of an IT Professional of being Head of IT in an in-house IT set-up as
against being in a software company. Read More
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It
is the manager's skill to get the best out of his team. A good manager
uses the strengths of individuals in the team and plays down on their
weaknesses. Read More
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CIO's
job is tight rope walkinig - he has to balance the pressures of his
customers and his employees. The IT professionals are premium and
scarce skills so need to be handled with care. Read More
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What makes IT a success and causes of failure. It is usually people who make it a success or failure. Read More
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How
do you decide who is best suited for an IT job? I personally give more
emphasis to attitude than skills and intelligence. IT field is so vast
that no one can be a master. But a person with attitude to learn is
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Lists
the key focus areas while managing IT for Businesses. A Strategy of
customer orientation, business orientation and people orientation
first, and then technology orientation.
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Golden
rules for software support. This article relates a best practice in a
support function - a job of supporting your customer of an application
software in a changing environment. Prem Kamble narrates a real life
situation...
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Strategies to ensure master data accuracy, accuracy and currency in live data. Read More
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How to conduct effective meetings, group discussions or Brain storming sessions at work to attain meeting objectives. Article also discusses how to impress in group discussions, say in MBA adminssions interviews
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How defining the goals and reminding oneself of
the goals tie and again helps in being effective. Read More
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Why have Indians developed a pathetic attitude towards quality and how can we change it?
What does it have to do with the Great Indian Apathy - a belief that
"Nothing will ever change in India!"? How are Corruption and Poor Quality intertwined?
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Our actions are controlled by our Subconscious Mind, on which we have no control. Knowing your Mind helps us break free from our hidden self-made barriers, get insights into ourselves and people's behavior
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What are paradigms and what do they have to do with Subconscious mind? Read More
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Subconscious Mind is like the software in a
computer. It is this which differentiates one human from the other. Read More
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Some
very staunch beliefs in the past have crumbled and appear ridiculously
funny today. Should we be ready to accept that some of today's strongest
beliefs may also meet the same fate? Will they turn out to be
myths?
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My article at Sulekha.com. A
scientific and objective look at God and Religion. A comparison of the
physical world with the mental/ spiritual world and possible outcome of
a spiritual revolution.
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My article at ReligiousTolerance.com. A
scientific and objective look at God and Religion. A comparison of the
physical world with the mental/ spiritual world and possible outcome of
a spiritual revolution.
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This is my reply to Dr. Steve Hawking, renowned Physicist, to his question,
"Will the World Survive another 100 Years?" I believe the world will be
much better and will survive far more longer. My optimism is because I
believe that the next revolution will be the spiritual revolution.
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Prem Kamble talks about his book "God in Two Minutes" in his interview as Author of the Month published at IIT Bombay website.
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Goondaism
and Injustice are direct result of Corruption. Indians have to rise not
only to fight corruption but throw away the Goonda Raj like we did the
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We Indians have been conditioned to believe certain things - that government services can never improve, that you need to live with Goonda Raj, etc. "Thinking Outside our Conditioning" is what we all humans need to learn.
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See a list of my Seminars for top managers
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See a list of my Seminars for CEOs
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See a list of my Seminars for HR Managers
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See a list of my Seminars for Non-IT Managers
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See a list of my Seminars for IT Managers
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