the amp journal: 06/2005

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BPR and Organisational Culture - Thesis Report

BPR and Organisational Culture - Front Page

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment
of the requirements for a degree of
Master of Business Administration
at the Henley Management College,
Greenlands, Henley on Thames, Oxon, England,
1994

Mckinsey's 7-S Model

Link

Systems: “.. are codified knowledge, organised in a logical sequence."
Structure: "How an organisation breaks down its activities into distinct elements and how these elements are co-ordinated"
Staff as "the quality and quantity of people employed" but also adds the management issues of "motivation, reward systems, the structure of jobs and team work"
Skills is defined as "The competences the organisation needs in its people in order to perform difficult tasks to a high standard"
Strategy as: "the direction and scope of an organisation over the long term: ideally, which matches its resources to its changing environment, and in particular its markets, customers or clients so as to meet stakeholder expectations"
Style is "the philosophy, values and shared beliefs adopted by managers in their use of power"
Shared Values: "the basic values and mission of the organisation … they rise above profit targets and growth objectives by relating the goals of the firm to deeper human needs and principles".

.... endless immensity of the sea

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"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes

Great Lakes | Executive MBA Program

Pavement drawing : 3D Illusions

Julian Beever

The Principles of Design

Digital Web Magazine says

We can group all of the basic tenets of design into two categories: principles and elements. For this article, the principles of design are the overarching truths of the profession. They represent the basic assumptions of the world that guide the design practice, and affect the arrangement of objects within a composition.

Horizontal
symmetry

Approximate
horizontal symmetry

Radial
symmetry

Asymmetry

Regular
rhythm

Flowing
rhythm

Progressive
rhythm

Introduction to Reverse Engineering Software

This book is an attempt to provide an introduction to reverse engineering software under both Linux and Microsoft Windows©. Since reverse engineering is under legal fire, the authors figure the best response is to make the knowledge widespread. The idea is that since discussing specific reverse engineering feats is now illegal in many cases, we should then discuss general approaches, so that it is within every motivated user's ability to obtain information locked inside the black box. Furthermore, interoperability issues with closed-source proprietary systems are just plain annoying, and something needs to be done to educate more open source developers as to how to implement this functionality in their software.

1. Introduction
2. The Compilation Process
3. Gathering Info
4. Determining Program Behavior
5. Determining Interesting Functions
6. Understanding Assembly
7. Debugging
8. Executable formats
9. Code Modification
10. Network Application Interception
11. Contribut(e|ions)!
12. Extra Resources
A. Tools
B. Documentation resouces
C. Web links and resources

The Three Stories - Steve Jobs

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

* connecting the dots : You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

* love and loss : Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

* Death: No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

e-encyclopedia

e-encyclopedia: From DK and Google

Young Ravi was very good with her hands while at school in Nagpur. Her embroidery was very neat and her other craft was put on permanent display after she passed out from school. This skill lay dormant as she did her graduation and came as a bride to Chandigarh, married to businessman M.M.S. Chawla.

“I joined an interior decoration course so as to be able to redecorate my own house. I had no plans to be an entrepreneur but things were destined to be so,” says Ms Chawla.

The pot came out unusually beautiful and a visitor to her brother-in-law’s house on the first floor told her: after seeing the pot “Make a few more and I will hold an exhibition of these pots.” The exhibition held at Shivalikview Hotel was a complete sell-out.

Not only does every embassy in the country boast of her artefacts, she is exporting those to the USA, the UK, Australia and even China, which is the home of pottery. Her creations are displayed in Rashtrapati Bhavan and also find place in popular television soaps like ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thhi’ and ‘Kahin To Hoga’.

Ravi’s stained glass panels have many takers in spite of stiff competition. “My greatest joy in the 14-year-long art entrepreneurship was making a stained glass mural on Sikh history. I made a four-panel mural on an episode from Guru Tegh Bahadur’s life,” she says.

Six Ways on Getting More Done each day

lifehack.org » Blog Archive » Six Ways on Getting More Done each day

1. Focus high importance tasks first
2. Work smarter
3. Work faster
4. Work harder
5. Concentrate and focus tasks
6. Avoid to make mistakes

Origami - Folding Instructions

The following are links to origami diagrams available on the internet. There are myriad folding instructions on the internet but I have
listed only those that I have come across, tried, liked and photographed. Please click on the images for instructions. (For
larger images please go through my galleries). Things marked are new to this page but not necessarily new to the world.
(All effort is made to update the links once in a while, but all links are not guaranteed to work. Please report broken links.)

Heinz Strobl's
Snapology Mark Leonard's
Soccer Ball Mark Leonard's
Pentagonal
Planes UVWXYZ Francis Ow's
VWXYZ Unit