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In this issue…
Programme coverage
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Technology in India:
Yesterday, Today,
Tomorrow
3-5
Dozen
Technology Knocks…
6-7
Free eBook
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Inner exploration
9
Quotes: Technology
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Call them Indian version of Baby
Boomers, those born during the 60s
have seen all facets of technologies:
Big radios to B&W TVs to Colour TVs
to Multiple Channel TVs to
Telephones, Internet, Cell phones,
Digital Cameras, FTTH etc. etc.
While many were Technology
Enthusiasts and Early adopters, the
majority took it up lately and yet
few are still the laggards resisting
and adopting to change.
Why do we feel shy in terms of
accepting the benefits of change
that technology brings? Are we
scared of the younger generation
that saw all these marvels when
they opened their eyes and are
pacing well with them?
Time to TAG!
Technology Adoption Game.
whY not!
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Jointly organized 3rd
CONTEMPORARY THEME
BASED TALK
February 24, 2014
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ASSESSMENT &
DEVELOPMENT CENTRES
-Truth, Myth and Utility
DELHI
The Institute of
Management
Consultants of
India, Delhi
Chapter
Sumit Sharma
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The talk focused on the value, and the need to review
potential and talent appropriately.
Multiple
assessments are expensive, and demand significant
investments in time and money. The argument made
was that this is a sensible investment that adds to the
predictive validity of the future performance and
success, and not following effective assessment
methodology often proves costly in the long run.
There is no process that ensures success in future at
the job. Sumit made reference to validation studies
and experience that highlight the value of multiple
assessment, arguing that a detailed and thorough
process enhances the chances of success by a
significant factor.
The discussion covered the methodology of multiple
assessments, and the resources needed for
these. Assessment centers and development centers
were covered and compared for their objectives, and
emphasis placed on different activities.
While
assessment, as the name suggests, is primarily for a
selection or a go/no go decision, a development center
tends to be more detailed and is used primarily to
provide development feedback to the participants.
The tools used and the design of the multiple
assessment processes were discussed, with the
argument that while the advent of technology has
brought in several efficiencies and on line tools, the
value of meaningful assessment is typically delivered
more effectively through traditional observations by
trained assessors, rather than automated tools; this
makes the process more time consuming and costly,
though also more effective and therefore more
predictive of the chances of success.
The session generated some lively questions and
answers.
Ability to predict
future performance
Assessment
Centers
0.72
Psychometrics +
Tests + Interview
0.58
Personality Profiles
0.39
Competency Based
Interviews
0.37
General Interviews
0.15
Random
0.11
Source:
Mike Smith, Meta Analysis

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Technology
in India:
Yesterday
Today
Tomorrow
Human civilization began about ten thousand
years ago with the advent of two technologies:
farming and keeping animals. The human being
had existed nearly hundred thousand years
before that but he was leading life of an animal
with the sole objectives of survival and
procreation. Every morning he used to get up
and keep running to get food and not to be food
of somebody else. He had no leisure in this kind
of life.
With the advent of the technologies of farming
and keeping animals his food was assured for
the immediate future through crops, meat and
milk. That give him leisure and that started the
civilization process with music, literature, ethics,
religion, art, etc. The human being also used
this leisure to improve the technologies and to
get new technologies. This increased his
resources and leisure.
Technology in India Yesterday
That was the period when all ancient civilization
like Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Chinese and
Indian, etc. came up. However, most of them
declined. As Iqbal puts it in his famous Gazal:
Sharu S.
Rangnekar
Unan-O- Misra -O Ruma
Sab meet gaye jahanse,
Ab tak magar hai baki
Namo nishan hamara
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Management Guru,
Author, Columnist…
The Greek, Egyptian & Roman civilizations, have
all been vanished,
But our existence,
Continues even today

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The Indian civilization reaches a high plateau which
was unique in terms of Philosophy, Health Sciences,
Physical Sciences (particularly Astronomy), etc., We
had world famous universities like Nalanda and India
was regarded as the hub technological knowledge.
Indian Technology Today:
However, as noted in the Sanskrit phrase “Neechairgachchati cha dasha chakranemikranena”( invariabley
the wheels of fortune turn around like a wheel and
those at the top rotate to the bottom). By the
beginning of second millennium the technology in
India became stagnant. With the advent of the
industrial revolution, the technology progressed very
fast in the west and as a result the West dominated
the East.
This continued till the last century when India was
considered good for second rate technology termed
as “appropriate” technology. Thus, the
manufacturing in India was carried on with
equipment which had become absolute and
procedures which had become inefficient.
Consequently “Indian Quality” was considered
inferior to foreign quality and this concept still lingers
in Indian minds.
The break-through came with the advent of
Information Technology around 1980 and in the last
thirty years, there has been not only a industrial
revolution but also a psychological revolution. It has
been proved that India can provide the best in terms
of quality and productivity in many industries and has
become competitive globally.
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Indian Technology Tomorrow:
India has obviously a leading edge in information technology and has distinct
position in Art, Music, Literature, etc which are the glowing symbols of
progress. There is the distinct possibility not only the third world countries
coming to India for technology but also countries which are in the forefront
today joining us in the leadership with the spirit of partnership and
collaboration.
The current economic crisis in the West has proved the stability of our
economy and the relevant economic policies as well as our ability not only to
absorb but also to create new technology. With the obvious advantage in
terms of population – particularly of young and educated persons (including
females), we are in poised to be the hub of technology for the 21 st century.
For this we have to keep our push for modernization and creativity. These
are essential to provide leadership in the technological world.
Thus, the next generation is facing a great challenge. In the words of
Harivansh Rai Bachchan:
Teer par kaise ruku mai -- aaj laharon mein nimantran
Nav navik pher le ja -- kuchh nahin hai kaam isaka
Aaj laharon se ulajhne ko phadakti hain bhujaen
Doobata mai kintu utarata sada vyaktitva mera
Ho yuvak doobe bhalehi -- hai kabhi dooba na yauvan
Teer par kaise ruku mai -- aaj laharon mein nimantran.
(How can I wait on the shore -- there is a challenge in the waves
Boatman! take away your boat -- it is of no use
My arms are twitching today to fight with the waves
I may sink -- but my personality will survive
Young men may have sunk -- the youth has never sunk
How can I wait on the shore -- there is a challenge in the waves!)
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Displays and
printing turning 3D
Increased pace
through 4G,
FTTH…
Google Glass
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Individual Avatars
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Turning the
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Intensity of voice
energy sources
and distribution
activation
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Zesty social and
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Artificial
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Translators,
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Individualized
professional
networking
intelligence +
virtualization
Transporters…
eTextiles +
gadgets
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Open education
Nano-
resources,
MOOC…
medicines,
Nanomaterial…
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DESTINY IN A TOSSED COIN
The Japanese General Nabunaga decided to attack
even though he had only one soldier to the enemy’s
ten. He was sure he would win, but his soldiers were
full of fear.
On the way to battle they stopped at a Shinto shrine.
After praying in the shrine Nabunaga came out and
said, “I shall now toss a coin. If it is heads, we shall win.
If tails, we shall lose. Destiny will now reveal herself.”
He tossed the coin, it was heads. The soldiers were so
keyed up for the fight that they wiped out the enemy.
Next day an aide said to Nabunaga, “No one can
change Destiny.” “Right,” said Nabunaga showing him a
doubled coin that was heads on both sides.
Who makes Destiny?
THE DISABLED FOX
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A fable of the Arab mystic Sadi: A man walking through
the forest saw a fox that had lost its legs and wondered
how it lived. Then he saw a tiger come with game in its
mouth. The tiger had his fill and left the rest for the
fox. The next day too God sent, the tiger to feed the
fox. The man began to wonder at God’s greatness and
thought. “I too shall lie in a corner trusting the Lord to
give me ail I need.”
He did this for a month, and was almost at death’s
door when he heard a Voice that said, “O you who are
on the path of error, open your eyes to the Truth!
Imitate the tiger not the fox.”
On the street I saw a naked child, hungry and shivering in the cold. I became angry and said to God, “Why
do you allow this? Why don’t you do something?” God
did not reply. That night he said, quite suddenly, “I
certainly did something. I made you.”

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working
together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
- Bill Gates
Everybody gets so much information all
day long that they lose their common
sense.
- Gertrude Stein
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine
can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements
profoundly depend on science and technology.
- Carl Sagan
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