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An Opportunity: Startup Weekend Ahmedabad 2013

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This event has happened in 195 cities covering 65 countries (as in 2011) and is helping people realize their ideas. During this time, they get support from well-known mentors and industry experts to fine-tune their ideas before pitching their business idea to Venture Capitalists on the last day.

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Quality? Excellence? What?

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We implement best practices in line with industry standards. By Jay Chhaya, January 13, 2011 @ 9:30 am One more thought to add - An individual’s attitude gives birth to excellence in work which in turn results in quality in outputs. This led to some more thinking and here’s what I realized: Quality is generally extrinsic.

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QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management.

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Great Quotes: Gems from Subroto Bagchi on Leadership I have always enjoyed reading thoughts of Subroto Bagchi , one of India’s most well known and respected leaders from the IT industry who operates as a “Gardener” and Vice Chairman at MindTree.

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Hidden Costs 25

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During my early days in diamonds industry, I was working with Lakhi group. effective and right management can go a long way.

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12 Critical Competencies For Leadership in the Future

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The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has gone down from 67 years in 1937 to 18 years in 2011. In recent years, we have seen disruption of market leaders like Kodak and Nokia amongst many others. that we used otherwise.

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The 'Invisibles' in Business Performance

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Whether manufacturing or knowledge industry, primary goal of business is to generate value. Edwards Deming is widely famous for “Deming’s 14 points” and “Seven Deadly Diseases”. One of these deadly disease according to Deming is “ Running a company on visible figures alone ”.

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