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I’d concluded in Part 1 of this blog post that the Indian IT industry has the optimum quality of software engineers. My assertion was based on the work done by the industry so far since its inception in the early 1990s. In this second part, I’ll examine this topic from the perspective of the work likely … Read more
This is a slightly edited version of my answer to the following question on Quora: Short Answer: The Indian IT Services industry has optimum-quality software engineers, neither low- nor high-quality. Long Answer: Before I launch into my long answer, here are a few assumptions: “Software engineer” refers solely to coders employed by mainstream Indian IT Services … Read more
My personal experience with EMV payment cards goes back over 15 years. Credit cards and debit cards were both EMV-compliant in Germany when I was there in the early 2000s. They had a chip and required the entry of PIN on the POS terminal to complete a payment. Ditto in UK when I was there … Read more
Here’s our latest success story: Tradeshow SAAS Provider Digs Into The Trenches Product management inputs enrich product Coming from the advertising industry, the founders of this startup were deeply exposed to the tradeshow business. They were fully familiar with the pain areas faced by tradeshow exhibitors and desired to use technology to solve them. At … Read more
In Three Ways To Lie With Charts, we saw the following tactics: Slippery Slope Slide Floating Origin Fraud Dual Axis Deception The most common reason for people to lie with charts is that they are shilling some product, service or ideology and run into facts that derail their pitch, so they need to lie to continue … Read more
Since I wrote Flight Delay Insurance – Why Blockchain?, I’ve come across several updates that have reinforced my skeptical views around the claim of decentralization and raised new doubts about the touted advantage of resilience. UPDATE #1: SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE Let me take the following remark in my original post: Data is distributed across multiple … Read more
Lying with charts is the natural progression from Lying With Big Data and Pixie Dust Sampling – Or How To Commit Harakiri By Lying With Big Data. I have come across the three ways of doing that. #1. SLIPPERY SLOPE SLIDE There are charts that gyrate up and down for no apparent reason other than that … Read more
Frequent readers of this blog and people who otherwise know me would be aware that I’m a big fan of social media customer service. Many years ago, I wrote Customers Of The World Unite, You Have Nothing To Lose But The Call Center Hold Music to explain why I found the channel very effective for reaching out … Read more
This is a slightly edited version of my answer to the following question on Quora: Given below are five things that you, as a seller of a B2B product or service, can do to stand out from your competition in a highly crowded B2B market. Respond to inbound leads received via your info@company.com email address. From personal experience … Read more
There are many business relationships where trust is one-sided. Let me give a few examples of such relationships in which the contract between two parties A and B is such that A needs to trust B but B does not need not trust A. #1. METERING Mobile phone subscriber consumes data. The consumption is measured … Read more