8 Rules for Nanovation

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1. Get Wired for Innovation!

Everyone has the potential to innovate. However, Nanovators are wired different. Who are they? How do they think? What makes them tick? What do they bring to the game that makes nanovation possible? The Freibergs will show you how to hire, inspire and equip people to think big, act bold, and Nanovate.

2. Question the unquestionable.

Question it! Step out of the prevailing paradigm. Think like an outsider. Challenge your taken-for-granted assumptions—about the way the world works, about your customer’s expectations, and what your employees are truly capable of doing.

3. Look for the intersection of trends to find opportunities.

You can’t win with yesterday’s ideas, so what are the big, converging trends that are headed your way? You’ll find white space where rising trends intersect. In that white space is a huge opportunity for innovation.

4. Jettison the incumbent mentality.

Incumbents are vulnerable to the often-fatal trap of thinking the future will be more of the same only better—more choices, better features, and better design—all incremental improvements on yesterday’s headline. Nanovators don’t think “best practice” they are think “next practice.” Nanovators see the future as a whole new game and leap-frog “best” with entirely new rules.

5. Look beyond customer imagination for next big thing.

Customers are smart and never to be underestimated. But customers don’t always know what they want and if they do know, they can’t always tell you. Nanovators start a lot of conversations with “What if?” and respond to a lot of push back with “Why not?” and “Why not now?”

6. Let limitations drive creativity vs. complacency.

Nanovators see limitations as invitations to innovation and opportunities to differentiate vs. constraints and excuses for why it can’t be done! Limited resources forced the design team to be extremely creative in every aspect of the Nano’s design.

7. Look for breakthroughs beyond your industry.

Some of the best ideas for game-changing innovation will come from outside your industry. The question is: Do you have the guts to look beyond what’s comfortable and familiar? Do you have the wisdom to avoid the “not invented here” syndrome?

8. Dare to Try! Risk more to gain more.

The fact is, you can’t innovate without experimenting and you can’t experiment without making some mistakes. Companies like Tata Motors and Southwest Airlines have created cultures where it is safe for people to try new things and test new ideas.

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Dear Sir

It's true.

But unless we keep the spirit of discipline embedded imagination; there is no chance of innovation.

Sage Ashtavakra has remarked in his samhita that a rule shall have to be broken by superior rule.

This sort of breaking rule is creativity and it suffers no sin.

He cites as an example, law of ignition has to be used to break the rule of fire burns.

Sloka's Meaning:

"If we show our hands to fire it burns, but if we soak our hands in water and then show it to fire, it does not burn so fast.

As the law of fire is broken by the law of ignition, so every law has to be broken by a superior law.

Such breaking of law is not an offense, but is a display of creativity. Such application of mind destroys all Karma."

If we apply this rule along with this western concept of innovation, we are bound to get success.

Thanks and Regards
Ever Yours
V. Narayanan, 

ACA, ACS, ADMA-Lon, DISA, PGDFE
Mobile: 91-9444689595 & 9840571348

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From: Venkataraman Sivakumar <vsivakumar988@gmail.com>
To: V NARAYANAN <nrd80v@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2012 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: 8 Rules for Nanovation

Dear Mr. Narayanan,

Today is visible. Tomorrow will be visible when you see the light at
the end of the tunnel. Unless you come to the brink, you won't know
you are innovating something.

So, innovating is unscheduled, boundless and accidental and open ended
that is of either certainty or no certainty. Every figament of
imagination is not innovation. Innotation should be universal that is
acceptable to the universe.

Regards,
Sivakumar

Accounting Deskilled

I always face an unique query from CA Students and "Non CA Accountants" at Industry - What is Accounts and how can I learn it quickly.

I have to tell you the end result of accounting is just two Statement & Analysis.

Let's deal with the common sense aspects of the two.

1) Financial Statements

The financial statements are  Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss A/c, Cash Flow Statement and Funds Flow Statement. 

These follow a particular format. Follow the format; fillin the same with the data from the accounting system (or the question in the exam)

You would make wonderful Financial Statements

The artistic part is in understanding the disclosure requirements imposed by the IFRS or iGAAP.

It is up to the person's interest than regularity requirement to give the disclosures.

A well drafted Financial Statement (following the complete formats) would serve the purposes of the AS, IFRS or GAAP.

Hence, learning the disclosure norms is just a matter of personal interest.

2) Financial Statement Analysis

This is just a group of formulas. The computation is easy.

Based on the bench-mark of the Industry, which is generally given by the company management (The Text Books give the bench-marks adopted by Financial Institutions to evaluate a borrower), one can tell whether the company has performed well or bad.

In a simple manner, Accounting is a matter of filling the formats and calculating certain formulas based on the filled formats

Hence, more than any-thing; one needs to stick to the format and formulas and give the results in timely manner.

Thanks and Regards
Ever Yours
V. Narayanan, 

Scientific Linux Vs Fedora

Hi

I just evaluated Scientific Linux with Fedora

Fedora - Merits as compared with Scientific Linux

1) Installation is easier than CENT-OS and hence better than Scientific Linux

2) Easy to configure, customise and use. CENT-OS is totally unfriendly, you can't mount windows drives easily.

Scientific Linux claims that it can do so like Fedora - the feature still not proven to me

3) Future Focused and Fully Featured.

Actually Fedora 15, 16 & 17 are intended to create RHEL-7 in a better way

It is for time to come rather than based on RHEL 4 or 5 as CENT-OS is based.

Fedora - De-Merits as compared with Scientific Linux

1) Not stable and supported like Scientific Linux.

2) Applications like Revisor, Virtual Box - OSE and Virt-Manager does not work in Fedora after Kernel Upgradation.

Now what is the catch in Scientific Linux:

Scientific Linux - the catch is 7 years of support and have same installation & configuration features like Fedora

But it is based on RHEL 5 and hence is an outdated Linux compared with Fedora...

That's the reason, I did not migrated to Scientific Linux

However I am planning to use this along with Windows in my Toshibha C850

 

Thanks and Regards
Ever Yours
V. Narayanan, 

Scientific Linux

Scientific Linux - It blinded me with science!
The credits for the catchy title go to legendary Thomas Dolby, but the real thanks go to the team of scientists, engineers and geeks at CERN, who developed this distribution.  If you're into science, you will, sooner or later, run into Linux. Any serious mathematical, computational work is done on Linux. From amazing 3D movies to simulating the Big Bang over to crunching sparse matrices in a cloud and folding proteins at home, it all comes down to using Linux. As a single host, Linux is merely a machine, but it starts to shine in its hundreds and thousands. 

Scientific Linux is a distribution based on RedHat, designed to work out of the box and make the job of assistants and PhDs that much easier. As such, it comes with a few extras that you do not normally see in stock RedHat, without losing the heavy anchor of adamant stability that RedHat brings.

Get Scientific Linux
The distro comes in several flavors, much like the parent distribution. You can go for the full-fledged DVD or download live CDs, running either KDE or Gnome desktop. The website is SSL-secured and is uses a rather simple wiki-style design. But you'll manage all right. The current edition is at version 5.4, just like RHEL, named Boron.

Speaking of names ...

Considering the fact several previous versions were already knighted the same way, it's a bit of a disappointment. There are so many cool physical terms, using Boron twice is somewhat bleak. Then again, Scientific Linux only had four names over the lifetime of no less than 22 releases. Creativity, anyone?

Using Scientific Linux
The boot menu is spartan, old style, with a rather classic interpretation of an atom for the logo, most likely Boron. After you make the choice, a very standard RHEL boot splash follows, taking you into a very standard RHEL desktop.

Wireless & Bluetooth
Having tested the raw RedHat functionality in my CentOS 5.3 review, I did find some problems with Wireless connectivity. Not so in Scientific Linux. Either because of the changes in 5.4, custom additions in the distro - or both, Wireless worked perfectly out of the box. I selected one of my WPA2-encrypted routers and was on my way.

Look & feel
While the desktop feels slightly archaic, it's very easy to make it look great in just a few short minutes. You already have a very decent theme and great fonts, you only need a small change of wallpaper to get things right.

Personally, I found the classic atom impression rather boring. For one thing, the hottest physical thing in the world now is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), so why not make it the focus of the distro? Or you can use the default RHEL5 desktop, and none's the wiser:

Multimedia
I was not expecting anything, which made the full plethora of codecs a genuine, pleasant surprise. Flash, MP3 and DVD playback were all there, out of the box, smooth as silk. Great job...

Compiz
Believe it or not, geeks seem to like eye candy! Scientific Linux comes with the drivers built in, waiting for you to start playing. Even on T42, everything worked out of the box, no glitches or slowdowns. The basic subset of effects is rather small, but it's still good and impressive enough.

Samba sharing
No problems either. Worked as expected. What more, my external USB drivers, formatted both in FAT32 and NTFS connected without any problems. I did have some issues in CentOS, but not here.

Applications
I must say I was surprised not to find any one of the free numerical computation programs included, FreeMat, Octave or Scilab. Could be the licensing issues, the packaging or just ole plain support, but there are not available, even in the extra repos.

Not a big deal, when you really think about it, because most engineers use Matlab for their work, but if you're in a mood for some free dabbling in matrices and fancy graphs, you will have to grab the scientific programs yourself. Oh, in my Science sites articles I promised you we would talk about a science-oriented distro, so here we are.

Still, the existing bundle of programs is quite decent. The full DVD gives you more, but you can easily replenish missing bits using the package manager. The default set includes Firefox, Thunderbird and a few interesting nerdy tools like Emacs, nedit, GhostView, and others.

But you also have X-CD-Roast CD/DVD burning software, some OpenOffice programs, Totem, a range of network tools, and other useful applications.

Package management
Scientific Linux uses a remixed, upgraded version of the YUM package manager, paired with the Yum Extender GUI, which does a very decent job. There was an issue with the proxy, but more about that later.

You can add extra repositories very easy, just a click of the mouse.

And then look for the cool programs you need. The package manager is simple, clean and easy to use. For example, here's the list of programs available in the Engineering and Scientific category. Most people would not want or need them, but geeks doing their Masters might.

That said, I would appreciate more geek tools. For example, some sort of LaTeX frontend, like LyX, since writing theses in an office suite is an abomination. More math tools, more graphs and plotting apps. Eclipse is available, which is good.

Stability
Scientific Linux is rock solid. There were no crashes or any other bugs. Laptop modes worked great. Suspend worked even in the live session, taking mere seconds to sleep and resume. Very nice. Oh, you can install the system from the live CD, unlike stock RedHat, did I mention that?

Usability
As you've seen so far, Scientific Linux is a very friendly distro. It offers Wireless and Bluetooth out of the box, comes with multimedia codecs, Samba sharing works, Compiz works, it's really great. Where are the problems, then? Well, there were a few, rather minor ones, I would like to say.

Conclusion
I was tremendously pleased with Scientific Linux. First, it's a RedHat distro, which means you get the classic Linux usage model, excellent stability and many years of support. Second, it has everything you need - multimedia, desktop effects, Samba sharing, anything. A serious question I have is, who needs Fedora?

Fedora is the new, modern experimental testbed for the RedHat family, and it has the cool and exciting technologies you want. But so does Scientific Linux, minus the stability problems of the ever-beta Fedora.

Scientific Linux does itself a great injustice by using its name. It frightens away normal people, who think this is some geeky distro, when in fact, it's just a super-polished RedHat, with all the extras you may want.

If I had to think of a RedHat-based distro for home use, it would be the academic geek distro called Scientific Linux. It bridges between spartan RedHat and futuristic Fedora by taking the best of both worlds and dropping away the problems. Really neat.

If you like you distros to be super-stable, robust, fast and supported for a long time, derived from the leading giant of the Linux world, and equipped with the trove of great programs and utilities, Scientific Linux is the one you want.

Honestly, if you ever think of recommending Scientific Linux to anyone by pointing to this article, perhaps, make sure you direct them to the Conclusion first. Let them not think for a moment that this is a geek gadget. Scientific Linux is a perfect desktop distro. Drop the nerdy wallpaper and you have a cutting-edge home system with everything you could ask for. Well, I guess, that would be all.

Open Mamba

Hi

I was just surfing for the BSD Distribution which would be easy to download and install.

I accidentally came across a RPM Based non corporate edition called Open-Mamba.

This is designed by an Individual from scratch.

It is an RPM Linux without any Red-Hat or Novell influence.

I got surprised and tried to read more about it.

This is a KDE Based Release and is 681 MB in size

This has Libre-Office and some media apps installed by default.

Since it is just a CD, I downloaded it and tried to test through Virtual Box - Harish's concept.

The over-all system slowed a bit due to loading of this Linux into Virtual Box and hence I dropped it.

I feel it would be worth testing it,,,

I may share the iso physically to some of you whom I am meeting regularly.

You may visit:

http://www.openmamba.org/distribution/

and know more about it.

Thanks and Regards
Ever Yours
V. Narayanan

Installing & Removing Cinnamon Desktop Environment

Hi

Cinnamon Desktop Environment is created by Linux Mint Guys.

This is suppossed to be Graphically Superior to MATE & Gnome.

It is also based on Gnome, yet gives a KDE Look with respect to animations and graphics

It is also faster than KDE despite the animation capabilities

However, Cinnamon is not stable.

The extensions will at times not work.

You may try cinnamon by using two commands

1) Adding Repository

wget http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/cinnamon/fedora-cinnamon.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-cinnamon.repo

The other command is

curl http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/cinnamon/fedora-cinnamon.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-cinnamon.repo

2) Installing the DE

yum install cinnamon

For removing the matter is much simple...

yum remove cinnamon

 

Thanks and Regards
Ever Yours
V. Narayanan, 

Installing & Removing MATE Desktop in Fedora

Hi

Kindly note the commands for installing MATE.

1) Adding the Repository

yum install http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/mate-desktop-fedora/releases/16/noarch/mate-desktop-release-16-5.fc16.noarch.rpm -y

2) Installing the Desktop

yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop -y

I am saying to suffic -y so that you need not say yes to every question the terminal ask you.

That's it, MATE is available on your PC

To remove it is much more simple, just one command

yum groupremove MATE-Desktop

Fedora cleans every bit of the MATE...

 

Thanks and Regards
Ever Yours
V. Narayanan, 

Fedora - Make it a Rolling Release

Hi

I found that one of the big disadvantages of Fedora is that it has the short life cycle and downloading and installing all applications from scratch every year is boring and irritating.

Some gives the advise, not to upgrade Fedora. 

However I do not want to have an "unsupported linux".

Now I feel with just 5 Terminal Commands, we can upgrade Fedora with no loss of the applications. I believe this could be repeated continuously unless and until an app-set designed exclusively for a version is installed or the Kernel loses upgradability. The Kernel would lose upgradability when a version begins with a lower kernel version as compared to the previous distribution level. For instance, Fedora 16 ended with Kernel 3.5.2 and Fedora 17 began with Kernel 3.3.2. Though there are commands to downgrade and then upgrade versions for such cases, generally it may pose a problem. Now let's go to the command list. All the below commands have to run as a super user - root.

Kindly find below the commands:
First we must upgrade the rpm package:
yum update rpm 
Then we install the latest updates:
yum update -y
Next we clean the yum cache:
yum clean all
If you notice that a new kernel got installed during the command "yum update -y", you should reboot the system now. The command to do it from terminal is 
Now we come to the upgrade process. 
yum install preupgrade
preupgrade








reboot 

After the reboot, log in as root again, either directly or with the help of su
We can do this with preupgrade.
"preupgrade" will also take care of your RPM-Fusion Packages.
To Install preupgrade...
You have run the upgrade
Thus the system is upgraded to the new version, just reboot and now you have the new distribution. Therefore, Fedora can be used as rolling release if you master these commands and update the system through terminal. It is safer to have back-ups made before you do all these aforesaid process.

Yours

VN