Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Sunday, 9 February 1997

CORPORATE DATABASE

In our business (as in any other business) creating and updating/ maintaining a client database is vital.
This is all the more important in our business because, for us, quite often, a "client" becomes a "candidate" and a "candidate" may become a client.
 And since every person, whether a client or a candidate works in a COMPNAY, we need to create / maintain a COMPNAY DATABASE as well.
With these COMPANIES (and with specific individuals within these companies) we need to correspond dialogue for following reasons/ purposes :
1. To market our services (Mailing Campaign).
2.  To foreword bio - data’s of specific "candidates" who, we feel, could be of interest to that company (or a set of companies), either for their
    - Existing operations
       Or
    - Their expansion/ diversification projects.
Such "unsolicited" bio - data sending would focus on what "products/ services" the company is already engaged in or expected to engage in, based on published information.
3. Normal business correspondence once a company has already become our client.
4. Contacting (mostly by phone) a particular executive in a particular company to find - out his interest in changing.
Such contact would almost always be in the nature of "head - hunting" against specific requirement given to us by a client. In such cases, client has indicated his "search - parameters or preferences" in terms of
    . Type of industry/ specific companies
    . Functions/ Designation
    . Product or Service exposure
    . Edu/ Age/ Salary etc. etc.
So we come across a situation where
    . COMPANY DATABAE
       &
    . CANDIDATE DATABASE
Overlap
We also have this situation where
a) Both corporate Database and the Executive (Potential candidate) Database are compiled from a large no. of diverse sources.
b) Both these databases are compiled piece - meal, partially slowly over a long period of time
c) "Data" about both of them (i.e. the company and the candidate/ Executive) are continuously changing.
 e.g.
For an Executive
Following data keeps changing
    . Age                 (annually)
    . Edu.                (Occasionally)
    . Designation      (Occasionally)
    . Salary              (annually)
    . Function           (occasionally)
    . Responsibility    (occasionally)
    . Knowledge        (continuously)
    . Skills               (continuously)
    . Location           (occasionally)
    . Employer          (occasionally)
For a Company
   . Name                (Rarely)
   . HO Address        (Rarely)
   . Directors MD/ CMD(Occasionally)
   . Plant location    (Rarely)
   . Products/ Services (Regularly)
    . Sales Turnover (Annually)
    . Collaborations   (Occasionally)
    . "Industry" / "Group"  (Rarely)
    . Executive working
      in the company 10% each year
    . Financial / mfg
     . Parameters      (Annually)
So we come to realization that
    . "Creating" corporate & candidate databases is a SLOW process
    . Some parameters of both the databases keep changing FAST.
    . Volumes involved are ENORMOUS
Therefore, at best of times
    . Both Databases will be
    INCOMPLETE
    INACCURATE
By putting enough no. of RESEARCH / DATA ENTRY Operators on the Job, all that we can ensure is that these data bases, do not become completely OBSOLETE!
This will be an ever - expanding, continuous, constant effort.
But as long as we keep this up ELENTLESSLY (equivalent for BREATHING which never stops for even a second), we can live with in accuracies which are MANAGABLE.
It will happen that, on the basis of our databases
We send out a letter to an executive and find that it does not reach him because he has "moved" and not updated his address in our database.
We phone an executive at a company where he is working as so - and - so (as per our database) and find that he has left that company one year back and no one can (or will) tell us where he has joined.
We send an executive's biodata to the personnel chief of XYZ Company and find that the chief has retired/ resigned and gone away.
We would have to live with such "inaccuracies". In a fast changing world, there can never be an Up - to - Date database! And if anything,
    . The ' RATE OF CHANGE' will only accelerate.
    . So if we are to depend upon traditional methods of updating these databases (viz. Research & Data Entry on our own - using our own resources),
 then,
We are fighting a LOSING BATTLE!
Because,
Our Resources (of research & data entry) can never keep - up with
    . Growing volumes
Accelerating "changes of status" (of dozens of parameters about each executive and each company).
We could like this problem in only one day.
The these companies and these executives to continuously update their own databases THEMSELVES !
    . Put the ball in the court.
    . Get them to do the dirty work.
    . Place the onus on them well said!
    . But HOW do we get them to do this?
    . And WHY should they do it?
    . And WHAT benefit do they/ will they, get by doing it?
HOW?
1. Give them "remote - access" to our database (only their own) and ask them to create After/ Modify/ Delete/ Add/  Update from their own computers
2. Get them to phone our "head - set wearing" data entry operators and give instructions about changes to be carried out
              OR
Deposit their "change instructions" in our VOICE - MAIL box.
3. "Voice - recognition" takes over
WHY?
Corporate & Executives will do this (initial entry & subsequent updates) only if they stand to (personally) benefit  from doing it.
Time is the most precious resource on earth and everyone tries to priorities its USE based on the perceived benefit to himself or to the organization that he is working for.
Therefore,
Unless we introduce in our system, a strong element of
BENEFIT
(to the individual concerned - acting
for himself or on behalf of his employer - company),
He is unlikely to take the trouble (and waste his time) of updating the database on his own.
But he will do it if the BENEFIT is
    . Considerable / Great
   . Immediate
    . At no EXTRA - COST.
WHAT?
That brings us to the question of "what" benefit can we offer him for taking this trouble?
 Let us list the Benefits that we could possibly offer:
TO THE COMPANY (who becomes a MEMBER)
Remotely shoot "queries" to our database and "locate" suitable candidates against their requirements (most of whom were required "yesterday" - hence the urgency)
 "Value - Added Services" such as
    . "Job Descriptions" for thousands of unique jobs
Remote "drafting" of recruitment advertisements
    . Compensation surveys
    . Organization charts
    . Corporate Data of any other Company/ Industry
    . Labour union Agreements (Scanning & OCR)
Names/ addresses of Engineering & Management colleges / Institutions all over the country, listing the courses being offered.
 Campus Recruitment (student data of graduating class at each college - replacing effort to go thru dozens of placement Broachers received each year).
 If we can succeed in integrating into our own database), DART/ CMIE/ DATAL STREET JOURNAL databases on 1000       Companies)
    . VRS (Voluntary Retirement Schemes)
    . Standard Letters
    . Appointment
    . Confirmation
    . Termination
    . Personnel & Administrative practices of diff. companies.
There can be many more value Added Services. Again, to begin with, most of these BENEFITS are aimed at the PERSONNEL - MANAGERS. Aim is to make them our SPOKESMEN and let them
push the idea (of 3P club membership) within their organization.
For a reasonable ONE - TIME effort to create their own database on our server - either by
. Filling in forms
       . Entering in floppy
       . Remote log - in
    and
For a very little REPEAT effort annually to update their database, they could get a free access to a vast are of personnel function related information, just for the asking ! using this info, they could "leverage" themselves in t corporate hierarchy, as never before!
BENEFIT FOR THE CANDIDATE :

For a candidate who undertakes to
    . Fill in a floppy or
    . Remote log - in entry
To create his database - and
Further undertakes
To keep it updated every year, following "Value - Added Services" can be offered (free?)
 . Job Bulletin Board. (Remote Login)
 . Non 3P Clients
 . 3P Clients
 . Compensation - Trends 
 (Industry - Function - location - Age)
 (Designation - Edu. Quali - Wise)
. Organization charts
. Job Descriptions
. Key words
. ARGIS
Automatic Resume Generating Intelligent Software to help him write a Resume
Corporate Database
To prepare himself before appearing in an interview with a given company.
. Interview Tips
. Mailing - Campaign (PAID SERVICE)
Under this, after scanning "non 3P client" Job bulletin board, an executive may instant 3P to send out his bio data to 10/15 companies of his choice.
. Several other value - Added - Services can be thought of.
Following Points Must be noted :
1. At no point/ time, our service should enable.
. A candidate to contact client
. A client to contact candidate directly.
This must always be thru US.
For this reason, we shall never do what INTELLIMATCH and many other companies are doing viz.
. Allowing candidate to "post" their resumes on the server.
. Allowing companies to post their "Jobs" on the server.
and then permitting them to contact each other directly.
. Like a newspaper (advt - space), they only collect a RENTAL for use of electronic - space, for a given period.
These comments were made 9 months before we launched our website.
For executives, we have provided "EDIT RESUME" Feature + automatic 6 monthly EMAIL reminder.
2. Both the companies and the executives MUST update their own database, once - a - year (we can specify dates -        staggered to reduce load.
They will be permitted FREE access to the value - added - service, only for a period of ONE YEAR from their last        update.
After that the access may be totally banned / denied or made available for a FEE.
Only such stipulation can keep database reasonably up - to - date
3. No executive will be allowed to "access" database of any other executive.
Software may allow each executive to create his own server PASSWORD, so he is assured of data - security.
HOWEVER,

Irrespective of this PASSWORD, all databases will be accessible/ searchable/ maniputable by 3P. 

h.c.parekh

CORPORATE DATABASE

CORPORATE DATABASE (JANAM-KUNDLI) Annex:(B)

4-6-1999

USES → ↓ Company Database

Mailers Offering our Services

Pro-Active Marketing → (Mailers or Treat each job/situ. as a query on our Resume Database)

Invitations to "Headhunt" on our Site

Invitations to Post jobs on our Site

Use Resume database for all possible related databases on our site

HR / Update

Redundant / Active?

Correspondence W.A.R. (If Company is a CLIENT) (Tel/Fax/e-mail) & Gimmicks or Phone-calls (PRODUCTS?)

Conducting Headhunt amongst Gimmicks / Employees

If an executive is any MEMBER

Pop-up Screen on TALISMA or on Module #2 whenever Company is its-a-client or not

FIELDS OF DATABASE

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EXECUTIVES TO BE CONTACTED OR SENT LETTERS.

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Module #2 [9 FEB, 1997] $\textcircled{1}$

10/11/13

CORPORATE DATABASE

In our business (as in any other business) creating and updating/maintaining a client database is vital.

This is all the more important in our business because, for us, quite often, a "client" becomes a "candidate" and a "Candidate" may become a client.

And since every person, whether a client or a candidate works in a COMPANY, we need to create/maintain a COMPANY-DATABASE as well.

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With these COMPANIES (and with specific individuals within these companies) we need to correspond/dialogue for following reasons/purposes:

  1. To market our services (Mailing Campaign).
  2. To forward bio-datas of specific "candidates" who, we feel, could be of interest to that Company (or a set of Companies), either for their
    • existing Operations
    • or their expansion/diversification projects

(Pro-Active mktg. 09/08/2002 Maybe for replacement of their "Retiring" senior Executives)

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Such "unsolicited" bio-data sending would focus on what "products/services" the Company is already engaged in or expected to engage in, based on published information.

  1. Normal business correspondence once a Company has already become our client.
  2. Contacting (mostly by phone) a particular executive in a particular Company to find-out his interest in changing.

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Such contact would almost always be in the nature of "head-hunting" against specific requirement given to us by a client. In such cases, client has indicated his "search-parameters or preferences" in terms of

  • Type of Industry/Specific Companies
  • Functions/Designation
  • Product or Service exposure
  • Edu/Age/Salary etc. etc.

So we come across a situation where

  • COMPANY DATABASE $\&$
  • CANDIDATE DATABASE

overlap.

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[Diagram showing a central 'Company' circle surrounded by circles representing Executives/Candidates (A, B, C, D, E), with various data sources noted:

  • Executive E (Data from Phone Directory)
  • Executive D (Data from Alumni List)
  • Executive C (Data from Annual Report)
  • Executive B (Potential Candidate) (Data from Media)
  • Executive A (Candidate Registered with us)
  • Executive C (Potential Candidate) (Data from Membership Directory)
  • Shaded areas indicate overlap between the Executive circles and the central Company circle.]

We also have this situation where

a) This is about to EXPLODE! 09-08-2002 Both Corporate Database and the Executive (potential candidate) Database are compiled from a large no. of diverse sources

b) Both these databases are compiled piece-meal, partially, slowly over a long period of time

c) "Data" about both of them (i.e. the company and the candidate/Executive) are continuously changing

e.g.

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For an Executive

Following data keeps changing:

  • Age (annually)
  • Edu. (ocassionally)
  • Designation ( " )
  • Salary (annually)
  • Function (ocassionally)
  • Responsibility ( " )
  • Knowledge $\Biggr\}$ Continuously
  • Skills $\Biggr\}$
  • Location (ocassionally)
  • Employer ( " )

etc. etc.

** important

For a Company:

  • Name (Rarely)
  • HO Address ( " )
  • Directors/MD/CMD (ocassionally)
  • Plant location (Rarely)
  • Products/Services. ($\textcircled{1}$) (Regularly)
  • Sales Turnover (Annually)
  • Collaborations (Ocassionally)
  • "Industry"/"Group" (Rarely)
  • Executives working in the Company $\rightarrow$ $\textcircled{2}$ 10% each year
  • Financial/Mfg. Parameters $\Biggr\}$ $\textcircled{3}$ (Annually)

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So we come to realisation that

  • "Creating" corporate $\&$ candidate databases is a SLOW process
  • Some parameters of both the databases keep changing FAST

Therefore,

  • Volumes involved are ENORMOUS.

Therefore, at best of times

  • Both Databases will be

INCOMPLETE

INACCURATE

By putting enough no. of RESEARCH / DATA ENTRY operators on the job, all that we can ensure is that these databases do not become completely OBSOLETE!

This will be an ever-expanding, Continuous, Constant effort.

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But as long as we keep this up RELENTLESSLY (equivalent to BREATHING which never stops for even a second), we can live with inaccuracies which are MANAGEABLE.

It will happen that, on the basis of our databases

  • We send out a letter to an executive and find that it does not reach him because he has "moved" and not updated his address in our data base
  • We phone an executive at a Company where he is working as SD and SO (as per our database) and find that he has left that company one year back and no one can (or will) tell us where he has joined.
  • We send an executive's biodata to the Personnel Chief of XYZ company and find that the chief has retired/resigned and gone away.

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we would have to live with such "inaccuracies". In a fast changing world there can never be an UP-TO-DATE database! And if anything,

  • the "RATE OF CHANGE" will only accelerate.

So, if we are to depend upon traditional methods of updating these databases (viz. Research $\&$ Data Entry on our own – using our own resources), then,

we are fighting a LOSING BATTLE!

Because,

our Resources (of research $\&$ data entry) can never keep-up with

  • growing Volumes $\Biggr\}$ $\text{thousands of Companies}$ and $\text{millions of Potential Candidates/Executives}$

and

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  • accelerating "changes of status" (of dozens of parameters about each executive and each company)

We could lick this problem in only one way.

8 $\frac{1}{2}$ yrs. after writing this, I have concluded that this is a WISHFUL thinking! 09-08-2002 $\Biggr\}$ Get these Companies and these executives to continuously update their own databases! THEMSELVES!

Put the ball in their court.

Get them to do the dirty work.

Place the onus on them.

Well said!

But HOW do we get them to do this?

And WHY should they do it?

And WHAT benefit do they / will they, get by doing it?

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HOW?

When I wrote this (linearly 1997), my ideas about INTERNET $\&$ WEBSITE were quite hazy! $\checkmark$ 09-08-2002.

  1. Give them "remote-access" to our database (only their own) and ask them to

Create

Alter / Modify / Delete / Add / Update

from their own computers

  1. Get them to phone our "head-set wearing" data entry operators and give instruction about changes to be carried-out.

OR

Deposit their "change-instructions" in our VOICE-MAIL box.

till

  1. "Voice-recognition" takes over

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WHY?

Corporates $\&$ Executives will do this (initial entry $\&$ subsequent updates) only if they stand to (personally) benefit from doing it.

Time is the most precious resource on earth and everyone tries to prioritise its USE based on the perceived benefit to himself or to the organisation that he is working for.

Therefore,

Unless we introduce in our System, a strong element of BENEFIT (to the individual concerned—acting for himself or on behalf of his employer-company),

he is unlikely to take the trouble (and Waste his time) of updating the database on his own.

But he will do it if the BENEFIT is

  • Considerable/Great
  • Immediate
  • at no EXTRA-COST.

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WHAT?

That brings us to the question of "what" benefit can we offer him for taking this trouble?

Let us list the benefits that we could possibly offer:

TO THE COMPANY (Who becomes a MEMBER)

  • Remotely shoot "queries" to our database and "locate" suitable candidates against their requirements (most of whom were required "yesterday" - hence the urgency).

(He may find his own people there.) (Which database, candidates?)

  • "Value-Added-Services" such as
    • "Job Descriptions" for thousands of unique jobs
    • Remote "drafting" of recruitment advertisements (will depend upon completion of our "KEYWORD" project.)
    • Compensation Surveys
    • Organisation Charts
    • Corporate Data of any other Company / Industry
    • Labour Union Agreements (scanning $\&$ OCR)

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  • Names / addresses of Engineering $\&$ Management Colleges/Institutions all over the country, listing the courses being offered.
  • Campus Recruitment (student data of graduating class at each college - replacing effort to go thru dozens of Placement Brochures received each year)

We will not be able to integrate CAPEX / PROWESS / CMIE's into our own database until, if we become their ONLINE Subscribers (we can download profile & company's full data bases on 10000 companies) $\Biggr\}$ If we can succeed in integrating into our own Database, then $\text{DART / CMIE / DALAL STREET JOURNAL}$ their handover to VRS (Voluntary Retirement Schemes) our Candidates. (09-08-2002)

  • Standard Letters
    • appointment
    • confirmation
    • termination
  • Personnel $\&$ Administrative Practices of diff. Companies.

There can be many more Value-Added Services. Again, to begin with, most of these BENEFITS are aimed at the PERSONNEL-MANAGERS.

Aim is to make them our SPOKESMEN and let them

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push the idea (of 3P club membership) within their organisations.

We have to convince them that

  • for a reasonable ONE-TIME effort to create their own database on our server - either by
    • filling in forms
    • entering in floppy
    • remote log-in
    • and
  • for a very little REPEAT effort annually to update their database,

they could get an free access to a vast array of Personnel-function related information, just for the asking! Using this info, they could "leverage" themselves in the corporate hierarchy, as never before!

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BENEFIT

FOR THE CANDIDATE:

For a Candidate who undertakes to

  • fill in a floppy
  • or Remote log-in entry

to create his database - and

further undertakes,

to keep it updated every year,

following "Value-Added Services" can be offered (free?):

  • Job Bulletin Board. (Remote Login)
    • Non 3P clients
    • 3P clients
  • Compensation - Trends $\Biggr\}$ Industry - Function - Location - Age

$\Biggr\}$ Designation - Edu. Quali., - Wise

  • Organisation Charts
  • Job Descriptions
  • Key Words

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  • ARGIS

Automatic Resume Generating

Intelligent Software

to help him write a Resume

If we can make $\text{CMIE'S / CAPEX / PROWESS}$ data available to OUR candidates, appearing $\text{with OUR Client}$, before interview, we would steal the show! 09/08/2002 $\Biggr\}$ to prepare himself before appearing in an interview with a given company

  • Interview Tips
  • Mailing - Campaign (PAID SERVICE)

Under this, after scanning "non-3P client" job bulletin board, an executive may instruct 3P to send out his biodata to 10/15 Companies of his choice.

  • Several other Value-Added-Services can be thought of.

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Securities after Entering

Following points must be noted:

  1. At no point/time, our service should enable
    • a candidate to contact client
    • a client to contact candidate

directly.

This must always be thru US. (09/08/2002 $\rightarrow$ 5 $\frac{1}{2}$ yrs. since writing this, I do not see any need to change this model!)

  1. For this reason, we shall never do what INTELLIMATCH and many other companies are doing viz.
    • allowing candidate to "post" their resumes on the server
    • allowing companies to post their "jobs" on the server

and then permitting them to contact each other directly.

    • Like a newspaper (advt-space), they only collect a RENTAL for use of electronic-space, for a given period.

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These comments were made 9 months before we launched our website!

  1. For executives, we have provided "EDIT RESUME" feature $\&$ automatic 6 monthly EMAIL REMINDER.

09/08/2002 $\Biggr\}$ Both the Companies and the Executives MUST update their own database once-a-year (we can specify dates - staggered to reduce load).

They will be permitted FREE access to the value-added-services, only for a period of ONE YEAR from their last Update.

After that the access may be totally banned/denied or made available for a FEE.

Only such stipulation can keep database reasonably up-to-date.

  1. No executive will be allowed to "access" database of any other executive.

Software may allow each executive to create his own secret PASSWORD, so he is assured of data-security.

HOWEVER,

Irrespective of this PASSWORD, all databases will be accessible/searchable/manipulable by 3P.

 

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CORPORATE DATA BASE SCREENS.

COMMON TO ALL SCREENS

  • Company Name: ___________________
  • Co. Number/Code: _____ Screen No: _____
  • Source of Info: _________ Date of Entry: _____

SCREEN NO: 1

CORPORATE DATA

  1. Company Name: L$&$T finance
  2. "Group" which it belongs to: L$&$T-TW (Perceived ownership or Management Control by)
  3. Industry category In which Active
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5
    • 6
    • 7

(Can it belong to 2 industries?)

  1. Management Group

Designation

Name of Person

Res. Tel No.

Chairman

CMD

M.D.

President / CEO / COO / CFO

Director

"

"

Chief of Personnel

(Hand loaded $\rightarrow$ Is this flexible? Can be added dynamically)

  1. Sales Turnover (Latest year) Rs. ____ Million (95/96) $\rightarrow$ (Profits! In million only)

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SCREEN NO: 2

Physical Data

Level

Address

Contact Person / Position

Phone No / Fax No

1. Head office or Regd. office

1:

Pin / city / State

2. Regional & Branch offices

1

M. P.

2

3

4

3. Factories or Plants

1

2

3

4

5

 

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SCREEN NO: 3

Product / Service Data

Products / Services

1

2

3

4 $\quad \rightarrow$ P4

5

6

7

TECHNICAL COLLABORATIONS

Name of Foreign Company / Country

For which product / service

1

2 $\quad \rightarrow$ C9

P4

3

4

5

JOINT VENTURES

Name of Indian JV Company

Name of foreign company / country

For which product / service

1

2

3

4

 

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SCREEN NO: 4

Senior Executive Data

Name of Executive

Designation

Function

1

2

3

4

 

Sources of Information:

  1. Unabridged Annual Reports.
  2. News media.
  3. Membership Lists of Professional Bodies.
  4. Alumni Lists.
  5. Telephone Directories.
  6. Membership Lists of Visa / Diner / Citibank Credit Cards.
  7. Training Courses Participation Lists.

Source

Database Says "Executive" is working in

Probability of "Correctness"

Company A

Company B

Annual Report

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Newspaper Magazine.

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Bio data / EDS.

Membership List


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our limited resources, do not permit us to immediately implement all of our Ideas.

PREPARING TO LAUNCH

3P EXECUTIVE SEARCH.

Building Senior Executive Database:

We need one, full-time person for this activity. Deepa has started this activity last week! (09-08-2002.)

His entire time should be spent Scanning newspapers / business magazines / directories / annual reports etc. to pick out information about Senior executives and enter into computer. Or he could just spend all of his own time "highlighting" such information and handover to EDP Room for data-entry. This alternative may be better.

To begin with we could start with a "clerk"-level person who is intelligent or even a retired person, but I feel a young, junior person would be better.

In most cases, executive data picked up from newspapers $\&$ magazines will give us, only

  • Name of the executive
  • His designation
  • Name of Current Company/Employer

Ocassionally, it may tell us

  • Where (which company) he was
  • What (designation) he was.

In EXECUTIVE SEARCH (Head-Hunting) business, even such past data is very important $\&$ must be captured.

Abhi

  • Pl. return this file by $16^{th}$ inst.
  • Take Xerox copy if you want!

$10/11/13$ 09-08-2002

Building Up a Corporate Database (Janam Kundli)

See enclosed notes (Some written nearly $5\frac{1}{2}$ years ago).

Most of the thoughts / views stated are valid, even today,

EXCEPT

$\triangleright$ we just cannot afford an army of D/E operators to create a CORPORATE DATABASE.

It is far cheaper to BUY such databases from MEGHA CORPO / VIPUL ZAVERI / PUNIT SHAH / Ranjeet Gupta etc etc, for whom, this is their CORE business. It is not our Core!

How soon we can buy - and benefit - from such "bought-out" databases, depends upon, how fast you / Rajeev can figure-out a software solution to "Merge" all these different / duplicate databases into ONE/COMMON datastructure, which all of us can "access" / use from our desktops.

V. B.

MASTER JANAM-KUNDLI OF CORPORATES (CLIENTS OR OTHERWISE)

(email sent to all-concerned on 6/8/02)

6 Aug 2002

Some books which I am currently reading, repeatedly speak about, every business unit to have a UNIFIED CLIENT HISTORY, available all employees across the organization. Its like having one single Master clock in our office with no one having a Wrist-Watch! Then there can be no dispute on what time it is! Or what date or what month!

It is possible that different persons in an organization have different "needs" as far as corporate database is concerned. Not everyone wants to know everything about every company. Even for a given individual, this need may change from time to time. This is quite understandable.

What would, however, not be acceptable is that different persons use/access different databases and come up with contradicting findings, eg:

One database on Voltas says that the chief of personnel is Mr. Mishra whereas another database says, he is Mr. Patel!

Or that one database gives one phone number and the second database gives an altogether different number!

Such contradictions can result in embarrassing situations. They will, most certainly result into loss of productivity/efficiency and even loss of business!

It is therefore vital that we create and maintain ONE/SINGLE/UNIFIED CORPORATE DATABASE.

In the enclosed diagram, I have tried to show

  • From what "sources", we can compile such a database (SOURCES)
  • To what "uses" can we put such a database (USES).
  • Who all may use such a database (USERS).

What I have not described is the actual structure of such database (ie. different "fields"). By a copy of this note, I am requesting Abhi to design/decide the fields, and make the same available to Saleem.

Creation and maintenance of corporate database will be Abhi's responsibility. He may use our own data-entry operators or subcontract the work to outside vendors or "download" from websites or "migrate" from other databases or copy from other CDs, etc etc.

But one thing has to be clear.

No one else (other than Abhi) can enter data or edit data or modify/delete data into this database. All inputs or requests for "changes" must be given to Abhi, who will do the needful.

As far as various "USES" of this database is concerned, Saleem will decide

  • "What" data to extract (from the Master)
  • "How" to migrate this data to different applications

All of you are welcome/encouraged to suggest new uses/applications.

B. L. C. Parekh

(CONTINUED ON PAGE $\textcircled{2}$)

(Diagram)

USERS $\rightarrow$ Consultants $\rightarrow$ Surfers $\rightarrow$ 3p marketing Dept. $\rightarrow$ Consultants $\rightarrow$ Authorised HR Manager of the company $\rightarrow$ Jobseekers $\rightarrow$ Srikakha $\rightarrow$ Tally

USES $\leftarrow$

  • OES - Legal Master
  • Website / Ind Vs Product Video Triangle
  • Mass Mailing Database where Email Available
  • Module 1: Searching non-Member by Co name
  • Website Corpo Personnel Page
  • Website based Resume forwarding service (company name wise)

$\Biggr\}$ Unified / Standardized / Normalized CORPORATE DATABASE MASTER JANAM-KUNDLI $\Biggr\}$

SOURCES $\leftarrow$

  • Charge request coming from HR Mgrs after viewing their own Co. Data on our website Corpo. Personal page
  • DCA CD of 5.5 Lakh Companies
  • Floppies/CDs from other sources
  • Printed Directories of Trade Bodies
  • Job Advts posted on our website or downloaded from other websites or Newspaper
  • Shopping Baskets received on our website
  • Offline Inquiries recd by 3P from companies

BLUE arrows represents INPUT

RED arrows represents OUTPUT