TECHNICAL TEAM

Kartavya

cc: Abhi

15/04/03

"Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?"

Enclosed find a few pages from this very readable book.

What can we learn from these pages?

• IBM was too slow in bringing new products to market (– norm is, one new product every 4/5 years!!)

The joke in the (fast-moving) computer industry was,

"At IBM, products don’t get launched; they escape!"

We are NOT an elephant, so we need to be able to move fast/faster.

Let us launch BETA version of ResuMine/ResuSearch (as WebService – not enterprise) on 15 July 2003.

Let 10 Mumbai-based companies use this beta version free, for the next 3 months, and give us feedback. With those defects fixed and feedback in, improve before launching commercial version on 1 Nov 2003.

Then follow-up with additional versions every 3 months.

Let us have a Sense of Urgency (p.202)

Email

To: All Staff Members

Date: March 28, 2003

Technical Team

Our current technical team, headed by Kartavya, comprises of:

• Abhi

• Reena

• Regi

• Sunitha

• Vikram

• Deepa

Some more people are planned to be added to the technical team in near future, with a view to launch GLOBAL PEOPLE RESOURCING SYSTEM (GPRS).

GPRS will be launched as a webservice, and comprise of several modules. We expect to launch the first module in 3/4 months’ time.

Since GPRS will be based on .NET technology, some members of the technical team are currently undergoing training.

GPRS webservice will be treated as a separate SBU (Strategic Business Unit), with effect from April 1, 2003. It will develop its own revenue plan / expenditure plan / resource plan / salary structure / incentive schemes / flexible working hours etc. for the financial year 2003/2004.

Whereas the focus of the technical team will be to quickly launch GPRS and start earning revenues at the earliest to become “self-financing”, it will continue to provide help/assistance to the “Executive-Search” SBU in support of the existing systems (Module 1 / Search / OES etc.).

However, modifications to these systems or introduction of new systems will be given low priority.

H. C. Parekh