Jayakumar Balasubramanian

Poka-Yoke : The Japanese way of ‘Mistake-Proofing’

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian July 22, 2006Business3 Comments

When it comes to quality nobody can deny the contributions made by Japanese. Especially in the automobile and electronic industries they literally re-wrote the meaning of ‘Competition’ by innovating ‘Low-cost-high-quality’…

Moms and Mega serials

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian July 16, 2006India6 Comments

My 55 year old mother watches 3 mega-serials every day in TV and feels very uncomfortable if she misses a single episode of any of those three. Apart from watching,…

BOOK REVIEW : Five point someone

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian July 15, 2006Book Review5 Comments

Title: Five point someoneAuthor: Chetan BhagatPrice: 90 INRThis book is written by Chetan Bhagat about life in IITs. Three friends (Alok, Ryan and Hari) get into IIT and start thinking…

Economy and Governance

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian July 10, 2006Business, India2 Comments

The World Bank has declared India as the 12th richest country in the world during the year 2005 based on its GDP numbers. According to the Times of India article…

BOOK REVIEW : Vandharghal Vendrargal

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian July 9, 2006Book Review

Title: Vandharghal Vendrargal (Tamizh) – They came they conqueredAuthor: MadhanPrice: 90 INRThis is one of the well written history books that I have read till now. Basically this book talks…

The ‘Manager’ mania

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian July 8, 2006Business9 Comments

Some time back I wrote a blog titled ‘Ji Huzur to Whatsup dude?’ in which I wrote about various types of work cultures that is prevailing in India at the…

BOOK REVIEW : Savarkar and Hindutva

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian July 7, 2006Book Review4 Comments

Title: Savarkar and HidhutvaAuthor: A.G.NooraniISBN: 8187496282This book is about one of the controversial leaders in Indian history, Vinayak Damodhar Savarkar who is popularly known as ‘Veer Savarkar’ and the ‘Hidhutva’…

Suhaana safar aur yeh mausam haseen

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian July 6, 2006Business, India

A month back I wrote a blog about Small-And-Medium Businesses (SMB) in India and the importance of technology in enabling these businesses to scale and perform better. After writing the…

Connectivity with ‘Universal’ way

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian June 29, 2006Uncategorized

The Consumer Electronic (CE) market is in a revolutionary phase now. Because of the changing needs of consumers, organizations are forced to come up with new set of products in…

Real estate: Where it is heading?

By Jayakumar Balasubramanian June 22, 2006Uncategorized11 Comments

In the past 18 months alone Indian real estate market has witnessed unprecedented growth. Especially in metros residential property prices has soared as much 70% and in some cases 100%…