My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

We Invite you for our September 19 th program on topic “Digital Marketing”, by “Mr.Benjamin and Ms.Vishnupreetham” between “3PM and 5PM” at “Hotel Pratap Plaza, Chennai”. Kindly register us well before the event for us to reserve your nominations. Kindly find the detailed write-up below & RUSH FOR YOUR REGISTRATIONS !!!   Please be informed that the Entry fee is complimentary for all our Partners, Members& Partner references .     Digital Marketing: Topic: Digital Marketing. Speaker: Mr. Benjamin & Ms.Vishnupreetham from Digital Creast. Scheduled on: September 19th, Thursday between 03:00 Pm and 05:00 Pm Venue: Hotel Pratap Plaza , 168, Kodambakkam High Road,Mahalingapuram, Chennai 600034, India (Nungambakkam) Cost for Members: Complimentary Cost for Non Members: R.300 per person. 10% discount if more than 3 persons * Prior registration is compulsory        

Scaling And Growth – Some Perspectives Why do you want to grow?  At the outset this looks like a question that is rhetoric, requiring no answers. But it is true that for many of us growth is just a logical arithmetic progression of revenue or a lofty goal-based journey that we seldom complete. Most of our efforts as individuals and leaders are to intervene in the natural process of growth so as to expedite it towards a purpose. Very often this purpose for growing does not get defined.  The talk  Scaling and Growth – Some Perspectives  is an attempt to place in front of business leaders - the attributes of a growth journey, the points of preparedness and some questions that have to be answered if growth has to be ensured. The 60 minute interaction will open avenues of thoughts that will enable us as a team and as individuals to look at how we have configured our efforts for scaling.  The talk will share experiences, tools and metho

ITSME Welcomes you all for the April 2013 Event:   Topic:  “ LinkedIn: Enhance your Social Media Presence and get found for your needs ” Date:   April 10 th 2013, Wednesday Time: 03:00 Pm and 06:00 Pm Speaker: Raghunath Ramaswamy , Founder CEO, Spectrum Consulting. Address: Hanu Reddy Residences, No. 41/19, Poes Garden, Chennai 600086, India Cost: This Event is Free for all ITSME Members & Rs.300 for Non ITSME Members . Please note that prior registration is compulsory for this event. The essence of any social media platform is to enhance the Social Media presence. LinkedIn emphasizes the concept of Getting Found for your needs. The topic for the evening would therefore be “ LinkedIn: Enhance your Social Media Presence and get found for your needs” .  We will touch upon the seven building blocks of Social Media. We will focus primarily on two core aspects of LinkedIn, the impor

ITSME   invites you to “ The New Series on Winners” on Thursday the 6th December 4.30 PM – 7.00 PM at IIT Alumni Club,   ITT Alumni Club, 61, 3rd Street, Mylapore Chennai 600 004 Presenting The Secret Sauce to Success Srinivasa Gopalan CEO, Lister Technologies Private Limited cofounded the company which is    a global Software services company based in Chennai and serving customers in India, USA, Australia and some parts of Europe. Today, Lister has grown at twice the industry CAGR over the past five years and remains a profitable company. Prior to founding Lister Technologies, Gopal was a member of the core founding management team of Satyam Infoway (now called, SIFY) and as Sr Vice President was responsible for all business with corporate customers.   He was responsible for launching many pioneering products in data services and electronic commerce; identifying, partnering and managing relationship with global corporations such as Sterling Commerce, Broad Vision

While everybody in India is talking about the corruption in high places, the amount of money (how many zeros will be there to denote the huge amount that is being touted), I found it very refreshing to have met  this young boy last month. A tiny one room on the top of a old building - climbing up the stairs strained with pan spittings on both sides, somebody taking a nap on the landing - Not a definite winner of a Great Place to work.  But this guy  Tanvir was enjoying his work and was so proud of what he and his other coworkers were doing..   "Polishing Silver and Gold articles" Yes this was the profession he was undertaking as a family business and which has been traditionally done by his ancestors - What was refreshing was the pride he had and the happiness he found in this calling.  He was proud of the fact that they were dealing with almost all the major jewellers in TNagar.  So like Robin Sharma talks about  Being the Best in what you do in his Leading without a

Last week I was in Bangalore attending the NASSCOM Product Conclave.  What a climate it was -  filled with hope and positiveness - so many people coming into Entrepreneurship (of course, many were youngsters).  While there were quite a lot of B2B, B2C applications, there were also some new things that are being created too.  The whole 2 days was filled with a a sense of great feeling of having arrived and also wanting to Succeed. Following these 2 days of energy upliftment, Saturday once again was another occasion, which lifted up the spirit of wanting to Go forward with all Hope & Positiveness.  This was brought out by the 2 young achievers Meera Krishnan & Raj shankar , Founders of Ichiban Consultants , releasing their maiden book " Entrepreneurship: A life of commas, Not full Stops!" - being focused to their goal. The 3rd one was reading an article in " Aval Vikatan " - a publication by Vikatan group for the women - Determination thy name is Valarmathi

Yes this person is definitely flying high  on the clouds - but his feet are firmly on the ground.  I am talking about none other than Suresh Sambandam, CEO of Orangescape which is offering Platform as a Service for the companies which want to go to the cloud.  Every time, I meet him or talk to him, I am amassed at the simplicity of this person while what he has achieved in life is of Himalayan proposition. His is a story worth talking about how Determination & hardwork can lift you High in life.   A person who admits that he wasnt even a college graduate, but was forced to get into Real Estate business along with his father when he was young, has made his company get featured amongst the likes of Amazon, google, Microsoft etc when it comes to Cloud offering.  What a way to go. I thought I was one of those few people for whom technology was daunting - but he also confesses that he was also afraid of technology initially, but got interested while he was learning typing during his 

This is more a outpouring of my anguish about how the society is not recognizing ( I should say recognizing enough) the entrepreneurs. This write up is borne out of the way the Government is focused towards arts and culture and not business environment. Be it the Central Government in terms of Padma Awards and the State government in terms of giving out Kalaimamani awards - the entire focus is towards the people in the limelight of public. Please dont misunderstand me, I have nothing against recognizing the Artists for their work. I also enjoy when my favourite actor gets an award. Also, even when a new award is instituted it is given to all the well known people - why is this. Is it because the awards needs to be branded that it wants the celebrity able to endorse its brand in the initial years. I saw in the papers last week that our State Government is going in for Awards for the Small TV screens. I also saw the Kalamamani awards ( translated into those who have done great se

After a long time I have come to my favourite topic - Entrepreneurship . So this time around you are going to meet a very very successful Entrepreneur. What a great personality. Like the title says - He is one of the most silent man with no airs being exhibited, but his achievements are great. For me success is not a measure of numbers, but it is much more than getting up even when you have gone down. So not only by numbers, but also raising like Phoenix makes this person a very Great person. I am talking about none other than Mohan Subramaniam of Kumaran Software . His company is one of those companies which are poised for great growth in the coming years. But for all this, you cannot find more simple a person than him. I really have to thank the ITSME forum for bringing me close to him. Mohan's vision is to transform Kumaran into a 10,000 employee Innovative Solution Providing Software Development Company creating value for its employees and customers. Starting out as a Se