Sunday, December 21, 2008

Chicago Booth

The First Quarter is officially over now! YAY!!! Where did the time go! Anyhow, Financial Accounting and Business Statistics were both interesting and were taught by competent professors. Alan Bester is by far the best professor I have had and I feel privileged to have learnt Stats from him.

On the whole, Chicago Booth has been fun. Even with all my flying into Chicago every weekend, the friends I have made and the calibre of professors in the school have helped me get rid of any misgivings I might have had at the beginning of the course. Overall, it is an excellent school!

The New Venture Competition kicks off in Jan 2009 and I am looking forward to taking part - lets see what happens :)

Technology Consulting

As a consultant working for a technology company, I deal with interesting business problems all the time. Most of the time, the solution is not out of the box. Let me give you a few examples; What do you do to determine the technology needs of a company that is growing at 30% annually, how should they prioritize their spend?

How do we attack the problem of information consumers not being able to make sense of vast sense of data being fed to them? What solution do you implement, and how is it going to be better?

What can we do to deal with an errant software vendor? Can we manage them differently and if so, what processes do we need to put in place to ensure they don't miss more deadlines, or atleast predict their actual delivery timelines with some reasonable degree of accuracy ?

Our clients range from the pharma industry to the insurance industry, banks to manufacturers of automobiles. In this blog, I will try to talk about some of the business problems and their solutions without mentioning specific names or exact problems.