Dear All,
"If you pay peanuts; you will get monkeys". This proverb is very much being understood by the sixth pay commission. This was a long due. The government employees truly deserve the hike.However, the babus and PSUs should be made accountable for their duties, orelse they will remain a white elephant forever. The productivity and performance has to improve drastically.
Recently, some of the talented officers left their government jobs and accepted some lucrative offers from Reliance and Bharti.This hike in salary may work as a panacea to attract the best talents to join government sectors. It should act as a hindrance to continual exodus to corporates. But I don't think it will control corruption and their lethargic attitude as it is an attitudinal problem.
I believe the media is blowing the hike out of proportion. If we analyse the report, there is again unequal distribution among different cadres. The creamy layer IAS officers are best benefited and the mid level officials are the sufferers. This hike of 40% is happening after a decade, whereas a 15-20% hike in salary is a regular feature in private sectors. The salary hike is just an eye wash. The defence service has been given a raw deal. We should not forget that the national custodians are deprived of basic necessities like decent accommodation, communication, entertainment, electricity and even proper toilets. The field area allowance is not adequate for the soldiers.
Now the other side of the story, How the ex-chequer is going to take this brunt of hike in salary? This craze for frequent and unwarranted wage hikes would have been prevented if the government had taken necessary early action to control inflation. Even it will have a spillover effect in state level. The state level employees may also demand a hike and create a chaotic situation.
In fact there are reports like Geeta Krishnan report which have stated that many Government departments have become non functional in the changed scenario of economic reforms and may be abolished. This report is gathering dust in the Finance Ministry. It should be taken out and implemented immediately.so that the increase in salaries to Government servants does not burden the common man and a lean and clean administration is there to serve the nation.Orelse the tax payers of India won't be comfortable taking care of the hiked salaries of many an inefficient, incompetent and corrupt central government employees.
Regards,
Mr.Bay Leaf
http://kwizpakodah.blogspot.com/
manasanayak@gmail.com
Thursday, March 27, 2008
BRAND EQUITY QUIZ-KOCHI ROUND-08
Dear All,
Malayala Manorama's Arun Abraham and Ranjit Wilson again repeated their performance and bagged a seat in Brand Equity Quiz-08 finals.They won the kochi round even last year.Some good questions were:-
- At Times square in New York city,What are the spectaculars?(The giant billboards)
- Which health drink has all the necessary micro-nutrients listed by WHO?(Women's Horlicks)
Regards,
Mr.Bay Leaf
Thursday, March 20, 2008
9 rules of innovation from Google
Dear All,
A great intellectual friend of mine,Ayan Mahapatra has contributed it.In fact,it was a mail sent by him to me.He was my batchmate during my PGDBA at AICAR Business School.Both of us share our knowledge regularly and the best critic of eachother.Partner!!!Khub daroon....Google's 9 rules of innovation....
Thanks..this is pretty enriching...
Regards,
Mr.Bay Leaf
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Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience, is a tall, blond 32-year-old with two Stanford degrees in computer science. She's also Google's high priestess of simplicity.
Here she shares the rules that give the search giant its innovative edge.
1. Innovation, not instant perfection
"There are two different types of programmers. Some like to code for months or even years, and hope they will have built the perfect product. That's castle building. Companies work this way, too. Apple is great at it. If you get it right and you've built just the perfect thing, you get this worldwide 'Wow!' The problem is, if you get it wrong, you get a thud, a thud in which you've spent, like, five years and 100 people on something the market doesn't want."
"Others prefer to have something working at the end of the day, something to refine and improve the next day. That's what we do: our 'launch early and often' strategy. The hardest part about indoctrinating people into our culture is when engineers show me a prototype and I'm like, 'Great, let's go!' They'll say, 'Oh, no, it's not ready.
It's not up to Google standards. This doesn't look like a Google product yet.' They want to castle-build and do all these other features and make it all perfect."
"I tell them, 'The Googly thing is to launch it early on Google Labs and then iterate, learning what the market wants--and making it great.' The beauty of experimenting in this way is that you never get too far from what the market wants. The market pulls you back."
2. Ideas come from everywhere
"We have this great internal list where people post new ideas and everyone can go on and see them. It's like a voting pool where you can say how good or bad you think an idea is. Those comments lead to new ideas."
3. A license to pursue your dreams
"Since around 2000, we let engineers spend 20% of their time working on whatever they want, and we trust that they'll build interesting things. After September 11, one of our researchers, Krishna Bharat, would go to 10 or 15 news sites each day looking for information about the case. And he thought, Why don't I write a program to do this? So Krishna, who's an expert in artificial intelligence, used a Web crawler to cluster articles."
"He later emailed it around the company. My office mate and I got it, and we were like, 'This isn't just a cool little tool for Krishna. We could add more sources and build this into a great product.' That's how Google News came about.
Krishna did not intend to build a product, but he accidentally gave us the idea for one."
"We let engineers spend 20% of their time working on whatever they want, and we trust that they'll build interesting things."
4. Morph projects don't kill them
"Eric [Schmidt, CEO] made this observation to me once, which I think is accurate: Any project that is good enough to make it to Labs probably has a kernel of something interesting in there somewhere, even if the market doesn't respond to it. It's our job to take the product and morph it into something that the market needs."
5. Share as much information as you can
"People are blown away by the information you can get on MOMA, our intranet. Because there is so much information shared across the company, employees have insight into what's happening with the business and what's important."
"We also have people do things like Snippets. Every Monday, all the employees write an email that has five to seven bullet points on what you did the previous week. Being a search company, we take all the emails and make a giant Web page and index them."
"If you're wondering, 'Who's working on maps?' you can find out. It allows us to share what we know across the whole company, and it reduces duplication."
6. Users, users, users
"I used to call this 'Users, Not Money.' We believe that if we focus on the users, the money will come. In a truly virtual business, if you're successful, you'll be working at something that's so necessary people will pay for it in subscription form. Or you'll have so many users that advertisers will pay to sponsor the site."
7. Data is apolitical
"When I meet people who run design at other organizations, they're always like, 'Design is one of the most political areas of the company. This designer likes green and that one likes purple, and whose design gets picked? The one who buddies up to the boss.'
Some companies think of design as an art. We think of design as a science. It doesn't matter who is the favorite or how much you like this aesthetic versus that aesthetic. It all comes down to data. Run a 1% test [on 1% of the audience] and whichever design does best against the user-happiness metrics over a two-week period is the one we launch. We have a very academic environment where we're looking at data all the time.
We probably have somewhere between 50 and 100 experiments running on live traffic, everything from the default number of results to underlined links to how big an arrow should be. We're trying all those different things."
8. Creativity loves constraints
"This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'"
9. You're brilliant? We're hiring
"When I was a grad student at Stanford, I saw that phrase on a flyer for another company in the basement of the computer-science building. It made me stop dead in my tracks and laugh out loud."
"A couple of months later, I'm working at Google, and the engineers were asked to write job ads for engineers. We had a contest. I put, 'You're brilliant? We're hiring. Come work at Google,' and got eight times the click rate that anyone else got.
"Google now has a thousand times as many people as when I started, which is just staggering to me. What's remarkable, though, is what hasn't changed--the types of people who work here and the types of things that they like to work on. It's almost identical to the first 20 or so of us at Google."
"There is this amazing element to the culture of wanting to work on big problems that matter, wanting to do great things for the world, believing that we can build a successful business without compromising our standards and values."
"If I'm an entrepreneur and I want to start a Web site, I need a billing system. Oh, there's Google Checkout. I need a mapping function. Oh, there's Google Maps. Okay, I need to monetize. There's Google AdSense, right? I need a user name and password-authentication system. There's Google Accounts."
"This is just way easier than going out and trying to create all of that from scratch. That's how we're going to stay innovative. We're going to continue to attract entrepreneurs who say, 'I found an idea, and I can go to Google and have a demo in a month and be launched in six.'"
-- Cheers!!Ayan
A great intellectual friend of mine,Ayan Mahapatra has contributed it.In fact,it was a mail sent by him to me.He was my batchmate during my PGDBA at AICAR Business School.Both of us share our knowledge regularly and the best critic of eachother.Partner!!!Khub daroon....Google's 9 rules of innovation....
Thanks..this is pretty enriching...
Regards,
Mr.Bay Leaf
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Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience, is a tall, blond 32-year-old with two Stanford degrees in computer science. She's also Google's high priestess of simplicity.
Here she shares the rules that give the search giant its innovative edge.
1. Innovation, not instant perfection
"There are two different types of programmers. Some like to code for months or even years, and hope they will have built the perfect product. That's castle building. Companies work this way, too. Apple is great at it. If you get it right and you've built just the perfect thing, you get this worldwide 'Wow!' The problem is, if you get it wrong, you get a thud, a thud in which you've spent, like, five years and 100 people on something the market doesn't want."
"Others prefer to have something working at the end of the day, something to refine and improve the next day. That's what we do: our 'launch early and often' strategy. The hardest part about indoctrinating people into our culture is when engineers show me a prototype and I'm like, 'Great, let's go!' They'll say, 'Oh, no, it's not ready.
It's not up to Google standards. This doesn't look like a Google product yet.' They want to castle-build and do all these other features and make it all perfect."
"I tell them, 'The Googly thing is to launch it early on Google Labs and then iterate, learning what the market wants--and making it great.' The beauty of experimenting in this way is that you never get too far from what the market wants. The market pulls you back."
2. Ideas come from everywhere
"We have this great internal list where people post new ideas and everyone can go on and see them. It's like a voting pool where you can say how good or bad you think an idea is. Those comments lead to new ideas."
3. A license to pursue your dreams
"Since around 2000, we let engineers spend 20% of their time working on whatever they want, and we trust that they'll build interesting things. After September 11, one of our researchers, Krishna Bharat, would go to 10 or 15 news sites each day looking for information about the case. And he thought, Why don't I write a program to do this? So Krishna, who's an expert in artificial intelligence, used a Web crawler to cluster articles."
"He later emailed it around the company. My office mate and I got it, and we were like, 'This isn't just a cool little tool for Krishna. We could add more sources and build this into a great product.' That's how Google News came about.
Krishna did not intend to build a product, but he accidentally gave us the idea for one."
"We let engineers spend 20% of their time working on whatever they want, and we trust that they'll build interesting things."
4. Morph projects don't kill them
"Eric [Schmidt, CEO] made this observation to me once, which I think is accurate: Any project that is good enough to make it to Labs probably has a kernel of something interesting in there somewhere, even if the market doesn't respond to it. It's our job to take the product and morph it into something that the market needs."
5. Share as much information as you can
"People are blown away by the information you can get on MOMA, our intranet. Because there is so much information shared across the company, employees have insight into what's happening with the business and what's important."
"We also have people do things like Snippets. Every Monday, all the employees write an email that has five to seven bullet points on what you did the previous week. Being a search company, we take all the emails and make a giant Web page and index them."
"If you're wondering, 'Who's working on maps?' you can find out. It allows us to share what we know across the whole company, and it reduces duplication."
6. Users, users, users
"I used to call this 'Users, Not Money.' We believe that if we focus on the users, the money will come. In a truly virtual business, if you're successful, you'll be working at something that's so necessary people will pay for it in subscription form. Or you'll have so many users that advertisers will pay to sponsor the site."
7. Data is apolitical
"When I meet people who run design at other organizations, they're always like, 'Design is one of the most political areas of the company. This designer likes green and that one likes purple, and whose design gets picked? The one who buddies up to the boss.'
Some companies think of design as an art. We think of design as a science. It doesn't matter who is the favorite or how much you like this aesthetic versus that aesthetic. It all comes down to data. Run a 1% test [on 1% of the audience] and whichever design does best against the user-happiness metrics over a two-week period is the one we launch. We have a very academic environment where we're looking at data all the time.
We probably have somewhere between 50 and 100 experiments running on live traffic, everything from the default number of results to underlined links to how big an arrow should be. We're trying all those different things."
8. Creativity loves constraints
"This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'"
9. You're brilliant? We're hiring
"When I was a grad student at Stanford, I saw that phrase on a flyer for another company in the basement of the computer-science building. It made me stop dead in my tracks and laugh out loud."
"A couple of months later, I'm working at Google, and the engineers were asked to write job ads for engineers. We had a contest. I put, 'You're brilliant? We're hiring. Come work at Google,' and got eight times the click rate that anyone else got.
"Google now has a thousand times as many people as when I started, which is just staggering to me. What's remarkable, though, is what hasn't changed--the types of people who work here and the types of things that they like to work on. It's almost identical to the first 20 or so of us at Google."
"There is this amazing element to the culture of wanting to work on big problems that matter, wanting to do great things for the world, believing that we can build a successful business without compromising our standards and values."
"If I'm an entrepreneur and I want to start a Web site, I need a billing system. Oh, there's Google Checkout. I need a mapping function. Oh, there's Google Maps. Okay, I need to monetize. There's Google AdSense, right? I need a user name and password-authentication system. There's Google Accounts."
"This is just way easier than going out and trying to create all of that from scratch. That's how we're going to stay innovative. We're going to continue to attract entrepreneurs who say, 'I found an idea, and I can go to Google and have a demo in a month and be launched in six.'"
-- Cheers!!Ayan
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
DELHI BRAND EQUITY QUIZ-08-REGIONAL
- How do we know the group of eight plants Ridhi, Vridhi, Jeevak, Kakoli, Ksirkakoli, Meda and Mahameda better as? The answer is Chyawanaprash.
- Which company had the fastest entry into the dictionary of new words as a commonplace verb? If you guessed ‘Google’, you’re right.
- ‘The strength of which product is indicated by SPF? Ans - Sunscreen Lotion’
- ‘According to the London Financial Times, which was a ‘virtual company with virtual profits’ — Enron’.
NTPC ,the last time finalist from Delhi lost it to SAP Labs in tie-breaker.
kwizpakodah-10-questions
- If "saamna" is the mouthpiece of shivsena, then congress party's mouthpiece is ________?
- Dance instructor Isha Talwar, MTV Roadies, Gurbani (Bani) and Tammy the model are featured in which apparel brand company's campaign namely "I am more" targeted to new generation women in India?
- Silky Kumar was unveiled before audience through a music video "scent of desire" on MTV to promote this brand? Identify the brand?
- 'Free, fair & Fearless- whose tagline is this?Clue-A weekly magazine
- What was sold with the ad line "Rahe na rahe hum…mehka karenge"?
- X- The singer produced the movie with Y-the music director of the movie Z.The movie was a commercial flop, whereas the producers X and Y bagged national award for best playback singing and best music direction respectively.Intersting to note that the director - W of the movie who was also the lyricist received national award for best lyrics in 1991.Identify W, X, Y & Z?
- This is the only case of Bharat Ratna award being withdrawn. Why and who was awarded with this highest civilian award?
- While Lata Mangeshkar called her Tapaswini (the Renunciate), Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan termed her Suswaralakshmi (the goddess of musical notes), and Kishori Amonkar labeled her the ultimate eighth note or Aathuvaan Sur, which is above the seven notes basic to all music.She was given the Ramon Magsaysay award also.Who is she? Identify her?
- Her formal education was limited to one day in the school. On the first day in the school, she started teaching songs to other children. When the teacher stopped her, she was so angry that she stopped going to the school.Who is she?Identify?
- Who is the only woman to have been awarded two Nobel Prizes?
can post your answers at www.kwizpakodah.blogspot.com
Regards,
Mr.Bay Leaf
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
BRAND EQUITY QUIZ-08-AHMEDABAD
BRAND EQUITY QUIZ-08-AHMEDABAD
1. What is the answer to wal-mart’s cheer “Who’s number one”? (Customer)
2. A village in Gujurat is called Gati Nagar.Why? (Cargo Company Gati has adopted that village in the aftermath of Bhuj earthquake in 2001.)
3. Which company patented a purple colour pan tone 2685c? (Cadbury)
4. Why was ice cream brand Haggen Dazs so named despit it being n American brand? (The company wanted a Swiss sounding name for the ice cream)
5. Till the state bank of Pakistan was established in 1948, which bank acted as central bank of Pakistan? (Reserve Bank of India)
Triton Ad agency was winner.
Monday, March 17, 2008
kwiz pakodah-16/03/08-answers
- Anupam Kher,Johnny Lever, Kapil Dev,Paresh Raval,Vivian Richards & Karisma Kapoor.Connect them.(All of them are the celebrities who endorsed Rasna products)
- Kerala Tourism, They used this popular phrase, 'God's own country' .This phrase was first used by an alumnus of IIT, Mumbai & Carnigie Mellon University, who used this phrase first time while creating the first-ever webpages on Kerala and Malayalam in 1993.Who is this person? Identify him?(Dr.Vipin Gopal from calicut coined the phrase)
- Dasani brand of water bottle belongs to whom? (Coca-Cola)
- Lunsford Richardson named this product which was also the name of his brother-in-law. It was short and easy to remember. He came out with a popular commercial product. Name it. (Vicks)
- What is Kerala Varma credited for in print media? (The name Malayalam Manorama was chosen by the poet, Kerala Varma. Malayala Manorama is a popular Malayalam daily newspaper in Kerala, India. This is India's largest circulated "regional newspaper".)
- Akash Bhatia faced difficulty in getting tickets for a movie. This led to an idea of launching a movie ticketing website with his wife. Name the portal? Clue:-Prahlad Kakkar and Kiran Bedi are the brand endorser for this.(kyazoonga.com)
- "Be Inspired" is an employee magazine of SSL international. Which global brand of condom they are credited for?(Durex)
- X is planning an 11 days in 11 cities tour to promote this album Y. The first song released from the album is called "I Thought I'd Seen Everything". He supports Chelsea F.C. and the song "We're Gonna Win" from his album 18 Til I Die is dedicated to the football club. Identify X & Y? (Bryan Adams, 11)
- Time Warner's television service HBO stands for __________? (Home Box Office)
- While issuing tickets as a B.E.S.T. bus conductor, Badruddin Jamalludin Kazi used to entertain passengers aboard with some antics. These antics caught the attention of actor and script-writer Balraj Sahni in 1950 while he was once traveling in a B.E.S.T. bus on which Badruddin, was working as a conductor. Sahni was penning at that time the script for the movie, Baazi (1951), and introduced Badruddin to Guru Dutt as a candidate for a role. Badruddin's screen test consisted of acting as a drunk, and he did it so well that Guru Dutt gave him the screen name, "X", after the famous Scotch whisky brand. (Interestingly, he was always a teetotaler.)Identify X. (Johnny Walker)
KWIZ PAKODAH-16-03-2008-QUESTIONS
- Anupam Kher,Johnny Lever, Kapil Dev,Paresh Raval,Vivian Richards & Karisma Kapoor.Connect them.
- Kerala Tourism, They used this popular phrase, 'God's own country' .This phrase was first used by an alumnus of IIT, Mumbai & Carnigie Mellon University, who used this phrase first time while creating the first-ever webpages on Kerala and Malayalam in 1993.Who is this person? Identify him?
- Dasani brand of water bottle belongs to whom?
- Lunsford Richardson named this product which was also the name of his brother-in-law. It was short and easy to remember. He came out with a popular commercial product. Name it.
- What is Kerala Varma credited for in the print media?
- Akash Bhatia faced difficulty in getting tickets for a movie. This led to an idea of launching a movie ticketing website with his wife. Name the portal? Clue:-Prahlad Kakkar and Kiran Bedi are the brand endorser for this.
- “Be Inspired” is an employee magazine of SSL international. Which global brand of condom they are credited for?
- X is planning an 11 days in 11 cities tour to promote this album Y. The first song released from the album is called "I Thought I'd Seen Everything”. He supports Chelsea F.C. and the song "We're Gonna Win" from his album 18 Til I Die is dedicated to the football club. Identify X & Y?
- Time Warner’s television service HBO stands for __________?
- While issuing tickets as a B.E.S.T. bus conductor, Badruddin Jamalludin Kazi used to entertain passengers aboard with some antics. These antics caught the attention of actor and script-writer Balraj Sahni in 1950 while he was once traveling in a B.E.S.T. bus on which Badruddin, was working as a conductor. Sahni was penning at that time the script for the movie, Baazi (1951), and introduced Badruddin to Guru Dutt as a candidate for a role. Badruddin's screen test consisted of acting as a drunk, and he did it so well that Guru Dutt gave him the screen name, "X", after the famous Scotch whisky brand. (Interestingly, he was always a teetotaler.)Identify X.
You can post your answers at http://www.kwizpakodh.blogspot.com/ or send a mail to 9337222518.
'God's own country' -answer
Kerala Tourism, They used this popular phrase, 'God's own country' .This phrase was first used by an alumnus of IIT, Mumbai & Carnigie Mellon University, who used this phrase first time while creating the first-ever webpages on Kerala and Malayalam in 1993.Who is this person? Identify him?
Answer:-(Dr.Vipin Gopal from calicut coined the phrase)
Answer:-(Dr.Vipin Gopal from calicut coined the phrase)
Saturday, March 15, 2008
'God's own country'-Kerala
This is a print advertisement by Kerala Tourism.They used this popular phrase,'God's own country' .This phrase was first used by an alumnus of IIT,Mumbai & Carnigie Mellon University,who used this phrase first time while creating the first-ever webpages on Kerala and Malayalam in 1993.Who is this person?Identify him?Regards,
Mr.Bay Leaf
www.blackle.com
Source:-It was a forwarded mail by one of my favourate students Sujeet Patnaik.
If Google had a black screen, taking into account the huge number of times this search engine is used, 750 megawatts/hours of energy per year would be saved. In recognition of this fact, Google has created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but with lower energy consumption.
Bookmark it today and pass it along!!!
www.blackle.com
Regards,
Mr.Bay Leaf
9337222518
If Google had a black screen, taking into account the huge number of times this search engine is used, 750 megawatts/hours of energy per year would be saved. In recognition of this fact, Google has created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but with lower energy consumption.
Bookmark it today and pass it along!!!
www.blackle.com
Regards,
Mr.Bay Leaf
9337222518
KWIZ PAKODAH-ANSWERS-14/3/2008
ANSWERS:-
1.X got its name from a famous and most respected family of kerala who believed in Ayurveda. Dr.V.P.Sidhan, who successfully converted this traditional wisdom of this family found in ancient palm leaf manuscripts and created its flagship brand Y. Identify X & Y?(clue-Limca book of record most number of 'Pookalams' under one roof is credited to this company)
Answer-X-Cholayil, Y-Medimix
2. X produces dishwash bar/liquid,household insecticides,fragrances,distributes tea,coffee in India.Jeeva naturals is a brand of soap belongs to X.It distributes the Y brand of dhoop marketed and owned by Balaji Telebrands Ltd.Identify X & the agarbatti brand Y.Identify X & Y?Z is the visionary who founded this company? Identify X,Y & Z?(This company had six sales girls in its first Marketing team to sell their products door to door to housewives.)
Answer-Jyothy Laboratories,Exo is dishwash brand, Ekta`s Karyasiddhi Graha Shanti Dhoops is a variety of agarbatti aimed at customers with astrological interests and beliefs. The brand is owned and marketed by Balaji Telebrands Limited and is distributed by jyothy laboratories, M P Ramachandran
3.'Salvadore Persica' - the famous 'Toothbrush Tree' used for centuries. The astringent and bactericidal properties of it help reduce tooth decay, fight plaque and prevent gum disease.Which Indian brand has got its name from it?
Ans:-MESWAK
4.This Indian brand got its name from 'Acacia Arabia'?
Ans:-BABOOL
5.Ace Shaving Cream belongs to which business group?
Ans:-Balsara
6.Odopic brand is owned by which business group?
Ans:-Dabur,acquired by them from Balsara
7. Ayurveda Vikas - A Monthly Ayurvedic magazine in Hindi from ____________business group?
Ans:-Dabur
8.Connect Sterling hospital, Mrs.Marino, Stopache?
Ans:- Paras Pharmaceuticals (Sterling Hospital - a multi super-speciality hospital by paras pharma, mrs. marino is an after-shampoo rinse-off hair softener by paras pharma, Stopache is an analgesic pill that provides relief from headaches by paras)
9.In medical terminology, 'It' is called 'Intertrigo'. Which popular brand came as a solution to it?Identify the brand.It had addressed an issue, which was so common, so personal to everyone, yet so unspoken.
Ans:-Itch Guard
10.This specialised ayurvedic product contains active ingredients such as oil of Wintergreen, Tarpin oil, Nilgiri oil and Mint flowers to provide a 'soothing warmth' in order to relieve pain.It is commercially known as __________ to the consumers(majorly housewives).Fill in the blank.
Ans:-Moov
1.X got its name from a famous and most respected family of kerala who believed in Ayurveda. Dr.V.P.Sidhan, who successfully converted this traditional wisdom of this family found in ancient palm leaf manuscripts and created its flagship brand Y. Identify X & Y?(clue-Limca book of record most number of 'Pookalams' under one roof is credited to this company)
Answer-X-Cholayil, Y-Medimix
2. X produces dishwash bar/liquid,household insecticides,fragrances,distributes tea,coffee in India.Jeeva naturals is a brand of soap belongs to X.It distributes the Y brand of dhoop marketed and owned by Balaji Telebrands Ltd.Identify X & the agarbatti brand Y.Identify X & Y?Z is the visionary who founded this company? Identify X,Y & Z?(This company had six sales girls in its first Marketing team to sell their products door to door to housewives.)
Answer-Jyothy Laboratories,Exo is dishwash brand, Ekta`s Karyasiddhi Graha Shanti Dhoops is a variety of agarbatti aimed at customers with astrological interests and beliefs. The brand is owned and marketed by Balaji Telebrands Limited and is distributed by jyothy laboratories, M P Ramachandran
3.'Salvadore Persica' - the famous 'Toothbrush Tree' used for centuries. The astringent and bactericidal properties of it help reduce tooth decay, fight plaque and prevent gum disease.Which Indian brand has got its name from it?
Ans:-MESWAK
4.This Indian brand got its name from 'Acacia Arabia'?
Ans:-BABOOL
5.Ace Shaving Cream belongs to which business group?
Ans:-Balsara
6.Odopic brand is owned by which business group?
Ans:-Dabur,acquired by them from Balsara
7. Ayurveda Vikas - A Monthly Ayurvedic magazine in Hindi from ____________business group?
Ans:-Dabur
8.Connect Sterling hospital, Mrs.Marino, Stopache?
Ans:- Paras Pharmaceuticals (Sterling Hospital - a multi super-speciality hospital by paras pharma, mrs. marino is an after-shampoo rinse-off hair softener by paras pharma, Stopache is an analgesic pill that provides relief from headaches by paras)
9.In medical terminology, 'It' is called 'Intertrigo'. Which popular brand came as a solution to it?Identify the brand.It had addressed an issue, which was so common, so personal to everyone, yet so unspoken.
Ans:-Itch Guard
10.This specialised ayurvedic product contains active ingredients such as oil of Wintergreen, Tarpin oil, Nilgiri oil and Mint flowers to provide a 'soothing warmth' in order to relieve pain.It is commercially known as __________ to the consumers(majorly housewives).Fill in the blank.
Ans:-Moov
Friday, March 14, 2008
KWIZPAKODAH-14-03-2008-QUESTIONS
1.X got its name from a famous and most respected family of kerala who believed in Ayurveda. Dr.V.P.Sidhan, who successfully converted this traditional wisdom of this family found in ancient palm leaf manuscripts and created its flagship brand Y. Identify X & Y?(clue-Limca book of record most number of 'Pookalams' under one roof is credited to this company)
2. X produces dishwash bar/liquid,household insecticides,fragrances,distributes tea,coffee in India.Jeeva naturals is a brand of soap belongs to X.It distributes the Y brand of dhoop marketed and owned by Balaji Telebrands Ltd.Identify X & the agarbatti brand Y.Identify X & Y?Z is the visionary who founded this company?Identify X,Y & Z?(This company had six sales girls in its first Marketing team to sell their products door to door to housewives.)
3.'Salvadore Persica' - the famous 'Toothbrush Tree' used for centuries. The astringent and bactericidal properties of it help reduce tooth decay, fight plaque and prevent gum disease.Which Indian brand has got its name from it?
4.This Indian brand got its name from 'Acacia Arabica'?
5.Ace Shaving Cream belongs to which business group?
6.Odopic brand is owned by which business group?
7. Ayurveda Vikas - A Monthly Ayurvedic magazine in Hindi from ____________business group?
8.Connect Sterlinghospital,Mrs.Marino,Stopache?
9.In medical terminology, 'It' is called ‘Intertrigo’. Which popular brand came as a solution to it?Identify the brand.It had addressed an issue, which was so common, so personal to everyone, yet so unspoken.
10.This specialised ayurvedic product contains active ingredients such as oil of Wintergreen, Tarpin oil, Nilgiri oil and Mint flowers to provide a ‘soothing warmth’ in order to relieve pain.It is commercially known as __________ to the consumers(majorly housewives).The famous 'Ek minute maalish...."Fill in the blank.
2. X produces dishwash bar/liquid,household insecticides,fragrances,distributes tea,coffee in India.Jeeva naturals is a brand of soap belongs to X.It distributes the Y brand of dhoop marketed and owned by Balaji Telebrands Ltd.Identify X & the agarbatti brand Y.Identify X & Y?Z is the visionary who founded this company?Identify X,Y & Z?(This company had six sales girls in its first Marketing team to sell their products door to door to housewives.)
3.'Salvadore Persica' - the famous 'Toothbrush Tree' used for centuries. The astringent and bactericidal properties of it help reduce tooth decay, fight plaque and prevent gum disease.Which Indian brand has got its name from it?
4.This Indian brand got its name from 'Acacia Arabica'?
5.Ace Shaving Cream belongs to which business group?
6.Odopic brand is owned by which business group?
7. Ayurveda Vikas - A Monthly Ayurvedic magazine in Hindi from ____________business group?
8.Connect Sterlinghospital,Mrs.Marino,Stopache?
9.In medical terminology, 'It' is called ‘Intertrigo’. Which popular brand came as a solution to it?Identify the brand.It had addressed an issue, which was so common, so personal to everyone, yet so unspoken.
10.This specialised ayurvedic product contains active ingredients such as oil of Wintergreen, Tarpin oil, Nilgiri oil and Mint flowers to provide a ‘soothing warmth’ in order to relieve pain.It is commercially known as __________ to the consumers(majorly housewives).The famous 'Ek minute maalish...."Fill in the blank.
THE TEN FOOT RULE BY SAM WALTON
Derek's question made me inquiz-itive to know about some more rules by Sam Walton.He also handed down "The Ten Foot Rule" which is one of the secrets of Wal-Mart customer satisfaction..During his many store visits, he encouraged associates to take a pledge with him: "I want you to promise that whenever you come within 10 feet of a customer, you will look him in the eye, greet him, and ask him if you can help him."
Regards,
Mr.Bay Leaf
Regards,
Mr.Bay Leaf
BRAND EQUITY-08-KOLKATA-FEW INTERESTING QUESTIONS
Dear All,
G.Sreekanth & Sabyasachi,once agin winning the kolkata round of Brnad Equity-08.Since my school days, I am counting 'How many quizzes are won by Sree".They were in 2004,06,07 finalists,however never won the national finals.
Some interesting questions were:-
G.Sreekanth & Sabyasachi,once agin winning the kolkata round of Brnad Equity-08.Since my school days, I am counting 'How many quizzes are won by Sree".They were in 2004,06,07 finalists,however never won the national finals.
Some interesting questions were:-
- Which company was founded by brothers ambrogio and Egidio in 1946? (Perfetti)
- During world war-ii,what did the british call "TATAnagars". (The armoured vehicles built by the TATAs)
- What is the "SUNDOWN RULE"that wal-mart strives to achieve? (strive to answer requests by the close of business on the day we receive them. Whether it's a request from a store across the country or a call from down the hall, every request gets same-day service.)When I was working with Career Launcher,our MD Nikhil Mahajan,sent a group mail to all the employees talking about this rule.So I new about it beforehand.I never thought that one day Derek will be asking it as a question.This is what,you can learn from anything and everything,which will be beneficial to you somewhere or the other.)
- Every year,what does kolkata municipal corporation buy 400 tonnes of at a cost of Rs.50 Lakh? (Broomstick)
- Whose designation reads managing director,Leftword Books? (CPI(M) General Secy,Prakash Karat)
Anyway,wishing Sree & Sabyasachi,all the best for the finals...signing off Mr.Bay Leaf.
Regards,
Manas Nayak
KWIZ PAKODAH-13/3/2008-ANSWERS
1.Formica brand of laminates belong to which Indian business group?(Wadia Group)
2.BONAQUA brand of packaged water belongs to whom?(Coca Cola,to be launched very soon in India)
3.X the son of an Indian Army general. He is the first Parsi to be selected to the upper house of UK parliament. He came up with a solution to the General dissatisfaction with the "gassy and heavy" British beer that "just did not go well with Indian food”. In 1990 created a brand Y?Identify X & Y?(X-Karan Billimoria,Y-Cobra Beer)
4.TATA Safari-DICOR is a great brand.DICOR stands for ____?(Direct Injection Common Rail)
5.Who owns mouth refresher brand “Funda Mint”?(Godfrey Phillips India,IT'S THEIR ENTRY INTO THE CONFECTIONARY MARKET)
6.BURNOL brand belong to whom?they also own beauty retail chain Lifespring?(Dr.Morepen,Previously it was with Reckit Benckiser,even burnol was with them,acquired by Dr.Morepen in 2002 if I am not wrong..)
7.TACO Bell is a chain of QSR.What does QSR stands for?(Quick Serve/Service Restaurant)
8.Elder pharmaceutical Ltd has tied up with Haw par Singapore to market this product in India. The product is manufactured in India as per the quality parameters of Haw-Par-Healthcare Singapore. This brand is known world wide for its quality and effectiveness and is marketed in more than 100 countries. Identify the popular brand?(Tiger Balm)
9.Who owns AMPM Mouthwash?(Elder pharmaceutical)
10.Expand CIPLA?( The Chemical, Industrial & Pharmaceutical Laboratories)
Regards,
Mr.Bay Leaf
2.BONAQUA brand of packaged water belongs to whom?(Coca Cola,to be launched very soon in India)
3.X the son of an Indian Army general. He is the first Parsi to be selected to the upper house of UK parliament. He came up with a solution to the General dissatisfaction with the "gassy and heavy" British beer that "just did not go well with Indian food”. In 1990 created a brand Y?Identify X & Y?(X-Karan Billimoria,Y-Cobra Beer)
4.TATA Safari-DICOR is a great brand.DICOR stands for ____?(Direct Injection Common Rail)
5.Who owns mouth refresher brand “Funda Mint”?(Godfrey Phillips India,IT'S THEIR ENTRY INTO THE CONFECTIONARY MARKET)
6.BURNOL brand belong to whom?they also own beauty retail chain Lifespring?(Dr.Morepen,Previously it was with Reckit Benckiser,even burnol was with them,acquired by Dr.Morepen in 2002 if I am not wrong..)
7.TACO Bell is a chain of QSR.What does QSR stands for?(Quick Serve/Service Restaurant)
8.Elder pharmaceutical Ltd has tied up with Haw par Singapore to market this product in India. The product is manufactured in India as per the quality parameters of Haw-Par-Healthcare Singapore. This brand is known world wide for its quality and effectiveness and is marketed in more than 100 countries. Identify the popular brand?(Tiger Balm)
9.Who owns AMPM Mouthwash?(Elder pharmaceutical)
10.Expand CIPLA?( The Chemical, Industrial & Pharmaceutical Laboratories)
Regards,
Mr.Bay Leaf
Thursday, March 13, 2008
KWIZPAKODAH-13/03/2008-QUESTIONS
- Formica brand of laminates belong to which Indian business group?
- BONAQUA brand of packaged water belongs to whom?
- X the son of an Indian Army general. He is the first Parsi to be selected to the upper house of UK parliament. He came up with a solution to the General dissatisfaction with the "gassy and heavy" British beer that "just did not go well with Indian food”. In 1990 created a brand Y?Identify X & Y?
- TATA Safari-DICOR is a great brand.DICOR stands for ____?
- Who owns mouth refresher brand “Funda Mint”?
- BURNOL brand belong to whom?they also own beauty retail chain Lifespring?
- TACO Bell is a chain of QSR.What does QSR stands for?
- Elder pharmaceutical Ltd has tied up with Haw par Singapore to market this product in India. The product is manufactured in India as per the quality parameters of Haw-Par-Healthcare Singapore. This brand is known world wide for its quality and effectiveness and is marketed in more than 100 countries. Identify the popular brand?
- Who owns AMPM Mouthwash?
- Expand CIPLA?
You can send your answers to manasanayak@gmail.com or post it at www.kwizpakodah.blogspot.com
Regards,
Mr.Bay Leaf
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Monday, March 3, 2008
TIME person of the year award. Abstract choices...
The only times when specific people were not awarded the TIME person of the year award. Abstract choices.
1. American Soldier
2. Hungarian freedom fighter
3. Baby boomers
4. Middle America
5. PC
6. Endangered Earth
7. American Soldier(Again)
8. You (Web2.0)
SOURCE:-http://brainiedeal.wordpress.com/question-of-the-week/
1. American Soldier
2. Hungarian freedom fighter
3. Baby boomers
4. Middle America
5. PC
6. Endangered Earth
7. American Soldier(Again)
8. You (Web2.0)
SOURCE:-http://brainiedeal.wordpress.com/question-of-the-week/
Sunday, March 2, 2008
KWIZ PAKODAH-11/03/08
1.In the 1870s, two inventors X and Y both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically. Both men rushed their respective designs to the patent office within hours of each other, Y patented his telephone first. X and Y entered into a famous legal battle over the invention of the telephone, which Y won. Identify X & Y?
*2.Thomas Sullivan is credited for inventing _______.
3.Connect Ralph Andrews &John Larson? (Clue-Larson a Californian police officer invented this instrument.)
*4.General Dwight D. Eisenhower said that America could not have won World War II without it. Willy's Truck Company was the first company to create the right prototype. What am I talking about?
*5.It was named Time Magazine's Invention of the year in 2006. What am I talking about?
*6. Bajaj contends that CC-VTi tech used in TVS new 125cc motorbike "Flame" infringed on its DTSi patent. Thus Bajaj sued TVS and madras high court restrains TVS-M from selling and manufacturing 125 cc bikes for some days? CC-VTi stands for?
7. Its version 8.0 system now weighs less than 1.5 kilograms, compared with 6.3 kg of version 2.It was designed for first developed for aircraft in 1929 by Gabriel Voisin.
*8.Just by dialing the sequence *#06# into the GSM phone,you get this.What am I talking about?
9. A courtier, author, Sir John Harington is a prominent member of Queen Elizabeth I's court, and was known as her 'saucy Godson'. He had invented 'The Ajax', for Elizabeth I of
England.His design was ridiculed in England, but was adopted in France under the name Angrez. What did he invent for Elizabeth I?
10. What is the term used to describe a "Chinese Portal"?
*11. What was the code name of Windows Vista?
12. Once I was waiting for a train. It was a foggy night and I was going over in my mind the problem of temperature and humidity control. By the time the train arrived, I had an understanding of the relationship between temperature, humidity and dew point. Identify me?
*13.The name of this device is having a Czechoslovakian origin, which means slave, servant, or forced labor. What am I talking about? Clue-Asimov loves to write story about them.
14. What term was coined by Don Hoeffler and appeared in 1971 in a magazine called "Electronic news"?
15. It was originally known as QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System). Identify it?
*16.A virus that attacks or infects specific anti-virus software is known?
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*1.Ans-In the 1870s, two inventors (X-Elisha Gray and Y-Alexander Graham Bell) both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). Both men rushed their respective designs to the patent office within hours of each other, Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone first. Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell entered into a famous legal battle over the invention of the telephone, which Bell won.)
*2. Ans-Tea Bags, Thomas Sullivan was a tea importer based in New York City. He came up with the tea bags, which was actually just a silk pouch with a small amount of tea inside. This meant that the client could taste the tea as before, but he wasn't wasting money on tins and mailing costs.
3. Ans-The most notable polygraph TV show is Lie Detector, which first aired in the 1950's created and hosted by Ralph Andrews. John Larson is responsible for inventing it, which is also known as polygraph.
*4. Ans-The Jeep, During World War I, the U.S. Army needed a fast, lightweight all-terrain vehicle. In 1940, the Army called on the automotive companies to create a working prototype (fitting army specifications) in forty-nine days. Willy's Truck Company was the first company to create the right prototype. The new vehicle was nicknamed "the Jeep." General Dwight D. Eisenhower said that America could not have won World War II without it.
*5. Ans-You Tube - The online video sharing and viewing community - was invented in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
*6. Ans- (controlled combustion variable timing intelligent)
7. Ans-Anti-lock breaking system (ABS)
*8. Ans-The International Mobile Equipment Identity or IMEI
9. Ans-First Flush Toilet
10. Ans-Chortal
*11. Ans-Longhorn
12. ANS- In 1928, Willis Haviland Carrier developed the first residential 'Weather maker', an air conditioner for private home use.
*13. Ans-Robot, The actual word robot was invented in the 20th century from the Czechoslovakian word robota or robotnik meaning slave, servant, or forced labor.
14. Ans-Silicon Valley
15. Ans- MS-DOS (short for Microsoft Disk Operating System)
*16. Ans- Anti-Anti virus virus
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