Natures Beauty - Jog Falls an Unforgettable Trip with Friends

Let me to introduce my best friends ( from Left Above Pic.) Hari, Mansoor,Ram,Mithun,Myself.

It was not a planned trip, on one weekend, we all just decided on the spot to explore new place to hang out since its been long time that we all have spent time with one another.

Jog Falls , created by the Sharavathi River falling from a height of 253 m ( 850 ft) is the second highest ( after the Nohkalikai Falls with a height of 1100 feet(335 meters) in Meghalaya) plunge water falls in India Located in Sagara,Karnataka Shimoga District of Karnataka state, these segmented falls are a major tourist attraction.It is also called by alternative names of Gerusoppe falls,Gersoppa Falls and Jogada Gundi.

The magnificent Falls of Jog , that is the waterfall are unquestionably the greatest natural beauty in Karnataka.It is truly to be called one of the wonders of the world.The water comes down in four distinct falls, presenting a scene of transcendent qrandeur and sublimity, whose effect is greatly heightened by beautiful mountains around,covered with a wealth luxuriant vegetation.The Raja Fall pours in on unbroken column sheer to the depth of 830 ft(250 m).Half way down it is encountered by the Roarer, another fall, which precipitates itself into a vast cup and then sushes violently downwards at an angle of forty five degrees to meet its famous compeer.A third fall , the rocket shoots downwards at an angle of forty five degrees to meet its famous compeer.A third fall , the Rocket shoots downwards in a series of jets;while the fourth , called the Rani( Dame Blanche) is an Undine- like cascade gliding quietly over the mountain side in a sheet of foam.

The water comes down in four distinct falls, presenting a scene of transcendent qrandeur and sublimity, whose effect is greatly heightened by the wild and beautiful country around,covered witha wealth of luxurieant vegetation.The Raja Fall pours in on unbrokeb column sheer t the depth of 830 ft(250 m).Half way down it is encountered by the Roarer, another fall , which precipitates itself into a vast cup and then rushes violently downwards at an angle of forty five degrees to meet its famous compeer. A third fall, the Rocket shoots downwards in a series of jets;while the fourth, called the Rani(Dame Blanche) is an Undine- like cascade gliding quietly over the mountain side in a sheet of foam.

Since that we have visited at the most favorable monsoon time perfect timings to see these glorious works of nature, though it was enveloped in a dense cloud of vapour, through which it rises the thunder of the invisible mighty waters in their fearful descent.

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Who is your competitor.. ??

Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?

Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.

Reason being cameras bundled with cell phones are outselling stand alone cameras. Now, what prevents the cell phone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sony’s and Canons are taking note.

Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India?

You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours).

Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from truth.

Nokia confessed that they all but missed the Smartphone bus. They admit that Apple's I phone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future. But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you? If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not so much about mobile or music or camera or emails?

The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding behind all these wars is a gem of a question - "who is my competitor?"

Once in a while, to intrigue my friends I toss a question at them. It says "What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as "digital."

In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both. It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?" The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!" and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape. The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious. Tomorrow's is not.

In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India?

Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight in 2008. (India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no. Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are making money. Then it will surely be RIP!

Who is the competitor to Multiplexes?

India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 over’s. Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push films out of the market.

Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen? When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are nowhere to be seen.

What killed the Alarm Clock?

One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use today for waking up in the morning? Cell phone! An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers.

You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!

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Case Analysis:Long term planning a must for success

Avatar James Cameron’s three dimensional (3-D) film ( $2.3 Billion revenue collection till 15th Feb) , has set a new interest in understanding the individual entertainment interest as the film has claimed highest grossing film of all time.
Major electronics manufacturing companies like Sony, Amazon, Philips, Videocon , Samsung, Panasonic , LG Electronics have already investing heavily on coming up with new design to grab the opportunity in the 3D electronic goods like TV, DVD Player, Gaming device(Play station).
Even television networks like Discovery and ESPN is also interested in developing the contents for the television viewer who have owned 2D goggles in there collections and future coming electronic devices.
Which results more and more content and market will be seen in the coming days, also 2D/3D movies like Toy Story 3, How to train your Dragon , Alice in wonderland is already in pipeline.

Few experts , however is still not clear how far the demand to buy the 2D electronic TV will sell in the market as Forrester the leading research shows consumer bought more than 40 million HDTV’s between 2007 and 2009, most of them selling for about $1,000 or less. In 2008 , the best selling HDTV sets were 40 inches or more. In 2009 , smaller screens , which were headed for bedrooms and dens , were the hot sellers.

Above research concludes that al the purchases has happened during the tough time i.e during the recession period, which again proves that consumer switching to own a new 2D TV is pretty less as one has already invested on electronics (TV).

3D TV’s won’t be cheap and television viewers not only watch TV they do multiple things like working on Laptop, talking, cooking, eating etc; and offenly they keep on switching the channels multiple times and what if they switch channel which has no 2D shows when one is using 2D goggle it actually becomes difficult to television viewer .

To overcome this problem Leading Consumer companies are intelligent enough to fix the problem, but what ever they do companies should think in the long term perspective while developing the products in terms of years say 20 years ahead as 2D content takes long time and minimum effort should be involved to consumers up gradation or one should come up with a business model where from the existing Flat screen television plug in module by paying minimum extra amount .i.e, go for Mass rather than minimum to maximum the profit.
Its actually shows how one value consumer needs by coming with a long term solution to meet consumer real needs.
I want to end with Gandhiji’s famous quotes ” A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so. “

Inner strength builds from Power of GIVING

“Power of Giving” lies in ones understanding on what one has to give. One must GIVE and SHARE the qualities that they excel and by GIVING , would only add more value to the qualities .

Before that one has to know what, how and when someone has to give. It could be meeting ones expectations, building ones trust, increasing hopes, understanding one another, purpose of living many more(as count never ends).

OCEAN can be one’s biggest inspiration when it comes to GIVING; Ocean is massively filled with water and other resources which on GIVING its resources to livings would not exhaust itself from its qualities or resources. To my thinking this is some thing that emits the statement“Power of Giving”.

Let’s get in depth through this visualization on Ocean. Ocean always gives its touch and feel to the ones who needs and believes it. As we all know that drops to drops make an ocean so when we give what we excel would one day create an ocean in the receiver’s mind that would be filled with our qualities. I would always spread happiness around to the close ones with a hope that I too would be filled with happiness. Power of giving plays its roles when we would want something in return, I would advice that to receive something always learn to give, We would be even aware of the commonly used statement “Let go, if its yours it would come back to you”. So give what you have to the needful and it would surely fill your box too.

To put simple “By nature’s rules: Who believes in giving doesn’t losses any thing”.

Now let’s consider something like the Rose, Its been said that Rose is the best way to express one’s feelings and warmth to close ones. It erects itself to be one of the beautiful nature’s creations. Power of Giving the Rose emits is through its beauty that would melt anyone’s heart and rush a smile. As it gives the warmth and belongings feel it receives more demand and value… but on the contradictory Rose even emits thorns, being the most preferred channels of Giving, it would even give sorrows as the pain of thorns but one still picks on them cause of the happiness factor that it adds as its value.

Through out my experience up to date I carry a sense of satisfaction in giving. Though it should not be measured personally but according to me it’s a power where it helps one to gain more affection, belongings, responsibilities etc towards the receiver.

Mother Nature also practices the same rules like the flower gives nectar, sun gives light, moon gives feel of romance, Rain gives hopes, etc. My Favorite dialogue from a favorite movie Spider Man “Great Power comes the great responsibility “. So what you believe in you, the power of giving or power of taking?

Thought that Makes or Breaks:

Differences in Life are really made when one wears on a smart approach in solving a problem through the THINKING CAP. Great thoughts which are hidden within oneself would improve ones work-life in the best approachable way and this is exactly the objective of my article. I feel that many data are needed to be analyzed so that we would all push our thoughts to actions.

Let’s start with our much known business guru “Late. Dirubhai Ambani” … We all would know it was his thoughts that made him build an entire empire and made him stand out of the normal crowd.
GOOGLE and TALLY are one among the tycoons that have also made huge differences with just a single thought, well actually GOOGLE is a mediator between the sector of people who provides information and another who seeks information with a catchy word FREE. As a result, GOOGLE now stands as the top Internet advertising search engine. Coming to TALLY, company worked with low pricing model to go in mass to beat the competition. TALLY grabbed a big market share by providing their product at the lowest price and made it accessible to even the smallest business user.

The present Economic malaise seems to have made people work smarter & think differently to grab the billion deal opportunities in the most happening sectors like KPO, ITES, IT, Telecom, Education but thought is the fuel to drive the things.
Thought pops only when problems or opportunity arises and plays a very important catalyst for Success or Failure and gateway to the future.

Its easy to say THINK OUT OF THE BOX, so will stop being philosophical and will justify with facts what out of the box thinking will do for business.

1 .Tutor Vista founded by Krishnan Ganesh , a very well known serial entrepreneur who early founded Customer Asset which was later acquired by ICICI. During Mr. Ganesh’s tenure with Customer Asset , had three main challenges Transportation, Quality of Food and huge capital expenditure, then came the exercise that’s “ THINKING OUT OF THE BOX” of creating virtual business that formed Tutor Vista, a personalized 24 online tutoring service for U.S and U.K Market. A brilliant thought and a big revenue deal…!!! Today Tutor Vista is the major source of knowledge for students in U.S and U.K and it employees more than 600 plus highly qualified teachers.

2. Dainik Bhaskar is the No.1 daily subscribed local newspaper on first day of launch by its radical innovative and risk taking strategy. Strange..! But what’s the OUT OF THE BOX THINKING they did…??? Then here we go… they built a team of well trained 700 surveyors who approached individual consumers to take the inputs to customize their newspapers with public preferences … They customized and developed it on the feedbacks and demands gained from approaches whom they have built a strong relationship and convinced them to subscribe. Today they are ranking top 25 dailies in the world. Bhaskar has a collective circulation of approximately 4.4 million across its titles –Dainik Bhaskar, Divya Bhaskar, Saurashtra Samachar, Prabhat kiran, Business Bhaskar,DB Star and DNA.

3. Essar Group a steel congolometer, they diversified into IT, KPO, ITES business named Aegis Ltd. Diversification was their out of the box thought that made a commodity steel business that resulted to be a billion-dollar enterprise with over 35,000 employees and offices over 32 global locations.

One should develop school of Thought among our self its really comes handy when we sense a problem. Since thought can be mimicked.
As a famous saying by William Shakespeare goes “Some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them”
Philosophy Right..?? No, instead it’s a Thought..!

Compete or Collaborate:

Darwin’s popular statement “Survival of the fittest” mantra suits for both Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) preparation point to beat Google (GOOG) in search Ad Business.
So is the reason of diversifying Microsoft business for collaboration with YHOO finally hit the time.
Personalities like Mahatma Gandhi to Barak Obama all emphasized the word CHANGE so does the Corporatism and so did the MSFT from their traditional business stroked a CHANGE to a competitive customer oriented business through the new search engine "BING".

Bing a MSFT’s new renamed search engine oops “decision engine” is getting good reviews and is a big hopes for MSFT to position itself to beat GOOG.

World wide Search engine Advertising business will reach nearly $30 billion by 2009(Source: IDC) ,and till now GOOG market share is nearly 65% when compared to 29.6% of YHOO’s and 8.4 % of MSFT (Source: ComSource).
The raising popularity of GOOG not only through its search engine algorithm, but also its aggressive method of acquisition (Big eating Small) have become a competitive player.
Yahoo being the revenue players in Ad displays and Data contents lost their margin when GOOG took over their Content Management Strategy. Today YHOO can still crack a good deal with the collaboration of MSFT to revenge back the GOOG take away Strategy.
My view on this BING deal just makes me feel that it’s a mutual understanding between MSFT and YHOO .They still stand on the initial stage of a 10 year contract and they have a long way to commit on revenue, technology exchange and create a competitive market with GOOG.
I once remember Lakshmi Mittal saying “Acquisition is a Marriage deal” ….. But this deal for BING is just a starting step to a marriage deal and certainly not an Acquisition

MSFT will license YHOO’s search technology, allowing it to integrate certain aspects of it into Bing. MSFT’s advertising search product Ad Center, will replace YHOO’s equivalent product, Panama. It’s all so mutual sensing of capturing the customer views for BING. Though it’s a long wait and watch to capture the market share but a strategic step “not to give up easily”.

One of the standard aspects of life “ One’s loss is One’s gain “,no matter the techies from MSFT and YHOO might have cracked revenue this deal has filled others pockets as well ( definitely not GOOG) but the end users like : Ad Agents: Consider Dell for example initially it had to scan MSFT, YHOO, GOOG for its best laptop search query result now it can go to GOOG and MSFT. That is “From 3 party support to a 2 party support”.
MSFT and YHOO’s deal will create job opportunity since these strategic moves need to create a team to beat Mighty GOOG. Google might be closely watching the deal and its impact but as we know it’s a long battle to beat GOOG.
But Innovation is about creating change, not reacting to change, yet we Compromise for any thing to survive.

On conclusion would say “We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that we can react quickly to the needs of our clients and our market place”.